14 July 2020

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Feeling a bit lazy this morning. I was up very late last night working on "The Wedding Album". Consequently this will be a lazy blogpost, partly inspired by an illustrious commenter:-
Meanquuen lives in northern Lincolnshire. Her real name is Ilona and she has become a minor media celebrity for a very wholesome reason. In terms of financial outgoings, she lives an exceedingly frugal life and is passionate about recycling and making and mending. She has featured in newspapers, magazines and on television too. Her practical philosophy proves that it is possible to live a very happy life on very little. She is also into walking - sometimes very long distances. To visit Ilona's "Life After Money" blog go here.

Anyway, as Meanqueen felt dissatisfied with yesterday's photographic portion - from my Sunday walk in Cheshire - I am revealing ten extra pictures with this idle blogpost.
Massey Ferguson 35
Allgreave Methodist Church
All that is left of Dumkins Farm
Hammerton Farm, Wincle
Back in Wincle with St Michael's church tower to the right

35 comments:

  1. You proved Ilona correct! More photos are better

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    1. Even though Ilona's philosophy is usually less is best!

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  2. Beautiful photos to browse through with my morning coffee. Thank you YP.

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    1. Morning coffee...and your daily full tot of whisky. Thank you JayCee.

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  3. Stunning photos YP. You should become a photographer for Lancashire Life magazine. I like the fire and the tractor.

    What do you call a man who use to like tractors but doesn't any more? An ex tractor fan.

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    1. Ha! Ha! It took me a moment to get that joke. As for being a photographer for Lancashire Life magazine - I would rather sit on a manure heap sucking diarrhoea through a sweaty sock.

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  4. Nice Fergy. I used to be a fan of tractors. I'm an extractor fan.

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    1. Extractor fans often need oiling.

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    2. They certainly do - didn't read Northsider's commment before posting that.

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    3. That's because you haven't had your annual service.

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  5. Well that's just showing off isn't it? Just joking, your photos are always fab.

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    1. It's nice to share my pictures with others. Thanks again Sue.

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  6. Thank you for sharing your photographs. They are lovely, I am in awe. I must try harder with my own.

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    1. Thank you MQ. The extra pictures have been added just because of you.

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  7. Beautiful photos.

    "I would rather sit on a manure heap sucking diarrhoea through a sweaty sock." I'm stealing this. OMG it's a good insult!

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    1. I first heard that when I was a teenager. Though horrible it is possibly better than, "I would rather slide down a razor blade using my balls as brakes!" Mind you Lily - your balls are only metaphorical ones.

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  8. Thanks to Meanqueen for having inspired you to show us more from your recent walk! They are all great pictures, but of course you know which one is my favourite of the lot.
    As for Meanqueen/Ilona, she sounds very much like someone I'd like to know. I shall pop over to her blog in a minute.

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    1. She is a true individual - not a sheep. How many women of her age (71 I believe) spent years working as a lorry driver?

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    2. You believe correctly. 71 going on 35 :o) And 32 years piloting big wheels.

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  9. I like the Dumkins Farm picture, but of course they're all excellent. You live in such a beautiful part of the country! Our old rule-of-thumb for newspaper photo galleries (when I worked as a journalist) was that they should be no more than 10-12 images.

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    1. Okay I will remember that rule of thumb Steve but usually in a blogpost I think four or five is plenty.

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  10. Your part of the world is beautiful. Thanks for posting it.

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    1. Thank you Allison. I don't know what Tuscon is like but no doubt it is not as green as Merry Olde England.

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  11. Thou art the King of Infinite Space, and I bounded in a nutshell. Of nuts there be many in Mad Glesca.
    This is an idyll, old boy. A pastoral idyll. Tennysonian, indeed.
    You enjoyed a swally after this perfect day? Last drop of good ale I drank was in the Golden Cross Inn, Black Jack Street, Cirencester. The golden town.
    You belong in Le Morte d'Arthur, Lord Alfred's or Mallory's.
    Sir Yorky!






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    1. I am glad that you appreciated this foray into the heathen uplands of Cheshire Lord John of Gorbals. When sitting by the church back in Wincle I glugged back a full pint of cold water. Does that count as a "swally"? Not a word I had ever come across before. I guess have lived a sheltered life.

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  12. Ah, H20. Many years ago my American sister-in-law said, *Future wars will be about water.* We were talking about the film Chinatown, which turns on how water was piped into burgeoning Los Angeles. She is Japanese, and came to California with her family as a child. LA may have been the first city to have had water bars.

    A Glasgow Swally: I wonder if Edwin Morgan incorporated the phrase into a poem? He had an acute ear and translated European poets. One of his best collection is called Cathures, the old name for the Dear Green Place. Sheffield is greener.

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    1. Did you mean green with trees or green with innocence?

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    2. Or green about the gills after a long session in The Dog and Duck?
      *Eeee, Charlie we've supped some th'night* - the great Colin Blakely in Charlie Bubbles.

      Wait a minute, I have strayed across the county border to Lancashire. As Colin Welland said, the bloke who doesn't know the difference between Yorkshire and Lancashire isn't to be taken seriously.

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  13. Thanks to Ilona for encouraging more photos.
    I could sit on the hill in that first photo (not necessarily in a Land Rover) for hours gazing at that view. So much to take in.
    Betting that many of your US readers won't realize that fifth shot is of a stile...or perhaps even know what a stile is. :)
    The seventh photo presents a new definition for a tree house.
    Hard to pick a favorite--lots of lovely photos. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. I have visited the USA several times - but now you come to mention it Mary, I never saw one stile! On Sunday I must have crossed twenty stiles on my walk.

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  14. These are breathtaking views as were the ones yesterday. I'm glad she inspried you to post more. I agree with Steve - I love the Dumkins Farm photo. How is "The Wedding Album" coming?

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    1. It is coming along nicely Bonnie though tonight my spouse discovered a whole bunch of extra photos that someone had sent to her phone! Grrrrrr!

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  15. I agree that that is a splendid set of photos. Sometimes, though, a post becomes all photos and no 'chat'. That cane be very enjoyable but firstly there are only so many compliments one can pay day after day and secondly there is rarely any mental interest causing a conversation flow in photos.

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    1. Good point Graham. Posting a gallery of ten images in a blogpost is a rarity for me.

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  16. I missed this blog. Great photo of a beautiful valley

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