When my brother came to visit at new year, he couldn’t understand why I had supermarket coupons for Dr Beckmann products.

Well, as Wendy will testify, working in a hospital can lead to all sorts of weird and wonderful stains, which somehow find their  way into fabric no matter how much protective equipment is employed! Luckily, we’ve plenty if products on hand to deal with all eventualities…!

Yum!

These are Sommarfint straws, bought last week from IKEA. They’re very colourful!

Glitzen, who lives at the Metrocentre, is preparing for hibernation until November next year (or thereabouts).

This is the oak-lined avenue at the Gibside estate in the Derwent Valley, with the column of Liberty in the background.

When I did photo-a-day in 2012, I got a lot of stick for the number of times I featured the Ouseburn… so where better to start a new series! Today’s photo shows the Ouseburn as it flows through Jesmond Dene.

Happy new year to everyone reading this!

Yesterday, I finished my year-long photo-a-day project, and promised to come up with something new for 2013.

Several people – Wendy among them – have been strongly encouraging me to continue with photo-a-day, but I feel like I’ve run out of things to feature! So, we’ve come up with a somewhat vain compromise – a photo of me every day!

I don’t know if I’ll manage to keep this one up for the whole year, and I don’t think I’ll be quite as assiduous about making up the numbers if I forget on any given day, but I’ll try my best to do it as often as I can. The first photo will come later today, when I’ve finished designing a new template for the posts… I’m calling it my “scrapbook”!

My last photo-a-day picture shows Tynemouth Priory this morning. It seems remarkable that Tynemouth hasn’t featured before now!

So that’s 366 photos posted… plus a few for the days when I posted several, like the Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel back in May). I’ll have to come up with a new challenge for 2013… I haven’t left myself long to come up with that!

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my photos, and thanks for all your comments!

I’ve just noticed today that on the refurbished Tyne and Wear Metros, the map is wrong… it fails to show the stop at Monument between Manors and St James. Oops!

I’ve only one more photo left in this series of 366… I’ll have to find something especially worthy to top it off!

Mum and Dad are currently visiting Wendy and I in Newcastle for the New Year, so this evening we went to see Life of Pi – although without Wendy, as she’s on a nightshift tonight. These are my 3D glasses.

It was quite a good film – better than I expected – though it was a bit long in parts. Still, neither of my parents fell asleep, so it can’t have gone on too long!

Tomorrow’s the last day of my year of photos, and yet I’m one behind where I should be! I’ll have to keep an extra keen eye out tomorrow to find two things to picture!