Tag: Saturday Snapshot
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A House on Stilts
Ledbury, in Herefordshire, is one one of those beautiful, historic, little towns where everything in the town centre seems to be hundreds of years old. It’s where my mother lives, so while she was ill and I was looking after her I took the chance to wander around and take some new photographs, since most…
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Saturday Flowers!
I know it is Sunday, and I should not have a Saturday Snapshot, but in some parts of the globe (like American Samoa and Hawaii) I believe it is still yesterday, which makes this post OK!Anyway, this week’s Snapshot is very brief (as well as being very late) because my mother is ill, and I am…
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Oh, I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside!
We’ve had a few warm days recently, but it’s not been much of a summer, so when I came across these seaside pictures, taken in Bognor Regis a couple of years ago, it conjured up images of a lovely hot autumnal day during a mini-break down on the south coast. So, even though I’ve used…
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An Island Fit For a Crime Queen
Burgh Island Hotel inspired one of Agatha Christie’s mostfamous crime mysteries This wonderful art deco hotel is on Burgh Island, in Devon, and was the setting for two novels by crime queen Agatha Christie, who lived in Devon and stayed at the hotel on occasions. We admired the building, which looks a bit like a…
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A Place where Lepers were Outcast…
We passed this sign whilst out walking during our Cumbrian holiday. It’s the name of an area, like a hamlet, which is certainly not big enough to be a village, and is now part of Ulverston. According to a local information leaflet, it was once the place where lepers were sent – cast out from…
The Book Trunk 