photographs: people, places & things
Picture post – canal walking on the Peak Forest canal I have posted many times in the past and featured some of our canal walks. Many of those walks have taken in stretches of a canal that we really enjoy walking along – the Peak Forest canal. This blog post is a picture post that […]
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Picture post – a visit to Lymm Dam Another decent day and another visit to Lymm Dam in Cheshire. I have written and posted about a couple of previous visits, so this post is simply a ‘picture post‘ There is plenty of information about Lymm Dam online and a decent starting point is the Lymm […]
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Visiting City Airport & Heliport – Manchester (formerly Barton Aerodrome) We have visited City Airport a number of times. It’s formal title is actually City Airport & Heliport, although I understand that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) know it as Manchester/Barton. Prior to last weeks visit our most recent visit was in May – you […]
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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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Good to be back – Etihad days with Manchester City and farewell to Aguero A couple of weeks ago the Manchester City mens team played out their last game of the 2020/21 football season at the Etihad against Everton. In some respects it was a nothing sort of game as the league title had already […]
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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 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 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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Aeroplanes on Anglesey – RAF Valley During our recent Anglesey trip we made a visit to the RSPB Valley Wetlands Nature Reserve site, which was formally known as Valley Lakes. It really is worth finding time to stop off and have a wander there if you are in Anglesey and have the time to do […]
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Anglesey people This post follows on from a three part series of earlier blog posts featuring a visit to Anglesey and it’s stunning coastline. You can find the link to the first in that series here Part 1 About this post It’s not much more than a set of random black and white images of […]
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