We first went to Singapore for 3 nights, it was around 32 degrees and had a lazy time around the pool. There was a wide choice of ethnic foods. The view from our room.

On waking at Margaret's in the UK we found snow and  -1 deg.C.

This is where we spent our very first night in Geisty.  This campsite is in the grounds of Finchale Abbey ruins and we parked right next to the ruins.

This photo shows Marion in the driving seat of Geisty in a carpark on the M1.

We sat 8 round Geisty's dining table (only 7 pictured as Trevor is taking the picture. 3rd from left is Jeanette, Trevor's sister, 4th is Margaret, one of Marion's sisters and 6th from left is Trevor's cousin.

This is Marion and Trevor in Trafalgar Square, by Nelson's Column, London.

Margaret, Trevor and Marion with the some of the Pearly Kings of London in Covent Garden.  The Pearly Kings sew on hundreds of pearl buttons on to their suits.

Peterhouse College, Cambridge.This college in the oldest, built in 1284 and still looking good.  I wonder how many thousands of boys have passed through.  

Near Cambridge, in Duxford is part of the Imperial War Museum - this is a Spitfire left over from the War.  We spend all day there and then we didn't see everything.

Lavenham - supposed to be the most beautiful market town in England - it was stunning. This is just one of the houses.

WE ARE LINING UP IN GEISTY TO BOARD THE DOVER-DUNKIRK FERRY AND WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO EUROPE

Returning from Europe.  First one, first off. The long black fingers to the left drop like a drawbridge to bridge between the dock and the ship.

The leaning house of Lincoln.

Building in Lincoln bridging the river.

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight: view from our motorhome pitch at Oban, Scotland.

The next morning from our pitch.

Note the tiny white dot centre horizon and now look at the next picture.

Photograph from the same spot using max telephoto on the camera.  This is a new camera, bought for this trip and exceeding our expectations on performance.

Tossing the caber at the Highland games at Fort William.  Those cabers are big.

Soon after this, some ill-health disrupted our plans. So, we travelled in southern England, catching-up on places we had always meant to visit.

We believe that Whichester cathedral in the longest in Europe. On the day before our visit it had been the venue for an Antiques Roadshow progamme which is why the seats are missing and emphasises its length.

King Alfred's statue surveys Winchester

Chichester has a beautiful cathedral, both outside and in.

Chichester cathedral also has some impressive stained-glass windows

Chichester's old butter market is something special

We had never been to Portsmouth, so spent 3 days there and around. Portsmouth is home to HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship, HMS Warrior (below) built in the Victorian era and outclassing all prior warships (in speed, an armoured core of steel and hardwood armour and a mixture of muzzle-loading cannon and breach-loading rifled guns. Henry VIII's The Mary Rose museum is there and lots more.

HMS Victory

HMS Warrior

The open-air Weald and Downlands museum has historically interesting buildings, and our 1-day visit turned into 4 full days, the last being the Saturday of a harvest festival event with old tractors, threshing machines, cart horses and traction engines. The following photos are from there:

This is for the engineers amongst you.

A flour mill driven by an external water wheel. The large horizontal disc is a wooden wheel with inlet wooden teeth that can be individually replaced; it's made from wood to prevent sparks that can explode a dry flour-air mixture. The left end of the large lower wooden beam can be raised or lowered a few cm to adjust the gap in the millstones and hence the grade of flour.

Weald and Downlands has build this very large self-supporting light-weight structure to house workshops and a museum of tools.

To us, it's so good that such buildings are saved from being bulldozed.

Another saved gem.

This is the 'privy' accessed from the main bedroom of an Elizabethan house; don't we have it comfy these days

From 'fleece to fabric' describes the activities with wool, including combing, spinning into thread, dying with vegetable dyes, then weaving into cloth, to be cut and sewn into garments of the eras on display.

The Apothecary's cottage holds demonstrations of the apothecaries art, using old recipes and methods.

In the village where Trevor was raised, such threshing equipment was in use each harvest time and invokes memories of the dust, chaff, sacks of grain, noise and straw bails that resulted

Demonstrations of falcons taking prey; also eagles and owls.

We woke to this sunrise at Whitley Bay while in the north of England to have some minor work done on Geisty

We returned to England from Malaga right in that period when snow covered much of Europe , so from 25deg C in Malaga to as low as -17.6deg C just 7 miles from where we were staying. Yes, we had brought our fleeces and gloves with us

A snow scene on our arrival in the U.K.

The Thames at Marlow, not far from Margaret's

Bluebells in the woods at Amersham, where we lived before emigrating to Australia