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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 05 Apr 2018, 20:14

Today, in part one, a trip to Bournemouth for the hell of it, apparently, going with Chip's friends Pete and Becky, and staying at a flat owned by relatives of the latter, around half-term, so Octoberish. The flat is high up in a clifftop block at the west end of town. The weather is pretty rubbish most of the time, cold and wet,but I manage to get out with my camera in some sunny intervals.

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When we Were Young

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Outlook

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Pier, No Pressure

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Another Morning
That's Pete, of ...and Becky

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Poole Side

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Across the Bay
That smudge on the horizon about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way across is Portland Bill. I think

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Bournemouth by Night!

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Sunny Period

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Becky
It might be Chip...

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Turned Out Nice Again

Back to London and Brighton next
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 05 Apr 2018, 20:15

Part Two
March 2, and officially a snow day
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High Road

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Gathering

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Gardening Cancelled

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Trudge

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Ouch

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The Gates of the Estate

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Blued

Tomorrow, birds and the Beast
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Postby Rayge » 06 Apr 2018, 20:43

In part one, from the beginning of March, some birds enjoy the emergency supplies and dog, as usual, enjoys life

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So Many Seeds, So Little Time
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Mine!
Redwing looks bemused by choice, then deicdes to have it large

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Goldie and Siskin

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Tit and Finch

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White Cap

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Land Swimming

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Taking the Plunge
About to drop into the stream. When you see him in the snow, you realize he's not really white

Tomorrow, well, the theme is set for a bit
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 06 Apr 2018, 20:45

Part Two

Its the autumn of 1982, the weather is starting to bite, and Chip has just moved from her council flat in Queen's Park to the
house her half-sister bought just two or three minutes walk from me in Cricklewood.

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Wrapped Up
Billy back from a chill, muddy frolic with discs in St Anne's Well Gardens

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Bath Time

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Moving Day
C chills at the Mansions with her sister's dogs Tosca and Butch

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Unimpressed
Pussa pissed off to be moved from the only home she had known up to this point

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Transplanted

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Faun

Tomorrow, up against the editing...
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 07 Apr 2018, 20:31

Well, it's pissing down outside, so no gardening jollities. The upside is that some photo editing did get done, so Saturday's fix is in.
Part one, late 82 and a maximum random selection

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erm...
I don't remember that jacket at all

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erm...2
Haven't a clue who these well-scrubbed young people are (for some reason I suspect Morrisry) or where, though I have a vague notion it's Bristol cathedral and may well be thoroughly out of sequence

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Him Off the Telly

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A Blessing

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Spats
A stray kitten that found its way into the house. Very soon she would have a single kitten, Sprog, who would go on to beget in turn the blessed Tallulah

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Kiki
Chip's baby sister, with one of many cats

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On Piano...Pussa

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Unhooded
No idea whose long-case clock this is. Maybe Kiki's

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53 New Oxford Stree
A favourite shop. For looking at, not buying in

Next Time: Wales again
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Postby Rayge » 07 Apr 2018, 20:36

Part Two
Still on 2 March
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Shut Out

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Two Types

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Woodland Burial

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Put Out More Flags

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Spoor Trail

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Rear View Horror

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Well Laid

Next time, 3 March!
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 09 Apr 2018, 23:19

As threatened, 3 March and the snows' retreat in Part one: yet another visit to West Wales in Part Two.
Part one today is brought to you by the colours green, grey, white, and brown

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Stripes

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The Southern Hills

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Verdict

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Swollen by Melt-Waters
Creedy Bridge only just keeping the road above water

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Rude Intrusion
Once was a path

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Boldly Going

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Blast of Blue

More thaw tomorrow
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 09 Apr 2018, 23:20

Part Two
More snow and some new characters as well as the same-olds in West Wales, but first, two pics of the lovely Jackie,
pregnant with her first-born (who is still hanging around the house 35 years on :) )

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Now That's What I Call Bleak

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Chancer
The guy in the middle was hoping to make his fortune on the silver market by using precogs. Harrumph

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Ahem
Not quite sure what I did to deserve that

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The New Girl
Clive got together with Maureen earlier in the year. They are still married. Here's another one

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Gallantry

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The Old Guy

tomorrow, things get more scenic
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 10 Apr 2018, 17:53

In Part one today, a walk in the Wilderness (Welsh variety) with Nick the Shepherd and Leaf the sheepdog (but no sheep) in the
autumn of 1982, while there's recent sog and dog in Devon cluttering up Part Two.

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Ascending

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Across the Dovey

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Forestry
The snow capped 'peak' on the horizon is, I believe, Cader Idris

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Topping Out

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Dark Waters

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Slopes

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Tumbling

Next time, off to Brighton with Chip
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 10 Apr 2018, 17:56

Part Two

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Ou Est les Plages d'Antan?
Scrap is full of wist

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Sing a Sad Song

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Frigidity

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White Lines, No Fever

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Reflected Avenue

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Copper Tree

Next time, back to the garden
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 11 Apr 2018, 20:58

No preamble, it's early March in the garden and the snow's going fast

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We're Back!

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So I See...

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Through Route

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Water Features

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Due South

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Memorial
Not in the garden, but the swamp known as The Millennium Green
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Postby Rayge » 11 Apr 2018, 21:02

Part Two

Not sure where we are in the headlong rush through time, but this is definitely Chip and I in Brighton, staying with Mike & Kate
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Promenade
Night view, with filters, of the view from Mike's flat

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To Shoreham, and Beyond!
Looking the other way, the following morning

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Fruits de Mer

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First Attempt

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Couple Selfie

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Ponder

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Bill Visits
Bill and Mike were uni contemporaries.I shared houses with them in Faversham, Canterbury and London at one time or another in the 1970s, but they rarely got together when living a few hundred yards apart in Hove. The vase of daffodils on the table suggest we might now be in the early spring of 1983

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Turned Out Nice Again

Next time, Kew and beyond
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 12 Apr 2018, 21:00

Part one begins with a trip to Kew Gardens. Chip's mother is visiting from Scotland. Looks from the vegetation like March or early April, 1983

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Crown

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Princess

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Stone-Throwing Ill-Advised

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Flow

And off now to the wild fleshpots of Notting Hill...

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Passing Through

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Urbanity

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Gone Floppy
This pic of the living room bay at the Mansions has been flopped in the scanning, as have the previous two

Tomorrow: off to Kent
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Postby Rayge » 12 Apr 2018, 21:00

Part Two
Is out and about in the first week of March this year

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CluckFest

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Slurp

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Whispers of Spring

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Melting

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Fissured Fizzog

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Top of the Village

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Golden Boy

back tomorrow, I hope.
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Spats
A stray kitten that found its way into the house.


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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 13 Apr 2018, 18:52

Part One of today's extravaganza is enjoying the green that followed the white at the beginning of March

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Lord Murky-Belly Surveys his Estates

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Oak

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Promise

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Squiggle

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Roots

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Bridges
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Postby Rayge » 13 Apr 2018, 18:53

In Part Two, A visit to East Kent with Chip in (I think) the school Easter holidays, so a smidgin over 35 years ago: but first, yet another view of the bay window garden in the Mansions

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Growing Panes
I'd apologize, but nah, I went there, I'll take it.

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Sunset Over Sheppey (?)
I'm guessing I might be in Whitstable, possibly Herne Bay

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Westgate and the Stour, Canterbury

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Woolly Mowers
Faversham churchyard was kept in check by one of the nearby farmers putting in his sheep from time to time.

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The Creek
When I lived in Faversham (1971-74) the Creek was a desolate mudhole, a wilderness where tripped out studes would frolic. A decade later, it had started gentrifying, and acquiring the odd boat or several. Last time I saw it, maybe a decade ago, maybe more, it was in full waterfront poseur mode.

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Kermit

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Cone

Tomorrow, More Kentery
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 14 Apr 2018, 19:58

In Part One, today, another batch from our trip to Kent in 1983. In Part Two, more from murky March as the equinox nears.

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Two Cliffs
Chips's maiden name was Cliff

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Fish-Seekers
St Margaret's at Cliffe, I think, although really I don't have a clue

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At the Chalk Face

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Holy Ghost Alley
Sandwich

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Leaving

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Kentish Vernacular
Wickhambreux, I think

Next time, somewhere else
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 14 Apr 2018, 19:58

Part Two

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Flows

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Buboes

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Sinister Glisten

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Chew

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Ghost

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Chew 2

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Six PM

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Lilies

something similar next time, probably Monday
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Re: Ray's Photos

Postby Rayge » 16 Apr 2018, 19:10

Part one today moves the 21st century narrative forward to the middle of March

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Frat Party

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The Diplodocus and the Hare: a Parable

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Disconsolate

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Islander

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Getting Their Heads Together in the Country

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Have Fun While You Can, Lads
Life is short for ram lambs. Those two on the left playing at butting. Breaks my heart

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The Look that Says 'Biscuit?'

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Pastels

Tomorrow: fuck me, the snow's back
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