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If you combine beech trees, autumn, and evening sunshine, it’s hard to go wrong, but Weds was particularly pretty.

More pictures here.

A poignant message, I felt, spotted in a country churchyard.

Lord Byron used to swim just near here, they say. But not, I suspect, at this time of year.

Byron's Pool, near Grantchester

Mmm. I guess that particular (plain white) plate shouldn't have gone into the microwave after all...

(We have hi-tech bike sheds at the Computer Lab.)

Autumn is definitely here.

Today I went go-karting at Rye House. This is something I've done before, once, almost exactly a third of a century ago. I remember the year because my older step-brothers had to lie about my age to get me in to the track!

I've been karting a few times in the intervening years, but never in weather conditions which were as bad - that is to say, as much fun - as today! I think I've been on windsurfing trips which involved less water. We all got completely soaked and had a wonderful time.

Oh, and it made for some nice photos, too!

Many thanks to Ray Gordon for organising the trip.

This is St Mary’s church in Saffron Walden, and I love the contrast of dark and light. Doesn’t it look as if it might be floodlit? But that’s all natural light, on a somewhat overcast day. Larger versions here.

More experiments with my new Fuji X-Pro1 this evening. This is a fairly ordinary landscape shot, but I'm pleased with it because there was very little light, it was hand-held (with a monopod) at 1/9 sec on ISO 1000, and it was raining slightly.

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Parking in our street used to be a free-for-all, but they've added some double yellow lines now.