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We completed our 18th season
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... but look
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We had a few
days in Cornwall, and visited friends and relations on the way
there and back ... |
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Stranglers Beach & Cove |
Rick Stein's for Fish &
Chip lunch.
It was good, but £7 in cardboard box?! |
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Part of the Hurlers Stone
Circle and a
silver / copper / tin mine |
Cheesewring rocks at Minions |
Trethey Quoit - Neolithic
monument |
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We managed a short trip to
Banbury, Eric's home town:- |
Banbury Waterways Open day
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Two Venetians lost in their
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Wroxton, 3 miles from Banbury |
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The Wildlife section has been updated
today - 25 September - with many new pictures ... >>>> |
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were in Edinburgh for the last 7 days of the 2005 Festival |
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| Edinburgh Castle from the
Braid Hills |
Little Sparta sculpture
garden |
The end of Festival Fireworks
Concert |
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We
had to see THE Scottish building ... probably the most expensive
in Scotland
- the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
With so much wood, stainless steel, granite and Caithness slate,
its easy to see why it cost so much. But... |
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| Wooden "scaffolding"
poles a-plenty,
but where's the entrance? |
Where is
the entrance? |
A Prison? A Student Block?
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a factory? - or a nuclear power plant?
No, it's the MSP building! |
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| Stunning Debating Chamber |
The Berlin Wall re-built
in Edinburgh? |
At last! - an interesting
angle! |
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not the iconic building which it could have been.
Surely tourists will not flock to Edinburgh to see these pretentious
piles!
Vive Sydney! Vive Barcelona! |
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21 June 2005:
We held the annual Auchendean Midsummer Golf
Competition
as usual...this year with handicaps for former winners
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Rebecca, Roy and
Mike .. get to it! |
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Sally searches for her ball! |
Frank - The 2005 winner |
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Robert tries to keep order! |
Trish, the golf novice gets
her prize.. |
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2005 - June
19th. We travelled - at 5am from Auchendean - to the Cromarty
narrows to see the arrival of the QM2 |
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Ahead of the change in the law on smoking in
public, we have now decided it's time
to operate a "No Smoking"
policy in the hotel and self catering flat ......
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The house in New Zealand was completed
in March 2005 - just in time for
our return home!
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On 4 January
2005 we celebrated the completion of 17 years of operation.... and
the start of our 18th Season ....
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