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The only place in the UK that I have seen red squirrels is on the I.O.W.

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Well I am not telling any porkies. It was in our garden last week. We were in the Lodge at www.kirkennan cottages.co.uk last week

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Would not fream of saying that you were telling porkies Frank.
I like watching Squirrels.
How very lucky you were to have one in your garden(however temporary your residence).
I am very envious.

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It looks a beautiful place Frank.

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It only came on one day and never returned, but we saw a few in the estate grounds.

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I had a look on their website and it is an impressive place.
Could live there. Waking up to those views is something I would love to do.

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A mooch around the old pit site on Martholme Lane, then a scoot down to the railway line, with a slight diversion down to the bluebells.

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A dalliance around the top end of Dean Clough.

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As always Dave your pictures are stunning, but number 7 is my favourite.
Love the butterfly and the sunny yellow of the dandelion.
More please

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Will do Mrs P. I am trying to get back into my old routine.

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Some pics from a weekend in the Lake District.

1. On the cliffs of Whitehaven.
2. Whitehaven again from the shore looking towards the harbour and where pic 1 was taken in the background.
3. Crummock Water.
4-7. Some very nice (if obscenely expensive) cars on the car park of Honister Slate Mine.
8. The best I could get with my gear, but the RSPB had some very high powered telescopes where you could clearly see an Osprey (follow the fence to where it meets the trees and up slightly).
9. Ullswater steamer.
10. Ullswater Lake.

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Love number 10...it gives the sense of a huge sky and the solitude.
I have never been a fan of the lake district. It has always rained when I have gone...and that puts me off.
It reminds me a lot of Wales...that is not a nice place to be when the mist comes down either....I am sure the Lake district is beautiful when the sun shines...it just never has for me.

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I have to say, iI have missed your old routine Dave.

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bluebells in oakhill park ..

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Lovely shots Jen.
I walked down to the post office on the square earlier in the week.
I was surprised to see Bluebells along the side of the path. I can't remember seeing them there in years gone by.
I wondered if someone had planted them to make the path a bit more interesting.

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A happy couple of hours prancing around Hameldon Woods.

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Dave, you have not lost your touch.
Lovely pics...great day for being out and about with a camera.

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Thanks Mrs P. it was a glorious day and I had the woods all to myself, not another soul to be seen.

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Now the temperature is on the rise moist moments are becoming a pleasure once more, Castle Clough using all the wet bits.

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It wouldn't be Dave without the wet bits.
(Anyway, I hope your wet bits have dried now:))

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If it's not wet you aren't doing it right.

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Yes, that's what they tell me :D

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A few from last week

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Today's walk

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Kirkcudbright

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Winding around the windmills.

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Thursday's walk this week

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A very wet walk around the back end of the Coppice.

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Took the dogs for a short walk around Pendle Hill, good to see a pair of Peregrines up there again, haven`t seen any for a couple of years.

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A stroll on the Canal Banks

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No 5 looks like a tributary of the Amazon!
Of all the changes in Accy since I was a little squirt, the change to the slopes of The Coppice are up there. Hard to imagine we used to slide down the exposed scarp on bits of cardboard and try to set fire to the grass tussocks everywhere else. Other than a few wind blown hawthorns, there was barely a tree to be seen in those long lost days on the western foothills.

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What you can see is an old metal boundary fence, it is still there and runs for some distance along what I am guessing is the boundary between the old Plantation Mill and the Coppice. As for the trees, the Coppice used to be covered in trees but were lost during the industrial revolution, so the recent plantings have attempted to return the Coppice to its previous state, it also stabilised the front of the area that was slipping off the shale base it is sat on. Incidentally the name Coppice is the practice of cutting back trees to the base to produce long branches for use in things like fencing, so as the name suggests an area of dense managed trees.

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That must have been a couple of months before we moved to Accy ;)

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A walk in the woods, then up an old cart track just on the edge of Bedlam/Green Haworth.

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Nos 3 and 5 are beauties. You have a good eye, Davemac.

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Took the dogs up Pendle again today.

1. Daisy
2. Duke trying to steal Daisys stick.
3 & 4. If there`s mud they`ll find it.
5. Meadow Pipit.
6. I think this is a Meadow Pipt as well.
7-9. Peregrine Falcons, always good to see but they were a long way off.
10. The sheep and the fly.

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The flowers that grow where coal was once king,......... Huncoat Colliery

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A walk in the woodlands c-l-m resulted in, as you would expect, pictures of trees.

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Dave, I see your fungus detector is in fine fettle.
Is that one edible?
If it is, it would fill a breakfast muffin.

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Its a bit early in the fungal calendar so wasn't really on the hunt for a fungal experience I just sort of came across it, I have to admit I am not sure what type it is.

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Now that really surprises me Dave.
You are my go to encyclopaedia of all things horticultural.

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Fungi are very numerous and to be specific is a bit difficult without a bit of homework, best guess would be a Polypore, and one that thrives amongst Beech trees, however it is nice to be thought of as an expert even if I am nowhere near.

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Yes Dave...in my book you are an expert...and a very nice one at that!

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You are making me blush, but thanks.

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You suit that colour Dave:D

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A few from last week.

1. HMS Somerset
2. Part of Team Raven Aerobatics.
3. Not sure who these guys are but they weren`t too shabby.
4 & 5. Catalina flying boat.
6. Both hands on the wheel please.
7-9. A choppy Newquay.
10. Just down the road to Perranporth.

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A few more from last week,

1-6 a walk from Sennen Cove to Lands End and back again.
7. Can`t remember where I took this, possibly St. Ives.
8&9. A secluded beach we found.
10. Back at Perranporth

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Good shot of a Stonechat there gpick
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...hat/index.aspx

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Thanks Stevie.

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Oh, those pictures made me long....(sigh).
Loved number 7 of the second set...I could almost taste the salt on my lips.
I haven't been to Cornwall for a few years now.
Ma doesn't go out on tours anymore, so I don't go very far these days(I daren't go so far these days...with Ma and daughter not being in such good fettle).

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About 16.45 Hrs today we returned from a very sunny Southern Germany, a week of frolics, large amounts of Lager & scoff to harden yer arteries, I even managed to take a few photies too!

Sunday a visit to "Vulgaria" (Rothenburg ob der Tauber) looked high & low for a "Kid Ctcher" but he must have been on a day off! Anyways. plenty of other stuff to see ....

Markt platz - Klingentor - Altes Rathaus seen from Obere Schmiedgasse - Siebersturm - Inside the walls of the "Spital Bastion" (x2) - Eeh, I want that one full of beer please ..... classic "Touristy tat" (x2) - Mid June, Scorchio & ooh look! A Crimbo shop, just over the road from the Crimbo Museum ????? - Rothenburg ob der Tauber seen from outside the Spital Bastion gates.

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Beautiful shots there son.
Looks like you had a lovely break.
Looking forward to more!

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Thanks Ma, it was indeed a lovely break with plenty to see & do & the weather was cracking to boot. :)

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A meandering mooch down to Shoe Mill, and beyond.

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yes, you got a cracking day for it too...though it started off a bit iffy.

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getting away is nice. It is just spoilt when you have to come back and knuckle down again.

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Monday 12 June & I was persuaded to become a "Pedestrian!" (Shock, Horror! :eek:) for the day. The jallopy was to be left parked at home (A somewhat daunting prospect for a vehiclist like me, feets is for pushing pedals & as for walking somewhere???) & I was introduced to the vagaries, novelty & dubious pleasure of "Buying a ticket" then travelling on the München, U-Bahn & S-Bahn, with all kinds of strange people going to all kinds of strange places. :D

Viktualienmarkt where we had brekky (x2) - Neues Rathaus in Marienplatz & a close up of the Glockenspiel figures (x2) - Karlstor - Neuhauser strasse looking to the twin domes of the Marienkirche - The Hirmer building, built 1912-14 with the Marienkirche domes in the background - The "Olympiasee" part of the 1972 "Olympia park" built for the Summer Olympics (see what all this walking does for you, the Witchitty one & a couple of kids dunking their feet & poisoning the wildlife :D (x2) - The Isar, running through the "English Garden".

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It was such a pleasure to be out I stayed probably an hour longer than I would normally, I did take a bottle of dandelion and burdock, which I was glad of.

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Good Man! One of the things I miss about not being in UK is D&B, but father dear when he visits usually brings me a slab. :)

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His bloods worth bottlin'.
I used to like the D&B in the stone bottles but it doesn't taste like that anymore.
D&B and sarsaparilla were my childhood favourites...we only got them once a week when stantons came round with the pop wagon.

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That's a surprise that you cant get it over there, the best D&B has to be Ben Shaws, you can smell it in the bubbles when you twist the cap.

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Lower Barnes Street on a glorious day.

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Tuesday 13 June, after the trauma of "Pedestrianisation", I was allowed to drive again so it was across to Augsburg for dinner in the "Alte Schlachthof Viertel" (The old slaughterhouse quarter) where in the "Kalbe Halle" (Calves Hall) Hasenbraü have now set up shop.

Alte Kalbe Halle (front & side, if you look closely you can see the old rings used for tying up the beasts), the way in to the Brewery, Ah bliss, the story of how the beer got its name & the Beer garden (can you spot the Witchy one? :D) - Schloss Kaltenberg (Konig Ludwig Dunkel Brauerei) - Konig Ludwig Wirtshaus - Shouldn't have nicked that hunters Beer! - Fliegerhorst Penzing (Luftwaffe) - Transall C160 doing take off & landing drills.

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A walk out with the dogs tonight.

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loved all the germany photos. What a lovely looking place!

d&b best one lately is fentimans

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So Wednesday 14 June came around it was off to where my single life began its demise oh so many years ago ..... Sonthofen & the Allgäu. Think Heidi, the sound of music & Bell & Sebastian you get a general idea of the place then.

Sonthofen (x4) Hirsch Brauerei gasthof & Hotel, surrounding mountains, formerly the "Schwarze Peter" (it was better looking place then, like many things at the time) one of the places where my fall from grace began :D, time for a spot of "Man Shopping!" - It doesn't get much more picture book than this - That reminds me, we need to pick up some Beers for your mum! ;) - The river Lech by Lechbruck - "WiesKirche" pilgrimage chapel - A local farmhouse - Need I say anything? :)

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Thurs 15 June 2017, in certain states it was a religious holiday so the roads were heaving & so were the attractions. We headed off towards the "Bayerische Wald" & would you believe it, there are at least 3 (THREE) Brauereien within half an hour of each other! How amazing is that? There's other stuff to, so we did that first to prevent an outbreak of hostilities. :)

Weinfurtner "Das Glasdorf" (x4) all kinds of decorations made from glass produced on site & various shops selling the stuff too - Dampfbier Brauerei Zwiesel - (x3) Oh look, a "Zitronen Falter" (a German play on words there), a cool refreshing cloudy, lemony shandy from the JB Falter privat Brauerei in Regen, the "Bier Garten" & the Brauerei Gasthof with the old boy at the "Stammtisch" - (x2) Tiesnach, the "Ettl Brauerie" Gasthof & Coppers.

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Milly - queen of the junk pile

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Our final day in Bayern so it was a bit of local shopping for goodies to bring home, a nip in to Parsdorf & of course the "must" while in Munich, a trip to Aying for our midday munchies.

The "Segmuüler Wies'n" was happening when we visited (x3) - (x6) Dinner in the Biergarten at Aying , little did we know it was also going to be a way point for an oldtimer Beamer rally & we even saw "Elvis" :eek: I kid you not! admittedly looking a bit grumpy, but hey, so would you be if you'd had no dinner :)) - And the last shot, a young Falcon getting a bit emotional about being out in the big wide world.

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snapchat with milly :D

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today was actually Sunday, and a wet Sunday at that, a walk around the "Pines" Gt. Harwood.

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I found when the spugster went back home after his sojourn down here at the beginning of the month a bottle of Hoopers Alcoholic Dandelion and Burdock along with a bottle of brewdog punk ale ...... :eek: and yes its still in the fridge because I don't drink ... and it will stay there till he comes down again .... :D

anyway heres mine .. in recovery again .. went down bash lines to hide the forehead ... big carpet burn on forehead .. :p

oh raspberries are coming out ...

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Lovely pics Jen.
Sorry to hear that you have been in the wars...again.

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I no longer drink too. Just over three and a half years.

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A few from Pendle Hill, looks like the Peregrines have a youngster and I think in the 1st pic he`s just eaten.

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Round and round the wet bits, rotating around Rishton dip.

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No.3 is another beauty, Davemac.

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Thanks.

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St Mary's to Millennium Woods.

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One from Wye Valley. Just testing first to see if I have got the file size correct.
I think I could go a bit larger, it's a while since I posted any photos on here.
Any comments?

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Two from Goodrich Castle, Wye Valley. I think I've got the size right this time.

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All three photos looked really good on an iPad, Gremlin, and opened quickly. Look forward to seeing more.

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Thanks EoSS
I use a full frame camera and the files are enormous so it's a balance between keeping the quality and making them small enough to post here.
I use Nikons web site to post a lot of my photos and file sizes aren't limited.

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We stayed at an 11 century priory for a week overlooked by Goodrich castle. just a few photos I took.

No. 1, The Priory.
No 2, View from the rear looking across the river Wye to a good restaurant.
No. 3, looking down to the priory from the castle.

T'others are in the castle.

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Beautiful pictures Russell...polished with sunshine and blue skies.

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Thanks Margaret. The forecast kept saying heavy rain around the area but as you can see from the photos we seemed to miss it.
Only four weeks to go then it's back to Angelsey.

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You lucky Josser!

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My friend's brother has a lovely house on Angelsey looking over the sea.
We have an open invitation and take advantage of it.

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Stop it Russell...you are making me drool.
No...I hope the weather is kind to you and that you have a lovely relaxing break.

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We are hoping to visit Plas Newydd again, the place you put me onto last time. I want to see the painting by The Whistler again.
Port Merion is on the cards as well.

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You really know how to twist the knife Russell:).

Those two places are my favourites. To walk down the cloister of trees at Plas Newydd....to sit looking at the Britannia bridge.
I would love to stay at Port Meirion....to wake up looking across the water.
They are both food for the soul.
What joys you have in store.

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A walk through Hameldon Woods, you just never know what you will find.

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A few recent pics from different days & places.

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Went to Scan Computers in horwich a few days or so ago and so snapped a couple of Bolton Wanderers on way past

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I see those damned Frogs are even infiltrating our footy stadia, and Rob your desk looks like someones scattered "Sgetties" all over it! :D

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its my frankendesk. Its got loads of scrapes and marks... 4 desks taped together :D

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Taking the wettest route to Cock Bridge

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A late afternoon walk around Martholme Lane