photographs: people, places & things
Some more wanderings around the antique stores and emporiums My last blog post was written after a visit to a couple of antique emporiums. These were at Blakemere Village and Holden Wood Antiques. Last week we took the opportunity to visit a couple more antique type stores. One of them The Vintage Emporium at Pear […]
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Vintage emporiums: bric a brac, cake … and an old oil can From time to time we like to have a wander and a browse round one or two of the vintage emporiums. I think the last time we were doing that was back in the summer when we had a wander around the Reclaimed […]
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A wander around City Centre Manchester and a picture of Nico It’s a short while since my last post on here, which was back in November after we had returned from a really enjoyable trip to Belgium and Germany. This latest short post picks up from the week before last when we headed off to […]
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Autumn in Belgium and Germany – words and pictures. Part 3. Moving onto Germany We had really enjoyed our time in Belgium. Namur, Ghent and Dinant had been good places to visit. Added to that the property we had rented had been comfortable and well located for what we wanted to do. On the way […]
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Autumn in Belgium and Germany – words and pictures. Part 2. Accommodation This post (Part 2 of 3) covers our visits to the city of Dinant, on the banks of the Meuse River and then the exceptionally pretty medieval town of Monschau in western Germany. But before that I’ve included a selection of the pictures […]
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Autumn in Belgium and Germany – words and pictures. Part 1. 2024 has been a decent year for trips and travel for us, and we are just back from our last trip together for this year. We spent some time in Belgium and Germany and as you might expect it was quite a contrast to […]
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Royal Air Force Museum in the Midlands, visit to RAF Cosford I wrote fairly recently about a visit to Manchester Barton Aerodrome. I then posted another couple of blogs by way of catching up on things and this is the last of the ‘catch up’ posts before I head off on my next motorcycle trip. […]
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A visit to the unique Reclaimed World in Cotebrook Cheshire I mentioned in my previous post, that I was catching up with updating the blog, this is another of those ‘catch up’ posts. For many years I have either driven, or mostly motorbiked past the entrance to a reclamation yard in Cheshire called Reclaimed World. […]
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Garden pictures – summer was here for a short time ☀️ Although it might seem an unlikely claim, it is true that we did have some sunshine this year. Writing this post has reminded me of that. I mentioned in my last post that I was spending a little time this week catching up with […]
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🛩️ another enjoyable visit to Manchester’s Barton Aerodrome Regular visitors to the blog will know a visit to Manchester Barton Aerodrome is something that we have done a good few times over the years. I think the last time I posted following a visit to the aerodrome was back in November 2021, which you can […]
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