photographs: people, places & things
Pembrokeshire: a picture post from South West Wales – Part 1 We are just back from rounding our ‘travel year’ off with a trip to Pembrokeshire in South West Wales. This is Part 1 of a two part blog post. Our last short break in the UK was back in March when we had stayed […]
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Stockport Gin – visiting the home of Stockport Gin (tour) Earlier this year our daughter and son in law bought us a gift …. it was tickets to visit the Stockport Gin Distillery. With other commitments the earliest we could do this and get it booked in the diary was for the end of September […]
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Visit Budapest in September – picture travel post (part 3) I said at the start of this picture post series (in Part 1) that Budapest had been on our list of places to go to for some time. It certainly didn’t disappoint us and it’s fair to say that it exceeded our expectations on many […]
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Visit Budapest in September – picture travel post (part 2) I said in Part 1 that Budapest had been on our list of places to go to for some time. A look through the photographs in the picture gallery will probably go some way to explain why. It really is a quite stunning city. Don’t […]
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Visit Budapest in September – picture travel post (part 1) Budapest had been on our list of places to go to for some time. In fact we had pretty much settled on travelling there soon after returning from our superb trip to Krakow earlier in the year. In between times we had a really enjoyable […]
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Manchester City – another trophy parade through the streets. 2023 saw Manchester City scoop up a fabulous treble of trophies and not for the first time in the last 10 years or so demonstrate that when it comes to club football they really are head and shoulders above everyone else. I wrote recently about these […]
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Manchester City – these are the days for us to remember This is not really much more than a picture post marking the remarkable achievement of Manchester City wining ‘the treble’. Completing The Treble means winning the domestic league (The Premier League), the FA Cup and The Champions League. It’s a difficult and rare achievement. […]
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Home work & home improvements – time for new doors The fairly random approach to this blog sees a bit of a change from the last couple of posts. Recent posts have featured our decent trip to Yarrow Valley County Park before that our trip to Wembley for the Manchester City FA Cup semi final […]
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Yarrow Valley Country Park – a fine place to visit A few months ago, round about November I think, we visited Yarrow Valley County Park, and it’s fair to say we really enjoyed it. The County Park is managed and run by Chorley Council and spanning some 700 acres it really is a decent size. […]
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FA Cup Semi Final 2023 – it’s a funny old game A couple of days ago saw the first of the two 2023 FA Cup Semi Finals at the national stadium. It’s a decent enough venue to watch football and unless you’ve taken a seat too close to the pitch then views of the game […]
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