Still struggling with photos.....

.....so just testing really, but this was the view from our bedroom window in Rome last week....

.....the most amazing thing was the colour of that sky, and the sunshine still had quite a bit of heat in it....

Now lets press "Publish", and see what happens....

...and more importantly, if it works, can I remember what I did ?

If this works.....

      ....it will be a miracle.I can't get any photos to download, so I am having a go at finding a video, direct from my camera, not from the mangled mess that is now my photograph collection.....

This looks as though it could take a long while...

Done it...blimey wonders never cease....this is the boat we were on last week-all 3500 'ish of us.  As you can see it was enormous all 14 floors of her and there was always some quiet little nook or cranny I could find when I was sick of all those people. 

Missing Links....

....every time I try and download a recent photograph it refuses, and refers me to a "missing link"

I thought I was married to that...after organising and taking over a funeral single handedly, he has now disappeared to London to arrange another "business".  We are supposed to be going away on Monday and as usual everything will be left to the very last minute.

  He was trying to arrange a doggy sitter today and I could hear Darsh on the phone telling her all about the dog...."He's a Llaso Lapsol, his name is Joe, and he's been mutered, so he doesn't get frisky any more"

"Mutered"- I thought that was a button on the telly remote, and "mute" is one word I could never use to describe loud-mouth Joe-just ask any post-man!

Goodness knows what the woman on the other end of the phone must have thought, I can't think why she wants to meet the dog before deciding if she will look after him or not.

Old photographs do not seem to be a problem, so here's a snap of Selina and Darsh in Oxford a few years ago.....

        ....and one from this weekend when Sara and I went into Sutton shopping and left John and Darsh in "the Bottle and Sack" reading the Sunday papers. 

Now if all this lot disappears again, when I press the "publish post" button I am going to be very very annoyed.....

This is just what I need....

...I'm stuck.  I can't download my photos, or find them or even get them to the size that I want.
Too many changes, all at once without me having chance to get the hang of them.

The tree outside the house is especially beautiful this year.....

....however you look at it....far away....

......close up or.....

.....from a doggy's favourite angle....

He is such a chicken, all these fireworks mean that he will only go out before it gets dark, but with all this lovely sunshine we have been out in the park every morning for the last few days...

.....We hardly found it crowded....

...and he couldn't decide whether to paddle, or walk round the wet bits, but he always goes home absolutely filthy.

Sara arrived early this morning for the weekend, poor John had to stay behind to work, as they decided he couldn't have the day off, even though he had booked and arranged it ages ago.  So he is flying in tomorrow morning instead- to East Midlands- Dad's favourite.  At the moment it is raining, looks as if it will spoil the fireworks we were going to see tonight.  Bet we go in the car and sit outside the fence watching them for free.

This afternoon we went to Doctors and Gloria was sat feeding baby Emma, Roy's new baby daughter....