Sparrowhawk – a surprise visitor to our garden

Sparrowhawk – a surprise visitor to our garden After having been out for a few hours enjoying the glorious weather and wandering around Lymm Dam I hadn’t expected to see what I did when I glanced out of the kitchen window and into the garden when we got home. We get a reasonable selection of […]

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A visit to the RSPB site at Burton Mere wetlands

A visit to the RSPB site at Burton Mere wetlands Last week we made the relatively short journey from home (less than an hour in the car) to the RSPB Burton Mere wetlands site over in Neston. The site itself is on land that has been reclaimed from the Dee estuary and the wetlands are […]

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Pink pigeon – it’s not everyday you see one of these

Pink pigeon – it’s not everyday you see one of these I was sat at home chatting to my wife and nephew when I thought I saw a pink bird fly past the window. Now depending where in the world you live, the sight of a brightly coloured, slightly exotic looking bird flapping its way […]

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Visiting Winscar reservoir at Dunford Bridge

Visiting Winscar reservoir at Dunford Bridge Winscar reservoir is located just inside the Peak District National Park and was built to replace Dunford Dam which itself was built over 150 years ago in the 1850s. Although work on the reservoir was completed in 1975 it took a further seven years for the dam to completely […]

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Anglesey and it’s magnificent coastline – part 3

Anglesey and it’s magnificent coastline – part 3 This is Part 3 of a three part blog post capturing our recent break in Anglesey. I wrote in the introduction to Part 1  that we have stayed in Anglesey on a number of occasions over the years and have always enjoyed ourselves. This trip was no […]

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Anglesey and it’s magnificent coastline – part 2

Anglesey and it’s magnificent coastline – part 2 This is Part 2 of a three part blog post capturing our recent break in Anglesey. I wrote in the introduction to Part 1 that we have stayed in Anglesey a few times over the years and always enjoyed it and this trip was no exception to […]

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Anglesey and it’s magnificent coastline – part 1

Visiting Anglesey and its magnificent coastline This is Part 1 of a three part blog post capturing our recent break in Anglesey.  We have stayed in Anglesey a few times over the years and always enjoyed it. This particular trip had originally been booked for November of last year but was re-scheduled due to travel […]

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Assorted photograph collages from the rainy city. Part 3

Cut, crops and collages For some time I have been creating a small collage of pictures to set as the featured image on blog posts. These have typically been split in three vertical sections. This post and the previous two posts (Part 1 and Part 2) are a replay/look back of collages that have been […]

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Assorted photograph collages from the rainy city. Part 2

Cut, crops and collages For some time I have been creating a small collage of pictures to set as the featured image on blog posts. These have typically been split in three vertical sections. This post and the previous  and following post (Part 1 and Part 3) are a replay/look back of collages that have […]

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Assorted photograph collages from the rainy city. Part 1

Cut, crops and collages For some time I have been creating a small collage of pictures to set as the featured image on blog posts. These have typically been split in three vertical sections. This post and following two posts (Part 2 and Part 3) are a replay/look back of collages that have been used […]

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