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Talland and Friends
Fair to say the week has been an excellent chance to relax in Cornwall and catch up with friends. From Saturday 4th May, until the Wednesday evening before we left, we have had friends and relatives join us for each evening – sharing sun, food and wine. The weather has been perfect, and taking our…
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Falling Into Place
May 4th and the sun has finally come out, and is making up for the grey days that have dominated 2024 to date! This Saturday finds us driving down to Cornwall for our planned week of work and seeing friends. With the clear blue sky, we drive across Dartmoor to pick up some cakes for…
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Exmouth and Topsham
Today was about sorting out our storage, and picking up a few tools for next week in Cornwall. So Annabel and I planned for the day being taken up with the arduous task of rearranging boxes, grabbing clothes and holding our tempers as the dust, sweat and frustration of ramming a quart into a pint…
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Bit of time for Chedder
Woke today to the large thunderstorm that was sweeping the midlands – at 5 o’clock in the morning I went out of the cabin to watch and film the show. With the storm moving around the Hannington area, we felt the earth move as the thunder shock the ground and the lightning illuminated the surrounding…
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Relatives
A quite weekend, but a chance to catch up with relatives who live nearby. I can’t say there is much to write today, but we had a good tour through Swindon old town. It was interesting to see how the hill on the town, got eaten by the new Swindon of the railway town, the…
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Railway visit with Dad
Swindon is a town that holds much for those interested in railway history – being the location choosen by the GWR to establish their locomtive works. Following a request by Dad to get some photographs of one of the locomotives in the Swindon Steam musuem, we decided it was a chance to catch up if…
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Lechlade-on-Thames
We had planned to plan today, the first part of the plan went well, a walk to Lechlade-on-Thames from Hannington. Along a lovely set of country paths, bridleways and tracks, the walk was a little boggy, but flat after descending from the starting point by Hannington Hall. After several miles of walking along flat landscape,…
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Rapeseed Walk
Following the Grand National day, we had a lazy wake up and took the car two miles down the road to Highworth. Having agreed with the garage that we would drop it on the Sunday, we decided to walk the two miles back along the footpaths to Hannington village – this meant crossing the route…
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Tithe – Cars – National
It’s been a week of sorting out cars and getting work done – keeping those bills at bay! We made a short trip to Cirencester to help Pinky’s owners with some SEO work, and got the Picanto into the garage to find out what the catalytic problem was/is – thankfully it’s a problem covered under…
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Hannington – Cats!
After a very circular path, we’ve ended back at our main sit for April and May – in the lovely Wiltshire village of Hannington, just up from the river Thames. On the way from Shaftesbury, we pause to stop at Lacock Abbey – a national trust site, which also has a great exhibition on Fox…