 Munich Opera January 2017 |
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 Gaestatte Brunnstein: Nicky with granddaughter |
 Walk in the Englische Garten surfers in the snow |
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 Monopterous |
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 Kunsthalle Exhibition: Spain's Golden Age |
 El Greco |
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 Bayerisches Oper: South Pole |
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 Stadt Rosenheim, staircase |
 The Goldener Engel |
 Sunset coming home |
 Excursion to Berry Head with Melanie March 2017 |
 Outside the Guardhouse Cafe on Berry Head |
 Illuminated by the Berry Head Light |
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 View to Durl Head |
 Cod Rock |
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 Below the Berry Head Light |
 Torquay from Berry Head |
 Nottingham Opera Visit March 2017 |
 Nottingham Town Hall |
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 Munich Opera visit Ariadne auf Naxos & The Consul March 2017 |
 The Munich Phil. in the Gasteig |
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 The Botanic Garden |
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 Spring flowers in the woods |
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 Awaiting the tulips |
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 Left: The first ornament out of its winter wrapping Right: my permanent ornament |
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 Echinocactus Grusonii |
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 Orchidae |
 Turtles |
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 Flag? |
 Rhododendrons |
 Villa Stuck Portico |
 Walk along the Isar |
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 Posters for the Consul |
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 Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich |
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 St Michael's Church, newly renovated |
 Llandudno for the Welsh National Opera Spring Season |
 Lunch at Nebo with a views to Snowdonia |
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 Walk: Ascending the Great Orme with Conwy in the background |
 The summit buildings |
 Low Tide on the Conwy Estuary |
 Jackdaw |
 with Herring Gull |
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 Within a stone circle |
 For the less energetic |
 The Llangollen Railway |
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 Off season train to Corwen |
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 Papplewick Pumping Station with the NS National Trust Group |
 The Pond |
 The stack and the group |
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 The pond with a model of the Bismark |
 The main entrance to the pumping house |
 The Pumping House |
 The engines and pumps |
 The boilers |
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 The ornamentation |
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 The main cylinders |
 Connecting rods |
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 The big end |
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 The flywheel |
 The governor |
 James Watt co., the Builder |
 An exhibited steam driven electrical generator |
 Staunton Harold with the NS National Trust Group |
 The Church and Hall |
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 The painted ceiling |
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 The Hall |
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 The Lake |
 The Library |
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 Utility Room, formerly the Chapel |
 The Dining Room |
 The Garden |
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 Lunch at Emmanuel College, Cambridge July 2017 |
 St John's College, where we stayed |
 The Round Church The view from Pat's room |
 St John's tower being repaired The view from Peter's room |
 Red hot pokers |
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 The Library Lantern |
 Night view |
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 The Bridge of Sighs |
 New Court |
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 Second Court |
 School of Pythagoras |
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 The Round Church Holy Sepulchre |
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 Emmanuel College Lunch with the Master |
 Lunch at Emmanuel College |
 Petricia and Christine Aukland |
 Brian Thrush |
 Sally Williams |
 With Mike & Christine Aukland |
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 Emmanuel College Chapel |
 The John Harvard Window |
 Thomas Cranmer |
 Buxton, for the Opera Festival, July 2017 |
 The refurbished spa bath |
 Lady Morris Dancers |
 Walk to Solomon's Temple |
 A lime worker |
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 Buxton from the tower |
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 Walk from Buxton to the Goyt Valley |
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 Roadside shrine |
 The old CHPR track |
 looking back ... |
 ... round the hillside |
 The blocked up tunnel mouth |
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 The minature railway in Buxton Park |
 Rather dwarfed by Richard and Ian |
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 Staying at Sonning while visiting Kath Glover in Caversham September 2017 |
 Sonning Lock |
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 Sunset |
 Sonning bridge |
 The Thames |
 Milford on Sea to visit Frank September 2017 |
 The Needles and the Isle of Wight |
 Sanderling |
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 From the Hurst Castle Ferry |
 Hurst Castle |
 The Lighthouse |
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 From the ramparts |
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 Sturt Pool Swans |
 Black Swans |
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 The walk, including the ferry. |
 With Frank at Barton on Sea |
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 The Needles from Barton |
 Thundershower |
 Harvest House; our B&B |
 Torquay to visit Melanie October 2017 |
 After sunset |
 Brixham, he Golden Hind |
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 After sunset |
 Ducks accompanying an opera at Buxton |
 Mandarin Duck |
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 Llandudno for the opera October 2017 |
 Gret Orme from the promenade |
 The Little Orme |
 Sunshine from the pier |
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 The Pier |
 The Green Buoy, opposite our hotel |
 Snowdonia from the Nemo road |
 Llangollen after plenty of rain |
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 Edinburgh, for the Designed Mind Symposium November 2017 |
 The Castle |
 The Scottish Parliament |
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 Holyrood House |
 Daniel Dennett, keynote speaker |
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 Two authors: Andy Clark and Dan Dennett |
 Re-read before the Symposium |
 To read after the Symposium |
 The Scott Monument |
 Salford: Opera North at the Lowry November 2017 |
 Our hotel on the Quays |
 The Lowry Outlet Mall |
 Salford in the early morning |
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 The Lowry Bridge and the Imperial War Museum |
 The Lowry Theatre and Gallery |
 The Imperial War Museum from the bridge |
 The poster of the six "little great" operas |
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