How Goes the WIP, 29th April?
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Oddities Observed On Outings #9
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#ScenicSaturday 27th April 2024:
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A Short Visit to Wiltshire: #2, Bratton Camp & White Horse.
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Oddities Observed On Outings #8
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A Short Visit to Wiltshire: #1, Silbury Hill
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#ScenicSaturday 20th April 2024:
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Oddities Observed On Outings #7
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#ScenicSaturday 13th April 2024:
This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo shows an unusual view of trees. This one taken from a hot-air balloon ride we took for my wife’s birthday in April 2022. We took off from Bath and floated first across the city and then over the countryside for around…
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The Golden Age of Roman Britain, by Guy de la Bédoyère: #BookReview.
Much more archaeology has been done since this book was published in 1999, and that will inevitably render some of the observations here less certain, but the bulk of the text is clearly based on sound academic research. One thing I must question, however, is the title. It’s either favouring the wealthy landowners or perhaps it’s a bit of subtle cynicism.The introduction, however, makes it clear…
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How Goes the WIP, 7th April?
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#ScenicSaturday 6th April 2024:
This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo shows a narrow trail running between stands of tall pines and spruce through the Forest of Dean. The path runs from the road for some distance to pass a car park, accessed by cars from a side road, to allow pedestrian…
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Oddities Observed On Outings #6
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#ScenicSaturday 30th March 2024:
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The Fabled Coast, by Sophia Kingshill & Jennifer Westwood: #BookReview.
Subtitled ‘Legends & Traditions from Around the Shores of Britain and Ireland’ the 510 pages of this weighty tome reveal the origins of many a dark tale and some amusing stories.The place of superstition in forming and embellishing folk tales and traditions is illustrated in this well researched book. It is fascinating how many tales of ghostly apparitions, monsters, and weird sights are reported…
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How Goes the WIP?
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Change Everything, by Natalie Bennett: #BookReview.
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