Deep lanes and the ever changing land: my blog
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Rippon Tor Rifle Range, Dartmoor
There are several resources online which will give a proper and informed account of the Rifle Range just south of Rippon Tor on Dartmoor. (See especially the always-readable Legendary Dartmoor site.) This is not such a resource! The range has been a feature at this spot since the early 1940s and the ‘stop butt’ featuring…
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Scarf, gloves, woolly hat
Two weeks ago, on the last Saturday before the clocks fell back, I got up at 5:30, threw on some warm clothes, and drove down to Teignmouth beach to photograph the pier. I’d photographed it previously before the dawn, and liked the contrast between the cold blue ocean’s horizon and the yellow sodium of the…
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Somewhere down the Crazy River
It’s hard to beat this kind of walk: you plunge through dense woodland, steeply downhill, with views of the hills all around, descending deep into the valley, until there is the first glimpse of the river straight ahead, right across your path. The kind of walk many people must be familiar with, enjoyed for as…
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Joy’s Pear Trees
For 10 days in August we had a holiday in East Sussex, just North of Lewes. The owners of the lovely property where we stayed, John and Joy, are rightly very proud of their garden, and indeed Joy is a professional gardener. For whatever reason, I became a little obsessed with Joy’s pear trees, and…
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19240 Shrouds of the Somme, Northernhay Gardens, Exeter
Somerset artist Rob Heard began a new project in December 2013. He wanted to find a way to illustrate the scale of the loss of life on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He started creating 12 inch figures, each wrapped in a calico shroud, ready to be placed on the ground…
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The simple pleasure of recognising familiar landmarks from new vantage points
A couple of weeks ago I had to drive across the Haldon Hills, but couldn’t stop to have a proper look around or take photographs. The last time I did so was when I made my second visit to the Pet Cemetery, near the Haldon Belvedere. I have a blog post about that too. The…
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