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i'll even throw in some of the spugsters stash ... of cake (lemon) or biccies (brazil nut chocolate coated cookies) ... :eek::D:D:D and some of the dog biccies (tedsters) for bob ...:D

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Who could refuse such hospitality...shame I'm not around tea, milk and a level teaspoon of sugar for me!:D

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your welcome .. next time you are over here .... that is if im here and the spugster has a stash ... he hasnt been down and nicked it all ... :D:D:D

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Here's my take on Dianne's theme of statues...

1 Iceland 2007, at the Geysir site
2 Bronze figurehead of the Mexican sail training ship Cuauhtemoc (he was an Aztec emperor), Tall Ships Race, Liverpool 2008
3 Mask from mural outside Liverpool RC cathedral
4 Lambanana as builder, Hope Street, Liverpool 2008, a project for the City of Culture
Superlambanana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5 Antony Gormley's Another Place, Crosby beach
Antony Gormley's Another Place
6 Alesund, Norway - a similar theme to Dianne's pic of Maryport
7 Rollo the Viking, Alesund - the founder of the Duchy of Normandy (I see the Norwegians call him Rollon!)
8 Bamse the St Bernard, Honningsvag, Norway - a war hero
Bamse (St. Bernard) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
9 Bamse from behind, to show the view - taken at midnight in the far north of Norway
10 Snow sculpture on the prom, Morecambe, Christmas 2010

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The self same Hound Sue, he's also remembered in Montrose along with some other Characters from North of the Border. :)

Bamse side view, Bamse from the front, Bamse's story, Commando memorial Spean Bridge, The ever watchful Wallace at the Borders, Dundee & Dandy. :)

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Cheers Dave, great pics - maybe one day I'll get up to see Bamse in Montrose, don't know that part of Scotland at all.

BTW did you know that the Dandy is going online only from the end of the year - no more paper version!

And on the subject of same character, different location - when I was in USA in 1974 I remember photographing in Fargo N Dakota a statue of Rollo the Viking as seen in Norway. Darned if I could remember why it was there but just discovered it was because there was a sizeable Norwegian population there.
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I took a trip up to my friends house to day because she said there was a good view of the numbers on Pendle hill. When I got there the numbers had been removed so the first picture is the hill without numbers.

I then decide to take a few pictures of their dogs and cat, the little dog got fed up and made his own bed and tried to hide from me. Next a gargoyles on the gate post, one of a pair.
Then another monument at Spean Bridge taken year ago in better weather.

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Had to google that Gremlin to find out what you were on about! It's a great idea.
Surprise artwork pops up for witches on Pendle Hill | UK news | guardian.co.uk
1612 appears on Pendle Hill to mark 400th anniversary of Lancashire Witch trials - Lifestyle - Burnley Express

PS I want that ginger puss!

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Have another picture of the ginger puss Susie, that's my quota for today.
I had heard about something on Pendle Hill and passed on the A59 at weekend and saw nowt. It turned out to be on the other side. The picture was taken from my friends house which is up Briefcliffe road past Haggate near Thursden, a wild and windy remote spot.

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Today in Pictures...not much today.The Big Shop day, so just a bit of nonsense really.

1. Saw this in Mercer Park, I know what its for, it just tickled me, dont know why.
2. Quick look around the Churchyard, All Saints Church.
3. Its just coming through the grass.
4. Then it does this.
5. And then this.

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Is pic 3 a Wild Haggis escaped?

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It didn't run off when I got on my hands and knees, so don't think so.

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You weren't on your hands and knees in the churchyard were you?

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Amazing fungus pictures. Do you know what it is?

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More statue pics from my travels

1 Roald Amundsen, Ny Alesund, Svalbard, Norway
2 Inside a reconstructed Viking hall, Lofoten Islands, Norway
3 The statue's gone, but left his coat behind... Ravenna
4 Roman statue gallery, Town Hall, Osimo, Italy
5 to 8 This is a public sculpture in Castelfidardo, Italy, where the main industry is accordion making. I think it's really ugly, but fascinating...