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The Specials, live at Hammersmith Apollo, 25/11/09
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The Specials – Ally Pally

Tonight I will be at The Specials concert at the Alexandra Palace and am really looking forward to it. I was a rude boy at the age of 12 or 13 and was really into The Specials but never saw them live first time round. So it was great when

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Terling Ford
The Essex Countryside

The Ford at Turling

Whilst walking to Turling we had seen a few road signs pointing to the ford, but warning that there was no vehicle access across it, fairly unusual as a ford, by its nature is supposed to be a shallow, crossable, part of a water course. Clearly, this one wasn’t, although

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Fallow Deer Stag
Bugs and Critters

Deer, Deer, Dear

Back to Rowney Woods this morning where we saw a whole mass of fallow deer. we started by seeing a loan stag patroling the edge of the woods on his own, he looked quite young.

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Autumnal Covering
The Essex Countryside

Surrounded by Autumn

On the same walk as yesterday’s blog subject was this covered path with green leaves above and dead, red/brown below. This was the first photograph of the walk mentioned in yesterday’s blog and was taken in Brookes Nature Reserve near Stisted, which was where we discovered the inadequacies of the

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The house on the corner
The Essex Countryside

The house on the corner

We took a walk around a small village called Sisted near Braintree last week. It’s probably the first walk we’ve had in the area that we didn’t enjoy mainly because the map/instructions weren’t very good/accurate and the local farmers were harvesting the sugar beet meaning that the public footpaths across

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Misty Rowney Woods
Black & White

Misty morning in Rowney Woods

I’m sure it will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed this blog for a month or two that the Rowney Woods would feature again. We paid another early morning visit last Sunday, but with the days drawing in we were able to leave at a much more

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The Southwold Coastline B&W
Black & White

Black and White Southwold

You may have gathered, if you follow this blog at all, that we visited Southwold last week. We were so lucky with the weather – mid October and comfortable in just a polo shirt. The sun really was glinting off the North Sea and this contrast really makes this black

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Electrified Tree
The Essex Countryside

What, more pylons?

You know we have inadvertently fallen for the charms of the pylon – just check out this previous pylon post and this previous pylon post. Of course, the real subject of the following photographs weren’t the pylons, it was the electrified tree found slap bang in the middle…honest.

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Southwold Beach Huts
Suffolk

Beach Huts at Southwold

Back to the Suffolk coast. The colouful beach huts in Southwold certainly brighten up the sea front and look fantastic. You may notice that all these have their backs facing the sea which struck me as rather odd, with the fronts facing into the pay and display car park. I’m

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm a past Chairman and Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions. I have recently moved to Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders.