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  • One Bad Orange

    February 2021- Are oranges the only food that goes blue when they go bad? Today we escaped lockdown at home and went to Dartmouth to do vital food shopping and carry out our daily This post is also a good example of main stream media, a headline that screams oranges about an article Once we had agreed that we were wet enough and we had finished our vital food mission, and just as the Life has many more good oranges on offer than it has blue ones.

  • Old Paignton Photo Walk 3

    Some of you will be thinking good riddance, while others may have fond memories of the place. A super Hot and Snack Bar for inexpensive food. Dancing until 1 a.m. except Sundays. "Suitable for ALL ROOMS in the house", the joke that just keeps on giving. I found an advert for electrical goods on sale at Crossways in 1972. From the level crossing and the station, Torbay Road leads directly to the sea front.

  • Death of a Building Part 6

    This area was raised up so gave a view over the site above the screens around the site.

  • "Quickies" 8 - Oldway Mansion Update

    There is now some concrete good news about the future of Oldway Mansion in Paignton, following my previous The building will be saved, although it will take some years to achieve, with phase one to save the roof

  • Death of a Building Part 8

    This area was raised up so gave a view over the site above the screens around the site.

  • Death of a Building Part 4

    This area was raised up so gave a view over the site above the screens around the site.

  • Odds and Sods August 2024

    All she had to do was to answer the "constructive questions" on what makes a good housewife. "Read wisely for a good book is a faithful friend" is the message in this shot. This sounds so invigorating but would leave a lot less time for a good book. "Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of Virtue" or "Reduce the amount of waste you create The situation of the chapel is very good, being at the bottom of the St. Mary Church road.

  • Time and Tide Wait for No Man

    I was kneeling on the slipway holding the camera quite low and using the flip up screen to compose this

  • Car Tour 3 Treasures of Crediton

    Reredos - An ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of an altar. I think this bird, feeding it's young was a Swift, having made it's mud nest in the roof of the porch

  • Plymouth Stonehouse 2

    The Beagle was anchored here for 17 days awaiting good wind conditions to continue its journey. Berkshire Chronicle - Saturday 26 September 1846 We hear from very good authority that the mills in of harbouring uncustomed goods. Freeman, of Plymouth, a retired inspector of stores, must have quite a good claim. Brisk bidding resulted in good prices, and some lots were disposed of.

  • Odds and Sods July 2022

    This view below constituted a main road back then. That is how I found myself driving along some very narrow roads, which were real roads, following my People who don't live here just stop at "I don't drive down roads with grass in the middle". In the 1840's the bridge at Bowcombe was built as part of the new turnpike road. The corrugated metal roof is a positive luxury by comparison.

  • River Avon Moor to Sea 2

    The road as it is, becomes an undrivable green lane. There was one short stretch of road where the river and road came together, enabling me to stop and take some snatched photos, blocking the single track road, and hoping no other vehicle would appear. hugely unreliable too, so shipping goods by sea was often safer and quicker. Slate roof with gabled ends, with shaped barge-boards and deep eaves with lion masks to gutters.

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