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Post by Lou78W on Jul 29, 2015 12:25:24 GMT
A very descriptive piece....sounds a lovely wild place.....
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Post by peony on Jul 29, 2015 18:54:06 GMT
Lovely wedding photograph Cherry and beautiful pictures of the countryside  |
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Post by SueA on Oct 19, 2015 8:21:27 GMT
We went to Formby at the weekend hoping to see the red squirrels on the reserve there as our greys are so active at the moment. Unfortunately we seemed to have arrived just as they'd all gone for a post brunch nap as they get fed in the morning & we didn't see a single one!  We haven't been for a few years because they lost almost all the group due to squirrel pox & a bad winter but they've recovered now from a handful to around 250 - all hiding when we were there. I've put a photo on which I took years ago just to show they do/did exist. It's a great place to visit anyway although you do have to pay to park as it's National Trust, but there are woodlands to walk through, sand dunes & a great beach. Some of the dunes were flattened to grow asparagus in the past & there is a farm growing it again there today. The beach has the usual shells, washed up jellyfish etc. & also an area of bricks & rubble - apparently a car park & a cafe were washed away in the 1960s when the coastline crumbled. In an effort to hold the dunes together they have started collecting old Christmas trees & 'planting' them to provide structure, they have natterjack toads & various other rare creatures in amongst them. I think this carved bench represents someone harvesting the asparagus with a pony & cart.  Part of the woodland walk  Photo from last time we were there - an elusive squirrel, looks a bit grey on it's tail but was a 'red'  Dunes     Horses on the beach  O.H. on the beach!  Alien-like jellyfish remains  More dunes  Christmas trees holding things together!  |
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Post by Cherry on Oct 19, 2015 10:38:01 GMT
What a lovely place SueA. You have the beach, which is a good one, and a beautiful woodland walk. That is very hopeful news about the red squirrel population. I do like this thread too, where we can admire Britain's beauty in all forms. |
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Post by SueA on Oct 19, 2015 20:27:18 GMT
There were a couple of hardy families in tents on the beach, it was a bit cold & windy, but they all seemed to be enjoying themselves anyway. It was a bit of a slog up & down the dunes to the beach, the sand's really soft & deep!  |
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Post by grindle on Oct 20, 2015 3:20:46 GMT
shame you didn't get to see the 'reds' such pretty things compared to the greys. It's great they are helping our squirrels to survive, we need lots more, only the greys around here, and plenty of them all busy in the woods at the moment. Lovely pictures of that area too, |
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Post by Cat on Nov 1, 2015 15:35:22 GMT
Lovely pictures everyone |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2015 17:16:15 GMT
That's the sort of place I love SueA. It's nice to know they're looking after it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 16:28:00 GMT
I thought I'd show you a place near here, where we often go. It's called Craig Y Nos ... (that means 'Rock of the Night')
It was the home of Madam Adelina Patti, a world famous opera singer in the second half of the 19th century.
She was born in Madrid, brought up in America, and when she came to Wales and saw Craig Y Nos, she decided she wanted to live there.
She sang in concerts at many leading opera houses all over Europe and America, including to Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, but she lived here in a (then) remote part of Wales, at Craig Y Nos.
The grounds of Craig Y Nos now forms a 40 acre country park, and here are some photos taken earlier this year, when I pushed Beryl in her wheelchair around the lake ...
If you Google 'Craig y Nos castle' or country park, you'll be able to see better images of it and the surrounding beautiful countryside.
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Post by SueA on Nov 8, 2015 21:30:58 GMT
What a lovely place @hywel , the lake is beautiful & it looks like the weather was very kind to you that day. I bet it cheered Beryl up too getting out in the fresh air in such a pretty place. |
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Post by grindle on Nov 9, 2015 8:02:49 GMT
that certainly does look like a tranquil place to spend a day, lovely pictures @hywel |
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Post by peony on Nov 9, 2015 12:54:25 GMT
Great pictures @hywel, its a beautiful place |
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Post by Cherry on Nov 9, 2015 20:30:42 GMT
Very grand @hywel, and lovely to see Wales represented on this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2015 23:22:03 GMT
I am pleased you all liked Craig Y Nos. It is set in beautiful surrounding hills, but I haven't got photos of that.
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Post by Cherry on Nov 10, 2015 8:28:12 GMT
I have not heard of this singer, so I played a recording of hers from 1905 and there was one by Dame Nellie Melba of the same song, same year. Interesting!
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We haven't been for a few years because they lost almost all the group due to squirrel pox & a bad winter but they've recovered now from a handful to around 250 - all hiding when we were there. I've put a photo on which I took years ago just to show they do/did exist. 
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