photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Another trip to Scotland – short break in Newton Stewart (1) We have holidayed together many many times in Scotland and I have travelled pretty extensively on my own by motorbike over the years (my most recent bike trip there was in August last year) I have said many times over the years that I […]
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Manchester Airport – it’s always worth a visit (and coffee). We don’t visit the viewing area at Manchester Airport often, but when we do we have always enjoyed our time there, and it’s a terrific place to take children. On this occasion we took our youngest grandson (he’s three years old) and for the price […]
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Signs of spring weather a walk along the Macclesfield canal With just the hint of what feels like long overdue spring weather in the air we headed off towards High Lane which is a few miles from central Stockport. High Lane actually lies about five miles outside of Stockport with the busy A6 road cutting […]
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Wembley 2024 FA Cup semi final scenes Man City v Chelsea The weekend saw Manchester City make another trip to the national stadium at Wembley. This visit was for the FA Cup semi final game against Chelsea. I think this was maybe our 19th or 20th trip in the last dozen years or so which […]
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Visit to Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye. Part 4 – drone video This the final addition to the short series of posts following a recent trip to Scotland. This post has five short video clips filmed with the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone that I bought earlier this year. In the previous parts in […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 3 In Part 1 of this short series of blog post I wrote about heading off to Scotland to stay in Sallachy, a small hamlet just a few miles away from the Isle of Skye. Part 2 continues my account of our trip and then […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 2 In Part 1 of this short series of blog post I wrote about heading off to Scotland to stay in Sallachy, a small hamlet just a few miles away from the Isle of Skye. This second part of this Scottish Highlands blog post covers […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 1 Over the years my wife and I have holidayed many times in a variety of locations across Scotland – in truth we’ve holidayed there probably more times that we can recall. We were definitely looking forward to this trip, partly because it had been […]
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City centre Manchester and visiting the Castlefield Viaduct. Manchester really is a great city to visit, whether it’s to see something specific or just to wander round. The last time I posted was back in December when we had taken the bus into the centre and enjoyed a wander and a bite to eat (you […]
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Biting cold weather but fine walking in the Tame Valley Sometimes it can be all too easy to overlook what’s right on your doorstep. I suppose we are quite fortunate to have plenty of decent places nearby and that make for decent walking. One of these places is the Tame Valley and although we regularly […]
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