Munich January 2013	The Hotel Stadt-Rosenheim	Inscription on the bedroom mirror	bedroom wallpaper
wallpaper on the stairs ...	... with the photographer	breakfast room	Theatiner Kirche
The Nave	The Altar	The Dome	The National Opera
Edita Guberova as Lucretia Borgia	The Nespresso Boutique	Chinesischer Turm iin the Englischer Garten
Trentham Gardens April 2013		Carbon
	in the woods	Mandarin Duck	Trentham fairies
			Minature Railway
Greylag Goose	David		Robin
Munich May 2013	The Botanischer Garten	Tulip time
The Schmuckhof	tulips of every shape and form	Aubretia wall	Botansiches Institut
		Rhododendron Grove
	ferns		in the show Greenhouse
Cacti	Terrapins on the loose
small at the moment
			At Verdi's Macbeth
with Roswitha, Irmgard, Christa, Aileen and George in the chapel garden		Walk in the Englischer garten
lunch at the mini Hofbraühaus on a fine day	The south end of the Garten	Theatinerkirche	Frauenkirche
The Lenbachhaus newly renovated			Too long a queue to wait in the rain
Munich, June 2013	BMW World		BMW Museum
Early model, based on an Austin 7	The model which I drove from Munich to London in 1955!
Early post-war vehicle		the latest
	Exhibition of Rolls Royce Cars
	The modern version with little elegance	BMW Welt	unfulfilled dreams
The BMW tower			Walk in the Englischer Garten
Panopticon		worried	A lot of water
Bristol for Mike and Nicky's party	Picnic by the Severn at Arlingham		Newnham Church on the other bank
Newnham	Mike's party	Will with his aunt, Georgina	Will's fire show
	Mike and Nicky 100 together	calculating the odds	James
The Clifton Suspension bridge from Sion Hill	The Clifton Suspension bridge	A stitched image
	Star Cross the pumping station for Brunel's atmospheric railway		Melanie's garden
with Melanie
Taunton with Ted	with Susan and Ted		Birmingham June 2013
Wagner's Dream & Lohengrin WNO, The Hippodrome	Jo - st the University	The Union	The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
George I	Where we frequently sat, 58 years before, on our 55th Wedding Anniversary	Ceramic by della Robbia	Dame Matha Barber the co-benefactor
Winterbourne House where Pat lived from 1953 to 1954	in the garden	Rhododendron grove
Japanese bridge	under the Gunnera	Jo	Edgebaston pool where we sat after the Graduation Ball in 1956
Rain shower		In Winterbourne
probably Pat's shared room in 1953	The Bull Ring Birmingham
St Martin's in the Bull Ring	the church spire from our hotel room	Much Wenlock Priory August 2013	The Nave and St Michael's Chapel
North Transept Wall	The South Transept	The Lavabo
	The Chapter House
		The Infirmary	Topiary Garden and South Transept
The Wilkins-Pleck Garden Whitmore, Staffordshire August 2013	The House	Clematis	one of the "rooms"
	The lake	A glorious Gunnera	with Tony Johns
Peacock Butterfly		One of the perrenial beds	approaching 78
		A madrigal group	Towcester and Northampton August 2013
Frank, outside his house			Frank and Ivy
	Blisworth Church, from the Canal	Young moorhens	Virgin Trains
	The Grand Union Canal	Basildon Park and Reading August 2013	the House front
The rear showing the outside of the Octogon Room	Basement with the NT tea room	The Dining Room	The Octagon Drawing Room
The Ceiling	The Ceiling of the Green Drawing Room	with Kath Glover on the stairs	A medical doll
Lady Iliffe's Bedroom	The top of the Great Staircase	with Kath Glover
	Oxford and Chastleton House August 2013	Oxford: Lunch with Richard and Brenda Wayne	photo: Richard Wayne
Richard's account of the visit from his Blipfoto account		from the approach path	Chastelton House
	The adjacent St Mary's Church	The Great Hall	The White Parlour
The Great Parlour		The Fettiplace Room	The Great Chamber
Embroidery in the Fettiplace Closet	The Sheldon Room	The Long Gallery
in the Courtyard	The Kitchen Range	from the Croquet Lawn
St Mary's from the garden	from St Mary's Chrurchyard	The Dovecote
Broom House with Christopher and Gwenda August 2013	Broom House	The beach at Shingle Street
Poppies	One of the several Martello Towers	Lunch	Concert at the Maltings Aldeburgh
Woodpecker, through a window	Tits (through a dirty window!)
Christopher with Poppy	Poppy	with Gwenda and Poppy
Greater Anglian Train at Woodbridge Station	Colin and Myrna	Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich September 2013
The painted panels
	Tudor Kitchen	The Wolsey Gallery of Gainsborough and Constable paintings	The rear of the Mansion
St Margaret's Church	Langley Chapel Shropshire, September 2013
Acton Burnell Castle Shropshire, September 2013
		Acton Burnell Church Shropshire, September 2013
		Pitchford Hall
RAF Museum Cosford, September 2013		TRS2	Spitfire
The Cold War Hangar	Canberra Bomber
			Hercules
Munich October 2013	The restored St Michael's Church	The Frauenkirche	Ballet: A Summer Night's Dream
at the Ballet
Neue Pinakothek October 2013	van Gogh	van Gogh
Klimt	Manet	Monet	Manet
Bismark by von Lenbach	?	Reynolds	Turner
The Sammlung Schack October 2013	von Lenbach
The Lorelei	von Neureuther
Wexford Opera festival October 2013	Bray	Dublin Bay from Bray Head	Bray
The Opera Logo	The Opera House	The opening of Queen Christiana	Train to Rosslare Irish Trains
Reflections in the harbour	Trawler departing
Art Exhibition Martina Mcateer	with Ian and Richard	Salford Quays and the Lowry November 2013	The Three opera "Festival of Britten"
The Lowry Bridge	Downstream		The Lowry
	The Imperial War Museum		Harrier Jump Jet
Fire Pump	Baghdad Car Anti-roadside bomb vehicle	T34 tank	The Exhibition of Lowry Paintings
Manchester Art Gallery November 2013	The Amazon Warehouse	Dutch paintings
Greyson Perry The Vanity of Small Differences The five piece tapestry
	John Rylands Library
		Chopin in Deansgate	Nantwich Choral Society
with Joe Watson, a friend in the choir		The Greek at the RNCM	Advertising flyer
Ready for the performance Music Theatre Wales	Llandudno November 2013	A stormy arrival
		The Donizetti "Tudor" operas	on the Great Orme
St Tudno's Grave Yard	Endless wind farms	The summit	Jackdaw
		Juvenile Kestrel
Buzzard		Snowdonia	The path down
Llandudno	Ludlow November 2013	Ludlow Castle from the River Teme Green Cafe in the foreground
with Manon and Gerald Owen ...	... friends from 50 years before
Ludlow: the Old Bull

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