London trip continued

St Paul's Cathedral


A swan


A squirrel in St James park, they are really tame, and very busy looking for food.


A Red-Breasted goose at St James park, mind the squirrel at the back


A grey goose at St James park

London trip continued

The tail/head of a rainbow over London, picture taken near the Big Ben


A nice side way view when walking past the tower bridge


A smeagul on the millennium bridge, he looks kind of cranky


The crests on the gate of Buckingham palace


This was actually an error of my camera, but I like the outcome. These are two pictures taken over each other at St Katherine's dock


The Big Ben


A nice piece of architecture

Why always visa, sometimes mastercard and occasionally Meastro?

Today we went on the search for some cash money in Writtle.
It was a search bound to be difficult, since it seems they do not have a good paying system here in England.
First we tried the coop, there is an ATM there, but putting our card in it would just result in the machine spitting out the card as fast as possible. Than we tried it at the counter and could pay with meastro and mastercard but we couldn't get extra cash money. So we went on and tried the post office nearby, they couldn't do it either and send us to the local Barkleys bank. We could redraw money there with our mastercard, luckily, cause finally we had some cash.

But it still doesn't help that the bank says you can pay with your maestro and especially your mastercard all over the world. Hell I could even use my mastercard in America than why not in England which is so much closer?
They don't even ask for your pincode, they just let you sign the receipt.
And was even stranger, they asked my student id at the bank :/ while they didn't ask my friend's.
This is all very strange, and I do recommend people that visit England to always have cash money, or to have a visa.

SW

In loving memory....

Yesterday evening, Duck Duck, a gorgeous muscovy duck died at just half a year of age. His little sister Sjonnie now has to go on without him.

piggy

SW

A day full of sheep

Or actually yesterday was more a day full of animal nutrition and reproduction. My head was so stuffed I went for a nice walk over to the animal unit. Some sheep along the road were posing nicely.
And I found some dandelions, especially the one of the dandelion puff reminded me of one particular fox in his winter coat two years ago *g*

SW

Car boot sale at writtle

Hi ya everyone,

Today there was a car boot sale at Writtle college, they do it monthly. It was really a perfect day with nice sunny weather. I bought just one book, while my two friends bought loads of books/magazines and some CD's. It seems that we all have a preference for reading, I was already joking that if we would by more we wouldn't have any time to study *g*
For just 1 pound I found a very good book that looks like new. I pictured it below and I started to read it today as well. It is a welcomed change in the fact that I am also reading a book about animal nutrition.

I've got loads of work from last weeks classes, but it is all fun to do.



See ya,

SW

The duckpond of Writtle village

This morning as I went to the supermarket I made some pics of the duck pond, the sun was a bit annoying though.

Enjoy,

SW

Baby Hedgehog

Hi ya all,

Here are some very cute pics I took of a baby hedgehog of one of my classmates.
I think she is doing a great job by raising this tiny creature so it can be released back into the wild.

Enjoy,

SW

DO I need to say more?......


It's 3,5 weeks old


A belly


The baby hedgehog is fed


me and the baby hedgehog *g*

First classes

Hi ya,

The first classes were not that bad. Some of the others were very worried about all the stuff we have to do, especially this weekend. But I know that it's not as bad as it all sounds. This weekend we will be having classes mainly about self reflexion and presentation skills. I already had many self reflexion so I know what is to be expected. Tomorrow will be a looooooooong day, from 9 till 9 we will be at classes, and after that we are expected to meet at the bar :/
Well more tomorrow,

Bye bye,

SW

Snail day

Hi everyone,

Things are going great here. I made some pics yesterday when I went for a short walk, I came across loads of snails, so I guess there was a snail convention somewhere across the road.
Last night there was a disco at the bar here and we had loads of fun, but I did notice British people really can't dance, and they are annoying while drunk as well. But than again these boys are always annoying.

Well enjoy the pics,

SW


A nice view from the road to the animal unit of the college


The first snail I encountered, I like the way the picture turned out


The second snail

And again some flowers

Pics of Writtle College

Enjoy,

Ow to Linda: my classes start at friday :)

SW


The main building.


A flower bed in front of the east side of the main building


Harvey 1, the place where I live, my room is way up.


The englisch garden at the back of harvey building seen from the kitchen window.
For those interested, the layout of the garden is exactly like the Cathedral of Chelmsford (seen in pictures below).

And some flowers

All well

First of all many thanks to all who wish me well.

Everything here is going just fine, I'm currently sitting here at my laptop in front of the window of my room enjoying the blue sky and my view over some trees. The view on the other side of the building is more impressive, as a beautiful garden is situated at that side, but I'll have to do with this for the upcoming months.

The eating habits are weird around here,salads and sandwiches you can eat hot meals twice a day, and deserts as well. But luckily there are various kinds of to choose from.

I hope I'll be able to make some pics of the campus if the weather stays like this.

See ya,

SW

The first pics

Here are as promised some pics. The first one I made on the boat from Hoek van Holland to Harwich. The two next ones are of Chelmsford, the cathedral and the street across the Cathedral and the last one is of the moth I found on my washing basin this morning.

Enjoy,

SW

Of on yet another journey

Well, as most of you know, I arrived the day before yesterday in the UK. Along with my parents I went shopping in Chelmsford and yesterday they dropped me of at writtle.
The people are nice, though sometimes a bit direct.
Some pics will be up soon,

See ya,

SW

Leica with native Arabian halter

Hi,

Today I made the pics of Leica with the halter, she wasn't terribly into posing and rather searched my pockets for food, but I did manage a few nice pics of her.

Enjoy,

SW

It's not long now

Hi everyone,

Upcoming Saturday I will be leaving for England. But no worry I will post my adventures (hopefully writtle won't be boring).
Packing my stuff seems to be a bigger problem than when I went to the USA, but the pile in my bedroom is slowly rising.
Since 2 weeks I'm doing a last minute course in horsebackriding. I love it, but I'm glad I didn't learn it earlier, cause after all these years just taking care for horses has made me very experienced with horses themselves. This is something young kids don't learn when they start to ride horses. Starlight, a 25 year old Arabian horse (I'm so lucky) is teaching me how to ride, see the pic below, he is fleabitten like Leica.
Ow and I finally finished yet another native halter for Leica, a nice blue one including leadrope, I copied it mostly from the original design made by the bedouins. Since I finished it today I will be making pictures of Leica with the halter in one of the upcoming days.




See ya around,

SW