WeekBforBehind

Over on Bluesky Sheena, a Glaswegian living in Northern Ireland, curates a weekly photographic challenge.

I have been participating in these challenges for a couple of months It gives me an opportunity to dig into my rather large snapshot archive and share a few images to the weekly theme related to a letter of the alphabet.

Last week's theme for the challenge was #WeekBforBehind. As I have large collection of people taking photographs I chose a subtheme #BehindtheCamera. Following are some of the snaps I shared.

Torshavn, Faroe Islands

Norfolk Island, Australia

Wife-Carrying Competition - Singleton, Australia

Family Wedding - Castaway Island, Fiji

Sydney, Australia

Namafjall, Iceland

Petra, Jordan

Palm Cove, Queensland

Harstad, Norway

Bilbao, Spain

Parthenon, Athens, Greece

Bordeaux, France

Osaka, Japan

WeekAforAbandoned

Over on Bluesky Sheena, a Glaswegian living in Northern Ireland, curates a weekly photographic challenge.

I have been participating in these challenges for a couple of months It gives me an opportunity to dig into my rather large snapshot archive and share a few images to the weekly theme related to a letter of the alphabet.

Last week's Sheena launched a new round of the Alphabet Challenge with the theme was #AforAbandoned. Following are some of the snaps I shared.

Robinson Crusoe Island, Pacific Ocean

Karumba, Queensland, Australia

St Jean-de-Luz, France

A boat abandoned on the shore by our home on Lake Macquarie, Australia

Rusting in Grassy, King Island, Australia

Outside Rootstech venue - Salt Lake City, USA

Not too elegant - Champs-Elysee, Paris

Treeless - Miami, USA

The morning after the night before - Murmansk, Russia

Cozumel, Mexico

Donald, where's your troossers - Stavanger, Norway

King Island - Australia

And finally three images from an Abandoned settlement at WhalersBay, Deception Island, SouthShetlandIslands

WeekZforZany

Over on Bluesky Sheena, a Glaswegian living in Northern Ireland, curates a weekly photographic challenge.

I have been participating in these challenges for a couple of months It gives me an opportunity to dig into my rather large snapshot archive and share a few images to the weekly theme related to a letter of the alphabet.

Last week's theme was #WeekZforZany. Following are some of the snaps I shared. 

Artist Pro Hart painted his Rolls Royce in Broken Hill, Australia

Truck in Key West, Florida

Artwork by Beryl Cook - Museo Ralli, Montevideo, Uruguay

Outside a Pub - Cromer, England

Blooming Boots in Honnigsvag, Norway

Dog Menu - Cardiff, Wales

Hundertwasser Art Centre  - Whangārei, New Zealand

Falling Behind

I have fallen behind in the GoodReads Reading challenge. I read nine books in May before and on the first few days of our recent cruise. 

Of my May reads I enjoyed and learnt so much about recent Sydney history in The Man who couldn't wait: the true story of Australia's first political assassination. While I found the content in The Kerry Girls most interesting I found it a drag to read, perhaps it needed more editing.

Towards the end of the cruise I fell ill with pneumonia and, on disembarkation, was  admitted to hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. While I had a lot of potential reading time on my hands conditions there prevented me from using it to read. One arm was hooked up to a drip, the other arm was tied by leads to a beeping monitor and I was masked in regular sessions on a nebuliser so I couldn't easily read a real book or an eBook on my phone. I could have tried audio books but I couldn't be bothered. 

After getting out of hospital and unhooked from gadgets I read four books in June. I found the true crime story London Falling unputdownable and A Land Rover named Lucy  a most readable and humourous travel tale.

WeekYforYonder

Over on Bluesky Sheena, a Glaswegian living in Northern Ireland, curates a weekly photographic challenge.

I have been participating in these challenges for a couple of months It gives me an opportunity to dig into my rather large snapshot archive and share a few images to the weekly theme related to a letter of the alphabet.

Last week's theme was WeekYforYonder. Following are some of the snaps I shared. 

Enjoying a helicopter flight way up yonder in the Top End of Australia near Pungalina

The Danube flowing yonder in Budapest, Hungary

Communicating with yonder places - London, England

Setting off for new lands in Australia

Heading into the wild blue yonder - Antarctica