Saturday, 30 May 2020

Folly pokes up blue

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Some of my favourite walks are round the Ecton hills which are almost totally given over to Nature these days. However, it is not a blue ...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

Let loose on a stile

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At last. The guidance is that most of us can now drive a distance to enjoy the countryside, albeit also while also advised to follow soci...
Monday, 11 May 2020

Lock-up in lockdown

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This fascinating small round building in Alton village in fact must have been rather grim for its occupants. It is the village's lo...
Saturday, 2 May 2020

Highlight of the day

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In lockdown, one is asked not to walk far from home, and to go just for exercise.  So, curiously, going for a walk and seeing the lines of a...
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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