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Escape back home from the south

LarryWinger
November 13, 2019
4

Eee but it’s great to be back home away from the hustle and bustle of the south. When the M6 moves on from Manchester, the traffic thins dramatically, and from there on past Lancaster, Tebay services (the best motorway services…

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Tourism Travel

Greetings from Achiltibuie

LarryWinger
October 19, 2019
0

Postcard from the far far north in the Highlands of Scotland. So many local folks we’ve chatted with, before we headed north into the misty glens, had visited Achiltibuie, that we just had to make this faraway outpost our primary…

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Services Transport Travel

MOT Time . . .

LarryWinger
September 25, 2019
0

Three little letters strike fear into the hearts and minds of virtually every family in this patch: M and O and T. It comes around once a year, and today it’s our turn. Although our new-to-us little Fiat Panda 4×4…

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Tourism Travel

. . . on a summer holiday

LarryWinger
August 5, 2019
0

Everything’s packed, Harry Hymer is prepped and the motor is warming up. We’re away for just a couple of days, not quite the ‘week or two’ of the song, but still. It’ll be a lovely little break, rain, shine, mist,…

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Notes from Afar Reminiscence Travel

Far-flung families . . .

LarryWinger
July 30, 2019
3

It’s a truism of contemporary life, I guess, that family members often find themselves separated by great distances. And it’s not even necessarily contemporary — this diaspora has been going on for generations, centuries. My family history of the twentieth…

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Farming Transitions Travel Weather

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days . . .

LarryWinger
July 26, 2019
0

. . . .of summer! Maybe even when the torrential rains and thunderstorms come, as they did Tuesday evening, dramatically, maybe even then it’ll still be summer. It’s a dreadful weekend predicted, so much so that the Lions Golf Classic…

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Tourism Travel

What’ve you got up top?

LarryWinger
July 25, 2019
0

Motorhomes cruise through these valleys, and we’ve got quite a few of them that are ‘native’ to these parts as well. Indeed, I’ve just been kitting Harry Hymer out in preparation for our little jaunt to the seaside in early…

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In-Between Times Tourism Travel

Getting ready for holidays

LarryWinger
July 3, 2019
0

I don’t think we’re alone in spending a significant amount of time both thinking about, and then getting ready for a holiday. There’s always so much to do to prepare! But we’re starting a bit early this year, because we’re…

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Communications Transport Travel

Sidelights, or less, in the f-f-f-fog?!

LarryWinger
June 25, 2019
2

Stuttering with impotent rage over the fecklessness of some country drivers yesterday morning on our way in to the ‘toon for a hospital appointment, as we peered through the near-impenetrable fog to make out, just, a grey vehicle in front…

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Environment Transport Travel

Travels, with or without the grands, on the 688 bus

LarryWinger
June 4, 2019
3

Paul Mingard writes in with a lyrical essay on the joys of the rural bus route: “For some people riding the 688 bus is so mundane they hardly think about it.  For others who never travel by bus, the trials…

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