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Days when you know why you live in the British Isles


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The Vulcan would have been overhead yesterday afternoon, if you didn't see it you would have heard it.

It mustn't have come our way. I was outdoors in the shed and it would have caught my attention. I'm not an aircraft enthusiast but I've always taken an interest in old prop planes since they were such a familiar sound during and after the war.

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Having a quick look at this thread, because with the local heroes letting us down 0-2 on Saturday, followed by two days of pretty much uninterrupted rain, I needed a reminder of why emigrating might not be the first option.

 

Reassured. Thank you, Chaps.

 

Kevin

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Theres been nothing from me for a while on here, but no prizes for guessing these locations.

 

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The last one is the Old Station Inn at Blackmoor Gate

 

Cheers, Dave.

 

 

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I thought I'd add a few recent photos from Northumberland.

 

The first one is a reservoir not too far from Rothbury.  If you walk to the dam you can see the Fontburn viaduct of the old North British line to Rothbury. The reservoir has good free car parking, toilets and a small shop.

 

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Dove Crag from Fontburn Reservoir

 

 

The next one is Blyth beach.

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Sandy beach at low tide

 

 

This is the North Sea on a calm day.   The structure in the distance is collecting data for an experimental wind farm which is to be built there.

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Three boats

 

 

David

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A couple of Lake Windermere:

 

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Looking North, but heading South to Lakeside about noon and the weather is still debating cloudy or blue skies today......

 

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Looking South from Waterhead, Ambleside about 7 p.m. ....turned out nice again

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It's been such a beautiful day, so I decided to take the camera with me on this mornings dog walk. I wanted to take pics of deer, and buzzards, but both seemed to be avoiding me. So here's a few of the landscape pics. :sungum:

 

Part of the path up from the village to Bere Down.

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A mile from home, and at the top of Bere Down looking west, behind the wood to the left of the wind turbine is the historic village of Tolpuddle.

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Looking north, the higher land-mark of Elderton Clump, there once stood six large cedar trees which could be seen for miles around, now only two left, the other 4 being victims of storms over the last couple of decades.

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Looking east, my home village of Winterborne Kingston in amongst the trees in the valley.

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Taken from Elderton Clump, the Winterborne valley winds it's way north-west thro' Winterborne Whitechurch to Winterborne Houghton.

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Looking north-east, North-West Farm where there is a large archaeological dig looking for Roman remains, but have found both Roman, and Iron Age remains, also the farm buildings, hidden in the valley, is the village's local micro-brewery, Sunny Republic :sungum: .

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Looking south over Bere Down, the furthest sky line, to the left of the trees in the middle distance, is the west end of the Purbeck Hills, with the slope down to the sea at Arish Mell, from there it is the South Dorset Downs with Lulworth Cove behind where the trees are.

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I could very easily continue - but enough for now.

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"It's been such a beautiful day, so I decided to take the camera with me on this mornings dog walk."

Me too! I should have been doing autumn jobs but I thought 'They can jolly well wait!'

 

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A cutting on a bridleway not far from home - in fact not far at all from the former Kerry Branch (Cambrian Railways from Abermule to Kerry; well, actually to Glan Mule, which about a mile from the village of Kerry).

 

David

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A few from the Coniston area of the Lake District with typical changeable weather.

 

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Looking up the scarred and rather bleak Coppermines Valley

 

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The head of the Valley

 

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Weather turning for the better - Low Water

 

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Close to the summit of Coniston Old Man looking roughly North

 

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Low Water, Coniston Water and on the horizon the Pennines and Morecambe Bay

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