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Somerset - Perfect

Drove down to Somerset to see dear friends S & K, at their lovely new house. And to go to a lecture! A perfect day; I left Hereford in a right grump and feeling very unsettled and by the time I got to Somerset I was chilled out, calm and happy.
The acid test for visiting friends [...]

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Aaand another one

Symonds Yat, Christmas 2004.
Feeling restless, so changing headers like other women buy shoes. Ignore me!

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My Childhood

… is intimately tied up in the photo that now graces my header…. taken by my cousin SB, to whom should go the attribution and the credit!!
Cornwall, I salute you!

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Water, Water Everywhere

The picture above shows the River Wye at a reasonable level - ie you can’t see it. It’s away down in the riverbed to the left of the picture. 15 feet down. A sensible place for a river to be.
Now, if you were standing where I was when I took this picture, you’d be floating [...]

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Frances St Clair Miller

I’m so insanely excited about getting my picture (read, ‘baby’ ;) home from the gallery that I thought I would do something entirely illegal and post some other examples of her work.
Ms Miller, if you’re reading; please make yourself a website! Your art is quite the most wonderful thing and it makes Herefordshire and the surrounding [...]

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Bleak Midwinter?

Not round here. Well, at least, not yesterday at any rate.
Feeling zippy I rugged up R until only his eyes showed and strode off into the landscape - I walked to the next village and round in a big circle, getting back to mum’s after about 3 hours. It was amazing. Trees coated in frost, [...]

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Crisp and cold here in the Welsh Marches and there’s enough of a breeze to put apples in your cheeks. Working away, but taking frequent walks up to the post office / down round the village on errands I could technically put off.
Tomorrow being the eve of the works Christmas party, which I am looking forward [...]

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