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I can see a bit of thought went into those, excellent.

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Today a walk to Churn Clough Reservoir incorporating a bit of a wander

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Number 7 & 8 are spectacular. I could gaze at them forever and lose myself.
Very well captured.....I am green with good natured envy.

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Ok. Like doesn't cut it. I'm gobsmacked!

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That was originally for gpick. Just saw the pics from Maxthecollie and davemac: fine pics too :)

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Thursday already! Time just flies by when you're enjoying yourself.

Koge seen from Stroby Egede beach - Arhar! There be sea Mongsters here - And this ones fetched back its stick - There it be again with 'er oppo, the sea witch - Rodvig bay - Flint burning kiln Rodvig - Masnedo forts Masnado island, coastal defence battery in military use from 1912 up to the 1990's - Gun emplacements & view over the Storstrommen - Kestrel using the thermals from the defensive berms - The same Kezzy, but closer.

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A few pictures from Todmorden today

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Today was a walk up the Coppice, sightings from a Harris Hawk to a 5 spot Burnet Moth, and all points in-between, including the damage to the memorial at the peak.

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And so it comes to an end, as all good things must do! Our last proper day in Denmark before the journey back to the land of daily grind! :rolleyes:

That being the case we stayed local & traipsed around the Island of Tasing & the lower half of Langeland.

Once more an idyllic little thatched cottage on Tasing - Capes Hoj Neolithic burial mound - The little fishing harbour at St.Joul, Tasing, looking towards the Langelands road bridge - Memorial to the crew of the RAF Short Stirling "EF 137" which was shot down by a night fighter & crashed into the shallow waters off the East coast of Tasing by Vemmenaes - Then off to Bagenkop on Langeland for a snap of the Church - The Wild "Exmoor" Ponies of Bagenkop - And their Cousins :D - The Baltics supposed to be calm! - A nose round Rudkobing - And a little two master coming into Spodsbjerg harbour.

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Awe, love those donkeys.
Looks like you have had a lovely time..now it will be hard getting back to the grindstone.

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Some more from a week in Cornwall.

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Newquay......not been down there for quite a few years.
I always loved that little bit of land with the house on top......would have loved to have lived there.
Some beautiful pictures and they have brought back some happy memories of times down there.....though not the one where the seagull dropped a bum bomb on Ma's best navy blue coat.. It was ruined despite my best efforts.

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Aye we did Ma & you're right about getting back to the grindstone too. :)

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They think it's all over! Gotcha! :D
We had to head back across Fyn to catch a ferry, so we bobbed into Faaborg to do a bit of shopping & there was an old timer American cars Rally/display on, to good a chance to miss really.

Pontiac Firebird 350 - VW Kübelwagen - A couple of Stingrays - Chevrolet Camero SS - Corvette & a Ford Angla (worlds apart) - Mettalic blue leather??? - A proper oldtimer - MG - Triumph 255 i - After dawdling & not being able to make the ferry we took the road route "One & one's spouse stopped at the Aabenraa Yacht club dontcherknow, for a spot of late luncheon!" & this was the view over the Fjord.(Me being the peasantry I am, I had the burger menu though, Marion showed more class & took a multiple fish option :D)

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Just a few of the local Sand Martins

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im back in sunny Lancashire ... now to sort all the photos out .... all 1581 of them :D

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Today is a departure in that "dads taxi" was brought into service again. Winfields sponsored a charity walk for the Rossendale Hospice and I snapped a few of the Winfields entrants and a few more. You will notice Ted Robbins in a few of the pictures, I didn't, I was that focused on the fancy dressed entrants I missed him altogether and only noticed him when he had been uploaded.

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only some so far .. ive to go through them all yet .. and resize them .. and 1581 photos is quite a lot .. by the way a note for all the photographers out there .. 1500 photos at 16megapixels takes up about 5GB on your card .. ive just found that out tonite .. :D

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Lovely pics Jen.
Love the swans and cygnets.

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Today was a walk around Huncoat Colliery site.

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When you've finished smacking yourself in the gob, any ideas on how to take pics of fireflies? Little sonsabitches just don't wanna co-operate.:D

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Number ( is fantastic...even though I am not a fan of flying insects....it is a great shot.
Well done Dave.

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Great pic of the Fire Chicken ... had a '67 convertible. What a chick magnet:D Never did like the vettes.

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Hahhah! That certainly would be a challenge. Haven't seen any fireflies for a long time, sadly. When I first moved into my current place 25 years ago, I could look out the back door and see them under an old apple tree. Not any more though. The tree is gone, and too much development has taken place hereabouts.

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You can try what I did once out in the country. Stand a torch up right on a wall shining straight up and lots of fireflies soon came into the beam. Only on that occasion I didn't have my camera with me.

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I prefer to use a flashlight; too much fire hazard with a torch.;)

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I forgot you have a different language across the water

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Tonight's Walkies

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Number 10 reminds me of somebody I once worked for.....except the bovine is more handsome.

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A few from Pendle this evening.

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Great sky shots g....Nice one :dancedog:

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One for the steam enthusiasts,Steam train pulling into Blackburn station ;)

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A few cell phone pics from the last couple of weeks... I've been busy with various things, and never seemed to have a camera with me. Still, I made some attempts, but often seemed to miss what I was shooting for!
1. Can you see the Chipmunk? He's feasting on Service Berries.
2. The Heron Got Away.
3. Something got away from Miss Pris too (another chipmunk I think(
4. Hubby failing to find a Geocache (lots of raspberry canes though)
5. Neighbour's bunny stays very still - unlike the many wild ones I've seen but not captured with my camera yet.
6. Miss P says "Stop taking my photo or I'll swipe you one!"
7. Fairy Lake - another failed Geocache attempt.
8. Reflections of a clothesline
9. Ditto

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Love your reflections

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It makes all that snow that you had look a million miles away, nice warm looking pictures.

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Thank you Frank! You're the 'king of reflections', so I'm well complimented :)

Davemac: yes, it's nice and warm over here right now. It's going up to 29 or so today, although with a risk of thunderstorms. Fortunately I can get most anything I need to do, done in the morning when it's cooler, then retreat to an AC cooled house for the rest of the day. Still, it's weather like this that makes winter bearable for me :)

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Feeding Time

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Today was a walk around my number 1 place and although it is just outside the borough it is in places only yards away. Calf Hey Reservoir leading to Musbury Heights before a ricochet off Lower Ogden Reservoir then back to Calf Hey. You will notice from the pictures that the walk also included dramatic changes in altitude but as I don't do selfies I am unable to show you the red colour I went followed by a blue colour.

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For those who enjoy comparison photo's:-

http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/....html?ww2-dday

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Love those pics.....they really bring home to you what it was like back then....and how the battle scars have been wiped away, but the memory lingers.

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Exactly M,places seem to change so rapidly these days,I love looking at these comparison pics :)

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Today was a day for Raindrops on Roses and whiskers on kittens, so I bounced between two places, Memorial Park and Mercer Park.

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Nice action shots of the birds - I like being able to see the feathers in action in 1, the shadow in 2, and the squabble going on in 3 :)

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Number 1: one of my favourite places and the geraniums are grand;
Number 5 in the graveyard has a melancholy mood that is helped by the rain;
All the flowers look so lush dressed out in raindrops. It's so hot here right now that some of that moisture would not go amiss :)

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I took Aunty out today to her favourite park over here: Gairloch Gardens in Oakville. It was too hot for her to venture out of the car, (29 degrees and very humid) so we sat in air conditioned comfort (with the engine running) and chatted for a bit. Just seeing the lake (Lake Ontario) was somewhat cooling.

Back home in Georgetown afterwards I stopped at the potters guild to load a kiln, and spotted these scented beauties outside. Are they scented phlox? I don't know much about them myself.

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It was a warm rainy day, the sort that you can feel the plants growing, and there was an earthy smell from the moist ground. Enjoy the nice weather whilst you have it, the nights over here are getting closer by 15 minutes a week now.

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It's a scary thought, that. About the days getting shorter, I mean. The 'greens' over here are starting to look a little tired. We are just on the cusp of tipping over into the decline that leads into autumn. Nooooooooooo!!! I'm not ready for it yet :(

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I like to think of it as a different set of options, as the nights close in it is easier to take sunset snaps, I don't do sunrise as its too early in the morning, if they moved it closer to the middle of the morning I might give it a go. Then as Autumn arrives we have the reds and browns of the leaves, Then, I know this is a problem over there, but I do like a bit of snow for the Christmas card type scenes.

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That's what I need, Dave, a bit of positive thinking! I'll give it a go :D

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Come on; Fall's the nicest time of the year. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.:D

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season of creaks and joint pains more like:)

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Just remember, there is not such thing as bad weather.........just the wrong clothes.

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Today it was raining again.........fantastic. Foxhill Bank from a low perspective.

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That's true Eric. Plus no mozzies - Bonus!

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I really like number 10: the droplets on the horizontal stalk show various stages of 'letting go'

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Today was another day with rain, but today I was fighting the angry water as it gushed off the "Ossy Moors", Jackhouse Reservoir in the pouring rain with the added bonus of it coming through the lace holes. (I had to be careful typing that last bit).

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Up on the moors betwixt Burnley and Bacup

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For those who like old pics:-

Picturing England: photographs of English life | Art and design | The Guardian

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Today was a walk down to the river, Memorial Park down to the River Calder.

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The plan for today was planes, planes and more planes, but with a sunrise like this mornings I couldn`t not put one in.
House points for ID`s
1. This mornings red sky.
2. One from yesterday at RAF Leeming.
3. Double gold stars for first to ID this one.
4 & 5. That`s a big un.
6. New and old Battle of Britain T......s
7. New one on it`s own.
8. Just flying over.
9 & 10. My first sighting of one of these.

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Typhoon (F1 fighter)?

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Double gold stars for Typhoons? I don`t think so, much rarer than Typhoons.
Half a house point because there are Typhoons in there.

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C130 Hercules, looks like the SU 30/34 "Fulback", C5 Galaxy, Typhoon "Euro fighter", CH47 Chinook & a Tornado.

Good days plane spotting there GP24. :)

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Looking like a SU 35 gpick?

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Go to the top of the class and give out the pencils Dave, although I have them as Herc, SU-30 Flanker, C-17 (both from Indian Air Force), Typhoons, Chinook & Tornado. A good day indeed, but if i`d hung on a while, there was also four F-16`s that I missed.

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Shame about missing the F16's & yes you're right about the SU30 not much between the 30/34 & the big transport is the C17 (knowing the nationality helps as you can check their active aircraft list), still, don't mind being corrected when there's those pics to view. :)

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I only know what they were (SU-30 & C-17) because I was told today, wouldn`t have had a clue otherwise so you (and Stevie R) did way better than I would have.:)

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Today was a day that can only be described as extreme, when on the top the clouds descended with heavy rain and visibility vanished. Coming off the tops was like the descent in an airplane, total cloud then a glimpse of the ground, then dropping below it altogether. The up side to this was I had to take a path I had not used before just to get off the top, which resulted in the discovery of a mountain stream, and that reminded me of an advert for menthol cigarettes, but I will return when the weather is not as pants as it was today.

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For the more observant of you, you'll be aware we've moved (a glance in the location box) we're still in "Bier & Bratwurst" land but a more gentrified area, leafy suburb & no scuzzbuckets (except us :D). Don't think the neighbours have clocked us yet but the signs are there see for yourself! ;)

We've also got a mass of bestiary here abouts, here's a few from throughout the week enjoy.

Our House, out front - the mungous lawn that took me near on 2 hours to mow yesterday - Our house, out back - The Mongit (looking suitable put upon) by the ever play ready Niggy - Mrs Tiggywinkles German cousin (I know it's a bit fuzzy but the little scallywags can't half put a shift on) - A Field Hare that came & made itself comfortable in the garden Wednesday evening - A Wood Mouse on our rubble pile (renovations) rockery - So we gave it some nibbles - We've got "Furrys" at the bottom of the garden, noisily grappling their nuts! :eek: (from the 2 hazelnut trees) - Only 1 Beer tonight :( as tomorrow's a School day (Aye, it's a 1Ltr can :D).

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Looks very commodious.
I like the wild life you have in your garden....it is far too posh to call a backyard.
Great pics son....More please and a blog about the move might just be welcome reading.
How you came to move....More about the house etc.
I am not nosey...Just curious(that is the posh word for nosey)

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It is that Ma, it's a fair big old place for us 2 & the Hound, having said that though we've got that much clobber ..... :)

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Quite rural Dave?

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Yes, I know that feeling. Clutter expands so that it fits the space available......and when it exceeds this you have to move to a bigger place.

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Anyone for a new "state of the art" bus station :rolleyes:

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Today was a day when it looked like it could drench us any minute, it didn't though, so Dean Clough under heavy skies.

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A dull and windy Pendle Hill walkies.

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Today with not much time, a quick jaunt around the wet bits adjacent to Cutwood Park.

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Number 2 looks like the dreadedly invasive Purple Loosestrife - it's all over the place over here. I love the swans, although the one on the right seems to be saying "What the heck are YOU doing here!!" Hah hah

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You are right it is Loosestrife, but I don't think it is very invasive over here, and is looked at as a source of food for butterflies. Those Swans were hissing at me, I think more because I didn't have bread.

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Up on t'fell today

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Just a few pics today

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Awwwww! Love all of those.

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I'm all in favour of butterfly food, but over here it's seen as seriously invasive. Here's a link if you're interested:


Purple Loosestrife | Ontario?s Invading Species Awareness Program

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Just read the link, it is interesting how it got to Canada and is a European species. It does say that despite it being invasive it is still sold in garden centres.

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I can see why, as it is very pretty :)

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Today is a yesterday outing, I was too clapped out after getting home that I hadn't the energy to lift my camera. So here is yesterdays effort with more mileage and altitude than normal.

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A few dicky birds from this weekend.

1&2. Wrens
3-5. Meadow Pipits.

Please feel free to correct if the IDs are wrong.

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Number 1 has me intrigued - what is that contraption? Number 7 is very picturesque! It must have been quite a hike :)

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Number 3 is a really nice one, four too :)

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It looks like a sluice gate but appears to have been made into an ornament.

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Its the original valve that was used between Calf Hey Reservoir and the one below, Ogden Reservoir, it dates to 1856 when the reservoir was built. Number 9 is the furthest we were from base camp and not a view I will be snapping any time soon.

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Then I'm doubly honoured to have seen it through your eyes (and camera lens). Thanks Davemac :)

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love number two...it looks as though the wrens are having a 'gossip'.....yes i know that is fanciful.

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Today was a tootle around the turbines, and the views that presented themselves.

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A gentle stroll along the banks of the Leeds Liverpool Canal

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Great shots F,I really like the reflection shots :)

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Today was a stroll along the reservoir and up to the heather drifts on Pendle Hill.

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A sunday stroll around Wayoh

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Up through Hameldon Woods to the quarry, and then the turbines. What more could you want' green bits, wet bits and windy bits.

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Snap.:)