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4 years

@annemariemackey My wife’s boss chaired a video meeting with her face overlaid with a pizza. The overlay was so good it looked as if the pizza was talking. The meeting was about the surgery moving to digital prescriptions. The Practice Manager knew she was a pizza but didn’t know how to change it

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@k8_lister 65 - when I retired and realised too late that working 80+ hours a week and not taking holidays for 25+ years had only achieved me having a nervous breakdown, having no real friends and very little money. When you retire, your presence winnows away like smoke on the wind.

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@AndyFitchet I’m 70 & in 1970 I was listening to CAN, Edgar Broughton, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa & The Mothers. I had hair down to my arse, a beard you could bury a badger in and I went to art college. We were against wars & have never listened to Vera Lynn. What’s that? Half past 2!

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3 years

Only one picture from the dog walk along the canal today. I stood for a few minutes staring into the reflection of the bridge arch. There was no barge traffic and no breeze to ruffle the mirror surface of the water. Quite mesmerising

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4 years

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4 years

@KerrieDoodles My father taped, on a Philips reel to reel recorder, the dawn chorus in our garden at 05:00 on a spring morning in 1961. I played it last year and it was deafening and there were so many species. This year I can honestly say we have arrived at Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

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3 months

Curtains of falling rain tracking across the Cheshire Plain this lunchtime. No Grass Snakes but Rexy flushed a Woodcock from a damp patch under the trees on the field margin. Completely unexpected as we've never seen one here before. A few Swifts hawking v low across the meadows.

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2 years

@miffythegamer '3pm I usually feel a dip in energy.' Have a Double Decker chuck. Always gets me through the afternoon if I've been on the lash at dinnertime...

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3 years

First time I’ve ever shown one of my drawings on here. I’ve just completed this one. Study for figures in a landscape #1 . Tumbling Crow Charcoal, pencil and ink wash on paper.

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3 years

Sunset tonight. I'm tempted to keep photographing this oak tree every evening. The result could be my version of Monet's Rouen Cathedral at Different Times of the Day. Love the shape of this hedgerow Oak. It's become for me, a kind of Ur-Oak. The Platonic archetype Quercus robur

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5 years

@Pippisell @BBCArchive @DoOneThing2019 I like the bit where she says people were installing tv aerials on the roof when they didn’t actually own a television- to make them look more upmarket in the neighbourhood. That’s incredible. The drive to differentiate your status from the rest of the local herd is very powerful

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3 years

@royalacademy I was looking at Rembrandt’s ‘Flayed Ox’ in the Kelvingrove gallery. A very large, smartly dressed man standing next to me suddenly said out loud to no one in particular; ‘I’m a butcher and I’m telling you that carcass is riddled with TB.’

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7 months

What a wonderful transformation. After spending all winter as a dull, flat grey green expanse of waterlogged grass, as of this morning, the back field is covered in beautiful, bright yellow dandelions. Such an uplifting sight.

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4 months

As I am retired and no longer in employment, I couldn't take part in bring your dog to work day. So, in the spirit of the day, here's a picture of me with Rexy pretending to be lock keepers on the local canal

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3 years

Silhouette of St Mary’s Church at Newbold Astbury, Cheshire. Pic taken by me.

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2 months

Sunset rainbow. Looking east this evening. Phone camera photo taken while sheltering from a rain squall that swept in from the west just before the sun sank below the horizon. The white dots are gulls roosting on a sand bar.

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3 years

Canal locks. A liminal space where stone, wood and water meet.

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3 years

@unfortunatalie We used to go to the local pub after meetings with our bosses from the USA when they were over. They would say ‘let’s go for a beer!’ They’d have a bottle of Guinness each and then say ‘hey! Great beer! Then leave. We’d stay until closing time & get spannered.

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4 years

Tidying up a box of old photos, I found this snap of the family from about 1980. We were skint but very happy nonetheless. My wife hasn’t changed but our two daughters are now taller than me and Bev. Call me an old softie but I love all three of them more than words can ever tell

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5 years

@simongerman600 1969 - the cover of Pink Floyd’s double album Ummagumma and what may be the first example of this type of publicity shot.

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5 months

@SoVeryBritish Just say, with a sigh, 'Well, I'd better let you chaps get on with whatever you're doing.' Or the passive aggressive, 'I suppose you're much too busy to have me lounging about all evening, messing your schedule up?' Or, 'My bicycle! I think I left it outside!' Exit stage right.

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7 months

It's our 46th wedding anniversary today. Happy Anniversary Bev me little duck! ☺️🎉🎈

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1 year

My new walking stick posing on the old bridge, Roughwood Lane with Mow Cop in the background. It was a birthday present from my daughters. It's a beautiful, hand polished, blackthorn shillelagh made by a craftsman in Galway. It's a heavyweight beauty, so less chance of losing it.

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2 years

Our 45th wedding anniversary today. Compare and contrast: How it was otd 1978. How it is.

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4 years

Here is the waxing crescent moon. Goodnight folks!

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3 years

I got caught in heavy rain while walking the dog over the fields about an hour ago. That’s when I took the picture of the rainbow (previous tweet). Also took this pic of the telegraph poles that cross the canal. The sun was shining & front lighting the black clouds in the east.

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5 years

Here is a pic of me at 20 / 21. I am standing by a wall in Shrewsbury down by the river near the weir. I am trying to look moodily artistic and French with my Bolex cine camera slung over my shoulder. I had just extinguished a Gauloise ciggy (true). #MeAt20

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3 years

@ncackerman Need to put one in the window so neighbours can gather outside and worship it on Monday nights, except for Bank Holidays and Christmas.

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2 years

Rexy has a poorly paw so he's relaxing on the blue velvet cloth which I have thrown over my armchair. I can tell from his expression that he may be able to manage a few tiny morsels of roast potato and a slice or two of cheese if eaten from his bed. Do you think I'm spoiling him?

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7 months

A grimly dark day, relieved for a few brief minutes by these golden Jacob's Ladders tracking over the flooded fields as the sun dropped through the lowest clouds just before sunset.

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5 months

I walk past the friendly St Philip's Church most days. Made from galvanised corrugated iron, this prefab iron church or tin tabernacle is in the parish of Wheelock. The side gate is made from wrought iron, probably by the local smith at the now defunct & derelict Lodley Smithy.

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3 years

As Father’s Day draws to a close, and lots of people are sharing pics of their dads, here’s one of my late father ‘oiling up’ Princess Anne at Camden before taking her to Glasgow.

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3 years

Looking south from our back garden a few minutes ago. A bit indistinct in my phone photo, the planet Jupiter is the brightish dot towards the top of the screen, above the waxing crescent moon. The moon was new on January 2nd.

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2 years

It has begun to rain. The air is warm. The farmer is working late, cutting the hedgerows, his tractor's lights visible from the causeway. More than 100 geese & 4 Great Egrets have flown over, en route to their roost. Bats swoop around us. A 2,000 tonne stone train rumbles past.

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5 years

Wow! Today so far, we’ve had gale force wind, sunshine, heavy rain, sleet, hail and now it’s snowing!

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3 years

The road to Mow Cop, which is the hill seen left of centre. It is to me what Alderley Edge is to Alan Garner. It has haunted my thoughts for nearly 70 years. I like to know it’s there. I get a bit fractious if I can’t see it on my horizon. This view is on one of Rexy’s walks.

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3 years

I saw this beautiful Staffordshire skyscape while on my way to the @flowerboxorguk studio this afternoon. The wooded tump is the eastern edge of Berth Hill with its hill fort.

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3 years

Oak tree at different times of the day #3 . Photo taken just before the storm broke. 1st Blackcap of the year was singing in the brambles. At start up, its song was scratchy, like a Peggy Whitethroat, before erupting into its fluting cadence. Stormcock Mistle Thrush singing too.

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2 years

Completed today. Title: Snow Moon: February Gorse. Media: Paint and oil pastels on paper. Size: 66x66cm (approx).

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3 years

It’s our 44th (gourmet / grocery apparently) wedding anniversary today. Here’s a couple of pics of us both on the day. We were married only a couple of months after first meeting. The wedding cost less than £200, including a 2 night honeymoon in Arnside. I’m the one on the right.

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7 months

From this morning's walk. Geese and magnolia.

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4 years

Walked around Shutlingsloe in the rain this pm. It’s 1,660 feet high yet everyone thinks Cheshire is as flat as a cow’s arse. Location of the denouement in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. No sign today of the Morthbrood or any witches, warlocks or svarts. Just a black cloud 😱

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4 years

One of my old pics of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire.

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4 years

It’s all gone a bit Arthur Rackham on me

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2 years

Sunset over Cheshire. Watched from Mow Cop a few minutes ago. I had to turn round in Wood Street as the lane was blocked by fire engines. They were tackling a fierce grass & moorland fire near the Old Man of Mow. The air was thick with smoke and the smell of burning heather.

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1 year

My illustration or impression, showing a storm approaching from the north west, over the Irish Sea and Liverpool Bay. The scene shows the River Dee estuary and Wirral as seen from the summit of Moel Famau. A flock of gulls are on the ground, sheltering from the wind.

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5 months

One of the greatest joys about my new (NHS) hearing aids is I can now hear skylarks singing over the hay fields near home. For years, I couldn't hear them and wrongly assumed they had, like our corn buntings and tree sparrows, disappeared due to loss of habitat & insects.

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7 months

One of the very few surviving cast iron sign posts in south east Cheshire. I think many were uprooted during WW2 and never replaced. This one is on the junction of Snape Lane and Main Road, Weston. Englesea Brook is home to the Museum of Primitive Methodism. #fingerpostfriday

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3 years

The log burner is roaring away, I’ve just had an enormous mug of hot tea and Rexy is enjoying the heat of the fire. All’s right with the world...

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4 years

@MWatts3376 Buster Bloodvessel & Stiff Middle Fingers

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6 years

@SupremeLynn @DanaSchwartzzz Potential Larry David moment narrowly avoided - good job!

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2 months

I spent the afternoon volunteering as a tour guide at The Old Medicine House, Blackden. Before the guests arrived, the cats were patrolling the garden and this one came to say hello.

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4 years

Because there are a lot of very loud fireworks being let off in the streets nearby, we decided to try a remedy we read about to try to calm down our very frightened little dog. It involves cutting the foot out of a sock & putting it over his folded down ears. It seems work.

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3 years

Just back from a walk with Rexy over the fields to the abandoned farm. The sunset was spectacular. A pair of Egyptian geese have taken up residence on one of the ponds. Tawny Owls hooting everywhere. Rexy was a very good boy, waiting patiently while I took pictures.

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3 years

Rexy jumps on the armchair to look out of the window to see family members even when they are a couple of minutes away. He must recognise and be able to distinguish the sound of our cars from all the others on the road, while we are about a mile away!

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3 years

A walk in Delamere Forest this morning. By controlling streams, they’re recreating some of the lost mosses and meres of the old forest. 70acre Blakemere is one such. It has a thriving & v noisy black headed gull colony. Sundew grows on its banks. Beavers reintroduced nearby 🦫 🦫

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4 years

The Ainu of Japan say that snowballs falling to earth from a snowball fight in the sky turned into hares. Ainu hero Okikurumi saw the snowball hares arguing so he beat them with a fire brand. Which is why hares have black tipped ears where the fire burnt them #FolkloreThursday

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4 months

@SoVeryBritish 'I was astonished to find that...' Translation. I was and still am apoplectic with righteous anger. My head exploded on reading your email.

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2 years

A few pics from this evening's dog walk around the local fields and golf course. The red sunset was only there for a few minutes. The pic with the sheep was taken at about 5:30pm. I didn't need a torch until well after 6pm.

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2 years

Four pics from tonight's dog walk at about 9pm. The rainbow was diffuse, enormous and long lasting. Goodnight

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1 year

@DianeARodgers The Owl Service, Granada Television 1970. Based on the novel by Alan Garner, it featured Llech Gronw, a monolith with a hole in it, at heart height. Script by Alan Garner. Directed and produced by Peter Plummer. I think there were 7 or 8 episodes.

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3 years

The swallows are gathering on the wires now. The swifts left in August and the local sand martins are nowhere to be seen. Soon, on a moonless night, they will all be gone - on their way to Africa. The sun inches south day by day. The year is turning once again.

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5 years

The Bridestones, looking west. The remains of a large, chambered tomb just below the summit of the hill known as The Cloud on the Cheshire / Staffordshire border. More details on the Megalithic Portal and in The Old Stones - Edited by Andy Burnham.

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10 months

I didn't think he could get any close to the fire but he achieved a new personal best this afternoon. #dogsoftwitter

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3 years

@mattjoh51030320 Now more than ever before, it is apparent that the prime mission of the Police in this country is to protect the rich, their property and their institutions.

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3 years

Still waters run deep. Beautiful sunset this evening. Little Ringed Plovers, Green Sandpiper, Great White Egret and a few Swallows at last. I'm off to bed now. Enjoy the rest of your evening, as they say in more effete parts of Cheshire. 😂

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4 years

Cheshire sunset.

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2 years

It's a beautiful clear, moonless night and Orion is looking magnificent as it rises majestically over our garden shed. I wonder if Betelgeuse has exploded in a supernova yet? Funny to think that, as it is about 600 light years away, we're looking at it as it was in the 15thC.

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1 year

Some very striking looking clouds over the canal this morning. Not sure what they're called but they look a bit X Files meets The Outer Limits to me! 😱👽

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3 years

At dawn this morning, a blue grey, tiny torpedo like male Merlin launched out of the field gate at high speed. Jinking left and right, delta pointed wings flickering only an inch or two above the tarmac, he suddenly peeled off at an angle, like a jet fighter, across the fields.

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3 years

Rexy standing on the old milk churn (remember those?) collection stand. He likes to adopt this 'monumental' pose and survey the land around him when standing on anything with a slightly higher viewpoint.

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1 year

A very brief burst of sunlight down the lane about 30 minutes ago.

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5 years

Alan Garner on Alderley Edge: ‘The hill was my playground, school and world’

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5 years

@jackseale Cathartic finale resolves a potentially tragic denouement. Result. 😊

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1 year

Storm Agnes kicking off over fields near Barthomley a few minutes ago.

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3 years

Jenkin Chapel. The Church of St John The Baptist, Saltersford, Cheshire. Built in 1733 by local farmers at the meeting of three ancient tracks, one of which was a prehistoric trade route. On this path, salt was carried by packmen from Northwich to Derby. An isolated spot.

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3 years

As usual, the chosen solution to anything rare, strange and beautiful is to kill it - in this case, in the spurious cause of ‘protecting motorists’

White deer killed by police after running through Merseyside streets

Animal welfare experts urged officers to let buck find its way home but police say they were left ‘no option’

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

What to look for in autumn. This morning in South East Cheshire.

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3 months

Dog in a landscape. Rexy patiently waiting for me to catch up. This is a former golf course that was abandoned after a planning application by the owner to build houses on it was refused some years ago. It is a haven for wildlife now.

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2 years

Another beautiful sunset this evening with the added bonus of a rainbow. Goodnight

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3 years

It’s my birthday today and the first thing I saw when out with the dog this morning was this ghostly corpse of a drowned rabbit, gently floating east to west down the Trent and Mersey canal on its way to the Irish Sea... #folkhorror

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5 years

I’ve finally reached the bottom of the pile.

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2 years

Rexy found this mole on the surface in the lavender field this morning. He was heading for the cool shade a few yards away under the big trees on Parson's Bank. We watched him until he was safe and let him be.

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2 years

It's ten to nine. The sun has set. The only remnant of sunlight in the sky is that on these high clouds and their reflection in the field pond. Soon, all will be dark. Goodnight

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2 years

The grass in the bulls' field has been mown and left in situ as fodder. The beasts are at the other end of the meadow. Newly fledged swallows line the boundary fence. Some are perched on the kissing gate under the bridge, sheltering from the surprisingly cold South Westerly wind.

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4 years

A moment of quiet reflection

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2 years

Me and my shadow. Goodnight from me and Rexy.

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1 month

I can't remember the last time we had a good thunderstorm. This one has been circling over us for the last hour. The power has gone off momentarily several times but come back on again for now. From upstairs, we saw forked lightning striking across north Cheshire.

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3 years

I think it’s fair to say that the fields round here are a bit flooded, he said with uncharacteristic understatement.

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3 years

Goodnight all. Image by me.

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4 years

On a lighter note... I do like a nice shed. This one is near my home.

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2 years

I'm trying to read my favourite book of poems, Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad', while eating a slice or three of Mrs Bourne's wonderful Tasty Cheshire cheese & working my way through a bottle of Grant's. Rexy has jumped up on my knee & is trying to levitate the cheese off my plate!

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2 years

This boat has been moored here for some time and the bankside vegetation has grown to cover its side. Today, Rex began barking and growling at the door in the boat's bow end. He's never done this before. I had to drag him away. It was very spooky. Something going on?

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3 years

Bridge over the River Dee at Bangor on Dee.

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4 months

Saw a kingfisher flying upstream, straight as a die, under the bridge over the river. A tiny lightning flash of azure blue and orange. Always an uplifting moment when you see such a beautiful creature.

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1 year

Love these Canal and Rivers Trust specialist work boats. This one's named Lawton which is a nearby village on the Trent and Mersey. It looks like an accomodation or events support boat. It's being pushed by a dinky little tug boat. I'd love to work one of these along the T&M!

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It's my 73rd birthday today. My wonderful family took me out for a very enjoyable and somewhat liquid lunch. I opened my presents in the restaurant, which was a novel experience. It was great to spend a few very happy hours with the ones I love the most, except Rexy 🐕of course😁

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5 years

@ThatEricAlper Lola - The Kinks

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9 months

Walking the fields before the storm. A distant fox eyed us up before disappearing into a rattling winter thicket. Four goosander & a sheltering heron took off from the ice free water of a canal winding hole. Flushed by Rexy, a skyrocketing snipe zig zagged into the lowering gloom

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2 years

The 'distant poplars' from near Englesea Brook, that feature in many of my paintings, seen up close at sunset last night.

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