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Continuing from yesterdays outing where I set out to visit Mobberley in Cheshire to walk to grave of my late wife Katy, I passed through the village centre and the old traditional graveyard surrounding the church, most of the graves were ancient and packed tightly together, I knew the mountaineer George Mallory who died onContinue reading “A bit of a grave day, victorian humour, a mountaineer’s grandad, two dear departed socialists (real ones) and a very old Quaker”

A fine day in Manchester so I went for a walk into the Cheshire countryside, with a view to having a few pints a pub lunch and popping round to see Katy and Julia’s graves all goals were achieved but more about that along with photos tomorrow. I was still buzzing with the win overContinue reading “The small god of football”

Well who would have thought it against the odds we beat a team leagues above us, a great game, well done FCUM a great victory for real football

 

Well back to Manchester tomorrow I am filling my bag with thermal underwear, the rain stopped here and turned into a nice sunny day.

The First of November is All saints day or ‘Toussaint’ in French, tomorrow is all souls day. The graves of ancestors are cleaned and decorated with pots of chrysanthemums.

I spent more time trying create my panorama without success, I had an excuse to lounge about as it has rained for most of the day. I will have another go one day using another method. so todays image is another segment just to show you what you are missing.

I was trying yesterday to attempt a panorama image of the Pyrenees a combination of 3 different exposures of 12 separate photos, I tied up my hard drive which chugged away for hours resulting in not being able to do anything else. The resulting image was disappointing in the end so I put it inContinue reading “Late entry”

Effi has decided she likes riding in the wheelbarrow