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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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Canal… Railway… and Footpath
A walk through the wood – but the trail is notmuch wider than the path Step out on the Ledbury Town Trail and you are walking along a route that’s more than 200 years old, and has seen the rise and fall of two major forms of transport. For this narrow strip of land that’s…
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The Natural Navigator
I am the first to admit I am not a good navigator. I have no sense of direction whatsoever, and if I’m walking or driving I can lose myself quite easily, even in the area where I have lived for more than 30 years – an achievement (if it could be called that!) which reduces…
The Book Trunk 