#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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A Short Visit to Wiltshire: #2, Bratton Camp & White Horse.

This short series of posts, relating to places of interest in the English County of Wiltshire, is intended to help visitors know what to expect. I’m not presenting any real details of history, etc., simply describing as well as I can, with the aid of photographs, how to get there and what you might see. …

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Oddities Observed On Outings #8

An Odd Plant Pot The Greek island of Kos houses the Asklepieion, an ancient medical centre built to honour the god of health and medicine, Asklepios, following the death of the celebrated ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates. He is remembered as the inspiration for the famous Hippocratic Oath sworn by many doctors. The hospital dates from …

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A Short Visit to Wiltshire: #1, Silbury Hill

This short series of posts, relating to places of interest in the English County of Wiltshire, is intended to help visitors know what to expect. I’m not presenting any real details of history, etc., simply describing as well as I can, with the aid of photographs, how to get there and what you might see. …

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#ScenicSaturday 20th 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 of a willow tree on the banks of the River Wye was taken some years ago on a visit to Tintern, a small village in Wales, where an ancient …

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Oddities Observed On Outings #7

Walking on the lovely Greek island of Zakynthos, called Zante by the younger generation, in September 2023, we consulted a map I’d bought online for guidance. It took us to places we’d otherwise never have visited. On one of our almost daily walks, we followed the winding roads from our hotel up into the hills, …

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#ScenicSaturday 13th 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 an unusual view of trees. This one taken from a hot-air balloon ride we took for my wife’s birthday in April 2022. We took off from Bath and …

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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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Oddities Observed On Outings #6

This beautifully crafted, sorrowing and burdened representation of the Biblical Eve, apparently carrying the weight of her so-called sins in that enormous apple, used to stand on a grassy hillside crossed by a public footpath not far from where I live. The wooden statue stood for many years but has recently vanished. I don’t know …

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#ScenicSaturday 30th March 2024:

Rhodes and the Sunlit Mediterranean. 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 landlubber’s view of a rough bay on the Greek Island of Rhodes. It’s from October 2017, and I hope it’ll warm the …

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#ScenicSaturday 23rd March 2024

Malham Beck 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 was taken on the route approaching Malham Cove, a massive limestone cliff, shaped like an amphitheatre. This picture shows the beck that once created the cove, now …

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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 16th March 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 an almost invisible narrow path through a small copse of silver and rough birch trees under the March sun in the Forest of Dean. The elegance of these …

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Oddities Observed On Outings #4

Tree Home Coming across these tiny clogs, with the small door leading into the mystery space in the tree roots was what inspired the idea for this series. By no means the only careful construction we’ve encountered on our various walks, it was definitely the one that showed most creative thought and care. To take the …

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The Harry Potter Experience:

Hogwarts Castle Warner Bros Studio Tour, London, The Making of Harry Potter. Originally posted on the Medium blogging platform and reproduced here for my regular readers. I’ve read all the Harry Potter books, as our daughter was a fan when a child, and I started by reading the first three to her. She read the …

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