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Unidentified Flying Ducks…
The animals came in two by two… A pair of mystery water birds. Right folks, I’m after some help from anyone who knows anything about water birds! I’m posting these photos of birds that are geese or ducks for my Saturday Snapshot in the hopes that someone can tell me what they are. This area is full of water…
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Well Wishing where a Saint Stood…
St Chad’s Well, at St Chad’s Church, Lichfield. I’m sure it ismuch nicer in summer, when the vine growing over the roofis green, but at the moment it looks like a haystack on legs. Today is the Feast of St Chad, so for my Saturday Snapshot I have some photos of his well, and a…
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Unwanted Books…
Unwanted books… Somehow, reading, blogging, and life in general, seems to have got out of routine in recent months while I’ve been backwards and forwards to see my mother. I did manage to get the Internet up and running last time I was there, but the connection in her part of Herefordshire is dire. And…
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Golden Leaves and Sunlight
Gold Leaf: Buried Sunlight.. This sculpture on thetop of an old coal mining spoil heap has provedcontroversial – do you like it? This golden pillar – ‘Gold Leaf: Buried Sunlight’ – stands on the top of a spoil heap at a long-closed coal mine at Polesworth, just up the road from where I live. The…
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The Vulnerable Side of a Superwoman…
Angela Fytton, heroine of Mavis Cheek’s Mrs Fytton’s Country Life, is an intelligent, liberated woman, she’s enough of a feminist to want partnership and equality in a relationship, and she has no intention of ever becoming a doormat. She certainly doesn’t become that, but in her determination to keep husband Ian happy and worry free…
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