I Am Only Making One Post Today,

for two reasons,

firstly for some reason I took my old mobile telephone, that we only use for playing music into the bedroom, instead of my normal telephone, so I did not hear the alarm, the second reason was that I had an appointment to give blood samples, for my yearly check up, and I was nearly late, so eventually I arrived back home well rested, but behind on posting bits and pieces for the blog, so as time is moving on only one post for today, back to yesterday, another early start for both of us, the street lights still on as I returned from walking Diana to the bus stop,

whilst writing yesterdays blog,

one of the crows called by,

I am sure he watches me,

or am I imaging things?

I decided to pop upstairs and play with a couple of photographs from our walk along the River Thames on Tuesday, this is a view of the underside of the footbridge as it came out of the camera,

I sharpen it up a little using denoise, and added a small amount of colour and structure, 

then made the photograph black and white,

which I like for this sort of photograph,

they all look the same, but all are just slightly different, if you look at the main beam that goes across the picture about two thirds of the way up, you might see the difference in them,

for this one I decided on a black and white photograph but I wanted to put in a coloured sky, above is how it came out of the camera with no discernible sky,

 I changed the coloured photograph to black and white,

and added a cloudy coloured sky, what a disaster! try as I might I could not stop the sky from replacing the the glass in the buildings next to the Walkie Talkie, must try harder next time!

Diana called in the evening, she had been asked to work late, so it was not until nearly 11.00 in the evening that we returned,

then great excitement Diana's Pandora earrings arrived to go with the dress and coat that makes up the set, for some reason I had imagined that they would be made somewhere like Switzerland or Italy, but I was so wrong,

they were made in Thailand, we should have bought them when we lived out there! we watched a Midsomer Murder to go with the new panettone box we had just opened, and with the end of the programme, we were off to bed.