Great News Tony

Red wine is good for you

Fabulous - she really is in a wee dwam savouring that pancake .

Just look at those eyes

Sounds like my idea of heaven

You have lost a little detail from the face while dealing with the background - and somehow she is not quite the same - look at the skin tones on her right cheek again.

Not a clue how I could correct that . Perhaps start from the Master and crop as Ken suggested ?

I've a friend who lives in East Ham - really not far from Stratford

He's fleeing the country - going on a bike ride from London to Santiago de Compostelo

Those are really great shots .

Like the others my favourite is very definitely the first squirrel one

My favourite comment from the driver who did our tour last year was that Queen Elizabeth the Second of England and Scotland was visiting Dublin later in the year.

I really had to straighten the driver out about that one. - and he did understand why I was irritated once I explained. I heard from someone who went on the same trip with a different driver the next day that the statement had been corrected and they had told to be careful since Scotland had never had a Queen Elizabeth the First .

Those tours are remarkable good value since you can have another go at it the next day on your original ticket.

I'll be flying back into the UK late this afternoon.

Dublin has been fun - though I' not seen much of anything beyond th bit round the Hotel and Church where I have been for the last week

HG

I was in a below knee plaster after our horse stood heavily on my foot and he wouldn't lift his foot either. I went shopping on full length crutches carrying my own bag too - admittedly that was not easy. Was back at work as soon as the plaster was properly dry.

I positively HATED being on crutches even though I was driving the car as usual

Going back a bit - I'm posting this from my iPad in Dublin.

I have both a Kindle ( with a lot of books both free and paid for on it ) and this just over 2week old iPad 2 . The Pad has already proved how good it is as at Church last night I had to hand over my copy of the Service ( a mere 14 pages ) to someone who had forgotten theirs , but thanks to this , as the whole thing was in PDF form on the Pad I was able to follow the whole thing in both languages.

I love my Kindle but the Pad does have some great features