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Free Falling – More Summer Places

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Staying home after my heart attack. Can’t travel, won’t travel. Delving into my photo archives. A few more […]

August 12, 2020 Art, Bourges, Cannes, countryside, Culture, deepest france, depression, drifting, Edgelands, France, Holidays, Landscapes, photography, Road trip, Rural Life, Small town, summer, TRAVEL, urban

Summer Places – Camping

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Photos of those places that make summer. Very iconic, the Campsite. The French love camping – though we’re […]

July 25, 2020 Camping, Culture, drifting, France, Holidays, nostalgia, photography, summer

It’s Grim In Arbroath

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“Summertime and the living’s not easy.” Covid sweeps the nation and I’m recovering from a heart attack.  No […]

July 16, 2020 Art, Beach, Britain, Holidays, Landscapes, Mobile homes, nostalgia, photography, Tourism, TRAVEL

Small Town Hot Day

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  Mid-July, coming up to Bastille Day and summer begins to bite. Those who have the time and […]

July 12, 2020 Art, deepest france, Edgelands, Holidays, Landscapes, photography, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

Back to the Beach

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We are being “deconfined” or to express it in a more elegant manner, our terms or conditions of […]

June 1, 2020 Beach, Café, Cannes, France, Fun, Holidays, photography, Road trip, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL

View from the Beach

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Just back from the beach. Life’s a beach? Not sure, but all human life is on the beach. […]

August 21, 2019 Art, Beach, collage, drifting, Holidays, photography, rubbish, seaside, Tourism, TRAVEL, Wildlife

ROCKET TO THE SUN

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ROCKET TO THE SUN  (Nonsensical contemporary non-science fiction for kidults) Read this to your kids It was the […]

July 21, 2019 Holidays, Kids, Robot, summer, Travel writing, writing

Sand Castles and Lunar Exploration

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1) THE REAL REASON FOR GOING TO THE MOON It is a little known fact, but astronauts just […]

July 21, 2019 Culture, Family, Fun, Heritage, History, Holidays, Philosophy, seaside, summer, TRAVEL

Still Looking For Summer

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More mucking around with Playmobil figurines.

March 21, 2019 Art, drifting, Fun, Holidays, Kids, photography, Road trip, stories, TRAVEL

Looking For Summer

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Lost in the depths of deepest France. Windswept, rain-drenched and miserable. Abandonned farms, dying villages and sparsely populated. […]

March 17, 2019 Art, drifting, France, Holidays, photography, Road trip, stories, TRAVEL

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