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No, took them through the glass - even I coudn't get through that window, it's far too small! A couple were taken from the attic, next floor up, this time the Velux window was open.

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heres mine ...

my lilies are just coming out
the sunflowers are coming up ...
strand of lavender
and then tonites sunset ...

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Part 1. Today in Pictures, I'm piggin wet through to my kecks.
The sun was shining so I set off in a short sleeved shirt, what a puddin.

1. Himalayan Balsam, just short of the swing bridge.
2. Snail on a thistle, it looked asleep.
3. Its a nettle leaf, check the spines under the leaf.
4. Woody nightshade.
5. Whilst sat in the weeds to get the last shot, a barge whizzed past, don't know what he thought I was doing?
6. Tufted Vetch.
7. Avast behind, were going to need a bigger boat.
8. A goosery.
9. At this point it all went a bit Pete Tong.
10. It might be wet, but they don't care.

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Just for Susie. Max's elastic band has snapped.

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He does relax at times in his favourite place in the house

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Part 2. Today in Pictures

11. They swim off without a care.
12. It eased up so I ventured out from under the bridge at Church, managed this.
13. And then this, at this point it started raining again, but heavier this time. So it was camera in back pocket and mumble all the way home. It was about now that I couldn't find a dry bit on my person, but I new I was fifteen minutes from home.

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Thank you Frank, they are delightful. Just to prove he does stay still occasionally!

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What time did you go out ,Dave. We went up Longridge Fell this morning and it stopped fine for us although I didn't risk taking my camera as it threatened to rain. Great pic of the snail.

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It was about 2.15 this afternoon, got to Church Kirk, Church, when It started, I was at the furthest point then, so soggy kecks were a certainty.

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I know your game....you just want to catch pneumonia so that me and Sue can test our bed bath skills on you :D.

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Haven't done a bed bath since I passed my sick nurse badge in Guides more years ago than I care to remember! Toss you for top half or bottom half...

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Oh well........I have done thousands of them so if you get stuck...I will lead you...ermm show you the way. Heads for top, and tails for bottom then is it? :D

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I don't have to be sick to opt for a bed bath, but I'm not doing hand stands to save you bending down.

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On second thoughts, a shower might be easier...

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No....you are right Dave.......I used to tell the nurses that you had to be well to really appreciate a bedbath(or blanket bath as we used to call them).
I'll just go and moisten the Brillo pad. :D

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that would leave me feeling a bit rough

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you cant back out now.

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But Sister Pilkington's got all the experience - you wouldn't want to trust yoursef to a student would you?

Tell you what, I'll do Bob instead...

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Only on ladies.......25 years on a gynae ward.......still I can play it by ear :D.

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or do it by Braille.....you can take your choice Dave.

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mrs p knew these were on their way ... went on a trip to ramsbottoms farmers market this morning via rawtenstall and the east lancs railway ... it was a diesel gala this weekend so thats why theres no steam trains .... and we timed it just right ... we got back home about 2pm .. it started raining when we got off the bus .. :p

first lot .. rawtenstall ..:p

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next lot .. train journeys ...:p

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next rammy ..:p

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this conversation is getting a bit strange, you shouldn't stress an old man

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Err... we're both older than you are, Dave - if we can take it so can you!

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and finally the farmers market .. the farmers market is in two places where the tilted urn is outside grants and also in the civic hall but theres no piccies inside the hall

the bus was outside rawtenstall station when we got back and the pictures and the picture of the tickets are in ramsbottom train station's waiting room ..

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I'v never been there, might be a place to put on my list, I like the ones with the signage on and the roof spars. Plus I like the old cases, I used to use something like those.

That cast would have been nicer in shocking pink ;)

I know, I read the blog.

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i know .. but they didnt have my size ... tho knowing my luck i'll probably end up having it changed again ....:p:p:p and maybe they'll have it then .. :p

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The soap man doesn't look very happy... needs more of a bubbly personality. ;)

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The guy on the soap stall is giving you a strange look!

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do you blame him ... id been having nosy on his stall .. and i lost the spugster so went looking for him .. and then turned round and took the piccy .. without buying anything ... :p

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did you notice we posted the same type of comment at exactly the same time.

I think its because he doesn't like his sandwiches

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unless he'd had a mouthful of soap rather his butty .... :p:p:p

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Was he foaming at the mouth?

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i didnt take much notice .. pressed the button down and did a runner ... :p:p:p plus the fact i was starving as i hadnt had any breakfast .. and id found a french bread stall which had fresh croissants and danishes ... mmmmmm they were good as well ..:p:p:p

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Them thur rings......I had to be shown where they were. I really couldn't see them myself.
Anyway Dave...these are for you. I don't know if I have done them justice(to that picture you have in your mind)...just did my best.

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I think number three comes close, now that you have posted the pictures there will be a queue to see them.

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Part 1. Today in Pictures. Along the canal, quick word with Mrs.P. through the park and across Clayton fields.
No landscape shots as I have posted these views before. For most of it I was sat on wet marshland, or on all fours getting close ups. I get my bum wet so you don't have too.

1. Ripening on the canal towpath, brambles
2. Down hygiene, Hebe.
3. Moss and lichens on a tree in Mercer Park.
4. Does my bum look big in this field.
5. Orchids, these used to be a rare site, now I find them a lot more.
6. meadowsweet, growing in a meadow sweetly
7. Orchids in abundance, in a field, clayton fields.
8. Great Burnet.
9. Water Avens seed head.
10. Clover.

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banged the wrong button, start again.

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Part 2. Today in Pictures, my bums wet.

11. Looks like I have to have a bath again.
12. Birds Foot Trefoil.
13. best guess, potentilla.
14. More Orchids.
15. Self Heal.
16. Yet more Orchids.
17. Burdock, that was dandy.
18. Get a room.
19. I'm gona roll this fag if it kills me, just hope it stops fine.

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I'm impressed with your wildflower knowledge today Dave... Just to say I think the wild potentillas are usually called cinquefoils.

That is one dirty dog - hope you didn't get so mucky - otherwise me and Mrs P might be paying you that visit like she threatened yesterday!

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The sky at night, from your Morecambe correspondent... about 9.15pm.

Apologies, couldn't help bits of window frame in some of the shots - the attic this time, not the loo!

The first three pics are looking over Lancaster towards the Bowland hills, the others are over Morecambe Bay.

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Two more, high in the sky.

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you actually got the sunto set nicely for you tonight. Too dull in Accy.

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Just luck that I happened to be looking out the window at the right time. It was actually better a few minutes earlier but there was a camera malfunction and I had to do a bit of tweaking before I could take any pics.

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Its not down to knowledge, its searching for the right flower on identification guides.

I actually had a damp posterior and mucky knees (I was in shorts as Mrs. P. will confirm). You cant get closeup shots without getting down with the flora. So I'm braced ready.

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I cant compete with the sunset pictures, nice colours, couldn't see the window frame at all, looked like buildings, so If you hadn't said we wouldn't have known.

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Bottom RH corner, pics 5 and 6...

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Part 1. Today in Pictures. A familiar walk not so familiar perspective.

1. Its been raining ...again
2. The snails are moving to higher ground. What does that tell you.
3. Its a wood louse coming down a wall.
4. A quick butchers down the canal.
5. Another butchers over to the Nab.
6. I think that one is caramel flavour.............it wasn't...........it was snail flavour.
7. Flowers on the lime trees overhanging the towpath.
8. Willow Herb flower.
9. A look over to Pendle Hill.
10. Moss on a wall, with fruiting bodies.

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Part 2. Today in Pictures, the second batch start with creepy crawlies.

11. Its watching me.
12. Sit...Sit...Shake a paw.
13. Thats my aunty.
14. familiar scene but later in the season, and without buttercups.
15. Nearest I can get is Sweet Cicely, but not definite.
16. Another I cant identify, its so small its hardly visible to the casual glance.
17. I used to have a haircut like that.
18. St. Marys Graveyard, with a view to the Petre Family vault.
19. Sphagnum moss on a wall.
20. View across the field from a corner of the graveyard.

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Part 3. Today in Pictures, almost time for the journey home.

21.Pine tree bark, with my nose pressed against it.
22. Is it safe to park on the bend?
23. Its a race, chase me.
24. Does my bum look big in this?
25. Tigg, your on.

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Some brilliant pics there Dave.
I would love to be able to take pictures of insects, but if I am honest they scare the britches off me(I'm a wuss and am afraid they might bite me sting me or worse...run up my trouser leg). I don't mind snails, but slugs are repugnant....another 'boy' thing I guess.
I chickened out today.....the tinlids got mini laptops for getting brilliant school reports, so I was loading them with music, pictures, videos, word processor programs and a couple of games.
I was flavour of the month when they got home from school.

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Love 21..but you knew I would didn't you?
Pattern, colour, texture. Great stuff.

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Great selection today Dave, especially the slugs and snails! Oh... and the woodlouse is my favourite!

I would say that is definitely not sweet cicely, that flowers much earlier and will have set seeds by now. Easy to recognise when you do fiind it (I have it in my garden, cook it with rhubarb as a sweetener instead of adding a lot of sugar). The leaves smell of aniseed when crushed, and the seeds are about an inch long and taste of aniseed - good to chew if you have an upset stomach.

Having said all that, not easy to work out what it is, could be wild carrot, fool's parsley, hedge parsley etc. Withe umbellifers a lot depends on leaf shape, flower bracts etc - things that need a close scrutiny.

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I am definitely going to look out for an Observer book of British wild flowers........it would be useful and I would share it with Dave.

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I went out ready for the rain, but it stopped fine the whole way around. It was warm actually. I think there is always the camera between myself and the wickies, and if a slug ran up my leg it would have to get past my bike clips first.

It was me trying abstract, I walked around the tree for a while until I found the right bit, good job there was no one about

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I had an ass transplant once .... it rejected me;)

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I did go through the ident website, but got a bit stir crazy with all the similar plant. gave up as time was moving on, and had to post the pictures. It was one of those "I wish moments" about not taking a picture of the leaves. I did look at those suggested and they didn't quit measure up. back in an hour, got to go out.

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My worry is, that although there is the camera between us, my main urge is to drop it and run(that would be disastrous - for the camera)......I'm a hero really, but on the day they built me, they only had cowards legs left :D

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Start with ladybirds ans slow moving stuff, and work up to scary stuff. For some reason today snails had moved up walls and were in the crevices, you could start there.

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I'm not even keen on ladybirds...they fly......I jump seven feet in the air......heck I could do an Olympic event if one of them was to set off in my direction(and normally I have rusty knees).Nope...not keen on the crawlies.

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I'm going to settle on Cow Parsley, but not 100% on that either.

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If ladybirds are a problem then I think insect photos are out, unless you stand back and zoom in, but not ideal

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I would have said the same, but it's getting a bit late for it.

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Yes, Dave.....I can't get past their unpredictability...that they move fast and fly off.....that is why my insect pics are few and far between.
I have a picture of a dozy bee on some plants in the Isle of white(it was taken from a good distance with all the zoom on)......and those Mayfly...and I think that's it.
I won't be getting up close and personal woth ants, woodlice or any other six legged crawlies. I'll leave that to you. You do it far better that I ever could.

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I understand, if you can't, then you can't, I will look on it as my specialist subject, until I am challenged on the creepy crawly front.

So I suppose I have thrown down the gauntlet for other people to lie on the floor and damp grass to take wickies, but lets be careful out there!

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them' ;):D

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Anyone seen my mum?

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Totally agree with you the ceepy crawly front Margaret -am not a fan at all. Helped my son to catch butterflies and dragon flies etc for a full collection which he killed and pinned out himself for agriculture college some years back -would rather see them flying about preferably at a distance, especially things that buzz!

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My gran used to clean at a big house on the outskirts of Sheffield (for some posh people)......on their landing upstairs were cases upon cases of pinned moths, butterflies and beetles from all over the world.......I used to go past them as close to the rail as I could, and on my hands and knees. I was proper scared of them...even though they were dead and in glass cases.

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I'm surprised you managed to take that pic of your bedroom spider the other day Margaret - didn't realise you and Dianne were such wusses! You'd never make a bee keeper then (we had a few hives in our garden when we lived in the country doing our Good Life thing).

Seriously, it's strange how certain things can get people so worked up isn't it. For my part I love the butterflies and moths and I'll never forget how after I dug my pond in my country garden and had literally just finished filling it with water, as I was sitting there a huge dragonfly turned up from out of nowhere. I like seeing the bugs in the veg garden as well, and the caterpillars. The one thing thing I'm not keen on is worms, never liked them as a child when others were playing with them in the mud.

Yes, I've had my brushes with the insect world, had a horsefly bite on my eyelid once, and earlier this year a lovely set of fleabites on my lower legs even though my cat had been dead for several months! The piece de resistance was in Italy a few years ago, we were camping in our motorhome between a freshwater lagoon and the sea and the campsite was over run with mosquitoes. Actually I escaped unscathed but Richard the silly sod refused to put any insect repellent on and I think he lived to regret it... see attached pic which was taken several days later. Once bitten twice shy I hope.

After all that I wouldn't avoid insects, the vast majority will do you no harm at all and in my view are part of Nature red in tooth and claw... And I'm loving Dave's pics - and Frank's cheeky slug above! or is it a snail...

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It's a young slug climbing out of a planter.

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The spider was taken a few feet away with a good whack of zoom. I can't kill insects.....I just don't like them.(I don't go screaming and running for the nearest male - I suppose my fear, or dislike is controlled in that respect)
I accept that many of them have a job to do....even if that job is only to provde food for friends of the garden.
I couldn't be a bee keeper. I know my limitations.

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Not climbing... sliming!;)

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Good for you Margaret - at least you don't turn into a wilting female - and many people's reactions would be to kill indiscriminately. And don't forget, without insects such as bees we wouldn't have many of our fruit crops etc - so they really do have a job to do.

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I haven't ever been that Sue.
I think most of my dislike of insects stems from having five younger brothers.
They once collected hundreds of insects, moths, butterflies Daddy longlegs and the like(we lived in a very rural area and they were easy to come by)...these they released into my attic bedroom....and I had to go up the stairs to my room to switch on the light. Once the light was on all these insects sprang to life.
You can imagine the scene with all these insects flying round my head.....boy did they get a 'leathering' off my dad.

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Sounds hilarious but I'm certain it wasn't!

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They used to have a small case of pinned moths and butterflies in one of the dining rooms at the Walton Arms - I couldn't go into the room! I have a total phobia about moths and go into a major panic if one is in the house - I can't bear to even look at photos or drawings of them. I'm also of the same mind but not as bad about all flying things including birds, and I can't bear bluebottles. If I sit outside in the sun I have to have a can of fly spray handy! Perhaps I have 'issues'!

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I suppose looking back it was quite funny...the lads certainly thought so...they were watching as I switched the lights on...I don't think they found it quite so funny when Dad was paddling their back sides with a slipper.

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you might have to wait sometime for my today piccies .. i been to morecambe and what a lovely day it was too ... windy but warm .. anyway i took too many ...so have to sort em out .... lol

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Glad to hear someone finds my present home town worth visiting... and yes it has been a lovely day here. Shame I had to spend half of it in Preston!

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I did in 2010, it was the only place that had a tackle shop selling the "Preston X6 seat box" & he only charged me 300 quid instead of 350, so I'm not so averse to the place. :)

Mind you, it was a proper nightmare trying to get out again & back to Liverpool.

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Guess were we are going for a walk with Max tomorrow?

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Hazard a guess at Formby?

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Your too good for me . You've been around girl.

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I guess you're talking about the road through to Lancaster and the M6. That's the main reason we chose to live in Morecambe rather than Lancaster - my other half works at the power station in Heysham and now he only has to drive a few miles along the sea front rather than through from Lancaster.

BTW was the tackle shop a little place next to a Spar shop just off the northern end of the prom? If so it's just round the corner from our house!

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well someone is now suffering from a red head where the hair has gone missing ... and its not me ....:p:p:p

heres a taster ....

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My one and only visit to Formby was a couple of hours in 2008 during a week's holiday in Southport, shortly after we moved to Morecambe. We spent more time at Crosby admiring the statues on the beach and most of the holiday we spent in Liverpool as my other half, being a southerner, had not been there before. I spent quite a lot of time in the city when I was a student in Preston way back in the Middle Ages.

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Oh dear you'll have to buy him a hat!! Nice photo for starters - sums up the place rather well - another great sky.

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It's nice on the beach and sand dunes. Max can run till his hearts content, then sleep all the way home when he will want to go out again.

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Lovely shot Jen....the sky looks beautiful......sorry to hear that Spugs got his solar panel charged......a sun hat is the order of the day.

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Can't really remember, as my observer (Marion) wasn't ! So I had to try & drive - locate - assess parking all at once. :rolleyes: It's was Gerrys on Parliament st off Regent rd. And to keep the old baggage happy we did the touristy bit too, round the market, along the Beach with an Ice cream & some retail therapy (Couldn't really say no when I'd just given out 300 notes on Fishing gear now could I). :)

Anyways, while I'm on this thread & talking about that somewhat tarnished jewel that is Morecambe, some piccys. :)

Cormorant figure on prom - Beach looking South - Witchy one, looking for ingredients from the bumper book of spells - Roundabout & figures - Close up of the figures.

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Rather than repost the pictures here. If you want to see my today in pictures, just take a looksy here(first 12 pics on that profile are from today)

Flickr: restlesd's Photostream

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Used to take ours (Hounds) out that way when I lived in England, also down to Delamere Forest. Not been there for over 27 years or so, so I couldn't say whether or not you can still let the Hound have free reign, but it was allowed way back when & the Muttleys enjoyed it. :)

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Today in Pictures is a very short posting today, due to shopping.

1. Started the short walk and it started with a barge.
2. The next three shots are of the same insect, which was all along the canal towpath on the wall side.
3. they were on Thistles and Nettles when I saw them.
4. And it is Grypocoris Stysi, the Mirid Bug, I bet that impressed your socks off. Dont be, I looked it up.

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No that's the other end of town from us - but glad to hear you let Marion have her bit of retail therapy too - not forgetting the ice cream!

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See you've caught the flower bug too... some great pics Rob.

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Very smart looking bugs who obviously don't mind getting their feet pricked and stung!

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At the time I didn't have my reading glasses with me, so wasn't sure just what they were, I thought initially they were spiders, bit of a shock when I got them on the computer.

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Yes and I loved the feline pics too.
I coo over cats the way other women coo over babies.......and get broody in just the same way...but for cats not babies.

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I just love that Tigger - reminds me of a cat we had years ago - his back legs were so fluffy, from the back it looked like he was wearing furry plus fours or jodhpurs!