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Post by rayge on Nov 13, 2022 19:20:59 GMT
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Post by rayge on Nov 30, 2022 18:23:45 GMT
October 2022 A month mostly notable for mild and balmy weather extending the summer well into (what I'm accustomed to thinking of as) autumn, and my first night(s) away from home since I moved to Taunton in late summer of 2019, visiting old school pal Clive in West Wales to mark both our birthdays, and that of his youngest son (who shares mine). The first time I've been there in seven years, what with one thing and another. Otherwise, before and after, flaneuring around town and environs with Scrap (and occasionally Herself), bothering the local wildlife and shouting imprecations at cyclists on footpaths. So, from the beginning WatchingWhiskersBangCrashedSleeping hedgehog Attempted Autum in Goodland GardensCanal...
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Post by rayge on Nov 30, 2022 18:26:09 GMT
Part two Trolley ParkShit picture, clever caption, cheers FortifiedTruckingFlat CalmThe field maples on the other bank were full of autumn colour this time last year WandererMist, Yes, Mellow Fruitfulness, Maybe NotMore later, maybe not tonight...
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Post by rayge on Dec 1, 2022 13:03:43 GMT
Part Four Oct 19, and we're off to Wales. Clive & MoFor one reason and another, both Clive and his wife wereclassed as particularly vulnerable to Covid and have effectively been isolating, seeing only family and hardly ever leaving their village, for the best part of three years, hence the no haircut pot-belly look C is sporting. Across the ValleyThe BoysClive's youngest son, Sean, is 34 (born on my 40th birthday) and Tom, his second son, is 37, but they're still collectively 'the boys' The Book SwapThe village has one pub, no post office, no shop, but it does have a book swap shed and the odd yurt for the enjoyment of the villagers MillyThe Golden WestMore once I've had lunch ...
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Post by rayge on Dec 1, 2022 16:12:18 GMT
Part Five SunnysideC's house is the white one attached to the green one on the right of the pic Slightly Less Big Business, the RamComplete with a raddle dispenser on his chest ShroomsTom and Milly (featuring M's Meerkat Impersonation)The Real Walessod that aberrant sunshine, this is what West Wales is all about. Little GuyBlue tit bopping on a branch ...
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Post by rayge on Dec 1, 2022 16:19:14 GMT
.Part 6 Into town for a shop and jolly On the WaterfrontPastel post-modernism has reached Aberystwyth DefianceScrap tells the waves who is boss... Orderly Retreat...then changes his mind Putting the Fun in FunicularConstitution Hill Right, back to Goginan LightsHomeward Bound...
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Post by rayge on Dec 1, 2022 16:37:03 GMT
Part 7 Back in the Jug Agane: return to Somerset OoopsThe summer drought is officially in abeyance now FizzGoodland GardensAutumn colour arrives in Taunton Cosmopolitan...
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Post by rayge on Dec 31, 2022 18:05:51 GMT
November Part 5 FocusAn old friend in a new place: the egret fishing in the Mill Stream, in spate after some heavy downpours on Exmoor. ScatterThe Goodland Gardens' maples finally let go of their leaves Good Drying DayA denizen of the Cormorant Trees hangs out its wings Angelfish ImpersonationBad Feather DayAutumn Colour II...
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