Top men's tennis players up close and personal.

Just in time for Wimbledon, here's my choice of  Top Men's tennis players. This lens comes with my very own photos of the top tennis pros taken at Queen's Club London in June 2011 and June 2010.

I'm very lucky that I get to get to this tournament every year. It's an initimate venue, and you get to see the top players up close and personal..

I hope you like the photos. They're all taken with my fantastic Canon compact digital camera. The zoom feature works well, and I'm pretty happy with my shots of these great men's tennis players.

My photo of #1 tennis pro Rafael Nadal taken at Queen's Club London 2010

Why not visit and vote for your favourite tennis player?

Lovage and sorrel - 2 usual herbs

I grow lovage and sorrel, and use these herbs most days, yet lots of people have never heard of lovage and sorrel.
Read all about lovage- how to grow and use lovage,. Lovage tastes a little like celery. It's easy to grow and is just a bit unusual- one up for you in your recipes!

The same with sorrel. Read all about sorrel here. Recipes, herbal remedies ,lovely pictures....

I don't know why these herbs are so overlooked. You can rarely buy them in stores, but if you grow them at home you'll get lots of pleasure for very little pain.

Looking at outdoor toys ready for summer.

I've just picked out some great Outdoor Water Toys ready for children to enjoy this summer.
There's a water table for toddlers, and a great sprinkler for older children.
If you add to these  water and sand toys, the extra fun of a swing or swing set then your children will be ready for hours of healthy outdoor fun this summer.

Outdoor water toys

I've just made a new lens Outdoor water toys for kids.
It should work well alongside my Swings and swing sets lens.

I'll be coming back to add to this ready for the summer.

Herbs are my obsession just now.

I've spent ages trying to rescue the bay tree that had severe frost damage over the winter. I'll have to make a lens about it- meanwhile, you can read more on my Notes from a Lake District Garden blog.

Right now the Lovage and sorell are growing really well in the garden, and the lenses I wrote about both of these are also up in the 3,000 in lensrank. The problem is thought, that sales from these lenses of a pack of seeds or a few herbs, is never going to make me a fortune! Ah well!

If you love herbs as much as me, you'll love Jekka's herb books- I've picked on out here.

The Royal Family are top of the pops

Since the Royal Wedding my lenses about Kate's Style,  Kate's wedding dress, and my brand new lens The Duchess of Cambridge have gone down a storm.
I think the imminent visit of the Royal Couple to Canada and the USA will keep them in the spotlight too.
Here's hoping for a couple of high ranking lenses for a while!

What's whitemoss doing on Squidoo?

The answer is- sprucing up her old lenses for the spring and summer.
My Easter biscuits and Easter cookies has been up in tier 1, but might not make it for the month as a whole. I need to work on this next year.
I've not had time to make any new lenses, but I'm going round making the topical lenses such as my herb garden lenses, more up to date and generally freshen things up. It's time to think about the garden now.
Also, with tourists flocking into my home area, I'm revisiting my lenses about Wordsworth's Lake District.
Hopefully I'll be back to make new lenses soon when things ease up in other directions.