ALL IMAGES CAN BE ENLARGED BY CLICKING ON THEM; THE SMALLER IMAGES GIVE ACCESS TO LARGER GALLERIES.
Today, I scanned another batch of black and white negatives from 1985.
Here is a view of the garden of the gite,
where Jessica basked in the evening sun.
Here Matthew introduces Sam and Louisa to farmyard fowl,
soon attracting the usually inquisitive cattle.
Back home in London we paid one of our regular visits to Covent Garden, where Jessica, Sam, and Louisa enjoyed the Punch and Judy show. Sam entered gleefully into the spirit of the occasion, whereas Louisa found it all a little tiring.
On another occasion we walked around the corner from our Gracedale Road home for a blackberrying expedition on Tooting Bec Common. Sam, as evidenced by the purple smear across his cheeks, adhered to the normal custom of eating as much of the fruit as found its way into his container.
This evening we dined at Lymington’s Royal China, where we enjoyed our usual warm welcome and excellent meal. We both drank Tsingtao beer.
I love how young Sam always seems to epitomise ‘enjoy the moment’. Perhaps that is the secret to his sea-going success!
Quite so, Pauline. Thank you.
Oh, my heart is melting over these sweet photographs. You know I love the black and whites. Was little Sam sneaking a berry? Today you get a double “Yowza – Yowza!”
Very many thanks, Jill. That was the whole point of Sam’s trip. I think
Wow stunning
Thank you KC. I paid you a visit, too
Thanks a lot 🙂
I’ve never been blackberrying!
You’ve missed a treat, Leslie. Take the grandchildren. Thank you.
What precious memories Derrick.. and nothing beats blackberrying and eating half of what you pick. Wonderful photos
Very many thanks, Sue.
Derrick, these are such wonderful photos. I particularly liked the one of Jessica basking in the evening sun and the blackberrying photos.
Many thanks, Merril. It is good to know your favourites
Nice pictures, especially the first one.
Thanks very much, Jiim
You forgot to tell us what you ate, I’ve checked the rather extensive menu and can’t settle on what I think you chose, 😕
http://www.lymington.org/menus/royalchina.html
I had 26, Jackie, 45, and we shared 103. You are such a card, Brian. After 3 Tsingtao’s I was a bit tired. 🙂
That’s funny.
What a great picture of the kids with the geese, guinea fowl and curious cows. Very sweet photos. Blackberrying means eating one and picking one.
Thanks very much, Lisa. Especially for putting a name to the guinea fowl 🙂
Parts of my patch of land (I hesitate to call it a garden) are over-run with brambles. Somehow, blackberrying has lost some of its allure. Charolais cattle in the fields around us are a constant, though, and one we are always happy to see, particularly at this time, with young calves in every group.
Scanning old negatives is time-consuming and could become tedious, were it not for the memories they drag up. Thanks for sharing, Derrick.
Thanks very much, Keith. You are right about the memories. I take it the cattle were Charolais
Charolais are white all over, Derrick, like Limousins. I don’t know about other breeds.
Thanks, Keith. That is what I thought. I’ve also seen Aquitaine Blondes
These black and white photos are very nice
Thanks very much, Sylvie
Yes, such sweet photos!
Thank you, Laurie
This was an excellent sequence – monochrome photo essay at its best. 🙂
Thank you very much, Joseph
monochrome photo essay – I like that.
Blackberrying and blackberry cobbler are wonderful. I so much enjoyed the feeling of self sufficiency from my expeditions as a child. Thanks for the great post, warm memories.
Many thanks, Oglach
I love your older photos
Thank you, Lynn
Such wonderful photographs, Derrick, they make me so nostalgic 🙂
Many thanks, Inese
I love these B&W photos! Wonderful captures of the garden, ….
Thanks very much, Amy
Fantastic Derrick, looks like they’re right out of a Ralph Lauren catalogue. B&W’s are so interesting.
Many thanks, Boomdee. What a pleasant thought