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After yesterday’s disappointing picture I was a lot happier with todays effort. I enjoyed the three swans heading in one direction with the four Canada Geese heading in the opposite direction appearing to be the only traffic heading under the bridge…of course, this is the main river channel into Ipswich,
Sometimes I’ll take a risk, today that was one of those days, I took just two pictures…both were pretty rubbish…sorry about that 😉
Back to work after my short break and I popped across the River Stour to Mistley which is adjacent to Manningtree. I had no idea there were so many swans here – in this picture you can only see a tiny fraction of the swans that are in the area…literally
When I took this picture on the Saturday of the Rebellion Festival I was literally dripping wet…having left the hotel some time earlier I was regretting my choice of shorts and a tee shirt after the torrential downpour those clouds had just unleashed on me…it was mild and blowing a
A very busy (but successful) day saw me work through lunch so when I get home I didn’t have a picture to share. Fortunately a walk to the Co-Op for some milk was required and I got this shot of the Great Dunmow high street. I may be wrong, but
I think I probably now hold the record for the quickest visit to Flatford Mill – a very quick 10 minutes at lunchtime saw me dash in, grab a few shots and dash back out again, much to the bemusement of the lady on the gate. From my very quick
Two villages down from the office is the village of Holbrook and The Royal Hospital School. The tower you can see here dominates the skyline for a good distance…what you can’t see here is that this is the centre of the school which radiates left and right for hundreds of
This was originally called The Harvest, then my wife pointed out that actually, this was what was left after the harvest has taken place… I’ve been driving past this field looking at these straw bales for a couple of weeks now. Today I was early enough to jump out of
I took a walk down to the River Stour this lunchtime as I could see the tide was in – this area is much more attractive when the tide is in 😉 This is the coastal path (that the farmer has very kindly cut back) towards Manningtree. It was a
There are a few little passages or ginnels around Dunmow – here’s one of them that comes out just behind the 16th century (old) town hall…the building with the bell tower. It would appear the gardens are all trying to escape into the ginnel.
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