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Don't know about that, but they make bullet and stab proof material for the army. They used to have an indoor firing range inside the mill to test the fabric.

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Yep.. the Tygaflor bit has moved elsewhere.

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Nice pic of the mill on this page...

http://www.fothergill.co.uk/company.htm

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Super Susie the Super Sleuth.

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I told you, or someone else, maybe Davemac, I used to do this sort of thing for a living!

BTW did you go to the dog trials at the w/e?

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No something cropped up with the family.

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That's a shame, though it was quite windy. Don't know how they went on.

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You mentioned it to me, but you have gone beyond the call of duty with that lot of research.
The os grid reference though is just showing off, but bravo anyway.

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Thanks Dave. That OS grid site is very good, lots of interesting pictures. I didn't go looking for it, it just came up on google, as it does from time to time.

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Part 1. Today in Pictures, Gt. Harwood nature walk completed.

1. Start point, Memorial park behind us.
2. Thistle do for a start.
3. River Calder again.
4. Fungi on a tree stump.
5. This one has a simplistic beauty.
6. All these on the same stump.
7. Looking over to Pendleton Moor.
8. Route goes through Bowley scout camp.
9. I remember this from its original position in Accrington.
10. Central area of the scout camp.

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Part 2. Today in Pictures, the final part of the journey.

11. Himalayan Balsam, lovely flower, nasty weed.
12. Up the lane, I am told that range in the distance is Whernside?
13. Look over to Dean Clough.
14. Small hamlet halfway up the lane.
15. Thats a walk for another day.
16. Dean Clough Reservoir.
17. Looking back up the lane.
18. Over the style, it brings us out at Memorial Park, top corner.
19. Oh my conkers.
20. Last view before going home.

Another walk on the list completed.

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my todays are nowt like that .... very nice dave .. now i know instead of coming home after the hossy i should have had that wander round helmshore... instead of taking pics of my sisters annual visitors to her garden and then catching the bus home and watching tennis all afternoon!!!:p:p:p

my sisters annual visitors to her garden .... :eek:

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No 9 from the Corporation slaughterhouse?

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Bob on frank, its roughly where the cinema and bowling alley stand today.

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I thank you for your effort, why no pictures of going to the hospital, and during treatment then journey home, it is after all today in pictures. Perhaps next time?

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I think she had other things on her mind Dave...

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you actually dont want to see the pics i took off my manky arm ..... thats under the cast again ...

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Oh we do, and the cutting off of the plaster, in fact all the gory details.

Does this also mean that you now have two hands to hold the camera with?

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nope ... i have another cast .. my 5th one .. i did another blog about it ...

ok dave as requested and ive managed to bluetooth it from my mobile to this ...

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these are from another trip to the hospital over grane road when i did have my camera with me ... remember these are took from a bus .. through the dirty window and moving.... on 29 may this year ..

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Some are clear to say its through a dirty window at speed.


5 casts are a lot to put up with.

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some sunset pics...just taken.

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I dont know how you do it, never saw a thing, well done again.

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other than that, this is a pictorial record of some of my day.
I only did the walk to school to pick up the tinlids..but went via the Canal bank.

1) Sid Spider - a resident of our bedroom
2) Gizmo - Cashy take note..he looks well but is going blind(cataracts)
He can still smell a biscuit at 20 paces.
3)Zeus - a neighbours cat. Likes me, but Pasha hates him!
4)The Canal Bank - on my walk to school to pick up the tinlids.
5)Zeus - posing(tart)
6) Old stone wall - on the far bank of the canal. I like the colour and the
texture. Was probably part of the Floating Soap Factory.
7)Nettle(?) flowers...well that is what I think they are.kept well away on
the off chance.
8) Speedwell - at least that is what I think they are.
9) A duck weighing me up.

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Today in Pictures.............Busy day today, so just indulged myself a bit.

1. Tilia x europaea flowers.
2. Fraxinus excelsior seeds.
3. Fagus Sylvatica Purpurea in the rain.
4. Hypericum x Inodorum seed heads.
5. Its no good having a dog and
6. Galium Aparine (stickywilliy)

thats your lot for today, I think I'm just showing off really

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Yes and the camera has a sunset setting on it too.....in scene mode...so I'm sure that yours will have the same...should you by some chance stumble on a sunset. :D

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Common Hemp-nettle, Galeopsis tetrahit. Doesn't sting. Got some in my garden.

Think 8 is forget me not.

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How can you tell forget me not from speedwell?
You see I know nowt about wild flowers.
When I am on the flea market I am going to look out for a book on wild flowers and plants......or failing thet - consult you :D

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Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys
Playing With Flowers forget me not
Different shade of blue, different shape leaves. Same family, but also there are several different kinds of speedwell.

When we came here there was lots of speedwell, very weedy. Now the garden is full of forget me nots, they follow me everywhere. The speedwell has all but gone.

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I have found the setting, its the sunsets I cant find, it was raining here when you said you were taking the sunsets. I suspect it was just over this house to thwart my attempts, and its not the first time I've been thwarted.


British Wildflowers Identification | Wild About Britain have been using this site to brush up on my wild stuff. Might be of use to you.

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Thanks for that Dave...I am going to be checking my wildflowers on that........and Sue you were right...it is a water forget me not(well according to Daves wildflower site) and it was growing in water - the canal. Wel done you!

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Nice pics on that site Dave but don't seem to be in any particular order, alphabetical or botanical, so you may end up trawling through them all to find what you want.

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Ta fer that Margaret, poor sod, tis a shame.:eek:

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heres some of my todays fotos ... :p

1. today at 4pm
2. bee in the clover
3. lily starting to open up
4. one of the lilys in the tubs
5. lily tub
6. thomas sunbathing (hes next doors cat who treats my house as his second home!)
7. mm whats that
8. its raining let me in that house!!!
9. lily after the shower

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heres my sunsets ... starting from about 8.30pm til about 9.45pm

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theyre nice them margaret .... it was a weird one up here... i had to stay under shelter for most of mine cos of the rain ... :(

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ZEUS!

Zeus is my buddy! In the summer, at times, I share my ham butties with him. :D

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photographic evidence of said buddyship

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...cyweb/zeus.jpg

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yes Rob and the little dog is Kayleigh(I think).
Zeus must have a bottomless belly because he comes and has a fedd at my house too....and I know his owner feeds him well because when they go away I look after him - her cupboard is full of tins and pouches of catfood.
Hey, perhaps it is like us going out for dinner. What is served somewhwere else always seems better than what is on the home table

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The grass is always greener on the other side.

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Thats true, but all the common stuff is on, I've noticed some of the pictures are duplicated as well.

http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/ this is another I've used, its a complicated site but very thorough

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my day in pictures...not very exciting, but here it is.
1) the Grand Banana - good for energy and needs eating now!
2) Tennis Ball - Am I the only one who is sick of tennis?
3) Canal at Clayton - I know you have seen this many times but it is my starting point.
4) Elle's Bells - coming.
5) Elle's Bells - nearly here.
6) Sword shaped leaves reflected in the water.
7) Swan and its reflection...and reflections of the Albion Pub too.
8) Plaque over a house in Chequers Must be where Thurston Smith lived......an engineer.
9) Mosaic in Mercer Park.
10) Get your skates on - it's starting to rain.

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That boat in no 4 is staring at me!

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Maybe it needs to go in 'ood have thowt it'...:D
don't let it scare you , it was only going slow.

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I think the mosaic that says 'Summer' is having a laugh...the rain was warm!

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Part 1. A lot of tooing and frowing, so here we go, Today in Pictures, tooing first.

1. Hes going for a shower, a shave, and a shampoo.
2. Along Dunk Way to Ossy.
3. Dropped him in Ossy, mooched around for a few minutes.
4. Still mooching.
5. Heading back to car.
6. Along Dunk Way again.
7. Walk along canal again, finished result.
8. Long forgotten gardem.
9. Sedum on a wall.
10. Its a fly.

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Part 2. the frowing of Today in Pictures.

11. I think I should moisturize more.
12. If you look at the drip you can see the branch upside down.
13. Its spitting .........save yourselves.
14. Lichens on the church wall.
15. More lichens.
16. Looks like a maple leaf.
17. Rain on a leaf. again.
18. Lichen on a tree.
19. You wouldn't want to wonder into a bramble in the dark.

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10 looks like a nice greenbottle...

Green Bottle Flies (Lucilia sp.) and Stapelia Flowers - The Firefly Forest

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No , its definitely a fly, and if it was a greenbottle where were the other nine !
It was put as a piccy on 10 quite by chance, I wonder if that was subconscious?


just joking, thanks for the link.

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I've never seen that plaque before (8), will have a butchers next time I am down there.

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It wasn't hanging on the wall...

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8) Plaque over a house in Chequers Must be where Thurston Smith lived......an engineer.
Thurston worked at the brick yard on Enfield Rd, he was a Model Engineer, his projects can be seen in Ossy Mills, they are in glass display cases, he also made a brick clay model of part of Clayton. Thurston also made a working model of a brick making machine, where that is now I don't know.
Retlaw

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Thanks for that info Retlaw...I couldn't find out much about him.

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And I will look for them thur rings we were talking about.
One good turn deserves another.
I'm sitting here waiting for a Sunset......think I might have a long wait tonight.

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I double checked on the way home, must be at least 10. There is a good one with stuff growing around it, very photogenic position.

Did you not see the lovely colours tonight , me neither.

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is Gizmo the really old looking dog that goes for a walk with a dude and a little girl around 8.20 every morning ??

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Yeah. I believe the owner works in another department somewhere in the building, I guess zeus started off following and started hanging around the benches relaxing on those sunny days......

.....The term "fat cat" must come from somewhere:p:D

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Yes he is.
And when I first read that...I thought you meant that the dude was old looking :D.......the dude is my other half......the little girl is my daughters girl.
(no, I don't call her that G daughter thing because I have never been that G thing....I hat being called that G thing...and anyone who calls me that does it at their peril)

Ha thought so. I sees em almost every morning :-)

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I was so pleased they have salvaged that mosaic, although does need a little bit of attention.

Love the new garden area too .... except the stone benches.. :D Mind you so little fat on me bum at the moment, can't sit on the wooden ones for very long... lol.

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bum implants katex ... :p:p:p or stick a cushion down your trousers ..

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Oh heck, Shill, would finish up looking like this ...hahaha.

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I know, I know ... off thread. Back to the scenery and flowers.

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That looks more like a bum transplant

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but youd have comfort wouldnt you wi all the padding :p:p:p

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The mosaic is lovely Kate...very colourful. The grass hasn't quite grown over the bare bits of ground yet, but it is a lovely area.
If you want some padding for you BTM....I can let you have some of mine.
Though I'm not entirely sure how I would get it to you.
Second thoughts...do as Jen says Take a cushion- and an umbrella :D

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Well, I'll go to the bottom of our stairs .... could have sworn they were stone slabs for seats ....ok, who switched them ?

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Here's some pictures of this new garden area taken just now. Still looks pretty in the rain, and the rain doesn't half make the grass look an amazing colour of green :

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Lovely pics Kate...I must admit I thought the seats were stone too...shows how much notice I took when I was snapping away.
Mind you it was coming on to rain and I was using my new camera - I hate getting the camera wet.

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Now Now GRANDma keep your hair on.
:hidewall: Retlaw.:hesoff::hesoff::hesoff::hesoff::hesoff:

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Theres going to be a fight at playtime!

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I will treat that remark with the contempt it deserves...and it is no good trying to hide behind a wall. I don't get mad...I get even! :)

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where is Entwistle Res?

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Entwistle Reservoir is off Green Arms Road.Off the A666 between Darwen and Bolton.

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Devil of a place to find. ;)

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My day started early - the first two pics are 4.30am, through the loo window. I waited for a seagull to come into shot, but none obliged so I went back to bed.

The third picture was at 12 noon today.

Edit - I think there might be a seagull in the second picture - either that or some dirt on the lens!
In the third picture, the white clouds at the bottom are where the Lake District mountains should be!

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thats dedication, have you tried a piece of bread on the end of a fishing pole, you should get plenty of birds then. Next time you are on the seafront, give it a go

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A piece of bread on the garden wall usually suffices, Dave. Just think it was a bit early for them - it certainly was for me!

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Whatever will the neighbours think ? :rolleyes:

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I have a donut shape cushion goes everywhere with me at the moment. Fits nicely in a Morrison's shopper - and they have nice pictures on the side too so looks OK when you're carrying it about.

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No neighbours on that side Dave, only the car park - and the window is three floors up! It's the little one in the pic on the side of the house next to the soil pipe - the only window in the house that actually faces the sea, though you can see the sea from the back windows at an angle - but only in the winter when there are no leaves on the trees!

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Today we walked from Hunkoyt to Hapton on the canal bank.
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Love the floating leaves and the damsel fly Frank - and you've got two cows and two crows in the first set of pics!

PS does Max ever move at anything other than a gallop?

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He doesn't know that he can go slowly.

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You mean you don't just have to wind him up every day?

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He runs until his elastic band snaps.

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Today in my garden. Some colour still, but it starts to fade at this time of year.

1 Rosa mundi
2 Nearly ready for some cream!
3 Feverfew and yellow loosestrife
4 Yellow loosestrife again (Lysimachia punctata)
5 The engine room - my compost heap
6 Astrantia major
7 Antirrhinums amongst corncockle (Agrostemma githago). I think there's a sweet William in there too!
8 Lychnis coronaria (Rose campion)

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More from my garden on a very bright day...

1 Bronze fennel and the ubiquitous foxglove
2 Me and my shadow - and a pot of sempervivum (house leek)
3 Sempervivum flowers up close
4 Seagull bait! (see Davemac's earlier post today)
5 Pots and a mini standing stone
6 Think something's been eating this dahlia...

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Re pic 4 Have you got your gun ready?

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Only a water pistol!

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My pics are coming later..but if you can't wait...look here...
Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing

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Ok...so here is my day. We went off to Bury. On the way back(because it was such a lovely day...and I wanted a hunk of peace just for myself) I got off the bus at Ramsbottom to take pictures. I had such a lovely time...I was grinning from ear to ear all the way home by myself. Yes.....I know. I'm easily pleased.
So here are some pictures of the day out.
1) the bus to Bury (I cheated a bit here...took this when I got back).
2) Railway sign For Ramsbottom.
3) Train going round the bend.
4) Do we really need all this luggage? - We're only going for the day!
5)The Bucket family - Ma, Pa and teen bucket - except they say it 'bookay'.
6) The Peel monument. This was taken from the footbridge over the railway.
7) We'll never get all this luggage on two bikes.
8) Enjoying fish and chips in the open air. They smelled divine...beef dripping and vinegar. I was tempted.
9) He's escaped. Don't worry he'll be back because he's left his bag(it has his 'snap' in it).
10)The Blue Lamp...can't you just hear the Dixon of Dock Green music?

Hope you like them.

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What a selection of photos today, came on to post mine and got side tracked looking at all the photos sterling efforts from all. I'd better go and sort mine out, back in a smidgen.

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Part 1. Today in Pictures pursuing my quarry.

1. Start point Hameldon Woods.
2. Looks like the footpath has washed away.
3. I do like a fern.
4. Upwards we go.
5. Thats the destination, Hapton quarry/scouts.
6. On the way up noticed this, it was growing in cow poo, if you scratch the picture you can smell it.
7. He cant keep clean !
8. Thats a steep wall.
9. I climbed over this wall, I know, I should know better...........but.
10. Its too high for me to jump over.

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Part 2. Today in pictures, lets have a look over there.

11. I heard water just over the wall, lets follow it uphill.
12. How did that get there, and how long ago.
13. Well, look at that, lets go up a bit.
14. I have to get closer to that, my socks are still dry.
15. I can feel the spray on my face, I never knew this was here.
16. Right, further up we go.
17. OK. if I had four legs I would be first up the hill.
18. I found a clutch of Orchids.
19. Must be near the top by now.
20, Well, its like being on the Moon.

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Part 3. Today in Pictures, Planting the flag, I made it.

21. I found ayers rock, it looks smaller close up.
22. I don't know, but it was a long time ago.
23. We wandered lonely as a.
24. This must be the top, time for the down bit.
25. This down bit looks a bit "down"
26. Never spotted this on the way up, mind you I was gasping for breath and on all fours.
27. Do you have to stand in the dirty bits.
28. I'm going as fast as I can.
29. A bracket fungi.
30. I think this is a slime mould.

That concludes todays excursion, I now require a lie down in a dark room.

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I think Ayers Rock (or Uluru as it is now known) has shrunk in the wash...it was much bigget than that last time I saw it. :D

Great set of pics Dave.......you must've walked your legs off.(you are wearing out faster from the bottom that you are growing out from the top :D).

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Trouble is I'm a little short house and my house is getting closer to the ground

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Wait 'til you have to have M&S put turnups on your underpants...that'll be the time to worry - especially when the snow comes. :D

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4, 5, and 6 are absolutely brilliant shots. I'm envious.

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Evening sky over Morecambe, about twenty minutes ago...

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another nice batch, where you hanging out of the loo window?