Blasdale picture gallery 2010
2010 picture gallery
This year is a year in progress.
Snow scenes from our home over Christmas. Yes, we had a White Christmas with Selina and Phil staying over. One turkey demolished. Ok, is was not a big one, and now I am missing the turkey crumble and currey.
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Our annual holiday at La Grande Mare hotel, Vazon Bay, Guernsey, accompanied by John and Carol. Some pleasant walks around the island and super suppers served in the evening. There were some unpleasant days, but definitely no unpleasant meals served by the dinner chef.
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A visit to Edinburgh during the last week of the Festival. Most of the pictures are night time. These were taken on the 24th and 25th August 2010
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David and Joan's 50th Wedding Anniversary on the 22nd August 2010. Held in The Chalk Lane Hotel in Epsom and at their house in Ashtead.
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24th July, Rosemary and I visited the hunting, shooting and fishing festival, the CLA Game Fair. We must say the food at these events is not a patch on Glastonbury catering. The pictures are from the dog and gun stand, a chase, where the dog runs after a lure, anyone can enter their dog. There also was a pageant of birds of prey marking the history of hunting with birds.
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14th August - Visit to Norwich. We had lunch at the Ship Inn at South Walsham where there seemed to be a Groom's pre-wedding drinking party. Pictures of the coach and horses. We then went onto Ranworth Broad where we visited the church and viewed the the greatest Rood screen in East Anglia. It stretches right across the church, aisles and nave. Finally a trip on Ranworth Broad in an electric boat to view the birds.
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On July 31st Rosemary and I attended a party in the Ramada in Inverness. We had been invited by Ravi and Maggie to launch the Hossack Institute of Highland Studies in memory of Maggie's parents. The party was great fun and had most of us attempting some form of Scottish dancing.
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July 31st, before the party, we visited some historic sites near to Inverness. First off was the Cawdor castle, the the Clava Cairns and finally Culloden where we whipped the Scottish.
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August 1st 2010 and we took a boat drip down Loch Ness and visited Urquhart Castle. A little disappointed by the castle, it was not the one I imagined. Rosemary pointed out the castle I wanted to see was private and on the West Coast.
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Monday 2nd August. After Inverness, we stayed in a new self catering conversion in the Cairngorms National Park near to Tomintoul. Here we went walking, and even took a ride on the Strathspey Railway from Broomhill, through Boat of Garten to Aviemore. The Broomhill station is better known as Glenbogle from the TV series Monarch of the Glen. Finally two days were spent in Helensburgh.
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We visited Asthall Manor to view the exhibition of stone sculpture. The day was hot and sculpture was hot, literally in a few cases.
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Rosemary and I went to the Glastonbury Festival from Thursday 24th to Monday 25th June 2010. I had a good time, R said she would never go again.
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The Annual Tug of War Match between Kingswood and Wotton Underwood. As is usual Tony Blair and Cherie Blair did not attend. Good thing, if their bodyguards had been on the Wotton side, then Kingswood may have lost. The men won for Kingswood, the women lost. The children's, not sure who won, there was an awful lot of cheating on all sides.
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This is are annual Cambridge Society weekend away. The weekend started on Friday 21st May. The first visit was Dunster.
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Rosemary and I traveled down to Somerset to help celebrate Jen's 60th birthday. We stayed a couple of nights at Ken and Sue's house, spending an enjoyable evening in the local gastro pub, in very [too?] easy walking distance. On the Sunday afternoon we arrived at The Cat Head Inn to surprise Jen.
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Wortham Manor, Lifton, Devon. We stayed here for a week starting Friday 19th March with a group of friends. Alas the weather could have been a little better. Rained every day, some days it never stopped raining. Our visit to Boscastle.
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Wortham Manor, Lifton, Devon. We stayed here for a week starting Friday 19th March with a group of friends. Alas the weather could have been a little better. Rained every day, some days it never stopped raining. Our visit to the National Trust house of Cothele.
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Our guests at play in Wortham Manor on Rosemary's 60th birthday,
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Wortham Manor, Lifton, Devon. We stayed here for a week starting Friday 19th March. Wortham Manor can be rented from the Landmark Trust.
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The 90th Birthday Celebrations for Rosemary's mum, Win, held in The Wigeon Room, Titchfield Haven Visitor Centre
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