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So it's a gunnera, is it? I was hoping someone might know.

Yes, the place can get quite damp as the woodland is at the bottom of a ridge. The fence you can see belongs to a house in the road behind mine (though because that road is much longer than my short cul-de-sac, most of the properties on "my side" of that road get to back onto the Recreation Ground). What appear to be houses behind mine look like bungalows from their own road: their plots are quite steep. As that part of the Recreation Ground is relatively flat, it would all be rather boggy** if there weren't some (shallow) drainage ditches running through it. Luckily for me, my own cul-de-sac also slopes down towards the woodland; I understand the gardens at the bottom of my cul-de-sac can also get boggy***.


** - I won't be walking there if we receive a lot of rain: it gets far too muddy even on the marked (dog-walking) paths.

*** - All I have to worry about is mowing the lawn on a slope and, occasionally, climbing up on a wall and up through Aucuba japonicas (growing on a steep slope) to pull out the brambles that love to sprout up there.
 
It's been a while since I posted in this thread so here's a shot of the Scottish Borders I took on saturday.
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Both good, but I especially like that abbey picture.
 
currently I'm a "point and click" man - sometimes I get a decent result, other (most!) times times errrmmm less so. I do want to learn how to do all this stuff better though




what sort of idiot licks the inside of a glacier? Me, that's who




I do like this one though - the pumps have since disappeared :(

 
Really liking the 2 Abby pics... did you use HDR on those pics or is it just good use of filters and light?


By the by - are those space invaders dropping down the windows :ROFLMAO:
 
Liking these shots a lot.

However, Carfax Abbey summoned a painful memory for me. I must warn Chronners that the following video can cause emotional trauma to those in possession of an English accent [NB bit before the start point has some swearing] - edited extra bit: bah, was meant to start at 3:19:
 
That's a moody shot.
 
The seat of House Foxbat. Their words: Our Bicycles Are Impractical.
 
I wish it were House Foxbat.

Actually my clan (on my mother's side) is Urquhart and the castle of that name sits on the shores of Loch Ness. Tantallon belonged to the Douglas family. They were one of the most powerful families in Scotland in the middle ages and Tantallon is a fitting structure for their seat. The family split into the Red and the Black Douglases, which then vied for supremacy and the monarchy so.....yes....it is very Game Of Thrones (with all the intrigue and argy-bargy that goes with such a setting).:)
 
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