new skill 2A

As you see I failed to achieve what I set out to do yesterday, which was to put two pictures on to the one blog. For some reason once I had done the first picture I was unable to return via the image icon to call up the next picture, and instead have had to do a separate blog to put what is referred to in the 'new skill 2' as the 'second picture'. Any suggestions on what I should have done will be welcome.

new skill 2

This time I have looked at the art of putting more than one picture ( or image as the blog technical bods call it) on the blog and here is the first. It follows on from the Beresford Road picture in providing a new view of what once was a familiar scene when our little cherubs were at Primary School. And equally follows on from Evie's 'when we woz young' photo theme. I say familiar but in fact the trees will be decidedly bigger than when they knew them, but I do like the way they frame the entrance.

The second picture has no character or merit at all that I can see. It shows the site of the other half of the Primary school where the big boys and girls went. What you see is, believe or not a block of flats. The original building was demolished and the new school is actually underneath these flats, and is reached by a totally different entrance. No playing on the roof in this school!

A new skill

We have a new skill - if skill is what one calls it. I had this sudden inspiration to take photos of our area which are associated with our introduction to London life. So today I took some photos of buildings and streets we became associated with soon after we moved here in 1970. The featured photo is of a road which leads away directly from the first house (or rather flat in a house) that we lived in. When we arrived the houses in it were selling for £7,000. I doubt whether they will be going for much less than £750,000 now. We now live at the other end of this road. We often come down to this end particularly to cross the road for buses and despite all the times we have done this and looked across at the street we have never seen how the trees in the foreground have made an arch. It also wasn't till recently that I discovered it has a gentle gradient up to the roundabout at the other end which is quite taxing when you are either ill or extremely tired and carrying/pulling a heavy case.

As it has been a long time since I wrote I hope that if any of you have been patiently dropping in at the blog to see if there is anything new will not be disappointed at what is breaking the cyber-silence!