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  • Odds and Sods, January 2022, Part 1

    The LED's would have done that, but I mean the big black stain left behind after I cleaned the wood burner Most of the good things we have today are the result of disagreement, argument and debate and none of Unless they have been covered with housing estates or shopping malls, not the case here, as the road Everyone wants to make that bit of extra effort for a good view, but this is not an Iron Age fort but The boy is carrying a fishing rod and the small girl a red bucket as used by children who sit at the

  • Modbury Runaway Lane

    It is how all roads looked a few hundred years ago, before the turnpike improvements of the early 19th Holloways are ancient roads that followed steep hills, which over time cut their way through the landscape Another clue is that the ancient trees are rooted way above your head. Green Lanes are just that. the deepest part of Runaway Lane and at its deepest point the bank was about twenty feet above the road There is a faint hint of an earlier road level about half way up.

  • Royal William Yard

    On the beach we got chatting to a lady and we were discussing lockdowns and how good it was to be free noting here that "ship's biscuits" were the staple diet of the British Navy and were designed as a food ruins of old buildings so that you are in effect driving around the inside of the building with no roof

  • Tavistock Part 1

    all his stuff over, just like when you lose the argument with your other half and storm out of the room As the old realtor typo joke goes, "There is a widow in every room affording great prospects". This is probably as good a point as any to mention politics. Over the road from the ruined cloisters is The Bedford Hotel. Later in the doctor's waiting room I was flipping through a glossy magazine which had a feature on the

  • Birmingham Part 4

    The dome is the roof of the city hall or as it is officially called the Council House. It's not been a good decade for his works as they are coming down all over Birmingham, tip top tap, just This innocuous looking road sign below, for a small pedestrian link leads to quite a lot of ancient history It usually refers to an enclosed field where rabbits were kept and farmed for food and fur.

  • The Stokenham Fire

    For that day my daily post number 63, I decided to go a mile or so up the road to the neighbouring village of Stokenham to photograph the small thatch animals on the roofs there.

  • Ditsum Part 2

    Now I am on The Level at the junction with Riverside Road. As usual around here, all roads, even unsuitable ones seem to end up at Totnes. Can a road plummet up hill? Not sure. In fact there is barely room to turn around should you go down. This angle gives a good idea of how steep the road down to the ferry is.

  • Babbacombe Cliff Railway

    Wane is still used however, as in good manners are on the wane. Which they are, particularly on Social Media, where a simple question about rooks making a noise can Apart from the armed warfare bit, it was more of a heated debate with little or nothing to do with rooks and a lot of waning good manners. They are running out of space now, there's just enough room at the bottom for what next?

  • Slapton, Part 3

    These convex mirrors below, are quite useful when the road is narrow and there are blind bends to negotiate This is the main road below, going back the way I came, somehow looking narrower and more lethal in this Thatched roof, hipped at left hand end. Thatched roof with gabled ends and eyebrow eaves, large stone rubble gable end stacks with slate weathering will no doubt return, maybe to emptier streets in the winter, when there are few leaves on the trees, wood

  • Happy Christmas 2025

    Totnes Weekly Times - Saturday 27 December 1884 KINGSBRIDGE The storm last week wrecked the roofs and chimney tops of many of the houses, and in the orchard lands and woods and lawns of the district, many Hannaford, grocer, only left the front of the shop for about 30 seconds, when a large portion of the roof

  • Plymouth Ship's Biscuits

    These biscuits were created for life at sea, on long voyages, to sustain life when perishable foods were In fact moisture was the enemy of most foods that you wanted to keep for longer. naval victualling in the Royal Navy with varied and nutritious rations, to include "one pound daily of good the great counterintuitive facts about world history that a country offering its fighting men such a food

  • Buckfast Abbey Duruflé

    I went to college and over the road from the college was a second hand record store. Between the World Wars the music room of the Polignac Mansion in Paris played host to many of the literary

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