Deep and Crisp and Even ....updated and reposted

Originally posted from my mobile.but it didnt seem to work for everyone so I have reposted it using a friends wifi...

What a difference a day makes... from pure blue skies on Sunday to leaden grey snow filled glaringly white landscapes. The snow has a beauty in itself but for me its too monocrome.. too silent... too clean...Its only fascination lays in its rarity - we don't get snow like this often and all I can say is I am glad to be observing it from a warm safe place and not battling through it like Dr Fred.... stuck on the dreaded A1 having had to abandon the idea of lectures today.. hopefully he'll make it back in a timely safe fashion (he arrived eventually).

The novelty of snow doesn't last long for many.. we are not set up to deal with stray flakes let alone continuing blizzards the roads are chaos and the pristine lines dont stay clean for long. The accident stats start to pile up and supplies run out bring on summer is my war cry from me warm centrally heated cottage!

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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