First is Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey. It has a wonderful moate (I think there should be an 'e'). I drove around the north Anglesey coast to pass the time one evening and stopped to eat in Beaumaris. There was a wonderful contrast between the old-world castle - designed and built for military use, and the sinister modern bulk of Wilfa nuclear power station even though it was built for peaceful use.
These wild deer were in my brother's garden.
The rest of the pictures come from Stoke Bruerne on the Grand Union Canal, where there is a very interesting museum about the canals. What's really nice is that the whole area is part of the museum. You are given an electronic gadget from which you can hear a description of the items and places as you walk around.
It was a beautiful sunny day and the blossom from this tree created a carpet on the ground and still left plenty for the tree itself.
I was amazed to discover that back in the day people had built a scales that could weigh a whole narrowboat. This device was not used at Stoke Bruerne and now sits in a disused lock. At one time there were a pair of locks to speed up the boat traffic.
This wire fox was one of a number of wire sculptures on the woodland walk.
Sorry, museum, but best of all at Stoke Bruerne were the tiny ducklings. One mother se
emed to have about 12. They scooted around so swiftly that they looked like specks of dust blowing in a shaft of sunlight.
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