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

Pedraza door knocker This reminds me of Carmen T (from Zaragoza) and her great knockers, on Pano. I wonder where she is now? Probably Flickr but does anyone know? NEWSFLASH! Well, I am delighted that Carmen is here again!! I dedicate this to her of course!

Grape - picking. Chateau Haut-Castenet, Samonac, Cotes de Bourg, Bordeaux. The girl at the right of the photo in the brown jersey - I give her first name only - Patricia, is the main reason why my two weeks here were very memorable! The fact that 1979 was a rather mediocre vintage, evinced from the date of this photo, which shows a VERY late harvest due to late rain, in no way detracted from my wonderful time spent here! From a scanned slide.

Taken in September 1978. I can't for the life of me remember exactly where this was! But I have made a guess that it was above Loch Coruisk and below Sgurr Alasdair. I think, even for 1978, the clothing and backpacks were already anti-deluvian! But then, we were VERY poor students! Scanned from a degraded slide.

Near our climbing hut. We booked this place a few times in the late 70s from the Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland (JMCS) and had some terrific times here, especially on the Cuillin Ridge. A scanned slide from a series of slides that had become somewhat degraded. Most were useless, a few, such as this, still had a little merit in them so I decided to post.

HFF, everyone! From a scanned slide taken in Algete, Madrid Province, May 1986. I found about 50 slides in a box when I went home to Cornwall this summer for a couple of weeks. I just had them scanned here in Madrid to find that some, like this, had become somewhat degraded. Poor storage conditions probably, damp, too much light, or something. A pity. I tried to edit the few that were rescuable and will be posting them shortly - a few of Skye and that is about it!

I forget which restaurant this was but they did us proud. My niece does this amazing Uri Geller thing with cutlery!

Penzance Inner Harbour and St Mary The Virgin parish church.

On the far side of this 1.7m high standing stone (and too faint to be photographed) is an inscription dated to the 6th to 8th centuries commemorating 'Rialobranus son of Cunovalus'. The stone is thought to be a prehistoric menhir.

Lichen and fence shadow on harbour roadside edge. HFF. Sorry about the very early posting but, again, I'm not sure where I'll be this evening and tomorrow!

Unknown purpose. Presumed to be neolithic. Healing powers were attributed to it at least since the middle ages (babies would be passed through the hole). Near Lanyon Farm, Madron parish, Cornwall.

My first visit to Pedraza in 2012. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedraza_(Segovia)

Pedraza Castle and Harley Davidson owners gathering. Best on 'z' es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedraza_(Segovia)

Pinner, Middlesex, One of the few true villages still extant in the London area. A photo from 1979 - my Pentax ME SLR and b/w film, scanned. I came here for a job interview. I was in my last year at uni. I was early and walked around and took a few photos (I had packed my SLR with my notes for the interview for some strange reason). I did OK at the interview, forgot all about it, went to France for a year after my finals, then got a message from my Dad that the firm in Pinner wanted to know what had happened as I had been due to start many months ago! I had very little recollection of all this, except a few black and white photos, of which this is one. Upshot: 35 years work in the Financial Services Industry, starting with this firm in Pinner before I finally upped sticks and came to Spain 7 years ago. That was the short answer. The long answer is ...........

. The Logan Rock pub, Treen (South), West Penwith, Cornwall. A terrific pub in the far west of Cornwall (and there are so many!).

Dedicated cycle lanes being built at the expense of parking for the residents. That's progress, I suppose. It means my girlfriend now can't park outside, but has to trawl the side streets for hours looking for a parking space. :o)

Yup. me (on the right). A very cold walk. This is somewhere between Tryfan and Glyder Fach, not far from the Bristly Ridge. Snowdonia, Wales.Old friends from uni. A shot from 1979, 1980 or 1981.

Rhodochriton (sometimes called Purple Bell Vine). A climber originally from Southern Mexico and Guatamala. It is very happy in Cornwall! Garden in Saint Day, Cornwall

Low tide. Difficulty of access means no-one comes here. I posted this, un-edited and hence unframed, by mistake but liked it.