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We have rented houses in Llandudno through Holiday Lettings...and though you can pay through Trip advisor, it isn't the agent in the deal.
The two houses we go to are in tip top condition and are always spotlessly clean and have everything you could possibly need other than a good mobile phone signal....and internet.
There is BTopenzone, but it is very sporadic and apt to drop out.
I am sorry to hear that you have had such a raw deal...I would be seeking some money back.

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Today was a return to Musbury Heights.

1. The steep walk up the hill.
2. One of the derelict properties that are dotted around the area.
3. You climb all the way up here to take photos,and you are "mucked up" with photographers when you get here.
4. And here we are Musbury Heights.
5. Kept as a hint to what was once here.
6. The tramway, you can still see the wood sleepers and iron rail pins if you really look.
7. Walking the length of the tramway.
8. Off the end and down to reservoir level.
9. Approaching the wet bit and a right turn heading back.
10. The remains you see are the remnants of weavers sheds and farm buildings, evicted by the water board for fear their animals would contaminate the water. Now the area is dotted with animals, and you have to ask was all the displacement, heartache and the destruction of the community really necessary after all.

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A walk in Penrhos Coastal Park
1) Irish Ferry waiting to leave Holyhead
2) Bluebells in the wood
3) Every Country Park has to nave a folley
3) 5) & 6) Coastal Views
7) A ruin
8) & 9) Flowers
10 Another ruin

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Dave, I like number three....the people do not spoil the picture....they are part of it.
When I am snapping and people move out of shot, I tell them that I do not mind them being in my picture if they do not mind being in it.
Sometimes people give life to pictures. That is not to say an unbroken view of nature is not beautiful.
People just give a shot another dimension.

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As you know people do not feature very strongly in most of my pictures, but this one would not have been taken had it not been for the people, it was just a whimsical remark about climbing all the way up the hill, and it was a bit of a slog, to find we were beaten to the summit.

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Yes Dave, I thought it was a bit whimsical, but as you say folk don't often feature.....and you can be sure that when they do they add something.
Your pictures are always,(without exception) beautiful, thought provoking and interesting.They bring the outdoors inside for those who cannot get out into the great wild wetness...another of your themes.

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I had a ride over to Heptonstall today, there is a grave there containing the remains of David Hartley. He was know as the Yorkshire coiner. His crime was to cut edges from the old coins and melt them down to forge new ones and he was very successful until he was caught.
He was hanged at York and left swinging for a week before being taken back to his home in Heptonstall where he was buried.
I then showed my friend around the village.

No. 1 The grave.
No 2. Towngate where my sister lives.
No 3 & 4. The old Church.
No 5. Local entertainment.
No 6. looking back towards Todmorden.
No 7. Same spot but with a bit of zoom on the lens.

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Another three of the Church.
Past it's best and the new Church which shares the graveyard is 200 years old.

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Some more pics from our time on Anglesey

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I forgot to rotate no 10 before I published it

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My first outing in a while, been a bit busy with another project (bought an old banger that im doing up a bit), not 100% on some of the bird species so feel free to enlighten me.

1. Waiting and hoping for San Martins, I think they are nested in the opposite bank but no sign today.
2. A lit up Dill Hall Lane, The Coppice in the background.
3. Lapwing.
4. ?
5 & 6.I think these are House Martins, an absolute nightmare to photograph.
7. ?
8. Mmmm, that yellow one looks tasty.

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Today with a threat of rain, but with a wind to keep it away we set off to Troy Quarry.

1. Spoil piles are now almost invisible.
2. A slight diversion passed the quarry, I am looking for a trough.
3. Sheep are content to live in the scar ridden landscape.
4. On the edge of a long lost community the gate post still stands sentinel for its owners who have slipped into the past.
5. Found it, it looks out over the quarry it came from.
6. Troy Quarry, stone from here paved London, its quartz based sandstone was used to pave large areas of the Capital but the most famous location is Trafalgar Square, how many of us have walked the capital and not realised the stone under our feet came from home.
7. Life on the edge.
8. We all find ways to entertain ourselves. Life on the edge part 2.
9. The area has a gentle bumpiness about it.
10. This stream is one of many that draw lines in the landscape of this area.

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Absolutely love number 8...but that is because I am a mad cat woman :)

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You did well to get the house martins as they are so fast.The yellow bird I think is a sisken.

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number 4 looks a bit like a greenfinch
I love number 8...but that is because I am a mad cat woman :)