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GRANGE OVER SANDS. A Wintery Walkabout.

The days are now getting criminally short and grey, not exactly solar panel friendly. I didn’t fancy being in the house all day, watching the grim weather go by, there’ll be time enough and more for that. So after a bit of thinking I decided on Grange over Sands as a suitable place to spend a couple of hours. I landed up at Lancaster with an hour to spare for […]

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LLANGOLLEN. Steam Trains & Rains.

Right, so I had a choice. It was a Saturday a week ago and there’s few things worse than a Saturday going to waste. However it was raining, I mean RAINING. So it was either stay in and watch the raindrops tumble down the windowpanes while counting the minutes before bedtime or be brave, put on the big coat ( Northern England term used to describe clothing worn as protection against any form of weather from a mild shower up to and including erupting volcanoes and the arrival of the four horsemen of the apocalypse ). I chose the latter.

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