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On a recent holiday we stayed for a few nights on the Lizard, Cornwall, and used that as a base to tour around. I am usually an early riser and from our B&B had a good view of the hundreds of crows that regularly gathered on the phone lines and cables around the village shortly […]
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A little while back we were on holiday and travelling some of the various tiny roads of Cornwall between Looe and Polruan. Of course we took another trip to Polperro, a tourist hot-spot and one of our favourite Cornish fishing villages. This also meant a visit to the village car park and 20th-century coin payment […]
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East Hagbourne in southern Oxfordshire is a good example of an unspoiled village, though its residents are possibly looking over their shoulders at the encroaching town sprawl of Didcot just to the north. The village has a decent pub, an old church, a tiny shop, two memorial crosses and a host of charming vernacular houses. […]
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Abingdon is a town with a history – and quite a few old buildings to prove it. Personally, when it comes to sketching architecture, I like my buildings a bit askew, wonky, even. So when I came across a good piece of medieval overhang by the Market Square in Abingdon, it seemed a good opportunity […]
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After a day of rain the skies brightened, the clouds parted and it turned into a nice summer’s evening. So – time to get the bike out and go for a ride; this time over to Stonesfield which is about ten miles west of Oxford. This is somewhere I’ve been sketching before as the village […]
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