about JohnH
Sorted, fit. Current activities are photography, hiking, motorbiking, trail biking, music, geology/geoscience, dinner-at-home, travel and more.
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Merry Christmas and All the Best for 2017 to you.
Some of the highlights of another full year.
- Hiking up from the Grand St Bernard pass La Chenalette, Grand St. Bernard pass, 2850 m.
- Motorbiking to the fine Alpine roads of Switzerland Alps biker blog 2016 also riding with so many biker friends at the GLME 2016 Ascension bike camp
- BSGS geology field trip to Madeira In the land of dykes and sills
- Day hike from London to Blencathra (868 m.)
- Just the one concert at the Barbican this year but it was good: Alpine Symphony: LSO, Pappano at the Barbican
- And for the one trip that ticked all my boxes, Sentier Blanc-Martel, Bike tour of the Grand Canyon of the Verdon and my photo gallery Grand Canyon of the Verdon - photo gallery
Update: I withdrew from UCL at the end of the second week. I'm very disappointed but the course hasn't worked for me in many ways.
Freshly printed undergraduate pass in hand, my fresher selfie in the quad at University College London. This shot had to be a real selfie, ie taken myself with the camera held out at arm’s length. Note the brand new UCL hoodie too.
My mason bees pollinating apple tree blossom on my patio in Hammersmith, West London. Lime tree not yet in flower.
The inside of the nesting box I have for solitary bees (Mason Bees, Osmia rufa) for my garden. They’re not hive bees, as in honey bees, but are good pollinators, hence my improved fruit crops last year. Each tube is a cocoon housing a hibernating bee, there are about a dozen more in the large release tube top left, to which I have added another twenty.
Merry Christmas and All the Best for 2016 to you.
Some of the highlights of a full year.
- Hiking on the national park island Port Cros, facing Mt. Blanc and Great Gable in the Lake District
- A train holiday in regional trains (TER) Marseille - Sisteron - Briançon, Briançon - Die - Avignon, Avignon - Arles - Marseille
- GLME 2015 Ascension bike camp and Snetterton Circuit and the Le Bol d'Or with many friends.
- Riding solo many other places Apexes on the Col de l'Espigoulier | Ardèche Gorge | Autumn vineyards | and much more
- Hearing Jonas Kaufmann as Andrea Chénier at The Royal Opera
- Seeing face-to-face Bruegal's Hunters in the Snow, one of the first paintings which I made a connection with as a teenager
- And lots of photography including Quartier des Créatives | The Kingdom of Black and White and my other galleries
