CHERTSEY

BOATS, BRIDGES, BOILERS ... IF IT'S GOT RIVETS, I'M RIVETTED
... feminist, atheist, autistic academic and historic narrowboater ...
Likes snooker, beer, tea, rivets and solitude, and is strangely fascinated by the cinema organ.
And there might be something about railways.
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Tuesday 4 October 2011

Seaside postcards

A couple of favourite photos from the sea trip. I've left them big so that you can see them full size and even zoom in.
A young seagul with - yes - a fish in its beak. That's Sizewell in the background. The first ever benefit gig I went to was for the Stop Sizewell B campaign. It featured Christopher Timothy, for some reason, and somewhere I still have the programme he signed. Despite my sixth form efforts, Sizewell B went ahead, and now I've seen it for the first time.
And this is us passing Felixtowe. I just like the contrast between the stark white yachts and the grey misty background. Of all the photos I took, there weren't many to choose from where the horizon was straight. I shall have to pay more attention to that.

3 comments:

  1. I have enjoyed your salty posts - was enthusing to Jeff about your venerable old engine and commented on the obscure dip stick issue. With his immense 2 weeks motor mechanics course behind him I was informed its probably short and on the sump! I was suitable shocked.

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  2. Great trip. Makes a change from all that ditch crawling, eh! And the boat's great too. Reminds me of our old 1933 Banham mahogany/oak Broads cruiser. Much missed (even though we fought a rearguard action to keep it in decent nick).

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  3. If my photos are a bit wonky, I use picnik.com to straighten them up.

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