Inner City Sanctuary

Some days the perfect blip falls easily into the camera lens, while on other days it's a complete struggle to find anything worthy of the effort.

And today proved one of those days. It's not as though I didn't take many photographs, but the one I liked best looked uncannily similar to one I took in July although it's a future possibility as the tree in the blip is turning a beautiful russet colour which illustrates the passing of the seasons.

Thus it was our walk into the city centre to collect a purchase from John Lewis that afforded me this photo of St Andrew Square which has been beautified in the last few years and is now open to the public, and a complete delight.
The seagulls were having ablutions in the pond while the shoppers and tourists sat with their coffees and watched the world going by or just sat.

All my electrical goods seem to have a suicide pact at the moment. The latest fatality is my HiFI system which has stood me in good stead for about 20 years, but has decided to croak in sympathy with my printer.

With space in my work wing rather limited, the purchase I collected this afternoon is a very compact DAB radio/ CD player which looks like a sputnik, and will do the job of giving me music while I work and more stations than I'll ever need.

So I have to read and digest yet another manual. Where are one's technically advanced children when one needs them?
However I feel confident that this one is within my grasp. After all it's just a wireless, sorry, tuner - a slip of the pen which shows my age.