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Gorgeous Sunset This Evening Over Bramhall
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Nice view. You should try moving to Yorkshire.
No sunset, but not a bad view eh?
No sunset, but not a bad view eh?
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Gorgeous.
Don't forget, I was in W Yorks for 6 years (Ackworth). Fell in love with the place & still have several soft spots for it...
I do live on't wrong side o't Pennines, lad!
Don't forget, I was in W Yorks for 6 years (Ackworth). Fell in love with the place & still have several soft spots for it...
I do live on't wrong side o't Pennines, lad!
You can't beat the Cotswolds boys 
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Indeed there are many beautiful parts of the country: Scotland has a good few & I like the New Forest as well.
Stonehenge is fantastic on a sunny morning & Avebury Ring, too.
Stonehenge is fantastic on a sunny morning & Avebury Ring, too.
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Best, sorry west country--
Homework before bedroom window looking west to the mouth of the Severn, on to the Welsh coast - Cardiff, Penarth with the mountainous backdrop to all that...
Every spring for years... just off a frost - hard top off and stored, tonneau fitted, a nip up to top of the Mendips over to South side, view of; Somerset levels, Glastonbury Tor, Distant Exmoor, The Quantocks, Brendons... Blackdown hills, a touch of Bridgewater bay... return via Cheddar, maybe for a pub lunch...
Portland -- looking west, Chesil Beach, Weymouth right down to Berryhead at Brixham another super spot.
All great for recharging the soul...
I guess there must be a generation or so who, due to hols abroad, may not have savoured the delights of our own patch.
Homework before bedroom window looking west to the mouth of the Severn, on to the Welsh coast - Cardiff, Penarth with the mountainous backdrop to all that...
Every spring for years... just off a frost - hard top off and stored, tonneau fitted, a nip up to top of the Mendips over to South side, view of; Somerset levels, Glastonbury Tor, Distant Exmoor, The Quantocks, Brendons... Blackdown hills, a touch of Bridgewater bay... return via Cheddar, maybe for a pub lunch...
Portland -- looking west, Chesil Beach, Weymouth right down to Berryhead at Brixham another super spot.
All great for recharging the soul...
I guess there must be a generation or so who, due to hols abroad, may not have savoured the delights of our own patch.
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Early bird - best time of the day !!
Mill pond at the mo'. But has the sea level changed, noticeably, down the years Richard?
Back in '75 when we were at the Scillies, we took a motor boat trip, the boat was wooden hulled, inboard motor, may have been diesel, Italian 'Riva' IIRC (seemed pretty powerful), the owner related how he actually piloted the thing from Penzance, accompanied by a fishing boat which was also returning... I didn't disbelieve that, but wondered how that would have felt in that blooming 'groundswell?' we had -- Still, twas a great time.
Mill pond at the mo'. But has the sea level changed, noticeably, down the years Richard?
Back in '75 when we were at the Scillies, we took a motor boat trip, the boat was wooden hulled, inboard motor, may have been diesel, Italian 'Riva' IIRC (seemed pretty powerful), the owner related how he actually piloted the thing from Penzance, accompanied by a fishing boat which was also returning... I didn't disbelieve that, but wondered how that would have felt in that blooming 'groundswell?' we had -- Still, twas a great time.
She was called ''Apollo'' changed hands a couple of times, then some one brought her and took her away to restore her to her original condition, last I heard someone went into her and she got damaged, her hull was Mahogany which tends to go short with age so probably broke like a piece of glass.
That lady in the photo you showed me in scilly? is she Mrs empip?
I havnt noticed any change in the height of the tides here in the last 25yrs since we've lived in this house inches from the sea!! BUT! all it takes is a combination of big spring tide with a souwesterly gale, big ground swell,and we could be in alot of trouble.
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didnt mean to highjack the thread! more photo's please
That lady in the photo you showed me in scilly? is she Mrs empip?
I havnt noticed any change in the height of the tides here in the last 25yrs since we've lived in this house inches from the sea!! BUT! all it takes is a combination of big spring tide with a souwesterly gale, big ground swell,and we could be in alot of trouble.
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didnt mean to highjack the thread! more photo's please
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Richardp said:
'Appolo' !! It does ring a bell .. I bet you knew the owner, what a coincidence... This globe gets smaller.
No not Mrs Pip, but a smashing girl, we enjoyed a great 18 months. Touring Cornwall summer '75 ...
I am afraid Africa called, I was too involved with work to contemplate the move... Time and the tide matey.
ok! I put an old webcamera in a jam jar and wedged it between some rocks outside the house and waited for the tide to come in, this is the result
and lots of silicon sealant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AgAWlDDlko
and lots of silicon sealant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AgAWlDDlko
I know it's not as nice but this one I took in greece.
C
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Highcliffe top in january.. Not from my window.. but get glimpses if I stand on me rooff
Good old Chesil Beach taken from the Isle of Portland eh? I've a few like that stashed away somewhere as part of a geography project I did about longshore drift and coastal systems. Though Chesil Beach is an anomoly to most standards, as it stands proud of the main coastline, so why we studied there i dont know. Stayed at an ex-holiday camp at Osmington.
