Ray's Photos

[Rayge]

Part Two,

On the other hand, doesn't really know what it's doing...


Caff de Daff
The Cafe Daphne in Montpelier, long gone but rather lovely while it lasted


The Folks on the Hill
(location name escapes me)


Hanging Gardens
Clifton


Brickwork
(I'll have to check a map)


Spiral
The University Tower at the top of Park Street, from the Centre


Pile-Up
Centuries of architectural style crash together in King Street

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

[Rayge]

Part one features randomness from the last days of January, hot from the editing suite...


Investigation
Inspector Scrap checks the Shaky Bridge approaches for Interlopers


Ingestion
The Mill House sheep walk in their lunch, while digesting breakfast


Blue Sparkles
Just because


Tussle
There can only be one winner, and it is not the idiot from next door


Gelato
The paint finishes on these terrace houses on Crediton Green remind me irresistibly of the vanilla and lemon sorbet cones I bought from
Rossi's ice cream van in Tottenham when I was in single figures in the 1950s. There isn't much that I remember with any clarity from those
days, but that van stopping in Bedford Road opposite our house in Clyde Road on a summer Sunday is one of them.


One Village Under a Cloud
Sandford from George Hill

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Part Two

On the other hand, continues to rummage around my past lives in Bristol, trying to remember where I was


Observatory
Clifton


Paradise Lost
Temple Meads


Rude Health
St Pauls?


Roofscapes
dunno


Gorge
Hotwells and West Bristol from the Suspension Bridge


Rugged Individualism
Totterdown

Tomorrow is Tuesday

[Rayge]

Things are looking up in part one today (have I used that before? Probably. Many, many times).
Part two, meanwhile, is looking increasingly lost.

Six pictures of a sunset:

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Part Two


Merchant Houses
Redcliffe Parade, opposite the Thekla mooring


Spritz
Fountains at College Green


Distortion
Lanky streak of piss Clive comes over all Falstaffian at you-know-where


Clarion Call
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pero%27s_Bridge


Terrace
Um, quite a lot of Brizzle looks like this. Windmill Hill? Totterdown?


Under Construction
Haven't got a clue.

Tomorrow is in the lap of the editing gods as I'm running out of January

[Rayge]

In part one, the scrapings of the January barrel. Part two is marginally less inspiring.
Can I sell? You betcha!


Haremonics


Gloaming


Foaming
Creedy in spate


Roaming


Mummy's Blanket
Little boy, you've had a busy month


Gudbye to January

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...Part Two


Spire
St Mary Redcliffe from the Thekla mooring


Landmarks
Millennium Square, Cathedral and Cabot Tower from across the dock


Swanning
Locals in the Welsh Back


Syncopation
Clifton


Centre


Autumn Avenue
Clifton

Tomorrow, different month, same city

[Rayge]

February Fill-Dyke. Not a promising cognomen, and indeed the plooey did keep me off the camera quite a bit, although I made an occasional effort when the weather co-operated.


The Rovers Return


Rising
Hoar frost vaporizing in direct sunlight


Ahead
The way into town


Rhythm


Strut
Blackbird takes ownership of a Crediton pavement


Local Gentry

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Part Two
Continuing to trawl for images of Bristol


Verticality
A different view of the Clifton terrace featuring yesterday in Syncopation


Shadow Ladder
Park Street


Roof-In
Pile of Styles somewhere near Christmas Steps


Basin
The Floating Harbour from the end of Redcliffe Quay


It


Suspenders
Brunel's bridge at sunset

Tomorrow, more of the similar and vaguely familiar

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The usual nonsense in part one, a bit of a facer in part two: and I was doing so well...


England


Rams' Bottom


Bunch


Spate Stopped Play
The mighty Creedy obliterates the fun palaces of Two Tree Island


Topped
The fallen tree that provided a creature bridge across the river in less sodden times becomes merely a ripple generator


Caged
A green autochthonous beast makes a leap for freedom

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Part Two
And in one of the worst cases of oops-a-daisy in some time, I discover I have run out of central Bristol archive temporarily, so a swift decamp to its bottom right corner, around Oldland Common, where we lived from 1990-2005


Moon on a Wire
North Street, Oldland


Sumacs
Cadbury Heath


Boston Ivy
Cullyhall Farm, Oldland


I Dream of Wires
View towards Longwell Green from our attic room


Smell the Folding Money
The Golden Valley, between Bath and Bristol, is named not for the wealth of its occupants, but the colour of the locally quarried stone from
which many of their houses were built


Birds on the Wires
Oldland

Tomorrow, carrying on

[Rayge]

Part One
of today's batch continues to zip through February in Sandford and Big Cred.
I don't get about like I used to, you know. When I was younger. And less content.
Sigh..:
Anyway,


Bewitched
The weird and wonderful (not to mention deliciously fragranced) flowers of Hamamelis%20mollis


Streaks
Love that cross-hatching effect as the very high cloud is lined out at an angle to the lower stuff


Meditations on Departed Glories


The Acceptable Face of Banking
Snowdrops on a Devon Bank


"Go Moan for Man"
Yeah, I'm not above quoting Wacky Jacky when the mood – or indeed the Moon – is upon me


Too Cute

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[Rayge]

First off, the Part Two from yesterday that I didn't press the submit button on

Part Two

Continuing to wander around Oldland Common, mostly in the 1990s. Surrounding countryside is theme today


Brittons Farm
Golden Valley


Good Times


Rude Intrusions
One of those post-boxes where the next collection is always tomorrow, except when it's next week. And that lamp don't belong. Anyways...


It's Clout-Casting Time!
Apologies to all non-Brits for the title. May blossom busting out all over by a stile looking across the Golden Valley


Rules and Regulations


Buttercups and Daisies

Tomorrow, will have to get my arse in gear and sort out some more photos of February. There will probably be more from OC in Part Two.
I went for a few walks in the 15 years I lived there.

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Part one today is fresh from the edit suite and only about five weeks old. Imma copy the oozlem bird if this goes on.


Web Source


Dark Heart


Ginger Ambition
Willows ready for coppicing


Lurk
Smoke rises from the temporary lair of Clive, my friend since schooldays, here for a short visit


Feathers
Frost forms on the cold frame glass


Incense

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Part Two
Stuck in my rut

Dark Lane
Upton Cheyney


Gold Stripe
Looking back across the Golden Valley from the Bath side, East Bristol in the background


Quarry
Wick


Lean
On Kelston Round Hill with a fisheye adaptor


Topless Giant
Warmley


Getting on It
The linear village of Wick, seen from up on Lansdown

[Rayge]

Part one is more animal than vegetable and mineral for once, while part two chunters on.
Incidentally, Ms Thang and I are planning a drive-by on Oldland Common tomorrow. Which will be interesting. For me, at least.
Anyways, back to February and attendant joys.


Visitation
C came down to see me just after I heard about my mother's death. I actually went to school with this grizzled, nay whited,
clown-shoed bozo (although, because of my status as a certified child genius, I was a year younger than he was), and he is
now the only person I'm in contact with who remembers both my parents (Dad died in the Holocaust of 1967)


Nunky
C was around when The Scrap was a, well, scrap, and they bonded


No, Like This
Scrap demonstrates the correct way to go for Poppy's froat to Kizzy the pup


Pals
Woodman and Bongo. Good company for 40 years


Pub Lunch
Con's son-in-law and grand-daughter


You Absolutely Sure?
Scrap looks dubious at a descent

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Part Two

Still around Oldland

Grey


Harvest


Chomp
The shadow of the chimney stack on the pantiled roof of this farm in the Golden Valley was a favourite subject


Hill Farm


A Prospect of Horses


Steam Up
Winter light catches the Bitton Light Railway in a cutting

More tomorrow. I hope

[Rayge]

Today's batch of Februarians barely gets out of the room in part one, and I ramble on in part Two.


Young Yellowhair


Lantern


Beans


Baklava
Just arrived from Istanbul


Wraith


I Mean, Like, Totally Sure?

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[Rayge]

Part Two
Heavily features the views from and denizens of Hill Farm, Oldland


Prospect


In and Out
I was looking at this picture for quite a while before I realized I had caught the foregrounded horse in the middle
of processing grass, with one poo caught by the camera in mid air. You can't unsee it, now, can you?


A Cheery Welcome


A Blessing

But also includes this,

On the Move
a, more distant, and better, shot from the same reel as Steam Up above,

and this...

!

Tomorrow, something different. If anything.

[Rayge]

Well, I've been out all day today, and Imma be out all day tomorrow, so sod the usual nonsense,
here's a random scatter of stuff from 2013 in two indistinguishable parts:


Plastic Fantastic


Coffee Morning


Orchid


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