No more posts for a while ..

No more posts for a while .... foreign parts await .

As I write this, the world is in an economic meltdown and the two Manchester football teams ride high in the the Premier League. I wonder what the next few months will hold?

And which do you consider to be the most important - football or the economy?

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Hopwood Woods

A pleasant place to walk - Hopwood Woods in Middleton near Rochdale.

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Thieves Beware

The increased value of copper, lead and other precious metals has led to an increase in thefts of piping and wiring from railways and electric substations.

Trains are now delayed not only by bad weather but the theft of signal equipment - in our area houses are having their lead stolen during the night.

I guess this will carry on until some new cheaper material is invented as a substitute.

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Teasel

This rather prickly but attractive plant "appeared" in the garden from where I do not know .

It was sometime and a lot of head scratching before I realised it is Teasel.

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Clitheroe

More photos from a wet and windy Clitheroe on August Bank Holiday weekend.

Lots of bunting ..

Lancashire Cricket Success !!!

Lancashire won the County Championship title for the first time in 77 years with a great win by eight wickets over Somerset.

Well done ......

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Clitheroe

Clitheroe in Lancashire's Ribble Valley - a pleasant little market town but not on a wet windy August Bank Holiday weekend.

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It is getting worse ...

Well after a colder than average summer in the UK the best we could hope for would be a pleasant warm and sunny September.

Forget that - it is getting worse ... dark, cold and very wet. More like November !!

No doubt we will be getting frosts soon and then snow ..

Will we ever get a good summer again ??

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