photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Heron watching There are in excess of 60 different recognized species of heron. Sometimes they are known as egrets or bitterns, but this is mainly because they are either mainly white of their plumes are more decorative. Wandering along our local stretch of the Peak Forest canal can be ideal for watching the herons and […]
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Early walk along the canal I posted recently about the autumn views I have been enjoying along the canal. I also recently wrote and posted some ‘different’ pictures from my autumn walks showing the work to clear and dredge the canal. Yesterday I was along the Peak Forest canal again. This time I was early […]
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Autumn I don’t suppose there is a bad time of year to be wandering along the canal network. Although I love spring and summer it’s hard to beat autumn for the rich variety of colour that the season brings. Wandering along some of our local canals is testament to that. The pictures in the photo […]
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Fascinating activity on the canal In recent weeks I have watched with quite a keen interest, and if I’m honest a sort of childlike fascination at some very different activity on the Peak Forest canal. The activity I have observed on my regular walks has been the cleaning and dredging of the Peak Forest canal. […]
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Visiting Lyme Park The last time I wrote about visiting Lyme Park was earlier in the year, back in January and you can go back to that post at this link. For our most recent visit, as with other National Trust properties visits currently need to be pre-booked to enable active and safe management […]
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Visiting Dunham Massey It’s hard to imagine visiting the National Trust property at Dunham Massey and coming away disappointed. With it’s magnificent house and fabulous deer park, Dunham Massey really is a wonderful place. The National Trust property is located in the Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, fairly close to the town of Altrincham. […]
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The Northern Lights. My understanding of the term Aurora Borealis means a pattern of differently coloured lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky. After looking at some pictures snapped on a phone from the inside of a car on a typical wet northern night in Blackpool it struck me that the lights I […]
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Walking on the Pennine Way We recently took a walk on part of the Pennine Way and we thought that whilst that way we might as well try to find the site of the B29 Superfortress that crashed on the moors in 1948. The part of Pennine Way we walked is really easy to get […]
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Cheshire walks. Recently we drove out towards the old Cheshire farming village of Goostrey to take a walk along some of the quiet back roads in that area. After parking up and leaving our car fairly close to the Jodrell Bank Observatory we almost immediately came across some decent photo opportunities of the grouse in […]
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New places to walk. We recently walked along a stretch of the Macclesfield canal in Stockport. The stretch that we walked on is only about 25 minutes away by car from where we live, but despite its proximity its a stretch of canal that is unfamiliar to us. Our walk along the Macclesfield canal started […]
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