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Hmmm... They can't all be broken, can they? Cheeky of me, I know. This from an ex Honda owner :)

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I've found a woodpecker nest in the woods near me today and I'm going to try and get some pics of the parents going in and out of the hole in the tree.You can hear the young ones if you stand at the side of the tree.

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No ... they all work ... the Yammahammer though, is a work in progress.:D

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Always had you pegged for a biker chick.;) This is what the Yamaha looked like before I chopped it.

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Hey - is biker chick " chique"? No-one ever said that to me - I think it might be a compliment Turtle :eek:
Wey to go :D

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Yesterday I finally planted out my new flower beds. I'm trying this 'square foot gardening' scheme after reading the book for months. The chippies kept me company, and they promptly jumped in to 'inspect' my work after I'd gone in for the day, despite the protective netting I'd put in place. Never mind, there's lots of goodies to go round :)
I also put up a couple of photos of some wild plants growing under the trees at the back of my place: the umbrella shaped leaves are May Apple or Mandrake, and the trumpet shaped thingie is a Jack in the Pulpit. Davemac might find them interesting.

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Thanks Eric. I hope you're enjoying some fine rides in this great weather we're finally having!

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I certainly take it as a compliment, Diane :)
Although I never learned to ride myself, I was in my time a happy passenger on the back of a few fine machines!

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The Mandrake root is supposed to be shaped like a human...and it is said to scream as it is pulled out of the ground.

I love the critters. I would be able to sit and watch them for hours.

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Beautiful shots, the chipmunks are like big hamsters

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Loving the little ratbag scoffing peanuts! :)

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What was supposed to be a public footpath- turned out to be the entrance of the cones treacherous lair. See the king on his throne

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I really like that planting box -great idea. The chipmunks are so cute! Lovely photos. :)

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Where's this Restless :confused:

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Turtle -can I send your photo of the chipmunk with the peanut to my god-daughter, Ana? She's a big fan of the chipmunks (the disney ones!)...it's such a great photo.

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Baxenden

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Of course you can, Diane - no need to ask, but thank you for doing so :)

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Dave please leave less alone I know he likes peanuts but prefers cashew nuts:)

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I'll remember that for my next visit "T'Railway"! :)

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One for starters, looks like the blue tit is trying to get the chicks to fledge.

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Great shot! You must have watched this nest for some time - patience paid off :)

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Babs and Toby dropped by for an early morning snack ... Tobzilla (he's a big lad) is doing fine in his new home. And cats and flowers. And cat ignoring squirrel. And squirrel doing squirrel things. Normal morning as I down my first tea of the day. Lazy photography; I didn't even have to get off my ass.:alright:

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Love those pics Eric.
Yesterday when we went down town someone had abandoned a little black and white kitten behind one of the market stalls.
I would happily have taken him home but himself gave me 'that look'...the one that says 'don't even think about it'
When I went to bed last night I worried about the little critter...hoping that someone would take pity on him and give him a home. I couldn't sleep for thinking about him.

Anyway today I asked how things had gone....one of the butchers had taken the kitten home with him...he wants a mouser for his allotment.
So I was relieved.

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could be because of this restless ....

Stolen vehicle set alight on railway line - Accrington Observer

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Today in Pictures, an early start meant I found a bit of slack in my extensive curriculum for a few snaps, one of the first walks when I got Bob.

1. I might as well start by lying on the floor.
2. Looking back at the "wharf"
3. Looking the other way, in the distance is Pendle Hill although you cant make out any detail.
4. Growing in the canal on a bed of reeds. (Iris)
5. A gaggle of swanletts.
6. The wall to the left is all that remains of Dr Lovelaces Soap Works.
7. In the shadow of "The Con Club" I sat on that seat, it took me 4 hours to get up.
8. A little burst of colour in the shadow of "The Con", and mostly un-noticed. (ox eye daisy and red campion mostly)
9. Reflection of the Lovelaces wall.
10. A delicate pink flower and thorns that would rip a hole in a sporran. (dog rose)

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I remember washing with Dr. Lovelace's Floating Soap ... it's a while back;)

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Great to see you back in circulation Dave

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Thanks, I am trying to get back into the routine again, I have only been out of it for a week or so and the countryside has changed, the buttercups are filling the fields, hawthorn is fading to pink, and the grass in the fields has grown to knee height.

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I don't have mice anymore ... Emma is a fantastic mouser:D She has left me many "gifts" ... one of them on my pillow.;) Anyway, I'm going to work on Babs ... she ain't going to spend another winter outside. She's a difficult cat, and Emma hates her ... but we'll work something out.

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Lovely shots. Good to see you back on Accy Web Dave :)

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I am sure that you will succeed, with patience and kindness.....and the kind of aloofness that cats employ.
Emma will get used to having a new housemate...either that or give Babs a wide berth.

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Missed you Dave, glad you are back. I was starting to get a bit 'antsy'.
Lovely shots as always.

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Thanks for the kind words, its nice to be missed, I am not back 100% yet, but am making the effort to get out and about, but I just didn't have enough hours. I look at my photographic dog walking as my therapy from the stresses of life, and missed it when I was unable to find the time.

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:O as close as I could get before going out of focus

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Sometimes there are things in life which take priority and the things we like doing have to sit on the back burner for a while...to be taken up again when the situation allows.

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I don't like creepy crawlies...or creepy flysies...I especially don't like daddy long legs, but that is a good shot Rob.

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After quite a knackering week, I could only manage a short walk around Lower Foulridge Reservoir -

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Love the thrush in last pic

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Ah, it`s a thrush thanks Max, wondered why I got an an itch while walking past it.

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Just keep taking the tablets

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Yes, the pessaries wouldn't be a lot of good.

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Doc prescribed cream, but it seems to be working.

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I noticed you are adopting a low stance in some of your shots, especially around water, it may be worth taking precautions to avoid a moist gusset before its too late.

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If I've learned anything from you Dave, moist gussets should be embraced not avoided.

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Check this out Frank.It looks like a juvenile Blackbird.




The RSPB: Blackbird

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I am not saying avoid completely, but avoided until you have taken precautions. I recommend Dubbin, but not just any Dubbin, I find the neutral to be best, I did experiment with the brown and black Dubbin but looked at in the right direction your gusset could take on the appearance of either an Oak hat stand or a bag of nutty slack, in that order.

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Today in Pictures, Spring Woods was busy today, families enjoying the warmth and sun.

1.I have been waiting for this, very common but until you get your eye in difficult to spot.
2. Common Spotted Orchid, flowers through June and July, the only place it doesn't grow is the Scottish Highlands.
3. There are dark clouds over there.
4. Looking over the top of Whalley.
5. Still over the top of Whalley, with a view of Longridge Fell.
6. Now the Bluebell, Ramsons, and other spring bulbs have finished, the only colour at the moment comes from Rhododendrons.
7. A thread of colour drifts into the green.
8. Sheep drifting across the plains.
9. Another burst of colour.
10. A herd of British Fighting cows being trained at a secret location.

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Does that mean I` ve bean taking a placebo?

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I like the sound of that.:D

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Chortle! Guffaw :)

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Considering the area was busy, you managed to take shots that avoided busy-ness. Nice views of a lovely day :)

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Think you're right Steve - nice bit of twitching ;)

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Just a month since I did that walk with you Dave - I expect this month's walk was a bit quieter as you weren't being nattered to death :o :D How it's changed in that short time - nice that I can recognise where you've taken the photos!
I don't remember the fighting cows -perhaps they were still undercover and in training - glad you kept your distance though...

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It was busy in waves as families walked through, then there was a window of opportunity until the next wave.

I wasn't alone on this trip either, a lifelong friend rang to say he was free for a walk, and he brought his sons puppy along, so there we were, two people and three dogs. The first photos were a challenge, as I crouched down to take the photo the dogs thought I was playing and were running in front, through my legs and around me, so it was anything but sedentary.
However, since you last saw the woods it has filled out with leaves on the trees, the ferns have replaced the Bluebells, the birds are in the trees. The fighting cows, when we were there, you wouldn't have seen them as they were taking stealth lessons, so we should be afraid, very afraid.

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Went into Cremona yesterday evening to see some of this year's literature/music festival, "Le Corde dell'anima". (The Chords of the soul). It was very busy and saw Roddy Doyle talking about his latest book "The Guts" (very entertaining) -he was accompanied by an excellent young Italian band called "The Street Clerks".
After him was a real character, an Italian writer called Mauro Corona who writes about the mountains/nature and man's disrespect for it. He lives in a valley which witnessed a terrible disaster due to the building of a dam which failed, on the night of October 9th, 1963, wiping out an entire village and more than 100 people in minutes. I remember this date particularly as I was coming into the world just then -born in the early hours of the next day...
A few other shots of Cremona centre show how the festival fits into the old buildings which are a wonderful backdrop to the event. More of these tomorrow...

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Lovely pictures, full of atmosphere...people and beautiful buildings.
I love the red tower against the hazy blue of the sky.
Dianne, I felt like I was there.

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I agree with Margaret - your photos capture the atmosphere of the town and the event beautifully!

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My missus has been to the garden centre today and has fiiled her pots with bedding plants. Nos 4 and 5 are moving droplets for Dave

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Thank-you! :) Will post a few more tomorrow - it's a really good event - this was the 5th edition I think and it's growing in importance and popularity. It's also all free to the public which is quite something these days.

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I would just love to be let loose to snap all those beautiful buildings.....with sunshine on them!

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A few from what is turning into a regular walk for us, canal (although we`ll have to avoid the farmers fields now after being told off today), woodlands then back along the river.

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You been a naughty boy?

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Only by walking through his fields.

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Those buildings are just champion, and that tower, is that a clock or is it more than that.

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If you keep up the droplet photos you are going to have to borrow my dubbin, I have a tin of brown I haven't used much.

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should have posted here, had a glitch, right lets try again.

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Today in Pictures, bobbing about in the Buttercups, I discovered my hayfever I though I had grown out of years ago.

1. The field behind St Mary's Burial Ground.
2. Same field, just a bit further down, Pendle in the distance.
3. Heading for the gate to the Millennium Woods.
4. There is the gate.
5. Looking out from the woods into the field we will be going back through.
6. Just a bit further around.
7. Make yourself Comfrey whilst I pick some Nitbone.
8. In the field that houses the Petre Family vault.
9. There it is.
10. The main entrance into the burial ground.

That appears to have sorted whatever it was that posted my post pear shaped.

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Been rather pre-occupied over the last couple of days, faamilee! And what not, so an extrapolation of the last couple of days. :rolleyes:

(Friday) A well oiled & happy bunch of Williamses! - Guest appearance of Tess - (Saturday) Ijmuiden NL Old defensive positions - KLM Jet - Witch & Bitch "Alt Fischer Haven" Ijmuiden - Homeward bound & a stopover in Schüttorf DE at the "Firlefanz" - (Sunday) Wilhelmshaven & the Kaiser Wilhelm Brücke in the Harbour - German Navy Museum - A scuttle along the coast to the new Jade Port facility & a rather raucous Oyster catcher - Finally, down to Emden & the spotting of a spotter spotting (Father dear :)).

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Just because he was hay-making. It looks pretty poor-quality stuff in any case -you couldn't have spoilt it ;)

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It's a mediaeval Astrological clock Dave - very impressive.

Torrazzo of Cremona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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He said he didn`t want dogs crapping in his fields that were sometimes used for his animals. It`s fair enough, they are his fields, and there is no public right of way through there. I just take them through there away from bicycles etc. with the thinking if anyone complains I`ll stop.

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"Bobbing about in buttercups" might be a bit risqué - or then again akin to "The Darling buds of May" who knows -in any case it sounds like the title of a novel! Lovely photos!

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Looks like the family get-together was a success :) Nice photos. My parents arrive next weekend for a visit -watch this space !

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Not my colour

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I don't think clock does it justice then.

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I have black as well !

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I never thought of it as risqué, just that Bob was bobbing about in the Buttercups, I think you should go and sit on the naughty step for those thoughts.

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Another sitting-on-my-ass-drinking beer-smoking dope set of pics ... plus two really neat bikes, and an evil Pookie with burning eyes.

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Love the critters...all of them...but specially like Hope lounging like a lady on the couch......and the cat perched on the cushion.

The bikes could go in this new competition.

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Great Raccoon shots, I'm envious :)
Love your bikes - perfect for the photo comp. I'd say :)

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That's Teela Brown ... she's come a long way ... a beautiful, friendly little cat she has turned out to be:D The black cat is Mischief; belongs to a a woman up the street. Nothing left in the food dish for him after the coons have been around. Coons are delicate eaters, but they can sure put away a lot of groceries.

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:o :D

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Some more from yesterday's festival in Cremona.

The last two are of a little side-street taken two hours apart...

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I really love the street scene - that just how I would imagine an Italian street would be :)

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how do they get a car up that ginnel, I prefer it without the car though.

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Today in Pictures, it had stopped raining as we set off and stayed fine until we were driving back.

1. Its always a let down after the big event.
2. Beech nuts................................space left for innuendoes.
3. Sticky Willie weed............I like that word......sticky, with cuckoo spit and a fly underneath, not sure what he is doing,(cuckoo spit is the common name for the housing containing the frog hopper bug until it matures)
4. The path from The Woodlands to Bell Lane. The water pipeline is off to the right.
5. Same path a bit further down.
6. Donkeys in the field to the front of Clayton Hall.
7. Clayton Hall, or as much is as visible from this angle.
8. This short path is all that remains of the priests walk that terminates at St Mary's Burial Ground.

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And for those of you who can't get enough of coons, mom brought the kids over for a meal ... actually, it was more like a food fight:D And to relieve the monotony of too many coons, there's Teela Brown ... again.;)

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Wow! They are a bit special Frank.
Great shots.

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Today in Pictures, down Cut Lane and up the wet bit.

1. Rishton Res. from Cut Lane.
2. Foxgloves belting out the colour.
3. Approaching the Cut, Pendle in the distance.
4. Now that is a moist gusset.
5. Moist twice.
6. Woody Nightshade.
7. Well and truly up the cut.
8. British fighting cows stalking me from the other side.
9. Hawkbit, often mistaken for Dandelion.
10. As far as we go today, Blackburn is just around the bend.

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mine from today and yesterday and sunday and friday:D ... the owls were camera shy, sunday was gardening day

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Well done Frank, large picture of that Heron and a sunset in the "Obby"

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Just one pic of the sun going down this evening, no camera, just a phone pic.

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today i have been to Southport.
It was only a fleeting visit......to test out the Lumix FZ72.
I am sure you will tell me what you think of my offerings.
1) Coffee Al Fresco in Leafy Lord Street.
2) Help me somebody....I think my belly button has fallen off.
3) This is one of the rides in Pleasureland......I took the shot from the far end of the pier.
4) Another long range shot.
5) Leafy Lord Street.
6) I know this is not so clear.....but it looks like a big dipper to me.......I took this shot from the very end of the pier at maximum zoom.
Southport doesn't have a big dipper....but Blackpool does......surely it can't be the big dipper at Blackpool.....can it?
I await your replies.

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Yes it is the big dipper at Blackpool, it's easy to see the tower also from Southport.
I think I put some photos I took at Southport on the site last year and one had a good clear shot of the tower.

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Have had a hectic week as we've been painting the kitchen -major up-heaval. Finished this evening thankfully. Monday was a bank holiday and we went back to our friends place on the River Po for a barbecue. Photos of Italians at play, various rustic dwellings by the river and the typical style of fishing on the Po.

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Thanks for that Russell......I know it is a hazy shot, but it was a hazy day at Southport today....and it is a good way from the end of the pier to Blackpool.

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Pretty imressive zoom Margaret - I foresee a new career as a paparazzi ;) :D

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Yes, I wouldn't be much good Dianne......It is impressive, the camera. I just didn't have long enough to satisfy my desire for taking pics. I was only in Southport for an hour and a quarter. I need to be able to amble round for half a day.
Anyway I have Photoscaped the pic of the Big Dipper(I actually couldn't believe it when I saw what I had snapped. I certainly couldn't see it with my glasses...it just looked like a smudge on the horizon) just to make it clearer.
I also took some good 'unaware shots'.......families playing on the beach.
I like those...especially when I have played with them a bit.

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Nowt wrong with the photos, and with that amount of zoom we await some interesting photos.