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Some cracking shots there today Dave, especially like the rainbow and the clouds, some nice lighting effects by Mother Nature!

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sorry dave ive had no internet from monday nite to friday teatime .. and the spugster was down friday nite ..and goes home later on today .. but its my arm that was hot waxed ... the one that was in the cast ... :D this is it in stages ... dip it into the hot wax 7 times to build it up .. then into a paper bag to stop the wax getting onto the towel, wrap it in a towel and wait 15 mins for it to work, and then peel it off, and squish the wax like a stress ball ... its to help me do my exercises, ease the pain ...:D

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Are you modelling for Madam Tussaudes?

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Out in p------- rain today .Autumn is on it's way.
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Nice colours, don't look real somehow. Love those Highland cattle!

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The cattle belong to Higher Brox Farm. He breeds rare breed sheep , Highland Cattle and Long Horn Cattle.

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Night and day,
Many years ago I got the job of taking all the gas oil from Barrow power station when it closed down to Padiham and took the chimney photo.

Last night I looked out and saw the moon just about to hide behind a cloud, I just had time to catch a quick photo.

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How did you manage with no Internet for so long, I would have required anaesthetic.

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You are right about the Autumn, the rain is definitely getting colder.

I can never get anything that resembles a moon, I have had a couple of light streaks, and a couple that look like a dim light bulb, but nothing that resembles the moon.

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One here that resembles the moon Dave.

Really it is a lamp outside the lodge we rented at Pine lakes.

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Today in Pictures, on a day you wouldn't put a dog out, I took a dog out.

1. After a tramp around for a few "signs of life" I ended up down Lower Barnes Street.
2. Dancing around in the woods I came across the small fungi ( I think ) it was dark due to the day, so its not the best shot.
3. These could do with a wash.
4. Last one before heading up the hill.
5. Rain on a slate roof on a wet Sunday afternoon.
6. A quick look up a back passage.
7. I went back through the park, so checked these out to see how they mature.
8. I went all giddy with this one in All Saints Church, its a giant polypore.
9. There were three huge ones, and a small one. You get a few droplets for the same price.
10. Along the canal and back home for a dog biscuit, and Bob will have one as well.

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If you had drawn on a few aliens and a spaceship, I would have believed it.

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If I remember rightly that lamp was one of the things that contributed to the "ghosts" we were discussing in Gremlin's pics a couple a weeks ago before the discussion was deleted...

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Your camera seems to like the wet even if you don't... those are cracking shots. I love the slate roofs, quite a collection of them!

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Did anyone explain why the deletion occurred, I think it is very unfair on ghosts, it could even be described as racist, even ghostaphobic, or perhaps the Mod was just scared of ghosts. I suppose we should watch this post to see if it gets the chop, or spirited away

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Yes I wondered whether to post in case it was tempting fate...

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I've just asked my spirit guide, and he says it's OK.

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Good... the only spirit guide I've got is in the bottom of a whisky glass telling me to put more in...

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Today in Pictures, sort of a ricochet walk.

1. After looking for the last two "signs of life" plaques and finding them missing, I found myself at the bottom of Lower Barnes Street, so I shot in the woods to take a couple of photos that failed me yesterday. A set of Variable Oysterling Fungi.
2. Followed by a Candlesnuff Fungus.
3. Setting off to Gt Harwood over the footpath I found a Jelly Ear Fungi.
4.Looking across the fields I wondered if I should retreat, but didn't.
5.Finding myself in Tottleworth, this is looking over to Hapton Quarry.
6. Looking toward Rishton.
7. Then looking at the turbines.
8. Before leaving Tottleworth, this is looking over the Rishton Dip toward Hameldon.
9.Looking toward the trees that follow Hyndburn Brook in the dip.
10. Looking over the gate into Dunkenhalgh Land.

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Thas a lass after mi own heart.

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Some nice work - on the ones previously as well of views over from Hambledon Woods by Dave Mac - do you ever see any buzzards over there?

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No buzzards, but plenty of what I think are kestrels, they hover before dropping on prey.

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Yes they are kestrels - I have seen a buzzard in that valley below Windy Harbour - the farmer there used to be a nut and would come out in his jeep if he saw you tresspass and chase you off his land. I think the farm may now be residential flats?

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Today in Pictures, a busy day, but managed a yomp in the middle.

1. final burst of flowers before the frost arrives, just over the swing bridge at Church.
2. These Candlesnuff Fungi are everywhere at the moment, small and easily missed.
3. Fungi, but with a slug creeping up.
4. I know, they are bricks, but I think old bricks?
5. This looks like a slime mould just bursting from under the bark of a dead tree.
6. Moo Cows, close to Hyndburn Brook on the path that heads to Rishton Dip.
7. Hyndburn Brook looking towards the motorway.
8. I wondered were the weir was, well you would wouldn't you.
9. Looking back on the path travelled before emerging at Rishton Dip.
10. Taken from the main road looking into the Dunkenhalgh land.

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Again some good photos - but I'm still waiting for one of a buzzard they are big enough to get a decent photo of! :D

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Never seen a buzzard, and if I did you would be the first to see the photo

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These are not very good photos but they do contain a buzzard and a few red kites, so I was told when I took them. We rented a nice lodge on a farm at Rhyader in Welshland and the farmer fed the birds every day.

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Russell, you're too modest, those photos are fine! The birds must have been quite a sight. W used to have a pair of buzzards around when we lived in the Wiltshire countryside, but they were always so high in the sky so didn't get any photos of them.

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Half past three every day the birds start arrive and hover about until the farmer arrives with his tractor, then he throws the meat about and the skies fill with Red Kites.

The crows and buzzards manage to get good belly full.

The farmer has built a few hides just below the place where he throws the meat and charges four quids entrance to the farm area. We got a free look in because we had rented his lodge for the week.

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We went there last September and it was absolutely peeing down so I never even got my camera out. Your pics are great.Love the kite in flight.

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We went in April and I was very surprised how nice the weather was, you can see by the photos how sunny it was.
The pub down the lane was not bad for a meal or a pint but there wasn't a lot else to do in the area for people like me who is not into walking or hill climbing, it's the age thing.
We had a look around the reservoirs and the visitors centre there, the little red brick building in the farmers field was an access point for the underground tunnel which takes water to Birmingham, we got a chance to see in it when the inspector came.

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Good pics of the buzzards etc - red kites have now been released in Grizedale - Lake District and I'd think they have a feeding station up there as well. ;)

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I never knew what they looked like, now I do, the farmer has to be commended for his attitude to predator birds. Nice shots as well, I don't think there are any of those birds around here, but I could be wrong.

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Kes - your avatar -it's fading away... hope you're not!!;):confused:

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Today in Pictures. A quick walk, but just as dirty as a long walk.

1. Sun on my face, but mud on my flip flops.
2. Its a Split Porecrust fungi, but I think it sounds like a pie, I would eat one.
3. The leaves are starting to fall.
4. Came across two Pine tree stumps and these were feeding off the dead roots, Sulphur Tuft fungi.
5. Stood back for a better look.
6. Looking from inside the wood to the outside, this area was pine and Larch trees.
7. This is one of those fungi that are bursting out all over the place at the moment, Jelly Ear. Or it could be the arm of an Octopus, perhaps not.
8. This one is so small its almost microscopic, its a good job I had my Fungi Detector switched on.
9. I think this is a slime mould, it appears to be oozing out from under the bark.
10. Last shot before heading back to the car, and then shopping , whoopee.

Must put on my shopping list, some batteries for my fungal detector, it has gone off that many times this week the batteries are flat.

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Did you find any fun gals?? I'm offering... or you could try these...

FunGals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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You love your funghi :D Which woods where you in?

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The places I go are so muddy, steep, wet, remote, smelly, that I am usually a man outstanding in his field, or river or mud or manure. plus there is not mushroom for visitors.
You also have to be a good SPOREt, thats all I got on that subject.

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I think they love me, they shout out were they are, the woods in question are to the rear of Wilsons Playing Field, Clayton-le-Moors. and go through to Bell Lane in Altham, which is just short of St Mary's burial ground.

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Is this any better? :)

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OK - now you've got some horrible disease!:p

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Trying to work out where that is exactly? St Mary's is the church by the river. Are the woods you refer to running down partly by a valley with stream in it? I think it's all changed since I was up there - I know lot of the area that was farm land and fields around Altham Lane is now an industrial estate and residential, from the look of the map.

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Best way to tell you where it is, is first find the Woodlands Home for the elderly in Clayton le Moors, which is situated at the crossroads of Whalley Road and Sparth Road/Warwick Ave. To the rear of the home is a wooded area that goes through to Bell Lane, going up Bell Lane brings you out on Burnley Road and here is where you will find the burial ground.

If you have Google Earth, put in postcode BB5 5RW, you will fly to the start point.

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hi all,
after not getting out much recently, i decided i wanted some nikwax, ready for the coming winter, £3 for a wash in one at winfields, thought about driving up there, but then i would have bought something else just to justify the drive, so decided to have a walk, wasnt a proper outing, so thought i would take my compact out, and leave the dslr at home.

walk route, church, tesco in town, factory bottoms, and the hyndburn greenway, upto rising bridge, when i got there decided to walk via great hambledon, then the coppice, then back home.

whilst i was out thought i would try out the panoramic on iPhone, and also a HDR app for iPhone

decided i dont like the compact, and the dslr will have to come everywhere, not enough setting for me to play with and the pics seem.....flat, but here are some piccies i took, critique at will
thanks

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I like my compact camera....I have a bridge camera as well.(Lumix G1)...it is a faff to carry it around for everyday walks(not been doing much of that recently though).
I don't think your pictures look 'flat' at all
I like them...the berries look lovely and the landscapes are glorious.

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thanks margaret, the landscapes were taken on my iphone and are "HDR".

plus the ones i posted are some of the better ones,

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one more to use up my quota, avenue parade from coppice bench, iPhone HDR app again

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Very atmospheric.
There was a very colourful sunset here when I was coming back from daughters house, but I was too idle to go upstairs and get my camera.

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Today in Pictures, The walks at present are mucked up with fungi, so many I couldn't post them all. So adjusting the shoulder straps on my fungi detector, and putting the aerial to its full 2 meters, with a full set of batteries, away we went.

1. You wouldn't want this ramming up your hooter.
2. As we emerged from the Pine forest we spied Pendle Hill.
3. And around the bottom of Dean Clough Reservoir.
4. Going up the far side of the res the sound of rushing water provoked a mooch about, this is usually a little stream.
5. From this point the detectors klaxon kept going off. slime mould.
6. Never seen this before, they were all a pastel purple colour, and a large carpet of them.
7. Growing on the horizontal body of a dead tree.
8. Another horizontal tree.
9. There are a lot of horizontal trees in this area.
10. Back in the pine forest now, and heading to the car, you get a free wickthing with this snap.

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I did notice the edges of it , but no good for a snap, it was a deep red tonight.

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love 9, reminds me of avatar (movie) dunno why?

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[quote=davemac;1020929]Best way to tell you where it is, is first find the Woodlands Home for the elderly in Clayton le Moors, which is situated at the crossroads of Whalley Road and Sparth Road/Warwick Ave. To the rear of the home is a wooded area that goes through to Bell Lane, going up Bell Lane brings you out on Burnley Road and here is where you will find the burial ground.

If you have Google Earth, put in postcode BB5 5RW, [/url]

I thought you meant more over towards Padium area. The area is, where there was Clayton Hall (is that the right name) - I think was knocked down.

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Dave it's amazing the sheer variety of fungi you find. Looks like a good year for them, must be all the rain.

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it was because it blue you away!

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[quote=kestrelx;1021074]No its still there, private house for a local accountant now. It is on the edge of the wood though.

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Don't rule out the fungi detector, with new batteries. The ones posted were only a small selection of the ones I found due to posting restrictions, some I've never come across before, but will have to post those on flickr, eventually. I am about 5 days behind with those postings, so the word eventually is a bit elastic.

To say its a good year for fungapuses does not do it justice, I have not come across the vast number of carpets of the stuff before. I never set of to be fungiman, but it appears to have taken over, I am starting to notice the almost microscopic stuff now.

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Rainbow shots from this morn

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Today in Pictures, slightly different posting today, didn't expect to see anything today, as it was persistently precipitating, and it was a short walk as town beckoned. However on the short walk between the Ash Pad and Blackburn Road, through the Petre Industrial estate, these were all over the place, so without numbers, the fungarama.

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Dave I reckon they wait for you coming, then spring up! And I see from pic 4 you've got Bob trained to sit and wait for you to get your shot!

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The area I was walking through has a regular mowing regime, so was surprised at the different types springing up.
Yes, when I stop to have a mooch, he assumes the position without prompting, it must be the persistent regularity that it happens, plus its the embarrassment that he gets when I am on my hands and knees.

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Excellent photos again Dave have you ever sent any to Autumnwatch? If not you should when it comes on latter this year.

Can you try and take some photos of these magic mushrooms! ;) If you see any!

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I think I have, without knowing they were the "magic stuff", I will have to browse my back catalogue

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You can tell em by the nipple on the top - if you'll pardon the expression.

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I love it when you talk dirty, just checked my fungal folder, no haven't got it, will have to put that setting into my fungi detector.

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Ok I just wonder out of interest if you come across any, they like garden lawns and sports fields, open fields often with sheep or horses. Don't pick any it's illegal. :rolleyes: They do have a nipple on the top, they are very distinctive once you know what your looking for.

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I sort of, have seen them, when I worked in Haworth Park, the pitch and Put course was covered in these mushrooms that a lot of students used to come and pick them, now I know why.

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picked this up yesterday afternoon in front of the market hall in accy .... its now in my kitchen ... waiting for me to either take it to my nieces for her son .. or do i keep it and doctor it myself ... :D:D:D

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It looks like an alien.You know you cant play conkers now it's against health and safety.

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We walked on the canal bank today from Gargrave to Skipton and back. Max was dirtier today than Bob .
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Perfect reflections - you could turn those pics upside down! Love 9, and 10 - those cygnets look like they're in a hurry!

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Looks like someone has cracked open a packet of Mothers Pride! :) But Hovis (Brown Bread) is better for them!

This ones a very old swan, notice the grey on the lump!

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I thought that too! There were two cygnets plus mum and dad on the canal in Lancaster on Wed, sadly I had neither bread nor camera with me...

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I think you should plant it at the bottom of the garden, feed it, water it, and in 50 years you might have some conkers on it.

That is a calm looking set of snaps you have there with nice reflections.

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The picture referance says Hyde Park, is that your local Park?

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If we're doing Swan pictures, here are a couple taken on the Montgomery canal at Welshpool this Summer while on Hols. :)

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Today in Pictures, I fell down a ditch, and slide on my posterior down a muddy slope so you don't have too.

1. I had only just parked the car at the top of Plantation Street, took five paces and found this, and yes, it is Giant Polypore.
2. On the same stump a Candlesnuff Fungi.
3. Then up the yellow brick road, we are not in Kansas now Toto.
4. Never saw this before, a mental note to return and mooch more around here.
5. Passing the Coppice as we ascended.
6. Looking back to the reservoirs.
7. Looking over to the windtwistles, with a Kestrel in hover mode.
8. Kings Highway, a short pause whilst I re-inflate my lungs.
9. Spotted this as we mooched around what used to be "Gamblers Caves" now just a hole in the ground.
10. This is a new one to me, or someone has dropped a surgical glove

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No camera, thats almost a sending to your room offence.

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That's OK then, I'm in my room now...

No camera today either, do I deserve more punishment? :whack::spank::hitting8:

Been out most of the day, fab clouds everywhere and went past the wind turbines off Grane road, not seen them before.

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Nice cobbles in 4, hope Dianne sees them, she hasn't been online for a couple of weeks.

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I wonder if I was taking my snaps when you went along Grane Road, I think a lot of people never thought they would be so visible when planning permission was granted, they are visible from everywhere.

I noticed that, anyone know why, is she just busy or what?

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Passed them at 12.30 going south and again coming back about five o'clock.

Dianne's still doing the quiz, so she is about.

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I took my wife for a little ride over Grane road yesterday and saw the wind turbines, they certainly are close to the road.
There is a nice little picnic area on the left going towards Haslingden where we stopped for an ice cream and I decided to take a few photos.
That's when I realised I had left my camera bag with camera, lenses and attachments on my drive when I helped my wife into the car.
Luckily we are at the end of a small cul de sac and the gear was still there and dry when we returned.
I am one lucky old codger.
The camera is a week old Nikon D3200 24 mps and it was to be its first outing.
The lenses are worth a few quids as well.

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You certainly are! Still, it was a nice day for a ride out.

New camera eh? Look forward to seeing some shots when you remember to take it with you! Wonder if we passed each other on our trips yesterday?

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Possibly, we went both ways over Grane road to the picnic area.
We were there about 3PM.
We intended going to the Helmshore textile museum butmy wife didn't want to get out of the car so that's when we decided on ice cream at the picnic area.
They do full breakfasts all day if you want one.
It's our first time there but no doubt we will go again.
I was amazed at the views From the top of Grane road, I can't remember going over before, if I ever did. There should be a car park with viewing area.

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I said in an earlier post in reply to Dave we went south at about 12.30 and back about 5pm so you were there in the middle of that. Yes, the view on the way back looking over Blackburn and beyond to the Fylde is quite stunning.

I'd never been over that road till my brother moved to Belthorn about ten years ago. He can see that view from his house.

BTW did you see my reply to your query about my brother in the CB thread a few days ago?

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Usually one of our weekend walks when we can walk from home and back and dry off at home.No 1 is just inside the gates to Arden Hall isn't it?

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Today we went around Roddlesworth Woods with Max's friend Dylan the 2 year old b.c
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We didn't go out today but I wanted to try out the new camera.
I part exchanged the old camera body and the macro lens for the new camera body.
I had got fed up with the macro lens very soon after I bought it.
Anyway I took a few photos in my garden using a 300mm lens and standing four feet from the subject. I think I have got better results than I did with the macro lens.
The photos are straight off the card, no tweaking. ISO 800 f 5.6 1/4 second, manual focus, steady hand.
I am happy with my first pictures with the camera and a new (to me) way of taking small objects.

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It is, and the fungi shots that are five paces from the car are behind the left wall where the gates are.

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Theres nowt wrong with them there piccys, you do realise, now that we know you have a new camera we are expecting some fancy stuff now.

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As long as it doesn't involve walking Dave I will take pictures of anything.
I will leave that to you.
By using the long lens instead of the macro I don't have to struggle to get up again after the shot.

Most photos are for my own enjoyment but a few of my transport photos have made it into magazines. My first was a drying frame for a cotton mill I helped to make in 1962.

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Today in Picture, a more horizontal perambulation today, the canal with a bit of mooching.

1.Looking left as we head for Fosters Swing Bridge.
2. And here it is.
3. Snowberry, or something that requires cream rubbing on it.
4. A quarter of the way around and a bath required already.
5. A beech leaf turning brown for the winter, with woody nightshade berries.
6. Mooching around S. Mary's burial ground, I've got fungi coming out of my ears. Plus a wickthing for the same price.
7. Peak-a-boo.
8. A bunch of brown ones.
9. I went all dizzy when I found these, a giant one and many twee ones.
10. Looking from St Mary's over to Pendle.

With that my allocation has run out, so will not be able to show you the photo I got of a wild unicorn, or the griffin carrying off a sheep, perhaps tomorrow.

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Have returned from a few days away in Bologna - it's famous for it's collonades so I thought I'd start by showing you a variety of them across the town.

1-3 are in the area of Piazza Santo Stefano (my favourite place in Bologna)
4-7 the area of Porta Nova
8-10 Piazza Maggiore - fireworks at night for the town's Festa of San Petronius

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Your pics make me "Accy" sick :) - wouldn't mind a good walk round the area on a nice day - looks like you had one today! You still don't seem to have found any of those mushrooms yet.

Note: I was gonna say home sick but Accy's not my home anymore!

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Nice arches, glad your back, we wondered where you were.

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I think if you view the thread from the very start, most areas of town have been covered, some you probably didn't know about, well I didn't until I walked them. And to answer the mushroom hunt, I did find one, but it was such a poor specimen I didn't want to use it with posting restrictions, so will put that on the back burner for now.

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Today in Pictures. glorious day for a walk by the river.

1. Tripped over these before I got a full head of steam.
2. Heading down to the river, looking over to the back end of the Nab.
3. Found by a stream feeding the river.
4. River Calder, looking toward Cock Bridge.
5. A stream feeding the Calder.
6. The Calder flowing toward Whalley.
7. Are they Elastoplasts?
8. From the bottom of Bowley looking down the Nab.
9. Its a baby one.
10. Looking down at the river.

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as i was dreading the journey home this morning ... i wandered up into whitaker park in rawtenstall ... and took most of them in whitaker park .. 1st one is overhanging the subway in rawtenstall .. thought it looked strange .. and the last one is on haslingden road ...

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A selection of shops across Bologna -food capital of Italy and generally great for shopping. The shop-fronts are always tasteful and in keeping with the towns history...
1-4 food shops in Viccolo Pescherie Vecchie (Old Fisheries Alley)
5 Cheese/salami shop Porta Nova
6 Art/decoupage shop
7 1912 jeweller's with original etched glass and Art Nouveau lighting
8 Ultra-modern Desiguel - Spanish women's designer clothes (William Morris panels in the doorway!)
9 Sweet shop in Piaza Santo Stefano
10 Pizzeria under 13thC beamed colonnades

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It's nice to see food on open display like that rather than packaged to death in a supermarket. Went to Bury market on Sat for the first time and I felt the same there - black puddings, cheese, pies, meat and fish all there for you to look at and select and be served by a human...

Is that your aunt in pic 3??