Alice sat on the speaker's chair...and glared at the assembled members of parliament. On the wing of the chair beside her perched the Cheshire cat who grinned as he faded and grinned again ...
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Sometimes I start looking through my photo files for something ... ..and then have to stop at an image I'd completely forgotten about... ...such are these early pics from the beginnings of ...
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This is the very day that I start a year long project with a dear friend. She has I would say infinite knowledge of the town in which we both live...me for fifty three years...she since birth. ...
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Not many words today...the pics speak for themselves... ...the beauty of Morecambe Bay one evening last week. The old Stone Jetty and the Lighthouse Every day the tides change the d...
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Donaghadee PEARL OF THE ARDS PENINSULA Long long before Belfast became a city...before Samson and Goliath, the giants of Harland and Wolff's cranes towered over the houses in that city, ...
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OFFICIAL PHOTO..COMMANDO 961 I love the growly roar of a powerful motorbike ....what could make me enjoy a...
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ME ...DAD ...AND ROSIE This chapter is a story about dad and it could only be told after he had passed on. It's hard to believe that he died nearly forty years ago, because my memories of...
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THE GREY BEAUTY OF THE IRISH SEA. When I became bored of waiting my turn on the beach, on the sand in front of the van where my brother Ian made those serious structures... I've written abou...
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I'm excited...we are going to see the film "Ballywalter" this afternoon in Warrington. We were there in July...walking along the beautiful silver beach and loving the wild marine daisies that...
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MUSIC AT THE CARAVAN When we were all rather young, before our teenage years, a barn was set aside at Turkington’s caravan site (the one on the Millisle side of Hope's farm), in which ...
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THE SECOND FIELD BRIAN CATHCART AND FRIEND, SANDY AND ME WITH AN UNKNOWN BOY IN THE SECOND FIELD. *I’m not exactly sure which family was first to arrive in the small field to the right...
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THE BEACH The name... Ballyferris... is enough to set me off on a sweet daydream. Growing up in the suburbs of Belfast city... life lived by the Co. Down coast meant freedom. The fl...
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THE FARMER AND THE FARM Mr. William Hope owned the caravan field and the surrounding farmland. In fact we were eventually to find out that he also owned much of Millisle and large swathes...
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DAD'S GARAGE I'M RETRACING MY STEPS TODAY TO POST THIS LITTLE SNIPPET ABOUT THE WORKSHOP THAT DAD USED TO PRODUCE THE CARAVAN TO GIVE THE FAMILY A PLACE TO HOLIDAY AND ONE WITH SALTY FRESH ...
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THE POTTER'S MUM AND DAD HAD A WONDERFULLY SOPHISTICATED STATIC CARAVAN NEAR LANCASTER FOR MANY YEARS....BEDROOMS...BATHROOM...KITCHEN ET AL. * THE CARAVANS PARKED ON THE TWO FIELDS AT BALLYF...
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CHAPTER FOUR THE FIELD * I had a wonderful conversation this week with the you...
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CHAPTER THREE THE ROAD TAKEN Journeys nowadays are speedy affairs... well that is if the traffic isn’t too jammed up... ...
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...AND SO THE STORY GOES... CHAPTER TWO MR MEGAW'S CAR Mr. M was our next door neighbour. He lived with Mrs. M and their daughter Margaret. I didn’t know for a long time that she was ...
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When I started to write a blog many years ago, about my wonderful life from the age of 8 until I left Ireland at 21, and the old caravan in the townland of Ballyferris, Co. Down...Ards Penin...
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The sky is robin's egg blue today. Apparently american robin's eggs!! Still it pulled me out to look for snowdrops. And there they were..... always around by our daughter's January birthd...
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Every day I practice my art... ...decaying roses... ...take my camera out of it's case... ...family fun west end beach Morecambe... ...take a walk and look for inspiration. . ....
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This is my safe place. Looking out of the old blue french windows with which we honoured the wooden hut. We call it "The summerhouse". I miss it so much in the cold winter months. Th...
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This blessed land where I like to dream that my uralt forefathers from the borderlands of Dumfries and Galloway... walked their cattle to markets in the south. * Always a dreamer. *...
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I'm starting..as I mean to go on..in the summerhouse, reading up on the quarters of the moon and the best times to sow seeds for annual flowers. Just getting my facts in a row! So, apparant...
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THE TURN OF THE SEASONS My thoughts begin with water in the rill Full-ferned and moss-muddlied. there sits A crow on the topmost level of A bowing birch. above it still the waning m...
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