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19 May 2020

Picture of the day – Cleethorpes [2018]

It was a splendid day today in 2018, the sun was out, the sky was blue and Prince Harry was getting married to an American. What more could a British person want? A trip to the seaside for Fish and Chips you say? Perfect! And so that is what we did. You can read about…
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18 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Royal Oak – Langstone [2008]

As a child I was gifted the book Haunted Inns by Marc Alexander (1973) which is a kind of gazetteer of reputedly haunted inns around the UK. Indeed, during the early days of the internet (you know, when it was fun and not full of fascism and capitalism) I had a site on Geocities called…
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15 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Ty Coch (Red House) – Nefyn [2004]

One of my favourite walks starts by parking in the National Trust Car Park on Lon Golff in Morfa Nefyn and, depending on the tide, walking along the beach toward the distant Porth Dinllaen then, after a bite to eat and a pint at Ty Coch (http://www.tycoch.co.uk/), a leisurly stroll up the cliff road and…
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14 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Uncle Nat’s Cottage – Rhiw [2004]

When I was a young badger, my Uncle had a lovely cottage in Wales that my dad would help do up in return for being able to spend occasional weekends and holidays there. Slap bang in the middle of acres and acres of grazing land on the side of a mountain in most rural, rugged…
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13 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Give Us a Kiss [2006]

The band was Dressed to Kill and so was I. Tribute acts were and are still a surprisingly popular thing. Indeed, I have a fondness for acts like the Kiss tribute act Dressed to Kill such as Polka Floyd, Beatallica, Iron Horse and Hayseed Dixie. In fact Zoe and I recently went to see Yes…
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12 May 2020

Picture of the Day – Abandoned Farmhouse – Langsett [2010]

Ten years ago, I went on a long walk to clear my mind and have an adventure. I took my Walkman/Creative Jukebox MP3 player, my denim jacket and a packet of crisps. Intending on only being a couple of hours, I went on a long 4 hour walk through the rugged Yorkshire countryside (which you…
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11 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Pansies – Radford Semele [2012]

One of my most favourite flowers is the pansy. They’re so vivid in colour and they really brighten up a garden. Our garden in Leamington Spa was big but lacked any colour apart from green. So, while Mrs Gnomepants was away from the house, I nipped out to Homebase and bought a shed load of…
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8 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Bluebells, Berrignton Hall, Leominster [2016]

Bluebells are always pretty but their beauty and vividness are never truely captured by cameras. With the COVID-19 thing, we thought we’d miss this years bluebells but we managed to see some in a wooded area on our recent government approved exercise hour. Today’s picture took me awhile to work out where it was taken.…
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7 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Aigburth Station – Liverpool [Year unknown]

Some years ago I was given a collection of photographs from my Aunt Joyce who died when I was about 11 or 12. They had come to me after her husband, my Uncle Harry, had died. I must have scanned some of them into my photo library today in 2012 for some reason. One of…
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6 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Load of Old Rhubarb – Brierley [2008]

I love growing rhubarb me. I’m not overly keen on eating it, though I will, but I love growing it. My grandfather had a fine crop of rhubarb behind his greenhouse. My dad would often relate how he would have to go out with a bucket after the milkman’s horse so he could collect the…
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