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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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5 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Ice Cream Parlour – Dewsbury [2008]

May. Such a lovely time of year. The sun comes out, the birds make a lot of noise and cravings for ice cream start to develop and, in normal circumstances, a trip to the local ice cream parlour would be in order. In 2008, a favourite of mine was Charlotte’s in Dewsbury (http://www.charlottesjerseyicecream.co.uk/). A fine
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29 Apr 2020

Picture of the Day – ICU, Anglesey [2011]

One of my many obsessions is with seafood dishes, especially Seafood Mornay. The best seafood mornay I’ve ever had was Roger’s Seafood Mornay from the former Pen Bryn Bach restaurant near Aberdaron in North Wales. The second best seafood mornay was also Roger’s Seafood Mornay. In third place was the seafood mornay I made for
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28 Apr 2020

Picture of the Day – Capillary Attraction – Brierley [2008]

Taken to document possibly one of the proudest moments of my life, today’s picture shows how a GCSE in Physics, a bit of string, some baking trays and a slow leaking radiator valve can all be combined to prevent a fuse box from shorting out and causing a disaster. Having been notified that there was
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27 Apr 2020

Picture of the Day – No longer standing, Green Lane, Liverpool L18 [2013]

In my youth I regularly visited the gentleperson’s establishment of Bishop Eton Parish Centre, known locally as Birch House, a church club. At the time, it seemed like the centre of the universe. Cheap beer, cheap cigarettes, quirky vending machine in the entrance and two hi-reward fruit machines. It also boasted a friendly hostess and
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24 Apr 2020

Picture of the Day – Desk of Hidden Objects, Brierley, South Yorkshire [2008]

Randomly admist the photographs I often come across pictures of workspaces. It was often a meme on social media to upload a picture of your workspace for followers to see. In 2008 I was a full-time student, so this was my workspace in the back bedroom in my house in Brierley near Barnsley in South
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22 Apr 2020

Picture of the Day: Unknown Bridge – Possibly Runcorn [2006]

Taken 14 years ago to the day, a photograph of this unknown bridge in an unknown location. Where is it? What was I doing there? Why did I take the photograph? I know I took it with my Sony Ericsson K750i but there is no geodata or further information other than the date stamp in
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