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| Posted: Fri Jul 19th, 2024 20:39 |
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jk
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Did you go to the mustard shop in Dijon? It is amazing the amount of choice around Dijon mustard!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 20th, 2024 12:04 |
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chrisbet
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We did - out hotel was literally on the next corner! We also picked up some creme de cassis, something else Dijon is famous for.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 1st, 2024 17:36 |
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Eric
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Local NT property. Went for a walk round the garden. Got talking to an interesting couple who motorbike everywhere and had just visited some of the places we had been in North of England. Fascinating hearing the bits we missed and telling them the places they missed. We chatted for nearly an hour and then decided a cuppa and Cornish pastie had more sway on the days activities. So we only got as far as the entrance gate to the Hall.... Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 5th, 2024 13:00 |
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Eric
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The UK is littered with ancient droving roads. For those who don't know, livestock were 'driven' (ie walked) down these ancient routes and tracks from farms to the county markets...or even as far as Smithfields Market in London! These days, the routes are clearly recognisable in that the hedge are wider apart, often much wider than seem necessary for even modern day vehicles ....because the herds meandered stretching the passageway wider and wider and hedges then grew up at these 'animal defined' extremes. So next time you drive down an A or B classed road and the verges are disproportionately wider than the carriageway....you are travelling an ancient droving road.  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 5th, 2024 14:11 |
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Eric
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This is another piece of useless information about droving roads. In this twisty West Country road if you look top right there is the entrance to a Halfpenny Acre. (Shown better in crop underneath) The hedge rows suddenly billow out ...this is where livestock were halted and crowded up while being counted into a field......... The drives were often days long and the livestock needed to be 'lodged' overnight. Farms along the drovers road set aside a small field where the itinerant creatures could be parked for the night for the fee of a ....half penny. Hence the name. Although no longer shown on this photo, these resting places were frequently "signposted" with 2 Yew Trees***. Thus weary Drovers could see where the next "service station" was and could judge their distances to resting points in advance. If you see a farm with 2 (now large) yew trees standing by the road near its entrance .....it's probably the site of an ancient Halfpenny Acre. *** The 2 deciduous trees in the foreground MIGHT have been an alternative to yews ....or may just be .......2 trees in a field.   Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21st, 2025 12:01 |
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Eric
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| Posted: Mon Feb 24th, 2025 20:15 |
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Iain
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That looks a bit like a group of fish following one another.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 24th, 2025 21:36 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:That looks a bit like a group of fish following one another. Does a bit…but it was water running over sand piles while trickling back to the receding tide at Berwick on Tweed. the water was only 1/2” deep!
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