Amelia's photos

If this canal was in The Netherlands, people would be skating here. Adrian tried to break the ice and couldn't manage it. Today is meltdown.

Today's Sunday Challenge: New on the old. This was taken on a lovely sunny but very cold day, and it gave me such a positive feeling for the future.

Today's Challenge is: "Magnets"

Kashmir Goats roam freely and wildly on the Great Orme and were introduced to this area by Lord Mostyn. This sculpture by Graham High shows a goat on a spiral of rock balancing in position with the ease they are accustomed to. Its shaggy coat and long horns are detailed with fur and features fully shown. It stands outside the visitor centre and was unveiled in 2002 at the opening of the refurbished Great Orme Visitor Centre next to Summit Tram Station. Shrouded in fog the building in the background is the Summit Complex and consists of a Café/Restaurant, a boxing themed bar based on the famous Randolph Turpin and gift shop for the hordes of tourists.

CWP : 2/2021 - ''Fog or Mist'' The main bridge seem here is the Royal Border Bridge. It is a Grade I listed railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1850, when it was opened by Queen Victoria. The engineer who designed it was Robert Stephenson (son of railway pioneer George Stephenson). The second bridge is the Royal Tweed Bridge. was designed by L G Mouchel & Partners and built by Holloway Bros Ltd between 1924 and 1928. The bridge cost a total of £180,000 and opened with great ceremony by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII on 16th May 1928. It is Grade II listed structure. The third bridge is dates from 1624 and is the fourth to have stood on this location. Two of the previous structures were destroyed by flooding and one by an English attack. The bridge is 355 metres long and was the original route of the A1, before the construction of the Royal Tweed Bridge in the 1920s. The bridge is a Grade I listed structure. It is undoubtedly the prettiest of the the three. Courtesy of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick_Bridge

Much as we like the village, it would be nice to walk somewhere else for a change. History of Coronavirus in the UK A year ago today, two parademics arrived at the York Staycity apartment-hotel in white hazmat suits and headed to a first-floor room. This was the moment it was confirmed that the novel coronavirus had come to the UK. "You were hoping, in the back of your head, that it's another false alarm," says Keith Freeman, Staycity's chief operating officer. "You're also thinking 'what are the chances?'" The family - one of whom had returned from Wuhan a week earlier, the day the city went into lockdown - were taken by paramedics discreetly out of a fire exit to the waiting ambulance and to the regional infectious diseases unit at Castle Hill Hospital, near Hull. Dr Anda Samson, an infectious disease specialist, had been about to go to sleep when she received the news the mother and son had tested positive - the first people in the UK to do so. She remembers thinking how well they looked, with only "a bit of a fever and some flu-like symptoms". The main task was to ensure they did not contaminate anyone else. "We knew this was something big and it was bigger than just us, but we never really expected that it would take over the world in the way that it did," she said.

Arctium species. This reminded me of a bearded Scandinavian gnome with a snowy hat.

Gorse, furze or whin is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, the pea family. There are several different species. Common gorse flowers a little in late autumn and through the winter, coming into flower most strongly in spring. Western gorse and dwarf furze flower in late summer (August–September in Ireland and Great Britain). Between the different species, some gorse is almost always in flower, hence the old country phrase: "When gorse is out of blossom, kissing's out of fashion".

Today's Sunday Challenge is: Anything to do with Water. I chose frozen water for the challenge.

Today's Saturday Self challenge: "Wrinkles / Folds". To make this star use 2 strips of paper, fasten 2 ends together at right angles, then fold one over another to make a long strip like a concertina. Then pull the ends of the strip together into a 'circle' and fasten with a small stapler to get the star. I used 2 strips of Christmas wrapping paper each strip being 3 cm. wide.