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On the Fifth Day of Christmas, my true love baked for me...

There are many good reasons for marrying someone from a very different cultural background.

One of them is Armenian peda bread.

Grantchester Meadows this morning.

One of the (many) things I love about my Fuji X-Pro 1 is that most of the key controls are good old buttons and dials, not touchscreens and menus. This is particularly handy when you're wearing gloves...

The moon was up as I walked Tilly this morning.

It's been a pretty grim month here, from a weather point of view, but there are still some nice colours around. This is just outside my study door.

Dawn breaking beyond the River Cam, taken from Grantchester Meadows last week.

The title of this post, of course, is a line from the excellent track 'I'll Find My Way Home', by Jon & Vangelis, which is playing as I write this.

And here's another bit of trivia for you: in the first episode of the ITV TV series Grantchester, we see Sidney and Amanda enjoying themselves by swinging out over the river on a rope attached to a tree branch. I recognised the tree immediately, but the usual rope (which you can see by clicking on the image to get a larger version) had been replaced with a frayed one for the purposes of the filming. The rope, of course, gives way when Amanda (Morven Christie) is way out over the river. I have come perilously close to the same thing in the past...

The pretty little village of Reach, just north-west of Cambridge, is in the middle of fen land, but was considered a port from Roman to medieval times because of the shipping that arrived there through the marshes. It's where the northern tip of the Devil's Dyke, affording transport by land, meets the southern end of Reach Lode, which provided transport by water, and it used to be the site of a great fair.

Nowadays, the pleasingly-named pub, The Dyke's End, is one of my favourite spots for lunch, and, having taken Tilly for a post-prandial walk along the dyke last time I was there, I opted for the lode this time. And very fine it was too. The rainy morning turned into a lovely afternoon, and, though I didn't have a proper camera with me, the iPhone did a pretty good job.

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Beechwoods Nature Reserve this evening.

Tilly, captured on her afternoon walk by my iPhone 6. It's a pretty good camera in the right conditions, given the size of the lens. Click to see more detail.

If this shot looks vaguely familiar, you might have seen this one a couple of years ago.