Old photos and ones that I can't think where best to file!

This hardy survivor found a minuscule crack to etablish itself in on the driveway and has happily survived for several weeks. For some reason I have become quite fond of it and always say hello when I pass it on my daily constitutional! I asked my sister to take this as I can't yet bend down so low!

I went for some long walks around the old Redruth tin mining area and came upon this path under the former railway line (the railway line is now a minor road in this section). Possibly better on full screen.

Godrevy coastline, Cornwall

I had lost this in a folder that I had forgotten had a few old photos in it!. I was doing some computer housework and came across this and one or two others. I knew I had it somewhere!! Taken in 1972 on a Russian Kosmic 35, 35mm camera, which I used in the early 70s as a teenager. Just out of site but below the rock window are the famous vineyards of Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages, Gigondas.

The Madrid water company Canal de Isabel II turned this old water depository into an exhibition centre. Fine if you don't mind climbing many steps! This is the top level of 5. Better on black.

These will keep a few years yet, especially the white Rioja (on the left). I first tried it in the '80s and thought it was horrid (like drinking solid oak, if such a thing were possible!) but a student of mine (he is also a wine merchant here in Madrid) changed my attitude towards it by serving me a glass from half a bottle that was left over from a wine-tasting he did 3 months earlier (thank you Andreas!), and the bottle had been open and out of the fridge that long. It was sensational! These will be familiar to some of our (wealthier and/or aspirational) Iberian membership, I'm sure. They are not my day-to-day regular drinking! The middle one would retail today at well over 100€ a bottle (I just checked; the cheapest on line offer is currently 153€ for the '95 - I used to buy the '68 in 1981 in the UK for £4.50 or thereabouts!) OK, in for a penny in for a pound, best buys for the others; Muga Prado Enea '06: 45,60€ and the white Tondonia '07; 72,00€. My average bottle spend these days: 4,00€.

A climbing weekend. The university climbing club. About to climb up the East side of Tryfan, in Snowdonia, North Wales. I am sitting second from the left. You see here a mix of professors, lecturers, students and one grandson (of the lady who took the shot!), 11 years old and the best climber of us all! This would have been in early 1978, The club was tiny - maybe a dozen members and it was called the SSEES Mountaineering Club, affiliated to the London University Mountaineering Club (SSEES = The School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies - now part of University College, London). Great times were had by all, from memory! Originally posted in ipernity 2018.

Rodochiton in my Mum's garden, Saint Day, Cornwall. Originally poted in August 2017.

The Plymouth - Santander ferry (returning to Spain after my most recent visit home to Cornwall 2 years ago).

No description necessary. Except to say people are assuming it's whisky (or whiskey); it isn't. Can anyone guess what it is? Answered correctly by Steve. It's rosé (of course!).

Seen here is my school French-exchange partner and his beloved Terrot 125 (an ex-army bike). Very heavy to ride (much more so than the 1972 Ducatti 750 I was riding in 1979!). We were riding this in the mountains, along unclassified country lanes (hence perfectly legal), aged 14 and 15! Happy memories! From a photo of an old print.

Loch Coruisk is an inland freshwater loch that is situated in the very heart of the Black Cuillins, an impressive granite horseshoe mountain range, the closet Britain gets to Alpine conditions. This photo looked good when originally taken in 1978 but I have had to heavily doctor it just to get something worth showing! Scanned from a damaged print.

Lots of lines here. I know!

Rosa will remember this from Pano!

We went down the Gironde to the Blayais nuclear power station near Bordeaux. I can't for the life of me remember why but it inspired this edit many moons ago!

No idea how this happened! Yes, I teach English. But it is Business English and often to senior execs and shirt and tie is expected. I reckon I wear a suit once a week, a shirt, tie and jacket twice a week and smart-casual (without tie) twice a week on average. The problem arises when I have classes with a young dynamic IT company then have to go to a staid bank next class. The IT crowd rib me mercilessly! I had to teach a class of designers one year and had to wear a suit for the reasons mentioned. I did receive comments (not directly, but via the academy) that my suit made one or two of the little darlings feel a bit uncomfortable! But, if that was the only complaint from an English class, I must have been teaching them satisfactorily!!! :o)

I don't normally like to take shots of private houses and gardens without permission but this was tempting and so open to public view from the lane down to Church Cove that I couldn't resist. It also reminded me of many aspects of a few gardens I had fun tending over the years. Sight and Sound: Percy Grainger's 'country gardens'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e72pG3V3asQ

Above Greenbank Cove, Cornwall, next to the South West Peninsula Coast Path. Sight and Sound. Dylan's classic 'Barley in the Wind' A very early live version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwgrjjIMXA