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Mar 16

Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love

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I haven’t done this challenge for a while. Actually I haven’t been blogging for awhile. My excuse: life got in the way. The reality: life got in the way. But this seemed such an appropriate one to do. And here is the picture I have chosen… One day I might blog about the last few […]

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Aug 27

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray

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When you think of the word “fray” it tends to involve thread and clothing coming apart. It’s not something you normally associate with iron or metal. They rust. But looking at the way the paint is fraying on these metal structures made me change my mind Taken at Beamish. For other takes on Fray click […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: ZigZag

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My mother was of the opinion that you can’t get patterned carpet any more.  I took this photo to show her she was wrong but it didn’t turn out as I expected…   A definite Zigzag on perspective – wouldn’t you say? For more takes on this challenge click here    

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Jun 27

Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

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This week the challenge is to capture contrasts. As always, it was taken in my parents garden during half term. I love the way the blue flowers contrast with the green of the grass; how the smoothness of the grass contrasts with the hairy stems of the plant and how the sunshine contrasts with water […]

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Jun 22

weekly Photo Challenge: Between

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I took this photo last year as they destroyed the Taylor Centre in Southend.  I wanted to capture the last few moments of an iconic part of  Southend’s architecture. For those of you not from Southend the Taylor Centre was a multi- agency NHS centre, with a vile smelling multi-storey car park underneath. But as […]

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May 25

Weekly Photo Challenge: Twist

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I’m glad I’m at the parents for this one. Just a quick trip into the garden and I found just what I was looking for. This is the lilac tree in the old garden. As you can see, it has been twisted by the wind and weather. For other takes on this challenge: click here

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Apr 27

Weekly Photo Challenge: Letter

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In our house we have cats from A – Z This is Zorro. He is Rover’s right hand cat; his number two you might say Who is number 6? Oh come on! That would be telling, wouldn’t it Alistair?  

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Apr 20

Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top

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These two guys live next to the Walpole Bay Hotel in Margate. The hotel is a living museum; and is  a very different experience – especially if you’re used to modern hotels. Friends of mine had their wedding there; my “Outlaws” go there a couple of times a year. It does a mean Sunday Lunch […]

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Apr 18

The New kitchen – purchase 1

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In January OH knocked through from the kitchen into the dining room, put a wall up and created me a study/writing room/place to be pretentious 🙂 The aim is to turn the old kitchen into a dining room, and create a new kitchen out of the spare space. So yesterday we went to Norwich to […]

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Apr 13

A Journey around WordPress – wander two

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As the second week of the holidays arrives, I find my journey taking a road down to some blogs I haven’t visited for a while. The first: readfulthings is a blog I always recommend to students and their parents for its reviews section – written by teens for teens. Well what (sometimes) do we adults […]

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