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It all sounds delicious, and served up in such a lovely place too. I'm green with envy Diane :)

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The buildings in No 1 are a photographers dream. Is that hubby in no 5 ducking down to avoid his picture being taken ?

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Yes, I agree Dave. It knocks Accrington into a cocked hat.....even with sunshine and a parade!

I would just love to be let loose in some of the places Dianne has shown us.
The buildings are fabulous.

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Lol! No -he's not on this photo -had gone off for a smoke outside! He's a fair bit younger than those chaps in the photo...hardly a grey hair in sight - so he says ;)

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I love being a 'tourist' in Italy even after all these years Margaret - it has so much to offer. I'm lucky in a way that I also see "home" now as a holiday destination too - you look at things with different eyes when you don't see them every day.
I love the photos you all post from around Hyndburn and further afield - from holidays here and there and the great Canadian outdoors. We live in an amazing world which offers so much diversity in every aspect - I think we have to be grateful to Dave for starting this wonderful thread. It's making me open my eyes to what's around me and appreciate what is just there and normally taken for granted.

It's good to share all the little things that make up our days. :)

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No not the group at the table, look through the window to the left, no grey hairs, and he has a shirt similar to the person at the table you posted with food on them.

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I forgot to say, don't be put off by the rain when there is a photographic opportunity, and remember, if its not wet, you are not doing it right.

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Dianne you are so right with what you say.
I have often visited places that have been beautiful in so many ways.
I have spoken to people who lived in those places. Many of them, though not all, seemed to take the beauty of their home ground for granted....and I think that I am guilty of this too.

Yes, Dave is to be congratulated at starting this thread....it is one of the best...and most pleasant. It keeps those who have left the area in touch with the changing scenes. It has given those who(for whatever reason) cannot get out and about much, a window on the world.
It has educated us....it has shown us foreign shores as seen through the eyes of ex-pats.
In general it is just a damn good thread!

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Dave, were you Sherlock Holmes apprentice?

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Oh dear! The rain definitely puts me off. I don't like taking my cameras out if it is wet(not even the old cameras).

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Right back to business, Today in Pictures, and yes it was raining, and it got wet.

1. Can you tell where we are yet.
2. One thing dies and another takes its place.
3. I'm not the only one getting wet.
4. I may have mentioned this before, but this reservoir is a feeder reservoir for the canal.
5. I think this was once a jetty, but only a guess.
6. Another wet bit.
7.Some trees struggle with the open aspect.
8. Same tree different aspect.
9. Well what else in the rain.
10. One left for the Woodpeckers, and by the looks of it, fungi.

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I have never been in Cutwood Park.
I think this is probably the first summer I have even thought about going to Cutwood park.
The only thing that has stopped me can be seen in the far distance in a couple of the shots.
That stuff that is wrapped in round bales and covered in Black plastic - Hay!
This year my hay fever has been the worst it has ever been.......and has kept me indoors with windows closed.
Perhaps when the pollen dies down I will walk myself round this Park, because it look lovely.

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No, just nosey.

I find warm rainy days are a pleasure to be out in, winter is another story altogether. However once I worked out a routine to keep my camera dry (for the most part) it became easy. It involves wearing a flat cap, and when the camera comes up to my eye I hold the peak and rotate it to cover the camera, the result is a dry camera, a wet cap and a wet head, but as I have said many times"if its not wet you are not doing it right".

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Another reason to got out in the wet, it dampens down the pollen count, although trench foot can be a problem.

If you do get there, going down Cut Lane brings you to the canal, going left is a nice section of the canal. Going straight on, you join up to the old railway line, and at that point walking possibilities are endless

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It seems like I am going to have to invest in a flat cap.
I did once try to keep my camera dry using a plastic bag, but the controls were difficult to handle and the pictures were not very good.......it was a very unsatisfactory arrangement.
You would think that some enterprising person would formulate an umbrella that can be clamped onto your camera......like those they have in Spain to keep the sun off your head

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they always say that hay fever is better when it rains......though that has not been my experience. I am worse when it rains...it brings pollen down from higher atmospheres......the only time I think I am going to be better is in November(sigh).
It doesn't help that I go and see ma most days and the grass is just at schnozzle level right now.

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Before and after pics of my newphews spine after the 8-9 hour operation he had recently

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Not that I know bout spinal op's but it looks like it went well R, hope he makes a speedy recovery :)

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It is marvellous what they can do nowadays.
I also wish your nephew a speedy recovery and a return to the best health.

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Nope -not him -he'd gone out into the garden!
This is one I took earlier in the village -he didnt know I was going to take -I just called and he turned round - then complained as he doesn't collaborate for photos! And yes, I'm nearly always trailing behind...
Don't tell him I've posted this though ;) :D

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A selection from today's local wander - found some funghi under an oak tree (do you know what they are Dave?) and spotted one of the very elusive wild duck that populate the river it looks quite startled in the pic I managed to get before it flapped off into the undergrowth. Bright and breezy out -some great cloud formations around.

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That's quite a transformation. Best wishes to your nephew :)

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I won't tell 'im. Don't know why he's camera shy, though - he's a nice looking lad :)

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Nice mushy shots, Diane. I really like number one - is it corn? It reminds me of myself when it's time to get my roots done Hah hah!

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A few from my mother's visit of a few days ago. The weather was perfect - not too hot. I drove both her and my aunt to a couple of parks in Oakville, bordering Lake Ontario: Gairlock Gardens (I really like these purple/black leaved plants, don't know what they are) and a bit further west up the coast, Tannery Park. If you look in the distance from that park you can see the skyline of downtown Toronto. I wished I had your new camera with its zoom lens, Margaret! Also, one of Miss Pris: she's discovered that bathroom sinks are fun places to play :)

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Nice one. I too have one that loves the bathroom sink.

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Awww! I love that one to bits.
One of our Persian cats used to like lying in an empty bath. He got an awful shock one day when he leapt into a bath I had just run.....I had left the bathroom to get some fizzy bath bombs to lounge and luxuriate in.
He jumped out a lot quicker than he jumped in and left a very wet trail all over the landing.

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One of mine is keen on sinks too -will try to catch her. She loves lying in the bidet too when it's hot -I think it must be the cool ceramic she likes!

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Some new birds for me today

1-3. Wagtails (only seen the black and white ones before)
4-6. Buzzards, common around the midlands but never seen them around here before, I wish they`d fly a bit lower.
7. A squirrel making a run for it.

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Well, today we went to Bury Market. It was 'throbbing' with shoppers.
I had intended to take a series of pics of the fresh produce stalls, but got jostled and shoved...and in the end gave up on my intentions.
Have just come back from a walk along the canal bank....very ordinary and pedestrian I know.
Anyway here are my offerings.
1) I wanted a spotted Burnet Moth. The must have spotted me and headed for the hills. I just got this Mirin bug.
2) Swan with strange refelctions in the water.
3) Grass head with same strange reflections.
4) I know i have done this pic before...this is just a bit different and I never tire of looking at this view.
5) the disappearing back end of a cyclist. If he is in the Tour de France he is lost!
6) rough stone wall
7) My shadow...don't I look tall? Just a trick of the light(sigh)
8) close up of the stone wall.

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Number four is an absolute stunner, Margaret :)

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It is very similar to the picture I put in to the last competition...except perhaps this has more definition.
I love this picture......and yet I can't tell you why...it has reflections and I like reflections.

The pic I put into the last comp I sent to my brother and he is having it put onto Canvas for their dining room....they have just redecorated and he was looking for a picture to finish off the room. He says that this fitted the bill and it is even better because it reminds him of England and home(he is in Sydney)......and no-one else will have one like it!

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The fungi looks similar to a Boletus fungi, but the colours are a bit different, I have never seen one with pink ish colours.

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That purple jobby had me guessing, possibly Elephants Ear (Colocasia) I had to look it up, but even now not totally sure.

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Today in Pictures, a visit I have not been able to make for a while, things aligned today for me to take a longer than usual perambulation around Pendle Hill.

1. Undulating landscape, Sabden is off to the right.
2. For an open space there are miles of walls.
3. Churn Clough Reservoir.
4. Thistles with a view.
5. A girl I wanted to marry had the same name, my mum said I was too young, but at 6 years old I was certain I was old enough.
6. More rolling landscapes, walls and vast skies.
7. I think this tree thinks its something else, perhaps a bush.
8. The Bracken Fern marches on, but things try to survive in the dense foliage, there time is limited.
9. The view from this property are stunning, you can see for miles from most windows.
10. Despite the warnings, the publicity, the tragedies, still idiots jump into the icy waters of large expanses. I suppose Darwin had a point.

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Dave those are really beautiful pics.
I like them all but 7 and 9 are my favourites.

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Thank you, I like walking on Pendle, but I get that absorbed with the area that time just passes so quickly, and inevitably I end up with hundreds of photos to sort through

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My favourite is number 2 - 3 comes a close second!

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Was planning to go for a short walk after lunch but it's too hot and humid today - will be busy watching Wimbledon men's final later so for todays offering I'm going back just over a week to a local walk I did then round Castelnuovo del Zappa. The Magnolia flower was huge -about 1 foot across.

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I do like the buildings even though some don't look very stable, The water wheel has further potential for close up stuff, perhaps when the foliage has died back.

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Yep it's the word "water" that attracts you Dave.

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Dave is number two 'cropped'?
If it is please can I ask that you put the whole picture on for us to view?
OK so I know you can't do it today.
I just would like to see the background...the hills or whatever is in the distance.
I know...I'm nosy!

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Its not just water there is also moist, wet,& droplets, so its a wide range of precipitations that attract, and remember "if its not wet, you are not doing it right", if I say that often enough it will become a catch phrase.

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There is a slight crop to remove the burnt out highlights.

I did take about 4 of this location, I think this is the one I used, but they are mostly the same with slightly different exposures.

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/davema...in/photostream
This is almost the same location, I just hadn't reached the wall at this point.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davema...in/photostream and this is one past the wall.

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Yes, I see what you mean.
The wall is definitely the subject......and the background takes nothing from it.
I actually like the full picture.....the hills in the background just look misty.....and I like that.

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Love those Flickr pics Dave....very moody and atmospheric.

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More a case of this week in pictures really, been hurtling round chasing my own tail to very little effect so to avoid all the tedium they've been saved up to be put on in a countryside collage so to speak. :)

The next generation - Canadians? Here in Germingland? - Somewhere over the coloured stripy thing (Don't want the multiculturalistas on me case for using their "word" :rolleyes:) - Almost a Marley classic here, 3 three little birds (rather soggy as it happens) sat on my treetop - A counterpoint of clouds - I tell you what, the amount of foreigners that you see over here today - Lotte & its "Eiscafe Cristallo" - Folkses enjoying their little (or in some cases extremely large) dollop of sin - Now there's tasty isn't it? (I'm talking about the Ice cream you lecherous Heathens :D mine's the one with the Cherries :) & If you look closely you might just spot the Stanley connection ;))

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the knickbocker glory's look so tasty....I used to like them but I couldn't eat one now.
Nice shots Son!

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Took a drive up to ingleton today, was going to walk the waterfalls trail, but when we got there, there was a 1940`s re-enactment going on. So we sacked the waterfalls walk, we can do that anytime, and had a walk around the village.

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Great Pics .Right Place-Right Time

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I have taken many pictures of walls on Pendle, going this way and that, some, some so many times, they have become Macs Wall............I have got the urge to say "Walter the stool"

Thanks, atmospheric wasnt a word I would have used at the time, but looking at them later, yes.

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Do like them pics G especially the "Dak". And it appears your SS officer should be on a disciplinary charge as he's lost his issue Luger/Walther. :)

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Thanks Max, not usually my kind of thing, but I quite enjoyed it.

Thanks Dave, which is the Dak?

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The great big hairyplane thingy, Dak = Dakota Boeing DC3. :)

I may have mentioned it elsewhere, I'm a bit of an Aircraft "Anorak" :D

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It was my favourite one too -but I do love a dry stone wall...

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Today in Pictures, a walk around the outside of a place that displays pictures.

1. And here it is, Haworth Art Gallery.
2. An act of remembrance.
3. A rose with a tear.
4. It still requires time to mature, but, the rose garden.
5. Time to rest a while.
6. I am in the bushes for this one.
7. The entrance.
8. An often photographed view.
9. As you would expect, the gallery is the main star today.
10. A last shot, stables on the right, then back to the car.

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I can see why this would make a wonderful wedding venue, especially on a day like today.

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The first two are her indoors plants and the rest were taken on the track down from Higher Brox Farm all within 50 yards of each other.

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Inside its nice as well, lots of wood panelling

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That zoom you have gives some interesting perspectives, those turbines look like they are just across the road.

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Another Sunday morning drive in the hills here abouts. A nicely paved road turned to gravel - never a happy thing in a nice clean car! It didn't last long though, and the bikers at the other end looked hesitant to give it a go, until I gave them the thumbs up :)

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I think you're right about that purple plant, davemac. I found something that looks very much like it on waltersgardens.com. They call it Colocasia esculenta 'Black Coral'. They say it grows quite tall - I'll check in on it later this summer to see it and will take a photo :)

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Wonderful shots - and the countryside is the best. I really like numbers 1 & 2 :)

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I love the different colours and textures - from brightly painted walls to crumbling brick and rustic wood :)

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Nice collection of shots DiG. Those Canuck geese do get around, don't they?

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I think the only sure way is to check out the flower, or seed pods, its not one I have seen over here.

Pendle Hill is one of my favourite walks, but I don't go as often as I would like, when I go, I get lost in the experience, and always end up staying too long, and at the moment time is in short supply, I seem to have less the everyone else.

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Really interesting shots. And that is definitely an owl - you're not fooling me again hah hah!

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That`s the gorgeous Marilyn, a six year old European Eagle Owl.

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It was hard job to rewire the place when I worked for the council.

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That's the problem with old buildings trying to keep modern requirements from spoiling the fabric of the place. I worked in the grounds around the building when Norman Potter was the big cheese in the gallery. He once took me up onto the roof and we stood in the area that has the Gargoyles over the entrance, I wasn't as absorbed with photography then, (although I was taking photos) and regret not snapping the Gargoyls close up with the coppice in the background. I think we all have a photo that got away from us. Another was on an expedition with Mobertol, we climbed up all the steps to Martholme Viaduct, from Martholme Lane, finding the gate to the viaduct unlocked and walking across it, I had left my camera in the car.

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When I rewired the place The curator was the brother in law of Lionel Morton ( The Four Pennies) although I can't remember his name.

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I don't recall that being discussed, he was a large built man, his wife was called Christine.

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I always enjoy seeing your photos of Haworth Art Gallery, davemac. It was a favourite childhood haunt of mine (hmmmm... I feel a blog entry coming on here :)
As for Pendle Hill, it was a favourite walk for my mother and her family when she was growing up. I'm ashamed and saddened to say that I didn't get to go there when I was a lass in Lancashire. Something for my bucket list perhaps!

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Today's offerings are a few photos of a nearby field which is flowering beautifully (I think it's alfa-alfa!). Then a series of shots showing this years stock of straw being unloaded and stored in the courtyard in front of my house. Apparently they are at the half-way mark with the work. Sadly one of this year's farm kittens was killed when one of the bales fell on him yesterday :(

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Dangerous places farms, I think bales is a misleading description, they are huge. also the buildings are pristine, where's all the knee deep cow muck that we walkers come across over here.

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I think people don't appreciate what is around when they are younger, I used to work at Haworth (grounds) and didn't see it with the same eyes I do now as an old man.

We live with the countryside visbly around us all the time, all that is required is to look past what is directly in front of us. I never went up Pendle until I was no longer required at the council. Now it is a place that has permeated my bones, I can see it from a lot of places in town that I didn't think possible, and all that I had to do was look past the rooftops.

My pictures of Pendle are interactive, if I post pictures of a wet outing up there, just sit in a washing up bowl full of water whilst viewing the pictures, and you will feel the experience I had at the time, if its frosty, back into the freezer, and for the summer heat, stand over a three bar electric fire. Doing this will give you a remote visiting experience, with the advantage that you can have a cup of Yorkshire tea in one hand.

p.s. only do this if you are in the house on your own.

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Today in Pictures, a short outing around Mercer Park.

1. Just by the gates, hidden from view, Hydrangea macrophylla.
2. Mercer House hidden from view.
3. I walked under this tree, and heard mass buzzing , looked up, and multiple insects were feeding on the Lime tree Blossoms.
4. Top end of the park.
5.Hemerocallis (day lily) it wont be there tomorrow.
6.Used to be called Montbretia, now called Crocosmia.
7. Echinacea, this bed has various colours of this plant.
8. The spiky plant is new to me, but Mercer House in the background,taken from the sensory garden.
9.Anemone, if you look closely wickthings are mooching.
10. And with that, we are back at the entrance, which for us is the exit.

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Nice photos Diane. It amazes me that you're harvesting straw when we here in Ontario are still growing it.
Sorry to hear about the kitten though :(

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I know what you mean, davemac, but you're far from 'an old man.' You're well fit if you can walk as far as you do :) And, you're out there, and seeing it all with fresh eyes each time. This thread has encouraged a few of us to try to do the same.
Thanks too for the suggestions for vicarious viewing. Gave me a chuckle for sure!

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Just a few more from Sunday.

1. George Formby singer.
2. Ze French Resistence, that gun made a hell of a noise.
3 & 4. A couple more of the plane.
5. I feel there should be a joke here with the elderly people sign, but can`t think of one.
6. One of the Rivers.
7. A BFC on a reconnaisance mission.

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Gp 24, that first one of the "Dak" is a really good pic & it looks like someone has dinged the stowage bins on the "Stormer". :)

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We were lucky with the plane, we went up into the hills for Daisy to have a run-about when the plane flew over, got a really close view (pic 4 is uncropped), and it did a U-turn over the fields next to us.

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Right place, right time it seems, how very serendipitous! :)

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Today in Pictures. 30 minutes to play with today.

1. St Mary's Burial ground.
2. Old fence posts.
3. Get your jam jars sterilised, its going to be a bumper year.
4. Shut that......er.....gate.
5. St John's Wort.
6. Stuff going to seed.
7. Signs of the inserted water pipe are slowly merging into the landscape.
8. One the farmer missed.
9. The ever present Pendle.
10. And finally, something growing out of a chimney

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Evening walk after a stormy afternoon.

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There are some impressive skies there.

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Only a few pics tonight.

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We've been getting the tail end of some very strong storms - Milan and Pavia have been flash flooded and there has been a lot of damage due to hailstones too - unusual for this time of year. I'm not complaining as it's cooler than normal!

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Lunchtime walk and a picnic in the village park today. Beautiful weather after yesterday's storms and just the right temperature. The way the millstream water reflected on the upper floor shde of the mill was lovely to see in movement. Lots of insect-life around the streams - caught a dragonfly resting and a damsel-fly. Lots of people passing in cars etc but didn't see a soul to speak to.

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number 2 is a good composition, and the water wheel is interesting, its an undershot by the way, and the stream is I think flowing from right to left, got to take this anorak off its too warm.

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As our in-house "all-things-watery" expert I'll take your word for that ;)

Thanks. I like number 2 as well - glad I tramped over the field to get it - that wheat stubble doesn't half scratch!

I'm quite pleased with 10 too for the reflections and close-up.

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One of them panoramic shots off top of the Arndale and a few randoms from my archives :)
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Today in Pictures, suddenly all hell broke loose.

1. Thistle with not a wickthing in sight.
2. A moment to take it all in.
3. Yes it a toofar, a bridge toofar.
4. I know nowt about it, but it does appear to have a big smoke stack.
5. Apart from the occasional wagon noise its hard to imagine that the M65 is just over the tree line.
6. That weed is bigger than a tree!
7. The bank is perfect for meadow type flowers, there are Orchids dotted about the slope.
8. Then it started, traffic, traffic, traffic.
9. Whizzing in both directions, its chaos.
10. There it is, its gone toofar.

So back to Altham Lane, and home.

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Dave, not only do I love the pics, but I love your quirky descriptions too.
They fit together like they were married.

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A bit of a schoolboy error tonight, went out with not much charge on battery and had wrong settings for a couple of panoramics which meant they didn`t turn out as I`d have liked. So just two pics tonight.

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Both lovely shots.
Two pics are better than none.

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Today's set around the farm. Is this little chap just a grass snake? I hope so! Lots of loads of cement have been coming in constantly over the week and you can see a lot of progress in the additional cow-barn. It will soon be ready to house another 100 new milking cows. They have baled up the alfa-alfa and wrapped it today as they'd let it go over into flower (the nice purple field of the other day) so it's not top quality hay. Mirko and Alessandro are the tractor guys and I've put in a few photos of the builders - funny how there's always one working and a couple looking on :D The final photo is of an "Ape cross" which is used by Christian -a disabled guy who works here part-time.

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And not a hard hat, clipboard, day-glo vest or steelies anywhere to be seen, good old European "Elf & safety" standards being rigorously enforced I see ......... not! :D