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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Thang-y » 21 Feb 2018, 13:24

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Postby Rayge » 21 Feb 2018, 20:09

As trailed yesterday. Part One is out and about in Devon in mid-January

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Red Mud, Trees

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Trailing Behind

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More of Those Guys

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One of Jock's Rats
Jock, a pub quiz crony, has two of these munchkins, scarcely as long as my (admittedly size 12) boot, and wearing matching coatees

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Lantern

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Skynet
Tomorrow, more clouds and whatever I can edit in time
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part two

Postby Rayge » 21 Feb 2018, 20:09

Part Two

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Mr Rotovator
Adi gets his sixpack out as he attacks new garden or possibly allotment

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Tracksuit and Wellies
Matt modelling a rather odd combo for a walk in Earls Court (?) - would welcome correction

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All Carred Out
Matt at my mother's house in Ware. Those are my Matchbox cars my mother dug out from somewhere

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Waiting for a Train
At Ware station

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Swingtime

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...And Relax
Fisherman Bob in Brighton

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The Beach at Hove

Tomorrow off - Again! – to Wales
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 22 Feb 2018, 19:23

In part one, late January, a couple of cloud pics then a swift away day to That London

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Sandford Village Limits

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Layered

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On My Way
The bus-stop at the end of the lane

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Night in the City
Outside Paddington Station on my way home

Tomorrow, more Pad, then back in the groove/rut again
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 22 Feb 2018, 19:23

Part Two
In the archives, it's still 1980 or ’81. Nick and Hazel stay overnight on their way back from that abroad, and give me a lift back to West Wales via Kilpeck's
Norman church and some unidentified but rather lovely woodland.

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Throned and Stoned

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Full Leaf
Could this be Burnham Beeches??

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Ancient
Yeah, that's a beech

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Cool, Daddio

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This is the Way, Step Inside
early 12th-century carving at Kilpeck

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Welsh Generic

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Stoned Again

Tomorrow, your guess is as good as mine - better load some more up on photobucket
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 23 Feb 2018, 20:41

In Part Two, it's long ago with the hippies in Wales, but first, just last month in exciting, soaraway Paddington station, waiting for the train home on a Friday evening.

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Memories of Home
A Scrapalike on the station concourse

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Blue Chairs

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Curlicues

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Canalside

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Arrivals

and, back in Sandford
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The Goat: a Rural View

Tomorrow, it gets cold. Not quite as cold as here and now, as I write this, but definitely frosty
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 23 Feb 2018, 20:42

Part Two
On my way to Aberystwyth in this hopelessly confused chronology. It's summerish, 1981 or so
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The Southern Approaches

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Harbour

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I Spit on Your Howdah

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Soul Food

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Distressed Paintwork
The colour scheme in the kitchen at Bro Dawel was based on the packaging of their favourite biscuits. Two kids, dozens of tea junkie stoners and a
fool dog have battered it

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Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe

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Mystery Tech

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Trish
Trish played a dead body in the very first ep of the BBC Wales detective series Hinterland.

Tomorrow, more Wales, then Brighton.
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 24 Feb 2018, 17:03

In Part one today we're back in January. It's stopped raining, but baby, it's cold outside

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Morning

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The Cold Dark Ground

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Finial

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Condensation

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Blue Notes

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Soggy Doggy

Next Time, the last of January :o
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 24 Feb 2018, 17:06

Part Two
On the other hand, is all over the place, although I'm pretty sure the date is the summer of 1981, and this batch starts in West Wales,
then switches to Brighton. There are druggy fools everywhere...

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A Nice Cup of Tea

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Patacake

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Draw

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Chop

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Swirl

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Shrine

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Kuriosity Kabinet Korner

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Katare
Bill and Biggles practice their interspecies martial art

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Thang-y » 24 Feb 2018, 19:18

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Katare
Bill and Biggles practice their interspecies martial art


I really don't approve, that isn't healthy, they should take more care - that cat could have caught something.

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 24 Feb 2018, 19:23

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Rayge wrote:Image
Katare
Bill and Biggles practice their interspecies martial art


I really don't approve, that isn't healthy, they should take more care - that cat could have caught something.


He did. Billy's feet.

To be fair to the old goat, we had just got back from playing Frisbee in the mud and his footwear wasn't muckproof. He was on his way to the bath when Biggles challenged him. Biggles was an intact Tom who'd been a mouser in a restaurant he'd worked in. Billy took him in when the restaurant was closed for some reason and ended up keeping him. He was a mean mofo, well hard, ruled the feline version of Vernon Terrace with extreme prejudice.
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 26 Feb 2018, 22:22

In Part One today, the last of January this year:

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Morning Mist

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As the Crows Fly

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High Rise Living

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Profile

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Rapunzel's Tower

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Wisdom

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Crossing
The former Tree Root Falls

And that's that for January. Tomorrow, something differentish
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 26 Feb 2018, 22:23

Part Two
In the early 80s, all kinds of druggy fools and the odd total innocent

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I See Dead People

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Living on the Fourth Floor

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Henna, Shades, Dungarees, Balcony

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Solid Citizen

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Lightweight

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Two Heads

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Bucket

Tomorrow, no idea. Turn up to find out. I will if you will.
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 27 Feb 2018, 19:53

Seeing as how I've run out of January pics and February is still extant, going to do a double dip into the archives from the 1980s. Part one continues the run from early in the decade, part two is later

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Tosser

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Topcoat
Celia, Faversham

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Bridge
Faversham

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The Waving Wall
Faversham

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Home Discomforts
Adrian, who knows where

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More from the Katare Wars
Billy and Biggles, Brighton

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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 27 Feb 2018, 19:54

Part Two

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Darkie the London Dogbee Champ

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Style
I threw that disc and still had time to pick up my (pre-set) camera and catch her catching it. One of my favourite photos.
She's about 50m away and a long way off the ground - see how far away her shadow starts

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Beach Life
Bournemouth

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Family values
I noticed, while expanding the picture to clean up debris, that the father appears to be wearing a yarmulke, as well as a tie

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Southern Aspect

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Rolling
All these pics taken in Bournemouth, to which Phil and Sarah had moved after a year in Greece. It was his home town.

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Temple Ball

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Dadonna and Child
Greg and baby (name forgotten)

Tomorrow, well, once again wait and see
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 28 Feb 2018, 20:35

Here's the new batch, not wildly different from the old batch...
Part one carries on from yesterday in Brighton, and I'm increasingly thinking it's likely that this is the late 70s, as I appear to be wearing a suit, suggesting
I went straight down after work. And I stopped dressing up for work in April 1979. But maybe there's another reason for the three-piece. Anyways...

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The Stoner has Landed
These first ones obviously not taken by me. It's Bill's flat, so I guess it was he.

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Epiphanic
Caught in a moment of gorilla consciousness

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The View from the Cornice
And why not?

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Ros

And suddenly I'm in Yorkshire. The weather's not great but the scenery is, so bear with
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Pantile Frenzy
Robin Hood's Bay

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The Horror
Whitby Abbey

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Harbour Light
The only day I ever spent in Whitby, which is, iincidentally the home town of the nefarious Shaky,
a recurring guest in these pages
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 28 Feb 2018, 20:36

Part Two

From the later in the 80s stash, friends and strangers in London

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Slats Missing

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Grassy Avenue

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Blue Chip

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Window Seat

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The Mountain Comes to Mammon
Fuji-San in Piccadilly Circus

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Fag Break
(nb, UK usage, not US)

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The Queen of Time
Not my caption, that's its name

Tomorrow, more of this, unless I get my finger out and edit some of February
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Mar 2018, 20:52

Nope, no editing today, so more on the lines of yesterday.
Part one is back in the early 80s, maybe a little earlier as the first three are dateable

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Three off the Telly
As I'm sure everyone realizes, the September 1979 performance from Something Else, but not necessarily the first showing, watched
on Frankie's mum's B&W telly in Leeds

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Back to London

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Green Fire

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Begonia
Have no idea what garden this is - not hers, nor any of mine – nor why my mother is standing there admiring the plants
and I'm there to photograph it

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Diary
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 01 Mar 2018, 20:53

Part Two
from later in the eighties, out and about in London

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Sunday Strollers
Golders Hill Park

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On the Turn
Hints of autumn on Hampstead Heath

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Grown Adults Messing About With Model Boats

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Fascination

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Grand Old Duke
Bromley by Bow

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Maida Vale's Burning

plenty more where those came from. Back tomorrow, assuming the blizzard doesn't knock out our power.
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 02 Mar 2018, 21:55

Where was I? Ah, right, bumbling along in the 1980s. In part one, possibly even the extremely late ’70s. I'm a nenigma, me.
First, some faces that are probably over-familiar by now

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Make-Up

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Explaining

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Working

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Multi-tasking
Watching TV while eating fish fingers...

and now for something completely different
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Force the Hand of Chance

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Beacon
Couldn't decide between them

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Hi Boys!
Stags in Richmond Park

tomorrow, more scrabbling about
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