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Somerset
Red sails, green boat
Walking along the seafront, along the promenade at Portstewart in Northern Ireland, we came across this extraordinary and beautiful sculpture. At first we couldn’t make out what it was but just circled it admiringly, was it seaweed, was it a boat, a sea-bird, a fish, was it something from some Irish legend? It didn’t take […]
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Gorse, of course!
Driving across the flat Somerset landscape, heading towards the pointed hill called Crook’s Peak, and the rolling shoulder of the Mendip Hills called Wavering Down. thought I glimpsed a mass of lichen on the hillside. … but it’s gorse, of course!
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Hot Fuzz… a favourite film!
A film I can watch over and over again and still crack up with laughing is ‘Hot Fuzz’ starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. I know the location very well as it was filmed in Wells, in Somerset. Every time I visit the town I can’t help but remember different parts of the film.
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Grave growth
Had to take a picture of this wonderful lichen growth an a very old tomb in St Mary’s churchyard in Bridgwater.
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Lois Elsden 