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Quiztime
In this big wide world there are many strange or funny place names. I am going to give you ten such place names and you are invited to match them up with the jumbled answers given below - all countries or two American states. I feel sure that some visitors will have been to these places. Good luck! (You'll need it!) ⦿ PLACES... 1. Shitagoo Lake 2. Condom 3. Shit 4. Horneytown 5. Piles 6. Bottom Bush Scenic Reserve 7. Rectum 8. Mount Fanny 9. Dickshooter 10. Shitterton COUNTRIES... a) Spain b) Netherlands c) New Zealand d) Iran e) Australia f) France g) Canada h) England i) North Carolina USA j) Idaho USA How did you do? from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/scqryUE
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Details
Often you want the wide picture but sometimes it's small details that can reveal a place. Looking back through the photographs I took on Saturday's visit to North Reddish and Bredbury, I have picked out a bunch that focus on details The top picture is a close-up of Arden Weir on The River Tame. I noticed the riverside vegetation, the reflection of the sky and trees that edge the river and of course the water gushing madly over the edge of the old weir - constructed in the early nineteenth century in connection with Arden Mill - a big corn mill. Close by, the sign on Arden footbridge reminds us of the potential dangers of open water and yet whenever we have hot spells in this country a few young people's lives end in rivers, reservoirs, canals and gravel pits. Is it the same in other countries? Below - remember that tiger moth mosaic made from food lids and coloured bottletops? Well, this was the explanatory sign in the bottom right hand corner. Why does everything req...
March
On May 1st 1981, five hundred working class British citizens set off walking from Liverpool's pierhead. They were marching to London with purpose. It was "The People's March for Jobs". One of the main organisers was a fiery trade unionist from Birmingham called Pete Carter. He was admired by many and had a proud history of fighting for workers' rights in what had become Thatcher's Britain. Others felt differently about him - including most members of the ruling class, their newspapers and the aforementioned PM Margaret Thatcher with her deeply conservative cabinet. Like all public figures, Pete Carter had a private life. He was married with two children - Susan and Michael but that marriage, that family life was breaking apart. Soon Pete would depart, making new relationships and two bitter children who found it difficult to love or forgive him. Thirty seven years after the original march, Michael Carter set off from Liverpool with a heavy rucksack and a bu...