3004 Per Ardua Ad Asda

It's looked like a long, painful labour, but at last it seems our local supermarket will soon be ready.

2904 Comfrey

Suddenly, the comfrey in my garden is flowering and alive with honeybees. It is hard to miss that sound!

2804 Sporting Achievement

This statue, dating from 1996, celebrates a time when Leicester had winning teams in cricket, rugby and football (or, for Americans, soccer). I don't know what the interloper on the right, sitting on the statue, has achieved, apart from immortality in my photo collection!

2704 Leicester Abbey Gatehouse

A remnant of Leicester Abbey, as knocked about by Henry VIII.

2604 Pleasure Boats

2504 Any Umbellifers?

Please don't ask me what species these are. Have you ever tried to plough through the umbelliferae in a botany book?

2404 Horse in Field

2304 Nettles

I hadn't counted on the sensation of being stung as a stimulus for taking a photograph. Now I know!

2204 Mad Cyclists

1. Cyclists riding on the pavement in my local city centre today. It was quite croded enough with bodies, pushchairs and the rest, without these hazards mounting the pavement. I did not realise at the time that there were two of them illegally on the pavement.
   
   Bear in mind that my poor dog has to work among all this confusion. He did very well indeed today, especially as the streets were really busy.
   

2104 Knitwear Factory with Blossoms

It's good to see this tree thriving in front of a knitwear factory that is thriving, too, according to our local newspaper. Vinola makes women's jumpers.

2004 Turbulent Sky

Not exactly the classic image of Easter Sunday, but this is what we got!

1904 Distant Cricketers (best kind!)

Not wishing

for my dog or myself to be nutted by a stray cricket ball, I preferred to keep my distance and aim by sound. I shall not be getting any closer.

1804 Waterbirds and Reflections

Late afternnon in Abbey Park, Leicester

1704 Dog Basking Among Flowers

My guide dog takes his ease among the bluebells (if bluebells they be) and dandelions

1604 Space Centre in a Clear Blue Sky

1504 Textured Tree

1404 Spring Flowers

1304 Great Central Railway

A steam train leaving Leicester North Station.

1204 Face in the Crowd

Begging this young woman's pardon, she stood out among the people I accidentally snapped among the Saturday shoppers today.

1104 Statue of Cardinal Wolsey

Statue of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the Café Garden in Abbey Park, Leicester. There is a memorial to him not many yards away in the abbey ruins, but the whereabouts of his remains is apparently a mystery. He died in 1530 after a varied and interesting career, including a long spell as Henry VIII's Chancellor.

The statue was donated by the Wolsey Knitwear Company, whose nearby factory building in Abbey Meadows became a care home.

1004 Nanny will be cross!

Surprised to see this much promotion of cigarettes, even if not by name. No doubt even this will be illegal one day.

0904 Bonfire out of control

Seen (and smelt!) on Loughborough Road, Birstall, Leics. At least I hope it was only a bonfire.

0804 Blossoms in the Air

1704 Dissolving in Rain

The sun looked as if it was going to come out a few minutes before this, then as I walked the dog, this happened. A little Turneresque perhaps?

0604 Plum Winter

It often happens - your plum and cherry trees look good blossoming profusely, whether they're fruit trees or ornamentals. Then you get a week like this with pesky winds and sudden showers, and the ground is covered with confetti!

0504 My Guide Dog's Girlfriend

0404 In the Community Garden

0304 Strange Temple

I have no idea what the purpose of this building is, so I assume it must have some religious significance!

0204 The Leicester Seamstress

This is a detail of the Leicester Seamstress statue in Hotel Street, created by James Walter Butler RA. The statue is of an 18th-century seamstress sewing the seam of a stocking. The statue was unveiled in 1990.

Hosiery was Leicester's principal industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, and, with many changes, survived into modern times.

0104 Duck in a Spin

A collective spring fever seemed to have taken hold of the ducks today.

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