Jericho winter cruises

That's the one. I was looking upwards to the tower, with a blue and yellow flag full out against a clear blue sky and complemented by the yellow daffies on the bank below, the whole scene bathed in golden late-afternoon April sunlight. It would have been one of my best shots, if that little brat hadn't been occupying the photographer's seat at the front. I have now learnt my lesson: to insist on always taking a spare front seat even when someone else is sitting there like (as though) they own both of them.

I was hoping to get a second try this time, but the light was all wrong on the way back, and I could hardly see the church anyway, with the trees now in leaf. And I won't have any need to make that journey next April, because by then the wrongly convicted prisoner will be freed.

I'm having a problem with my batteries failing me, despite seeming to be fully charged. This time I had total failure on ALL my spare batteries, which caused me to miss Northampton in a perfect north-facing light with interesting clouds. I then remembered I had a spare pack of precharged ones, which saved the rest of the day, though I didn't catch much else worth having. I'll wait to see whether the PREcharged will REcharge.

1. as though HE OR SHE OWNS both of them

2. Ah, so you go there as a prison visitor. Tell us the story one day.

3. Taken in 1983:



4. If the weather holds, I'll be up there tomorrow.

Sounds like a bad connection somewhere. Try cleaning the contacts inside the battery compartment.