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Not a good night for open windows, either. The pigeons will just have to find someplace else to hunker down and ride it out.
2 years agois that huge disc purely decorative or is it a big counterweight that is part of the bridge's suspension design?
2 years agoGood idea!
2 years agoEvery time I see steps on a rugged, difficult path I marvel at the amount of work it must have taken merely to transport the materials to the job site, let alone put them in place.
2 years agoFed, presumably, nothing but Oreo cookies?
2 years agoA longtime friend of mine also has a hat fetish. She's got dozens of the things. At one point she remarked that she ought to have a hat tree, and her husband mumbled a response that caused their son to laugh, but which she herself hadn't quite made out. The son, on being assured he'd not suffer unpleasant consequences for merely repeating what his father had said, clarified: "Hat *tree*? No, you need a hat *FOREST*."
2 years agoHats! and a Hat Festival! Now *that's* my kinda town.
2 years agoThe woman on the right was a lucky addition, a last minute walk on. Nice that she has sensible shoes at least.
2 years agoI could not help but notice the sign for California Almonds in the background. An organic food store that sells a product shipped from so far. But to be fair, CA does produce about 4/5ths of the world's almonds.
Interestingly put together outfit on the far right.
Oh, then I’ll bet you’ve seen Puddletown too then, you dog! You’ve probably even taken a pint there. I’m so envious.
I’ve been keeping a mental list of places I’d like to make it back to if we return some year. Dorset’s high on it.
Indeed, but it would be a reread. I remembered the title when I saw this on the map, but couldn’t recall which of McEwen’s it was and had to look it up myself when I got back. Rachael and I tried to remember when we were waiting for dinner. If I hadn’t been so tired I might have written it into the narrative. Back when I was a reader McEwan was one of my favorite authors.
2 years agoI lived in Dorset for a while in my thrities and loved cycling in that wonderful part of the UK around Bournemouth. You seem to have skirted my regular ride - a short ferry ride from Sandbanks, then south to Swanage and beyond... sometimes to Durdle Door.
2 years agoYou could have taken this novel with you....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Chesil_Beach
Beautiful!
2 years ago
I encountered a tunnel like this on a bike path in South Tyrol last summer. Garmin claimed I was climbing over a mountain as I was riding through the tunnel. I believe it even showed up in climbpro or whatever that feature is called.
2 years ago