Thursday, 23 April 2020

Blossom in a pandemic

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Even in the midst of this pandemic, Nature just carries on of course. This has been a particularly wonderful year for blossom, and we...
Saturday, 11 April 2020

Chalked rainbow

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Such home-made rainbows - painted, chalked, made of fabric - are appearing everywhere.  They are intended as a sign of hope to all during...
Friday, 3 April 2020

Coal-door

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It was hard to work out at first what the function of this little door was - or what, when it was opened, you might see. A passer-by ex...
Thursday, 26 March 2020

Action - frozen

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The only action at Port Vale Football Club in Stoke on Trent right now is in this frozen pose of Roy Sproson.  Games at the ground have b...
Thursday, 19 March 2020

Closed due to Corona

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Villagers have been used to buy their eggs here at this farm each day.  Not this week. So it goes.
Saturday, 7 March 2020

No buses stop here

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Bus services in rural, and even now in semi-rural areas too, have been simply cut. They are no more. This means that there are many bus...
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Tuesday, 4 February 2020

The power of Rugeley

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Rugeley has never been considered a pretty town – and it’s not.  It’s the centre of an old mining district, and, like so many of former s...
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Tuesday, 7 January 2020

Nudes for the suburbs

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January is the month for garden centres. It is very strange to me that sales of nude and semi-nude female statues are the centrepiece o...
Thursday, 19 December 2019

That which is necessary

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Well, a joke in church is never a totally bad thing. In the church at Sandon, the toilet door is labelled (in Latin) as a 'necessariu...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Shafts like art

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Unless you know that Biddulph is an old coal mining area, you'll probably not guess that these three structures are ventilation sh...
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