Category Archives: Local

Jake loves Charley

By Mark | Published: 10:30 Saturday 28 Feb 2009
One I actually like taken under the bridge nearby. And this has been unsharp masked and sharpened edges. It’s clearer but it’s not the image I took ..
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More wood, less metal

By Mark | Published: 11:54 Friday 27 Feb 2009
We pass an industrial estate on one of Winston’s walks.     Normally this area is full of company lorries – or employee’s cars – or it has Caterpillar heavy equipment set 3 or 4 deep waiting to be taken around the country. For a few weeks now though there have been no cars, no [...]
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Chicken on the A46

By Mark | Published: 21:21 Tuesday 2 Oct 2007
I’m out with the dog earlier and as part of the evening walk we go down next to a sliproad and onto the A46. This is coming off the M1 so drivers are still doing 60-70mph. At the bottom where we turn left the road starts to rise and curve to the right. Drivers coming [...]
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More progress

By Mark | Published: 15:39 Monday 14 May 2007
J is plugging away at the village website we are creating. We are pretty close to officially announcing it – done by going round the local shops with A4 ‘posters’ – and then probably talking at a parish council meeting. That’s when we have to explain it, have to explain that free means free and [...]
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The HeartFM non-debate

By Mark | Published: 16:31 Thursday 15 Mar 2007
Going to get P from school there was a debate on HeartFM by Vicki Blight. The debate was “Should women who commit crimes go to prison and if so should they be allowed to be near their kids.”. (This presenter had a ‘debate’ several weeks ago on speeding and when someone rang in to say [...]
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