January walk to Cookham Dean – 15th January 2012

Rebekah and I made the most of a sunny, if cold, afternoon to complete the first of our monthly walks to Cookham Dean and back.

We were glad to defrost with a hot drink when we got back to Mum’s house afterwards.  Hopefully, this will have been the coldest walk of the year.

Light and shade

Looking across the field

Heading up the track

Looking over towards Maidenhead

Icy leaves

Wellingtonia and cedar

Hazel catkins

A brief pause during the ascent

Rebekah in the churchyard

Snowdrops out in the churchyard

Heading back across the field

Walk in Quarry Wood – 8th January 2012

We made the most of a reasonably mild and dry afternoon to go for a walk in the woods.

Despite signs of spring elsewhere, including daffodils coming into bloom in our own garden, the woods remain resolutely locked down for winter.

The girls in a 'den' in the wood

Looking along the path

Holly and Rebekah

Emily inspecting a tree

More trees

A walk at Hambledon – 2nd January 2011

With both Rebekah and Holly somewhat under-the-weather currently, we abandoned possible plans to go down to Bournemouth for the day and instead enjoyed a walk at Hambledon.

The girls didn’t recall ever having been there and it’s certainly been a while since I had been there too.

After a lazy morning, we arrived at the car-park in Hambledon at around 12pm and managed to shoehorn the car into the only space available.

We walked down the road to the weir and across it to Hambledon Lock before retracing our steps after walking along beside the river towards Henley for a short way.

We all enjoyed getting out and enjoying the fresh air and sunshine.

Hopefully we’ll get down to Bournemouth in the next few weeks.

Swans on the Thames at Hambledon

Hambledon Mill

The sluice gates on the weir

Looking back to the mill

Looking across the weir

Hambledon lock with repairs being carried out

Hambledon lock

The roof of the old mill

Looking over the fields on the way back to the car-park

2011: My year in Tweets – 2nd January 2012

At the beginning of last year, I summarised 2010 in tweets.

Below is my summary of 2011 marked by a few of my favourite tweets.  What an amazing year it’s been!

http://twitter.com/#!/benleighkelly/status/85496503413653504