Sunday, 5 December 2021

Calm before the Xmas storm

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  This month Lichfield Cathedral will go all-out with the Christmas spirit: light-shows, displays, mass carol concerts, even fairs on the gr...
Monday, 15 November 2021

Overgrown truck

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All returns to Nature, they say. This truck has. ++++ To comment on this post, just use the Comments field down this page To get an emai...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

Churchyard but no church

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  Here's an odd thing: a churchyard without a church. This particular patch of 'God's Acre' in Longton is now, essentially, ...
Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Dried up

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You might associate lakes that dry up with more tropical countries, but Britain has been having its share over the last few years; it's...
Saturday, 10 July 2021

Doors open again

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  Tourist attractions have been opening up gradually, following the Covid restrictions during the Spring, and all seems almost normal again ...
Thursday, 20 May 2021

Elvis in the sticks

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  On a fairly deserted country lane lading up to Oulton village, I glanced up to see ... Elvis Presley.  Which was quite a shock. He seems q...
Monday, 10 May 2021

Great vase, crazy story

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  Exactly two hundred and thirty-one years ago, a reproduction of the 'Portland Vase' (an object made in Rome in the first century) ...
Thursday, 29 April 2021

Railway ghostliness

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  Stafford railway station has been empty (ish) and a little ghostly over the last twelve months. It'll be interesting to see if it retu...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Light & shade

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Country-walking traditionally starts again after Easter (at least, it does for light-weights like me).   I do love these Springtime movin...
Saturday, 10 April 2021

Fish pour off the bridge

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  This stone sculpture on a bridge in Newcastle-under-Lyme above the Lyme Brook, is called 'The Return'. It vaguely amuses me, thou...