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Presume you mean Lagerstroemia Dianne...

Lagerstroemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's a beautiful tree - is it the one the Cheshire Cat was fond of? Coincidentally it's in the same family as the not-willow herb that Dave posted last night!

Pic no 1 is worthy of a postcard or print - amazing.

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I love that first picture....wish I had taken it....I say that so often.
I look at other peoples pics and become envious

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According to my 'Usborne Spotter's Guide' ... LOL., this plant is listed as 'Common Mallow'.

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Pic 1 was taken in a snow storm looking out of my dining room window!

Saw the "La" but thought it was a mistake and they hadn't detached the Italian article La -had to look up the spelling! Everyone here calls them Gerstroemia! There are a whole row of them outside the house here -I did have 3 but the resident Tractor driving idiot on the farm killed two of mine the other year when he put neat weedkiller down to kill the weeds in the courtyard in front -half killed the one Rufus loved which is where the Mantis has taken up residence! Note new tables and chairs outside and blue skies -hot again!

Will take a pic of it to show how it's been ruined -makes me cry to see it -criminal!

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Dianne...I hope you won't be cross with me...look what I have done.
I hope you like it.
Framed with Photoscape.

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Not at all! Lovely and very clever too -Sue told me about photoscape and I had a look the other day quickly -will have to spend some more time on it! Presume that's how you did your purple pillar box too -psychedelic! I also like photographing old post boxes -my favourite is the Victorian one in Howtown which I've taken a few times over the years...another fixation of mine. The one in Dacre is Georgian:o:rolleyes:

Oops have posted the same photo twice and don't know how to remove it!

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Sorry this is the other one I should have posted! Will ask Neil to cancel the other...:o:D

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Kate you need a better book... look at the leaf shapes.

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no...it isn't me who is clever it is the program.......
As for removing a photo you have posted twice...you may be able to do it...go back into Advanced mode and it will list the pics under Manage Attachements.......and you should be able to Browse your files too...there should be a remove option...unless of course you have run out of edit time.

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Failing that try asking a friendly neighbourhood Moderator...they will usually oblige.

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I see some people can't count mobertol the limit is 10 per day not 13 if this. Happens again the extra post with photos on will be deleted last warning or thread will be closed

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Sorry -oversight. Forgot about the cats...:o

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Yes I have BT Internet . I didn't know that I could have a free flickr account. Thanks for that Margaret.I'm soon going on infinity.

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Flickr is fee to anyone, but if you want to load lots of photo's and keep them on the site you have to have a PRO account,which all BT customers get...but which is withdrawn if you move service providers

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Put it down to the inertia of the thread, we will stick to the 10 per day, but I don't think threatening to close the thread will be a popular move, and I for one, start with this thread, and if it wasn't here I would no longer be on Accy Web.

I started this thread as a way of escaping the nasty threads that were posted elsewhere on this site. I don't think removing the good stuff and leaving the venomous stuff is the answer, so there you have it, I bounce the ball back to you.

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Today in Pictures,a walk down 't bottom end.
1. Down through the park, montbretia "Lucifer"
2. Lancashire are now ready for the opening ceremony, the ecky thump stadium is ready.
3. As far down Barnes Street as is possible.
4. The water is still wet.
5. He's just a mushroom to be with.
6. Something is eating them, and I think its there now.
7. On the way back home, on the canal.
8. After a Pals visit, I mooched around Platts Lodge.
9. From the far corner.
10. Baby Coots on a floating nest.

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Dave just wanted to thank you for the best laugh I've had in ages, still recovering from falling about laughing!

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Ha .. get your point. Leaves definitely resemble the Rosebay, however, cluster of buds, the Common Mallow.

I reckon these two have been mixing their seeds, down by the canal, and come up with a new hybrid .... :D:D

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Mind you don't hurt yourself, but its true though.

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Common Mallow grows in open, dry (well drained), nutrient-rich soil, Loosestrife likes damp places, Dave actually photographed it growing in water. Mallow is altogether bushier and sturdier than loosestrife, whose flowers are much smaller than either mallow or willow herb.

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This is the Willowherb growing on the banks of my lodge at the moment. The flowers are very tiny .... think it may be the Great Willowherb as described in my image above ?

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Actually yes there are some willow herbs with small flowers, some of them are a bit weedy.

Funny, my dad lived on Lodgeside for a short while about 30 years ago, only visited him there a couple of times, never realised there actually was a lodge down there!!

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Oooh, you're such a drama Queen ! ;) :s_aim1:

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Its my ball and I will take it home if I want.

We will fight them on the keypad, we will fight them on the mouse, we will never surrender.

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you've never met em in the railway on a saturday dinnertime then dave ...
:eek::eek::eek::p:p:p

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Not wanting to let the matter drop, and no response from Mick, I would argue that saying on one day that the number of pictures posted has to be reduced, and the very next saying the thread would be deleted if we didn't act instantly, is to my mind a heavy handed act, and an enforcement of a rule that does not exist for the forum.

People have taken ownership of this thread, and have been inspired to purchase new cameras to contribute to this thread. Is this commitment to be ignored!

It has been brought to my attention that the picture competitions no longer are run on this forum, therefore the capacity released by this act is available to the "Today in Pictures" thread, It isn't enforced on other threads that post pictures, so why the sledgehammer on this one.

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Not being technically minded I just wonder how much space every youtube music/video link takes up?:confused:

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Market day in Castelverde -got a few funny looks from my fellow villagers as I snapped a few shots! I bought some fresh bread, fruit and some ready fried "Merluzzo" which is battered salt cod (very nice!) from a specialist stall - its very good but not as nice as English cod'n'chips;)

The pink building in the square is our Town Hall (Municipio). Quite a few people about, it's a popular little market, though when it's hot most people go earlier. I got home at 10-45am and am now shuttered in against the mad hours - will open up again and start to breath (hopefully) after 7-30pm! It was so hot last night that with windows open and fans on I didn't get to sleep till after one am....was in bed at eleven after a cool shower...:hothothot:

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Dave, I am sure that it is a cost issue......space has to bought from the server.
Some people who come on the site pay a subscription, but many others do not...there is only so much money to go around.

I know Mick fairly well, and he is not into a heavy handed way of dealing with things...in fact he is a most helpful moderator(not that I am saying the others aren't- but most of my dealings with mods have been with Mick).
The picture competitions (which were sometimes very poorly paticipated in) were abandoned because of a problem with the software(I think -I'm sure Mick will correct me if I have got it wrong).

I am not taking sides here, but just trying to be diplomatic in explaining why things are the way they are.

Post ten pics and link to Flickr so that people can see the rest of your pictures there...that way you follow the rules, but allow those who like to see what you have been doing, and where you have been, to peep over your shoulder.

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Yes... all I've got to do now is get on and use this new camera...

Well said Dave and thanks for fighting our corner.

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On this particular issue, I think it has been dealt with rather heavily, to ask for the photos to be reduced in size on the 24/7/12. then say the thread will be deleted on 26/07/12 if we don't comply, is not diplomatic by any stretch of the imagination

I am not against the limit of 10 photos per day, after reducing them in size, although I am not sure if making up the rules as you go along offers clarity of vision, which this appears top be.

Would it not have been better to instruct users who are posting either too many photos ( I am guilty of this), or are posting without reduction, the correct way to post.
I find a helping hand is better than a slap in the face.

I hold this thread up as a positive thread for the website, with no nasty post having been posted. This thread has had 1330 posts with 15,519 views, and all of it is family friendly.
Yes I have got on my high horse, but only because I will defend this positive thread, and a threat to close it will not be tolerated.

I would however ask for people to perhaps look at the possibility of a small contribution to the site, I do, and will make another one this weekend.

right rant over, I'm off to a darkened room, as my dander is close to bursting

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do you want me to come with a cool flannel and some Lavender drops Dave???

I don't think this has come up before because we have never had a thread like this before....and to be fair, Mick doesn't make the rules, he only makes sure that whatever the rules are, they are complied with. You could always PM him and ask for clarification.
I think it is a 'costs issue'.
I am already a contributor and have been for quite a while. If you enjoy something then you should pay a little for its upkeep.(and I mean the 'you' in a collective sense rather than a personal one)

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Looks like a better market than Accy and in a place with only just over 5000 inhabitants (according to Wikipedia). And not a fancy market hall or faux Victorian stall in sight!

Wasn't expecting to see a large African lady as in pic 6!

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As the request to restrain posts coincided with the server maintenance earlier this week I am assuming/guessing that the two are connected. Haste may account for a certain possible lack of diplomacy in the way things were conducted. I think as Margaret says no unpleasantness was intended but there's no accounting for people's reactions.

I hope the dust is now beginning to settle and we can move on and continue to enjoy the thread - it certainly has been a breath of fresh air for a lot of people.

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Is that a Shetland pony Dave?

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I do remember reading on here some time ago, don't know whereabouts, a request to delete the video link if quoting a previous post with a Youtube video in, to save space.

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The woman sitting on the bench with the little girl outside the Town Hall (in shade so you can't see!) is Chinese. It is a very multi-ethnic village as is quite typical these days in Italy. I have Hindu and Sikh neighbours on the farm and there are also some Egyptians on a farm near us. I am the only English person though but there is a German lady too who i know and the village seamstress is Thai. As well as the village church there is a Sikh temple as there are numerous Indian families in this area working in the dairy industry -for them cows are sacred and they like working with them.

The African family live in a little hamlet called San Martino just half a mile away - very friendly -I was chatting to the large lady's daughter who is on the first photo holding her son (just checked she is behind the lady with her back to the camera!) -she works in a local restaurant where we go. The family provide the 3 kings every year for the villages living Nativity play!:D

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It doesn't. That info streams from youtube/google servers not accyweb. Well the link and code is stored on here... but that is around 50-100bytes or something

The sentence above in bold prob takes up around 236bytes space who knows with all the code and stuff

When you add attachments here, they are uploaded to the accyweb server. The next 3 pictures I will upload here are 1.3MB imagine 20 a day from 3 or 4 users.

edit: this explains it better --- http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/redu...orage-usage-92

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Just a few taken today

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I found it, Davemac !!

And here is the proof .... LOL : Frightened the poo out of me.

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I'm missing Bob, I'd grown quite attached to him!

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I'm a bit behind tonight, I haven't been sulking ,honest, Getting and fitting a WI. FI printer for a friend.

Anyway to reply to all collectively.

No it was a rocking horse, and yes it is rare but I have some.
Glad you found it, have you found all the carved rocks yet, there a bit mossed over now and not easy to spot.
I don't think lavender drops would come close, I was thinking ylang ylang, or a bit of jojoba, failing that a bit of honeycomb tripe.
Bobs on this set, but not his best side.

Right to business, Today in Pictures, Riley's swing bridge, the return.

1. Its very floral at this time of year.
2. First style to negotiate.
3. The second one, its not as overgrown now as it was when I tramped this way before, it was nettles past my armpits last time, that made them at least two foot tall.
4. Bob after he was lobbed over a style with no dog access.
5. Quick waft of honeysuckle before the dunk roundabout.
6. It was just like being in Paris, with the chairs and the smell of a sausage barmcake on the breeze.
7. These rascals have doubled in size since my last session of hands and knees, and bumps a daisy.
8.If this get any bigger I will get the chairs from around the corner and have a cup of tea and a soft bap.

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Riley's swing bridge is for me of course -my childhood playground on many a summer day!
Hate tripe -though it is iconic of Accy in a way. My Grandad loved it -used to play on the swing bridge in his day;):)

Love the thread Dave -lets keep it up! Promise to be careful and not post more than ten again!:o:D

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Its not an option to close it, if it was up to me there would be no limit, but we have to be sensible, I think ten can be adapted to, but don't get me started again, I have just calmed down from my last rant. Also I think Mick is keeping a low profile hoping the heat will go out of the thread, the jury is still out on that one.

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I got a slapped wrist but not many others had posted yesterday -lets not get demoralised by it!:)

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Mick is not keeping a low profile as you say
Mick is doing his job and keeping this site running
if you have a problem then please use the pm system and not post on site

Now is you have finished moaning can we get back on thread
i like to see the photos of members so let have some more on today please:camera8:
Oh and by the way i will soon have a few to put on myself as i am off to Amsterdam in a couple of weeks (without the wife):D

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Mick...you lucky Josser...shame Anne can't go...though I guess that gives you free rein...not that I am implying anything here you understand :D
I will look forward to seeing your pics Mick.......and Dave keep 'em coming.

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I don't have a problem, but I didn't offer to close the thread if we didn't behave.
As for using the pm system, you responded in open forum and I replied in the same way.
You have imposed a limit to the number of photos on the thread, we are trying to comply to this, as for moaning, I don't think defending the thread is a moan, I could say its you that is moaning, about the number we are posting

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Back to some photos.:thankya:

A selection of things that have caught my eye...

1 Badger near Ambleside
2 Fox in Heptonstall
3 Fruit bat in Wray
4 Carden center in Wray
5 Red Lion Hawkshead
6 Grindstone in Howtown
7 Mangle in Belfast
8 Reflections in Skipton
9 Scarecrow resting in Heptonstall
10 Trout in Pooley Bridge

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Nice collection from very different locations, I'm a mangle man myself, followed by the grindstone.

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So you like to get mangled and go for a grind do you Dave?

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Finally got some pics with my new camera that are worthy of keeping rather than deleting. Still only up to page 24/77 in the manual!

Sorry it's the same old clouds and roofscape taken through window with varying degrees of zoom. Not much to photograph when you're in the house, not going out, don't want to risk infection as due for more chemo on Monday.
The first three are 10.30 this morning, rest about 4.30, we had some rain in between!

The last two, life is just a... yes I know I've eaten most of them!

Pic 8, you can see my camera is red from the reflection in the window!

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I haven't read the instructions for my camera yet , I just take it out and use it. I'll read the instructions when something goes wrong, that's the way I do things. I use my SLR Camera for most things. Will post some later

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Typical man, my other half's just the same!

This new one is very similar to my old camera but I never read the manual for that as my other half got the camera from France with a French manual. It wasn't till I downloaded it last week in English that I discovered things I never knew about! And I've had it five years! So now I'm starting with the manual...

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Short walk today from our house up Sandy Lane past Higher Brox Farm, Spire Farm and back down Plantation Road
1 Maxwell
2 Horses in field
3 More Max
4 Spire Farm
5 View over Accy from Spire Farm
6 Horse in Stable
7 Babling Brook
9 The foundations of Arden Hall after the archealogists had finished

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You can buy them at B. & Q. in the electrical section, mangelgrinders are very popular at the moment

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I can see a lot of masts on ships, are they stored, repaired?

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Ships?? I see no ships!!
It's the yacht club storage yard, they take them out to the little house on stilts where they start the races every weekend.

The big grey shed is where they used to keep the hovercraft lifeboat until they built a new home for it right on the beach last year.

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I'm like that too......If I want to know how to do something that I don't usually do, I consult the manual, but othter than that I fly by the seat of my pants....life's too damn short to read the manual.

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Today in Pictures. A walk around the perimeter of Dean Clough Reservoirs.

1. Start point lay-by on Blackburn Old Road. down through the woods the the reservoirs.
2. The wet stuff in sight.
3. we've been out 5 mins and he is black and stinks.
4. I don't think they are speaking, ebony and ivory working together in harmony.
5. Round the bottom of the res. and up the other side.
6. A bit of an arty tree shot.
7. Both res's in view.
8. Back down the other side.
9. Stood on the separation bank between the two bodies of water. Looking towards Pendle Hill.
10. There he goes running up the hill, and leaving me behind.

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We haven't been round that way with Max yet .We used to go quite often with our last dog Gyp

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A stinkypoo rather than a cockerpoo!

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That must be the Cocker side of him playing in the mud.

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Its a nice walk, circular so you end up back at the car.

I wouldn't have put it in those terms, but the poo bit is correct.

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Where's tomorrow's walk, Dave . We are waiting for the weather forecast and we will follow the sun.

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I don't think my photos need any explanation. I had been to put flowers on a grave and decided to take a few snaps while my wife had a quiet ride around on her mobo scooter.

OK, they may be a bit morbid but there isn't much else to take photos of in a graveyard apart from a part of the old quarry under the Coppice (I think it is).

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Not morbid. It looks very well kept and peaceful....anyway it is a reflection of your day.

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That was the reason for the visit Margaret.
Earlier this year we had the little stone made for him now we have somewhere to go and remember him.

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A place I know very well, I used to be in charge for a few years, whilst competitive tendering was in play.

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Gremlin, I look out on graves every day as our house backs on to an old cemetery. Your pics do justice to the place, and that was your day, I can imagine your wife having a nice ride round the paths as well. Thanks for posting and sharing this.

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Not much from me today.
Just the moon...taken a few minutes ago from my bedroom window.

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Great definition on the moon's surface - love the pic with the black cloud on the left.

No moon here, too cloudy :(

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We have just had a shower here too. The pictures were taken just a few minutes apart...the moon kept disappearing behind a cloud.
These pics were taken with the new little camera. I took some with my Lumix G1, but haven't uploaded those yet.

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I took exactly the same photos, it was about 9.05pm. I am at my daily limit though so cant post them, I didnt zoom the moon so it looks a lot smaller.

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Put them on Flickr Dave.
Here is one from the lumix G1...and one I have played with.
I think you can tell which is which :D

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I'm still behind with my uploads, I've about 50 to think about uploading.

I'v been doing that with a few myself tonight, blue and red tints.

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Lovely pics posted by all yesterday -Nice one of Spire's farm -must get up that way again when I'm next over. Loved the reservoir photo 9 of Daves. Glad to see Sue is getting to grips with her new toy. Nice to see a new poster too -Gremlin -keep up the good work. Wish i could capture the moon! my camera's not good enough to give such definition.

Spent some time playing about on Photoscape yesterday which was fun -so much you can do, have told my mum about it too and she will be having a look at it today. Off to peruse my collection of photos and post a few -won't be out and about today -too hot again.

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A few shots in and around Dacre church - famous for the Dacre bears -four statues which guard the church N,E,W,and S. Some believe they are mediaeval lions but they are standing upright. There's a shot of Dacre Castle over the stile. Some lovely stained glass windows from different eras and a beautiful etched one. Note the one dedicated to Willie Whitelaw.

The old lady was called Nellie - we got talking - she was originally from Blackburn. She was a real character in her 90's, saw her a few times over the years, she has since passed away.

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I very rarely decide my walk until perhaps an hour before set off, I think this is due to the changeable weather and perhaps me not being able to make my mind up, possibly, well I think so, maybe.

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Nice shots, whats the story about the carving in 1. 2. & 3.

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Funnily enough Dave I was looking at these the other day...

The mystery of the Dacre Bears - were they part of a pagan shrine? : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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Just wait while kicking out time. ;) :D

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We're civilised in Morecambe - no one gets kicked out, we stay and drink all night - at least that's what the other half said when he rolled in at 2am on Saturday morning!

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I misunderstood, I didn't think they were the bears in question, they don't look like bears, but then again I don't look like George Clooney, more like Rosemary, I'm rambling again, OK nurse ill get back in bed.

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Shucks - one of my major fantasies gone for a burton!

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I never mentiond Richard ?

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My contribution to the thread.
Was at Accrington Cemetery last thursday, researching WW1 Soldiers.
Found two Grave markers I'd missed. They are badly in need of cleaning. C.W.G. will be told.
Retlaw

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Just for Davemac .A picture of Dean wood taken from our bedroom window at the top of Sandy Lane
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Going to use your mantra about the second one Margaret - wish I'd taken that!

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I am always seeing pictures and thinking.....I wish I had taken it....feeling slightly...ever so slightly envious..but not in a nasty way. Anyway Sue....Glad you liked it.
Sometimes it is just a case of being in the right place at the right time....and having the right bit of kit in your pocket or hanging round your neck.

I'm sure photographers are also a bit like fishermen...there is always the one that they didn't manage to capture.......wasn't fast enough, hadn't got the camera...or whatever excuse springs to mind.
And Dave will attest, some of the pics we take, are the ones we nearly didn't bother with...they usually turn out the best.

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I can see it from my back bedroom window as well, its like Blackpool Tower, you see it in all directions, although it does look close to your house, the power of the zoom, a useful tool.

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Today in Pictures, what started as a short walk took me to Whitebirk Shopping Estate (The Rocket Centre )

1. Start point Cutwood Park, I intended to go home after this.
2. Well, I'll just watch the dinghy's for a while.
3. I'm mooching now, not a good sign.
4. That reminds me, the canal is just over there.
5. Well.......... a bit of a walk on here whilst its fine.
6. This is the bridge that takes trains over the Whitebirk Drive area.
7. Turn around and head home.
8. Glad it stopped fine, so far.
9. Almost at Rishton, lichen on a dead tree branch.
10. Hypericum growing wild on Cut Lane. on the way back to the car.

And there you have it, a short walk that took over two hours.

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Pics 3 and 4 look like there were crannocks on the reservoir.

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Think you mean crannogs Frank -unless you're talking about a new kind of boat!

The Scottish Crannog Centre

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I get like that after a few

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Have one for me!

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Here's a pic of the moon taken at 9.10 tonight from our front bedroom window .
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Has anyone got a clue as to what this used to be, there appears to be a concrete beam holding the structure to the shore, it is on the "fishing sides" you can only fish on three banks.

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Looks like Mrs. P. has got us all focusing on the moon.

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Not many pictures of people on here -difficult to take self-potraits although there was a glimpse of Sue in a reflection in her last lot with new camera.
Indulge me a little wishful thinking (this is where I want to be right now!) - a number of images of unphotogenic me -taken mostly by my friend Andrea and husband Dave while on our escapades in the Lakes.

It's 29°C inside -sweltering and I've promised to roast a chicken later for my son when he brings his girlfriend round for dinner -I must be mad!:D

Me dressed for wet weather, drinking Tea at Howtown (note silver service even for walkers!), I actually did come down that scramble (Dave in front to cut out the view as I have terrible vertigo!), stuffing my face in the lakes with a cream scone and eating ice-cream in Edinburgh, with god-daughter Ana by Long Meg, Girls on top of Gowbarrow Fell, on Howtown jetty and by the Ribble with my aunt this April (note gorgeous day in Lancs!) Was too ashamed to put me eating fish'n'chips in Fleetwood (I do nothing but eat it would seem) so have substituted it with me and friends Pia and Mariangela in Cremona for a lit. festival in June!