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Nothing sadder than a wrecked boat
We live very near the sea; the River Axe runs into the Severn Channel by Uphill, our village, and many people have boats moored there or in the marina. No-one is supposed to live on their boats here, but someone did and incurred some fines. Rather than pay them he either tried to head out to sea, or deliberately grounded […]
MoreTravelling home…
Carrickfergus is a large and the oldest town in County Antrim. On our recent trip to Ireland we called in for lunch on our way back to the airport. It had been a showery day, but the sun came out as we found a nice place by the harbour to have lunch. We had taken the coast road, through Ballycastle, and through […]
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Dark Hedges… I didn’t see the pale ghost
We recently visited Ulster to take my daughter to University there. We know the area so well, have been there many times, but the wonderful thing about the place is that it always shows us something new. On the road between the small village of Armoy and Gracehill Golf Club… Some of these trees are nearly three hundred years old. If […]
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My friend Andrew Simpson is in a film!
I posted recently about my friend Andrew’s exhibition; he wrote the text and his associate Peter Topping painted the pictures for an on-street display about the small Manchester town of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. http://loiselden.com/2012/09/06/presenting-the-history-of-one-small-town/ The company of McCarthey and Stone are developing a site in Chorlton and instead of having boring, tatty hoardings round the building site, they have erected smart green boards for […]
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