Tag Archives: england
-
How to destroy a trailer home !
18Thursday 21 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
For Throwback Thursday this week, here’s a very early post of mine, from July 2013. It’s about my life as …
Continue reading -
Throwback Thursday: The Hairdryer
3Thursday 31 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
For Throwback Thursday this week, here’s a post from June 2013. Back in the days when I had more time …
Continue reading -
Wordless Wednesday ~ All Saints Church
12Wednesday 17 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
-
Weekly Photo Challenge: Transition (II)
5Saturday 28 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows the unwrapping of a brand new Aston Martin ‘Vanquish’, which is …
Continue reading -
Wordless Wednesday ~ Narrow Boats & The Cube
1Wednesday 11 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
-
Flower Friday ~ Bluebell
2Friday 02 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Simple elegance The humble Bluebell is one of nature’s best examples. Often seen as a mass of blue like a …
Continue reading -
Wordless Wednesday ~ Minehead beach, England
Leave a commentWednesday 30 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
-
Weekly Photo Challenge: Change (III)
2Sunday 27 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a fallen tree; depicting the changes after a storm. Hope …
Continue reading -
An Englishman at heart?
3Friday 18 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This tune I love takes me back to two memorable periods in my life…. Way back when, together with some friends …
Continue reading -
Long drives in the rain…
9Friday 14 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This 1971 iconic track by The Doors one takes me back to the mid 90s when I would commute weekly …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: ‘Half & Half’ (I)
7Sunday 19 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a split in the canvas all right, bringing symmetry …
Continue reading -
The wall – An iconic memory
10Friday 10 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Often I blog about my rebellious past. Most of us have one, and at times I’m happy to report that this …
Continue reading -
Love and the Civil Service
7Saturday 27 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
“And it says here you know other languages. Care to elaborate?” That was a question posed to my goodself some thirty …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Roy G. Biv (III)
4Sunday 21 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in the UK… Is this what they call …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season (II)
11Saturday 13 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows geraniums surviving an unexpected bout of snow at the seaside. Hope you …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped (III)
6Sunday 17 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an image of a moorland stream, enveloped by the hillsides …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate (II)
4Saturday 02 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows us another intricate beauty left by nature, that of …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate (I)
11Friday 01 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows the intricacy that Mother Nature has to offer in …
Continue reading -
Rebellious age
9Friday 01 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
To say I went through a rebellious stage during my seven years of teenhood would be putting it mildy. However, …
Continue reading -
Flower Friday ~ Little trumpets
6Friday 17 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken back in the UK quite a few years ago, these bizarre flowers are rather pretty, even if I don’t …
Continue reading -
Wordless Wednesday ~ Working a lock
4Wednesday 15 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
-
Wordless Wednesday ~ Bang
3Wednesday 08 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
-
Dreadlock Holiday
9Friday 27 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here’s another of the Tunes I Love for your entertainment and perhaps a memory-jogger for some of the ever greying mob, such as yours truly, who …
Continue reading -
Progressive Instrumental Rock
13Friday 13 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As a teenage rebel, I was more into heavy metal and glam rock music than the modern new age stuff, …
Continue reading -
Morning Train… Teenage DJ Spike
15Sunday 08 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
May 1980, and I was a weekend teenage discjockey at a small private boarding school in Hampshire, southern England. I …
Continue reading -
Memories of Derbyshire
14Friday 06 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Sunday mornings, Out on the bike, On roads like these… . . A look back at days gone by, living …
Continue reading -
Flower Friday ~ Mellow Yellow
4Friday 30 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A trip down memory lane – gardening in England .
-
Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (III)
11Sunday 18 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a scene from my birth country, and the serenity of life in the …
Continue reading -
Flogging HiFi Equipment with Michael Jackson
12Friday 02 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Back in the early ’80s I found myself working in an electrical and photographic retail store called Dixons, on the …
Continue reading -
SPIKE WRITES: A Scottish Adventure
1Tuesday 23 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Pictures and Perspectives:
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a ‘Guess What’ competition hosted by… -
Volunteering In A Very Old Tuxedo
15Sunday 30 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This is the second in my series of posts about volunteering, with a tale that goes back to the early …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement (IV)
7Monday 17 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge takes me back to the early …
Continue reading -
Watching Sports Lying Down
8Sunday 09 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This being the first of my posts about volunteering, I wanted to share a story that gives me warm goosey-bumpers …
Continue reading -
Respect : Remembrance Sunday
1Sunday 09 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Uncle Spike's Adventures:
Lest We Forget In countries of the Commonwealth, today is known as Remembrance Sunday, with the… -
SPIKE WRITES: Change of Career, Continent, and Citizenship
7Saturday 01 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Sarah Potter Writes:
For many years I was an avid traveller of far-flung places – basically, anywhere warmer and… -
So, just how did I end up here?
27Sunday 26 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Well well, who would’ve thought that young Spike would one day be a naturalised Türk, having emigrated to the pan-Eurasian …
Continue reading -
Flower Friday – Ornamental Pond
11Friday 17 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This is another photo taken a few years back by Granny Spike, a.k.a. Uncle Spike’s mum 🙂 The pond was dug …
Continue reading -
Wordless Wednesday ~ The River
4Wednesday 08 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
-
Bubble Wrap Is FUN..!
13Sunday 31 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
You know when you buy something online, it often comes wrapped up in that plastic film of bubbles, known affectionately …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (I)
25Friday 15 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in Minehead, south-west England. Hope you enjoy this …
Continue reading -
Wordless Wednesday ~ Memories of Spring
14Wednesday 06 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Taken many years ago 🙂
-
KISS ~ Heaven’s On Fire
11Wednesday 30 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Time for another of my ‘Tunes I Love’, and another from the 80’s. Try this for size; a bit of …
Continue reading -
Flower Friday – From Hampshire
13Friday 18 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
An old foto of the garden of one of the houses I grew up in 🙂 .
-
Wassup Grandad?
36Thursday 17 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My maternal granddad died in the mid 70s when I was still in short trousers at school. But I have very fond memories …
Continue reading -
My Penny Lane
11Wednesday 16 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Today’s offering from my look at ‘Tunes I Love’ is the incomparable 1967 Double-A side vinyl track from The Beatles, …
Continue reading -
Wordless Wednesday ~ Coastal England
4Wednesday 25 June, 2014 by Uncle Spike
-
Weekly Photo Challenge: Between (IV)
6Tuesday 24 June, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a wintry scene as tyre tracks have …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art (IV)
9Monday 19 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was a work of art on …
Continue reading -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring (IV)
4Monday 05 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken on a visit to Somerset, …
Continue reading -
Only Sixteen – Just About Remember That…
7Wednesday 16 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
So today’s Daily Prompt is called ‘Only Sixteen‘; challenging us bloggers to remember back to those days (as in me), …
Continue reading
Uncle Spike's Adventures 