#ScenicSaturday11th May 2024: 

Rocky Valley in Cornwall. This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is of the amazing natural feature known as ‘Rocky Valley’ in Cornwall. It is aptly named. Steep, confining a lively stream, lined by precarious paths, …

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#ScenicSaturday 27th April 2024: 

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo depicts the village of Burnsall in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. This area in the north of England is a National Park and is considered by many to be the …

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#ScenicSaturday 6th April 2024:

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo shows a narrow trail running between stands of tall pines and spruce through the Forest of Dean. The path runs from the road for some distance to pass a …

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Change Everything, by Natalie Bennett: #BookReview.

Subtitled ‘How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society’ this book deals comprehensively with issues and problems of our current political systems. It is essentially written about the situation in the UK but has a pretty universal application.I’d like to have all our current, and potential, politicians made to sit down and read this manual …

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Oddities Observed On Outings #5

Bugingham Palace This charming residence for local wildlife in the form of flying and crawling insects, is located adjacent to an entry footpath into the Forest of Dean. It sits in a garden bordering the path, inviting creepy-crawlies to stay as long as they wish. I love the name ‘Bugingham Palace’, which lends an air …

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#ScenicSaturday 9th March 2024: 

Flamborough Head. This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo depicts a calm day on a beach under the chalk cliffs on the northeastern shore of the North Sea at Flamborough, just north of Bridlington in East …

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#ScenicSaturday 2nd March 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Recent months have seen me featuring only photographs taken in that specific month, though not necessarily the current year. I think, with the UK entering meteorological spring on 1st March, I’ll include …

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Oddities Observed On Outings #2: Who Put Holes in that Rock?

This is the second in a proposed series on peculiarities I’ve encountered when walking. I originally intended these posts to appear only on Medium, but that’s a platform where most readers subscribe with a small annual fee for the opportunity to read from a vast collection of posts covering an enormous range of interests. It …

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#ScenicSaturday 24th February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo depicts a stretch of the beautiful River Wye, which forms a boundary along part of its length between England and Wales. Taken from the English side, it shows a local brook …

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#ScenicSaturday 17th February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo shows sunlight fanning through the faint February mist in a place we look on as our ‘magical’ forest in the Forest of Dean. The spruce and pines here form such …

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#ScenicSaturday 10th February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo is from a favourite walk in the Forest of Dean. The shot was taken at the top of a steep rise, with a further, less steep climb to follow. The …

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#ScenicSaturday 3rd February 2024:

This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean. Tall trees convey a sense of wonder, a feeling of permanence, peace, and tranquillity. We wonder what they might tell us if only we could …

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#ScenicSaturday 27th January 2024

My photos in this continuing series depict our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean and shows January sunlight filtering through the tall pines and firs of a plantation on a slope. We have seen buzzards, deer, …

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#ScenicSaturday 20th January 2024

My photos in this continuing series depict our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is from a walk in the Forest of Dean. The track leads from the old Myristock Bridge along a fairly level route past the secluded car park at …

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#ScenicSaturday 30th December 2023

Worm's Head My photos in these continuing series show our beautiful world with the aim of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness.I normally post pictures taken in the month concerned in each cycle, but I’m excluding December as it can be rather dull here in the UK. …

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