A bit of street photography in Rome last week.

The Whixall starling murmuration this evening

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Fieldfare in the garden today.

On Haughmond Hill

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A visit to Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor this week. One of the few remaining remnants of temperate rainforest in the UK. Local legends of spectral hounds are believed to have been the inspiration for Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles

At Attingham Park today.

If you can’t comment on a foreign billionaire calling for your government to be brought down, what is the point of you?

West Kennet Long Barrow from a trip earlier this week.

Wow

A fun afternoon at the Battle of Shrewsbury reconstruction. Harry Hotspur lost again...

A pair of Silver Studded Blues creating a new generation at Prees Heath today.

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Clun Green Man Festival today. Summer is a coming in.

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Seen at The Shroppie Fly in Audlem today. I went for a soft drink.

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On Clee Hill this afternoon.

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Amused that after Historic England posted about Henry Tudor Inn my DMs lit up with sceptical folk. Am I really more trustworthy on this subject than the national curator!? Have I cut through so that folk no longer believe oldest pub claims!? For once the story is true though 🍺

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Colemere

A little comic about desire paths.

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Shrewsbury from Hencote Lane this afternoon

Sorting through some old photos, here's a street scene from Havana, taken a few years ago.

Last snow for a while? Fire and ice at Attingham Park last week.

An old photo from All Stretton.

How to foil a vampire 🦇

On Grinshill Hill this morning

Better start posting now this seems to be the place to be.

Out and about in Craven Arms.