Amelia's photos

The main photo shows the reservoir on World Photography Day, and the first PiP is of the reservoir in February 2014. It's possible to see that today's water levels are significantly lower following a long period of drought and unprecedented high temperatures in July and August, despite significant rainfall here at the beginning of the week. The other 2 PiPs show the Afon Clywedog, taken on August 19, which feeds the reservoir and lies to the west. The dam is to regulate the flow in the River Severn to mitigate flooding and provide support for drinking water abstractions for the West Midlands. It was completed in 1967 and is situated near the B4518 road north of Llanidloes, Powys. It does this by releasing water into the river channel during low flow periods and re-filling during the wetter winter months. This enables major water abstractions to be made from the River Severn to supply the West Midlands with 50 million litres of drinking water. The concrete buttress dam is the tallest concrete dam in the UK, with a height of 72 metres (236 ft) and a length of 230 metres (750 ft). When at capacity the reservoir contains approximately 50,000 megalitres of water. It took me a bit of time to find the photo of the dam from 2014 in my archives. I must try a better system.

The dinosaur trail is live across Norfolk between 27 June and 10 September and encourages explorers of all ages to have fun and learn more about the county, while raising awareness and funds for Break and the vulnerable children and young people they support. The 78 sculptures will need a new home at the end of the trail, could it be yours? The auction takes place on the 28th of September. More details are coming soon. GoGoDiscover will make lives better for young adults leaving care.

Looking over the Firth of Forth towards the Kingdom of Fife. I'm out all day today, but will visit this evening,

The marks on the water are caused by a very rare occurrence called rainfall. Here is a short explanation for those of you who don't understand the concept of rain. Rain is liquid precipitation: water falling from the sky. Raindrops fall to Earth when clouds become saturated, or filled, with water droplets. Millions of water droplets bump into each other as they gather in a cloud. When a small water droplet bumps into a bigger one, it condenses, or combines, with the larger one. As this continues to happen, the droplet gets heavier and heavier. When the water droplet becomes too heavy to continue floating around in the cloud, it falls to the ground. In this case it lasted for about 10 minutes and the phenomenon has not been seen since.

It's 10.30 and I have just come in for a cool drink and a rest after doing 2 hours of gardening, cutting back crispy perennials and overblown roses. The work isn't finished but it's now too hot for me outside. This is where I'd love to be now - paddling in the North Sea. :-))

Sculpted by Angela Hunter these five penguins, located on the wall of the Steeple Church, have become a firm favourite with the Dundee public and are Dundee’s answer to Glasgow’s Duke of Wellington statue. I hardly think that this is a fair comparison. ;-) The penguins are regularly dressed to join in city occasions from graduation to charity fundraising events and from Christmas celebrations to Royal visits. Dundee has actually been associated with penguins for a long time – hence the group of them getting some exercise in the city centre. www.facebook.com/DundeePenguins You’ll perhaps know a bit about the RRS Discovery, the beautiful ship now located at Dundee’s waterfront. Its first ever mission was to the British National Antarctica – which just happens to be, the home of the penguin.

From here one gets a view of the Tay Road Bridge in the distance. When I was a child living in Fife in the 1940s and early 50s, and requiring dental treatment in Dundee at the Dental Hospital, I had to catch a bus from St.Andrews to Newport Fife, then take the ferry over the river. I then walked to the Dental Hospital, all by myself from the age of eight years old. One would never allow this in this day and age. The Tay Ferries, known locally as the "Fifies" they were the main means of crossing the Tay with a vehicle until the opening of the Tay Road Bridge. The first regular scheduled steam powered ferry was the "Union" which started service in 1821 and ran six days a week with up to 11 crossings per day. Only a short while later in 1839 pleasure trips over the river became available and were an affordable day out for many Dundonians working in the City industries. The ferries could typically take around 10 vehicles at a time. Today the Tay Road Bridge is crossed by 26,000 vehicles per day. The same day as the Tay Road Bridge was opened on August 18th 1966, the Ferry "Scotscraig" made it's final crossing.

Adrian, Liz and James walking on an almost deserted beach on the Norfolk Coast. There were quite a few mature seals frolicking in the sea, but the PiP shows a young seal having a rest.

On that day it was too hot to sit outside, and so Adrian James and I took our picnic under the shade of trees in the park, as did everyone else it would seem..