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  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #932

    Is it Bodnant Garden?

  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #933

    Lucky indeed, considering we were at the League Cup final at Wembley the weekend after, along with about 90,000 others. I’m not pushing my luck though, definitely staying safe until things improve. 🙂

  • Wherenext
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    edited May 2020 #934

    No. They are 2 different places though. Not far from each other in England.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #935

    I knew that I recognised the spot. Have done that walk a couple of times, once to do the Five Sisters....July 1996....Those were the days.laughing

  • brue
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    edited May 2020 #936

    Ah, I'm nearly back on home ground with those two, Hidcote and Sezincote? smile smile

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #937

    having been there, that was a fairly easy one for me...

    i put a couple of photos of the stadium a couple of weeks back (not on this ipad im afraid...) where we attended RM last match of the season (a few years ago).

    they had already won the championship for the umpteenth time and after the match (which they won) they had a light show, a presentation of each player to the crowd and we were entertained by Placido Domingo.

    we wouldnt normally travel to Madrid for a match and the reason we were there was because my OH won the trip in a competition.

    we flew from London City in Chelsea FC's private jet (thanks Roman) and stayed for three days in a swanky hotel only a few hundred metres from the stadium....

    of couse we got the tour, the souvenirs etc and it was a terrific night.

    we saw a fair bit of the city too and will go back, with the van when passing that way...

    OH is particularly skilled in the Comp department and we've been to some wonderful events and places over the past twenty years or so.

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #938

    mainly Azaleas in the pic but plenty of Rhodis here, too...

    Pliers, even OH hasnt got me here yetfrown

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #939

    heres one for (probably) Brue...

    i cycled past here on Thursday and my dad always told me that this was the tallest village spire in England...i cant find anything to specifically support this but its pretty impressive...

    clues?....

    its adjacent to the playing fields of a very well known sporting school...

  • brue
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    edited May 2020 #940

    I've drawn a blank on that one, unless it's near the school where they take their own horses?

  • peedee
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    edited May 2020 #941

     Would the school be Millfield?

    peedee

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #942

    it would indeed, Peedee....

    the church is in Kingweston village, next door.

    ive played cricket and football there and currently 'hack about' at their golf course.

     

  • brue
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    edited May 2020 #943

    Thanks BB, I must observe things a bit more when that way, I tend to see just the school as I pass by.

  • Wherenext
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    edited May 2020 #944

    👍👍😃

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #945

    BB, the tallest in England is St James in Louth at 90 meters. There's no mention on the Kingsweston website stating the height of it's tower or that it is in fact the highest, as you would expect if it was.

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  • Takethedogalong
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    edited May 2020 #947

    “You remember that Mad Cow Disease a while ago, and then Bird Flu..........what do you think they’ve gone and done now?”

    😁

     

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #948

    yes, Nellie, as i said i couldnt find the height details, merely that my dad (over 90 now) always believed it to be the tallest in a village...whereas Louth is a market 'town'.

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  • cyberyacht
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    edited May 2020 #950

    I'd sort your tics out but I have to socially distance.

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #951

    just soooooo easy.....(bearing in mind some recent photoswink)

    note to self.....stop giving so many clues...

  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #952

    Here’s another easy one, taken early March this year, but not in Portugal.

    Now to have a think about BB’s, it does look familiar....🤔

  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #953

    Is it the Bishop’s palace at Wells? 🤔

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2020 #954

    Sorry for the error. I've just found a reference to Lavenham having the tallest tower, but not sure if it is higher than your steeple, and whether one can call Lavenham a village either.

  • Wherenext
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    edited May 2020 #955

    😁👏

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #956

    yessir, as i said...its just a 100m from Wells Cathedral in an earlier photo.

    we cycled over yesterday and had a sit on green there.

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #957

    it probably doesnt matter, no doubt a bit of 'village' folkloresmile

    however, a nice bike ride (via a different route) over to my parents village, passing what was the cricket/football pitch where many of my relations played.

    i was immediately transported back to enormous cream teas (made by the wives) and leaping from the next door barn rafters down onto huge bales of sheep wool...

    the barns have been converted now and have Range Rovers parked outside....undecided

  • young thomas
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    edited May 2020 #958

    "not in Portugal"

    .....but by a Portuguese artistwink

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  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #960

    And she’s kindly positioned it in TTDA’s back yard.

    (Well, near enough,)

    🐓

  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #961

    Clue needed please, David!

    🐓