But it was .. tough!
My health condition is doing its best to try and kill me .. one way it lets me know this, though it did not yesterday when I went on this trip, and another way has no damn warning.
Plus it likes to throw me some curve-balls and often two ore more at once.
I was in a .. very nice bed and breakfast with a very nice owner down in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
Brother suggested we do this, the one I can talk to, has a car and does not perform like a child depending on the conversation topic. Lol. We went down with two nephews I had not seen in a while, one almost 18 while the other .. umm .. very young? Lol, I have a terrible memory but I would suggest he is three .. give or take a couple of months. Probably less.
Yeah on the evening I had a nerve wracking drive down, a panic attack once there and extremely uncomfortable feeling. This led to some trouble sleeping but I got there in the end.
The feeling persisted in a weaker form the next day .. finally disappeared after a pint of shandy and a couple of extra pills after my thighs started to ache. Up until this point I have only used my jpeg only Nikon P900 and had neglected the Sony A99II as I was not feeling particularly artistic ..
Full size images provided with a link and I sincerely hope people enjoy them .. they are also not all here and there are many others I took on the day as well as all my previous photo outings on my Flickr account ..
Then just prior to a helping of magnesium, vitamin B's and a little alcohol we spotted something rare when We drove under what I knew was a bird of prey and told my brother we had just driven under a Kestrel. We stopped, got out and I was just thinking how weird the Kestrel looked while squinting in the sunlight when my brother said .. "That is not a Kestrel! That IS a Merlin!!"
Then I started to feel fine after a small quantity of alcohol and some extra magnesium and vitamin B's due to pain appearing in my thighs from my health conditions ..
