 Walk on Cannock Chase January 2019 |
 The Findling - a Glacial Boulder |
 A sad start |
 The route |
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 A cheerful finish |
 Dismantling the Christmas Tree |
 The Tree |
 The former decorations |
 Melanie's visit to us January 2019 |
 Seeing her off from Stoke Station |
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 January Snow |
 Berne Avenue |
 Across the Butts |
 The next morning |
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 Visit to Peterborough Janauary 2019 |
 Walking with Paul and Rosalind |
 Swan boats near the recreation centre |
 The Nene |
 Apedale In the Snow February 2019 |
 Snowdrops at home |
 Apedale Monument |
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 Whixall Moss February 2019 |
 The owl is still there! |
 Roundthorne Bridge on the Llangollen Canal |
 Snowdrops in a cul de sac |
 Morris' Bridge |
 Whixall Moss, looking north from the southern path |
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 The Wesh Border |
 Excavating on the northern fringe |
 A needed rest |
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 Towards the end of the northern path (the old railway) |
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 February sunshine with gardening and flowers |
 Much spreading! |
 Crocuses |
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 Irises |
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 February Munich Visit |
 Walk in the Englischer Garten Chinesischer Turm |
 The Monoopteros |
 Munich from the Monopteros |
 The Opera posters for Ernst Kerneck's "Charles V" |
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 Walk from Iffeldorf to Seeshaupt Iffeldorf |
 View over the Ostersee to the Herzogstand and the Heimgarten |
 Halfway (4 km so far) |
 The Zugspitz |
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 The Mountains behind Benediktburen |
 Theatiner Kirche |
 What the rich shopper needs |
 Opera again - Carmen |
 Second walk in the Englischer Garten |
 Large Hopeful Crow |
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 Gift of an Amarylis from Mike & Nicky planted in March 2019 |
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 March 2019 visit to Munich |
 Retirment of Edita Guberova at the end Roberto Devereux March 2019 |
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 Two walks in the Englischer Garten |
 The Chinesisches Turm |
 Confusion of cranes and a Ferris Wheel near the Ostbahnhof |
 Visit to the RNCM for "Pilgrim's Progress" by Vaughan Williams Two trips: March 31st and April 3rd |
 First |
 Second |
 Blooms at the end of March 2019. The Singapore Orchids and a Mother's Day Rose from Nicky and Michael |
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 Cannock Chase April 2019 |
 Across the chase |
 Up the old railway route |
 Happy walker! |
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 Home for a few days April 2019 |
 Keele Hall Fountain, on a sunny afternoon |
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 One of the Singapore orchids |
 Den Haag with Stephen and family April 2019 |
 The beach at Scheveningen |
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 Pat considering the sea |
 The coach urging her on |
 Paddling! |
 With Conny, Sarah, Felix and Rebecca |
 The group: Rebecca, Felix, Sarah, Pat, Stephen Timothy and Conny |
 The intrepid coach |
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 The Museum; Beeiden aan Zee |
 The Delft China Museum |
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 A Delft decorated friend with Rebecca .. |
 .. and Grandma .. |
 .. and Granddad |
 A Delft decorated car |
 Delft |
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 The New Church |
 The main square |
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 Den Haag: the Escher Exhibition |
 Inside the Het Palace |
 Escher Drawings |
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 Look at the wallpaper too! |
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 Den Haag: the grand shopping arcade |
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 Outside our hotel: A Mandarin Duck, barking up the wrong tree! |
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 Sharing a reflected drink |
 A visit to the tulip fields |
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 Timothy and Rebecca |
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 Sunset |
 Den Haag: the Royal Palace |
 The Palace Gardens |
 Munich for three operas |
 Walk along the Isar from the Zoo to the Deutches Museum |
 A Wisteria in Max Weber Platz |
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 In the Opera House for Turandot |
 The Botanic Garden |
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 Endless tulips |
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 Another Wisteria |
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 A frog in the pond |
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 The Cactus House |
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 Orchids |
 Water Hyacinth |
 In th Cuvilliers Theatre for Tschaikovsky's Ionlanthe combined with Stravinsky's Mavra |
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 Waiting for the Conductor |
 April flowers at home |
 In Berne Avenue outside number 6 |
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 Japanese Maple |
 Heathers |
 Bluebells |
 The pollarded willow, sprouting |
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 Nicky's Amarylis, flowering again |
 One of our divided Amarylis |
 A crimson version |
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 The Singapore orchids in glorious yellow and red |
 Macclesfield Forest May 2019 |
 Bluebells |
 Forest Spring |
 The Cat & Fiddle |
 My zany lady |
 Toot Hill |
 Ascending Nessit Hill |
 Shutlingsloe |
 Violets |
 Lambs |
 Portraits! |
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 The route |
 May Flowers, 2019 |
 The orginal Amarylis going flat out |
 The crimon Amaryllis in all is glory |
 A newer Amarylis |
 Two late tulips with bluebells |
 Lilac lilac |
 A Rhododendron |
 Large buttercups in the pond |
 A cactus with six buds |
 Just coming out |
 Six glorious flowers |
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 The Crimson Amaryllis |
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 Shutlingsloe on a remarkable day |
 Shutlingsloe; a last minute change in our walk to climb it |
 Birchenough Hill |
 The Cumberland Brook |
 A steep slope |
 On the top, with Macclesfield Forest |
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 Sutton Common Mast Pigford Moor in front |
 Nessit Hill |
 Toot Hill |
 Birchenough Hill |
 The Roaches |
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 The Rollright Stones on a Classical Association Outing May 2019 |
 Andy Fear, our president and guide |
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 Part of the circle |
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 The King's Stone |
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 The Conspiring Knights |
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 The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, continuing the Classical Association outing |
 The Museum |
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 The saddest woman |
 Andy, getting down to work |
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 A stop at Hatton locks for an evening meal with the Classical Association |
 Looking up stream |
 Down stream to Warwick |
 An unexpectedly large dragonfly in the lock pond |
 Home again |
 Flags |
 Wigelia in full flower |
 Wisteria |
 Aqualegia |
 Flags |
 Another Amaryllis |
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 Poptatoes growing apace |
 Onions |
 Broad beans |
 New raspberries |
 Flag |
 Flag and wigelia |
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 Pat's treat: an outing to Boscobel House May 2019 |
 Boscabel House |
 The mound in the garden |
 The house from the mound |
 The remains of a descendant of the Royal Oak |
 Portrait of Charles II, a visitor and refugee in the 16th century |
 The lady of the family that gave him refuge |
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 White Ladies Priory where Charles also sheltered |
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 Return to the house |
 Various Walks in May and June, 2019 |
 Apdale for the Light Railway, May 2019 |
 Train departure |
 To Keele, June 2019 One of the lower lakes in the Keele Woods |
 Keele Church |
 The Sneyd Arms for lunch |
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 Around the circuit at Apedale, June 2019 |
 The Wedgewood Memorial |
 Garden & Home June 2019 |
 Emma Hamilton |
 Munstead Wood |
 Boscobel |
 An orchid, flowering |
 Two orchids together |
 Anne Boleyn |
 Trying to fix the washing machine |
 A dish of roses Boscobel and Munstead Wood |
 A lecture on "Lego in Teaching" |
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 Chirk Castle with a Probus Outing |
 Chirk Castle |
 The courtyard |
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 Waiiting for the tour: Pat, John Hartley, Valerie and Phil Maskery |
 The Saloon (Drawing Room) |
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 A Japanese Sharkskin Chest (ca. 1600) |
 The Long Gallery |
 John playing the piano in the Bow Drawing Room |
 From the Garden |
 The Garden |
 The air shaft for the deepest dungeon |
 A verdant rainy day! |
 Lunch with friends at the Windbeutel Alm in Garmisch June 2019 |
 A Strawberry Windbeutel with five spoons |
 Paul, Christa and Pat |
 Paul, Christa, Pat and Irmgard |
 Street concert in Munich near Marienplatz |
 Lupins, Clematis and Roses June 2019 |
 New Lupins |
 A second variety |
 Clematis |
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 A climbing rose |
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 Inspecting the onions and runner beans |
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 Pat' Cataract Operation June 2019 |
 The Cheerful Patient, in hospital for half a day |
 Marylin's 70th Birthday Parties |
 The Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick |
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 At the Birthday Dinner |
 Marylin with Pat |
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 Mraylin with daughter, Jennie |
 Drinks at the Charisma CafĂŠ |
 Marylin with daughter Jennie |
 Roses and a Hedgehog July 2019 |
 Rugosa roses going flat out |
 A Hedgehog, disturbed by cats |
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 Earl's Hill, near Pontesbury July 2019 |
 Earl's Hill |
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 On the summit |
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 Middleton Hill & Rodney's Pillar |
 The Wrekin |
 Caer Caradoc with, faintly, the Brown Clee Hills |
 ca 4 miles and 700 feet |
 Soft fruit harvest July 2019 |
 Gooseberries |
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 Redcurrants |
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 Blackcurrants |
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 Buxton Holiday July 2019 |
 St Anne's Well, dressed for the Festival |
 The renovated pump room |
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 A visiting band from Lermoos |
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 The train in the park |
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 Thyme on the walk ... |
 ... to Solomon's Temple |
 Selfie |
 Taken by a fellow walker |
 The A53 road to Leek and home, with Axe Edge |
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 Ready for the opera |
 Trying out an excercise machine |
 The Olive Tree, Clematis and orchids July 2019 |
 The olive tree in flower |
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 One of the clematises |
 A single orchid, before the Buxton trip |
 Six blooms after Buxton |
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 Lectures & visits to the Etruria Industrial Museum to comemorate the 200th anniverrsary of Watt's death, July 2019 See the videos |
 The Watt engine |
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 Firing the boiler |
 The volunteer fireman |
 Canalside |
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 The grinding room See the videos |
 See the videos |
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 See the videos |
 Flowers and Vegetables, August 2019 |
 Day Lillies |
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 The first potatoes, from pots |
 Potatoes and courgettes |
 broad beans |
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 The orchid, still developing |
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 Another set of cactus flowers |
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 The Wagner Festival at Bayreuth, August 2019 |
 Walk from Altdrossenfeld to Altenplos for lunch and back via Dreschenau ... |
 ... along the Roter Main |
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 The former Aichen Station Halt |
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 The Roter Main |
 On the footbridge on the way to Dreschenau |
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 Large Funghi |
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 Beginning and end - at Altdrossenfeld |
 Second walk, Peter only as Patricia had a blistered heel |
 Altdrossenfeld Church |
 Large Funghi, again |
 The Roter Main |
 See the video |
 The Storks at our hotel in Altdrossenfeld |
 See the video |
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 Wagner's own theatre, before Lohengrin |
 Waiting for the start of Lohengrin |
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 In the Festspielhaus before the beginning |
 The final curtain call for Lohengrin |
 Elsa von Brabant (Camilla Nylund) |
 Lohengrin (Piotr Beczala) |
 On the right, the conductor, Christian Thielemann |
 Wagner's House, Wahnfried |
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 The man! |
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 Tannhäuser, the second opera |
 Listening to the fanfare, with the ladder subsequently used in the opera! |
 Pat's birthday: visit to Eremitage |
 Chinese Tower |
 The Neues Schloss |
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 The Cascade, from the top. |
 The Alte Ruinen |
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 The Cascade, from lower down |
 The Grotto - fountains not operating because of a water shortage. |
 Tea at the Neues Schloss |
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 The fountains running briefly because of the shortage |
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 Monplaisir |
 The gardens at Monplaisir |
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 Johann-Karl Schmidt, a new acquaintance ... |
 ... and his wife, Ursula |
 Walk to Keele Villlage August 2019 |
 From two mile lane |
 Keele Church |
 Garden Produce etc. August 2019 |
 Beans and Tomatoes |
 Hydrangea |
 Monbretia |
 Dahlias |
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 The Willow tree growing again (just clipped) |
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 Onions: Stuttgarter Riesen |
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 Flowers |
 Blackberries |
 More Courgettes (October) |
 David & Sheila's Diamond Wedding September 2019 |
 Two daughters, kneeling |
 Sheila and David |
 Probus Excursion to the Anderton Boat Lift September 2019 |
 From the visitor centre: the lift with the old ICI works opposite on the far bank of the Weaver |
 Waiting to board the boat lleft: Peter Dixon, President; right: John Hartley, organiser |
 The gates from the Trent and Mersey Canal to the two lift caissons |
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 View forward |
 Going down |
 High above us. |
 About to leave |
 The lift from the River Weaver |
 At the end of the brief cruise |
 View from the Weaver level |
 Visit to Kingkerswell September2019 |
 The Winchester's House |
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 With Vicki Winchester |
 John Winchester with Melanie |
 Paignton Beach |
 Pat paddling |
 With Melanie |
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 Truro & the Alveston Hotel September 2019 |
 Truro Cathedral |
 The Alveston Hotel |
 The Old Chapel, decorated as a wedding suite |
 The Old Chapel |
 The wedding of James & M-J (Mary Jane) Thompson September 2019 |
 Nancarrow Farm; the venue for the wedding Michael's photo |
 James with his brothers and friends - the best men Michael's photo |
 Inside the principal barn Michael's photo |
 Waiting for the off - John Pedley on our right; Timothy and Sarah behind Michael's photo |
 The Groom and Best Man waiting for the bride |
 James and M-J, signing the Register |
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 Married! Michael's photo |
 Michael's photo |
 Michael's photo |
 Michael's photo |
 The Reception |
 The "barn" for the reception Michael's photo |
 Sarah, Connie and Fiona |
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 Conny, Fiona & Adam |
 Sarah & Timothy |
 Paul & Michael |
 With Feliciity |
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 Rosalind, Sarah and Timothy |
 The boys! - Paul, Michael and Stphen |
 Stephen with Leo (Felicity's boyfriend) in the background, as well as Timothy and Rosalind |
 Pat with her three sons |
 Proud parents with sons! Michael's photo |
 With a Flamboyant Nicky |
 With Timothy, Michael and Nicky |
 The three dughters-in-law and Timothy |
 Pat modelling the hat |
 Photo: David CrouchWilll & girlfriend |
 Charlie with his parents Photo: David Crouch |
 Michael with M-J's father |
 M-J |
 The happy couple with,left, John Pedley |
 With M-J's parents |
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 Group picture( including us!) Photo: David Crouch |
 M-J's mother |
 Michael with the best man |
 Mike and Nicky |
 M-J's parents |
 The bride and bridesmaid |
 M-J and James |
 James and his best man |
 James |
 The Best Man |
 Dancing later in the evening |
 with Rosalind |
 Cornish Pasties on the beach, the next day |
 James |
 M-J |
 M-J and her Mum |
 On the beach Michael's photo |
 The beach |
 The Cornish Flag |
 Cornish Holiday - Truro September 2019 |
 Truro Cathedral |
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 St Ives September 2019 |
 From the window of our room |
 The harbour |
 Godrevy Island and point |
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 Lands End |
 The Longships |
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 The Long Ships Lighthouse |
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 The First and Last House |
 The Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno |
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 Cable Laying vessel |
 The workshop |
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 Optical fibre |
 Repairing Undersea Cables |
 The Grapling Hook to locate and raised a damage cable |
 The telegraph wires to the beach |
 The Cable Hut |
 Portcurno Bay, where the cables enter the ocean |
 Penzance Station |
 The next traiin to Paddington. |
 The End of the line from Paddington |
 St Ives, and the Tate St Ives |
 The beach |
 St Ives from Smeaton Pier |
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 St Ives from the "Island" |
 The Chapel on the "Island" |
 Portmeor Beach |
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 The Three Brothers |
 The Tate St Ives Gallery |
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 Portminster Beach |
 St Michael's Mount |
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 The Causeway, just before flooding |
 Last people across |
 In the House |
 The visitors arriving |
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 The Chevy Chase |
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 The Atlantic |
 See the Causeway, now under water |
 Below, the top of the luggage lift from the quay |
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 The Chapel |
 The Blue Drawing Room |
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 The Gardens |
 From the gardens |
 Succulents galore |
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 The gardens from high up |
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 A marigold |
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 The walled garden |
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 Funghi |
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 Red Hot Pokers |
 Back ashore |
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 The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden |
 Her Workshop |
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 Last walk on the beach ... |
 ...at low tide |
 Paddling again |
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 The dry harbour |
 The return home; Lizard Point and Kingkerswell |
 The Lizard Lighthouse |
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 From the cafe |
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 Melanie, at home |
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 The Severn Valley Railway |
 Bridgenorth Sation: a Diesel Hydraulic with the "Cornishman" |
 The arrival of a steam hauled train |
 The "Cornishman" leaving |
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 The Steam engine, running round its train |
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 Ready to depart for Kidderminster |
 Munich to see Strauss's Salome |
 The Frauenkirche |
 The Rathaus |
 Posters for ... |
 ... Salome |
 The Residenz, for a visit on a wet day |
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 Chapel |
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 Walk along the Isar |
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 The sum: beginning of a linear model of the solar system |
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 St Luke's Church |
 Mandarin Ducks |
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 Prinzregenten Theatre |
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 Tidying the shed October 2019 |
 The contents (largely disgorged) |
 Mostly empty |
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 Re-filled and tidy! |
 Cannock Chase October 2019 |
 The Communications Mast |
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 A happier picture than in January |
 Nessit Hill, Macclesfield Forest October 2019 |
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 Across the forest to Shining Tor |
 Shutlingsloe |
 Teg's Nose from Nessit Hill |
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 Jodrell Bank in the distance |
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 Llandudno Opera Trip October/November 2019 |
 The town from the pier |
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 The sea front to the Imperial Hotel |
 WNO Rigoletto Venue Cwmru |
 The Cunning Little Vixen Venue Cwmru |
 The pier |
 Encounter with a tram above the halfway station |
 The top of the Great Orme |
 The coast to the west |
 The summit |
 Varying light |
 Descending the steep path |
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 The route |
 The Llanberis Lake Railway Full speed passing Gilfach Ddu |
 Non- stop to the west |
 November 2019 |
 Half a giant courgette |
 An unexpected Amarylis in November |
 November 2019 |
 Overnight visit from Nicky and Mike |
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 The Crewe Model Railway Show, at the Bentley Centre in Crewe November 2019 |
 A larger layout |
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 Walk to Silverdale December 2019 |
 Silverdale Church |
 RNCM with Susan & Tony Dialogue des Carméliten December 2019 |
 The Programme |
 Visit from Michael and family for John Pedley's funeral December 2019 |
 Pat & I had just returned from the Common Room Dinner |
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 John Pedley's Funeral December 2019 |
 Whitmore Church Yard |
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 The reception at Slaters |
 Pat with James and Will ... |
 ... and Mike too |
 Getting the usual lift |
 Common Room Christmas Dinner 10/12/2019 |
 Pat & Peter on the right photo: Phil Kivell |
 Peter at the far end photo: Phil Kivell |
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 Christmas Cactus (converted from an Easter Cactus December 2019 |
 Dissipated Patricia |
 Potraits of Peter |
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 Apedale Walk December 2019 |
 A clear day |
 The engine for the Santa Express, Apedale Light Railway |
 Christmas Lunch with Michael and family December 2019 |
 Chateau Impneu, near Droitwich |
 Will and Nicky with Audrey Pedley |
 With Charlie, here from Canada |
 Mike and Will |
 The senoir chaps, louting about |
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 Selfie |
 On the way home |
 Farewell for Christmas |
 Christmas Day walk round Silverdale |
 Silverdale Church |
 In the village |
 The route |
 Christmas Pudding on Boxing Day |
 Munich Visit to see the Snow Queen December 2019 |
 Pat modelling her hat at Munich Airport |
 Walk in the Nymphenburg Palace Gardens |
 Trouble with moles! |
 From the end of the Grand Canal |
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 Photo, at the Paros Restaurant |
 Walk in the Englische Garten The Monopteros |
 Posters for the Snow Queen |
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 Second walk in the Englischer Garten Surfing on the Eisbachwelle |
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