photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Coffee on the canal A glorious and unseasonably warm March day saw us set off for a stroll along the Peak Forest canal and end up enjoying a very decent coffee served from the narrowboat Mandalay, which wasn’t at all what we had expected when we set off. We had parked our car fairly close […]
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Another visit to the same place? Another visit to the same place, another blog post and more pictures from Reddish Vale? … er yes, yes and yes. I suppose one question might be – another visit to the same pace, don’t you get bored of visiting Reddish Vale Country Park? The answer would be a […]
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Visit to Daisy Nook Country Park We had a really decent visit this week to Daisy Nook Country Park which is set in the Medlock Valley. It’s one of those locations that despite it only being a few miles away from where we live it has never really been on list of places to go […]
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More early spring wandering along the River Tame A post of few words. This blog post is another ‘picture post’ and includes a couple of sets of photographs from recent walks along the Tame Valley. Perhaps of interest in this post are the pictures of parakeets – an increasingly common sight in the UK. There […]
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Back at Reddish Vale Country Park It is as the title says ‘back at Reddish Vale Country Park’. As I have recently posted about a couple of visits to Reddish Vale Country Park, this blog post is just a ‘picture post’. You can check out my most recent Reddish Vale post at this link and […]
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Visiting Reddish Vale country park In the last couple of weeks we have made the short journey from home to a local beauty spot – Reddish Vale Country Park. Despite Reddish Vale being described on the official web site as ‘spanning 161 hectares along the River Tame in the heart of Stockport’, it really isn’t […]
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Tame Valley walking I posted the other day about ambling along the Tame Valley, and this post is really pretty much of the same – if you missed the earlier post you can see it here. More of a catch up than anything else This is more a ‘picture catch up post’ than anything else […]
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Updated post Post updated 13 March – update includes new photo gallery, scroll down to Picture Gallery 2 The Jackdaw You shouldn’t be at all surprised if you see the jackdaw – a lovely small black crow. With around 1.4 million pairs in the UK they could hardly be described as a rare bird, they […]
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Another lockdown day Another lockdown day and another decent walk along the River Tame, if you read my previous post (see this link) then you will know that I really do enjoy walking in the Tame Valley even if lockdown restrictions mean I walk there more than I might usually do. One of the places […]
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Another day another walk Like almost everybody else I’ll be glad when the current lockdown restrictions are eased and we can travel a little further afield. Although I am really looking forward to some sort of return to something that feels like normality and despite walking pretty much the same routes many many times before […]
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