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Category Archives: Seaside
Don’t make me hate you, Colin
It’s oddly paradoxical isn’t it, how someone being ridiculously over-friendly, over-solicitous and nice makes you want to kill avoid them? No? Just me then. Colin, the irritating chap from the Fast Show sketch who tells terrible jokes and laughs at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Cycling, Food, Ridiculous Tosh, Seaside, Watery things
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Getting hammered at Lyme Regis
The kid ahead of me on the beach must have been about four years old. He wore baggy little jeans, warm red jacket and cute little bobble hat pulled well down over his ears against the cold. He was so … Continue reading
Posted in Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Dogs, Seaside, Watery things
Tagged ammonite, Devil's Toenail, fossils, Fretherne, icthyosaur, Jurassic Coast, Lyme Regis, Mary Anning, Monmouth Beach, Plagiostoma giganteum
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Lyme Surprise
Lyme Regis was a surprise which turned into a delight. Sounds a bit gushing, but it’s true. The town sits at the bottom of hills where the rushing River Lym flows into the sea. I loved the beautifully preserved Georgian … Continue reading
Posted in Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Cycling, Food, Science, Seaside, Watery things
Tagged Aquarium, crayfish, Dorset, Georgian, lumpsucker, Lyme Regis, Mark Hix, restaurant, starfish, The Cobb, the French Lieutenant's Woman
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2012 in pictures
Well I thought about writing a blog reviewing 2012 and then I thought, but hang on uno momento, if a picture is worth 1,000 words, why not just plunder the photo albums? So I did. These are mostly Wales, Gloucestershire, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cats, Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Cycling, Dogs, Food, Just flowers, Seaside, Uncategorized, Watery things
Tagged champagne, Gloucestershire, Haut Villiers, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sevens, Reims, Senso-ji, Stanley, Tokyo, Veuve Cliquot, Worm's Head
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Pictures at an exhibition
We went to the Natural History Museum on Saturday to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. It’s an annual competition and the exhibition’s been a regular thing on my calendar for about five years now Sometimes I’ve seen … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Current Affairs, Science, Seaside, Watery things
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Mainly fair with occasional rain blog – 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blatant Falsehoods, Cats, Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Cycling, Dogs, Food, Music, Ridiculous Tosh, Science, Seaside, Watery things
Tagged Cycling, dogs, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, kittens, Orange P7, snorkelling, Trek, Wales
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2013_01_01 Happy New Year!
It seems a shame not to make the most of the New Year’s Day Bank Holiday, so that means, whatever the weather, heading for my favourite place… Rhossili Bay on the Gower near Swansea. Last year, it was fabulously grim … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Seaside, Watery things
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Roamin’ in the gloamin’
Camusdarach Beach is on the northwest coast of Scotland. I wanted to see it because it’s one of the beaches featured in the David Puttnam film Local Hero. It’s where Ben’s shack was built against the sand-dunes at the far … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Seaside, Watery things
Tagged Arisaig, Brass, Camusdarach, Eigg, Gloamin, gloaming, Muck, Rhum, roamin, Scotland, sunrise, sunset
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Swimming in the rain
I was due to meet a friend for a dog walk on Sunday morning and, as usual when we arrange to meet, it started raining. Cleeve Hill, the highest point in Gloucestershire, was lost in cloud and it was pelting … Continue reading
Posted in Coast, Current Affairs, Dogs, Seaside, Watery things
Tagged Brain coral, Caribbean, fan coral, fish, Glassy Sweepers, phenomenon, Queen Parrotfish, rain, St Lucia, swimming
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Withering Heights
I’ve mentioned before that they are not my forte. I mean, I have got better at them as I’ve grown up but I am still at risk of dissolving into a grovelling mess of a person; someone happier on all … Continue reading
Posted in Coast, Countryside, Current Affairs, Dogs, Science, Seaside, Uncategorized, Watery things
Tagged Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon, fear of heights, gravel, grovel, Salcombe, scree
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