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I always seem to say it takes me ages to write about anything but, well, it has taken me ages. Anyway, a couple of other things are jogging around my mind so need to get this out into the old memory collection. Went up north a few weeks about two month(!) ago for a bit of a break back in the homeland. All the tasty details and pics follow, in no particular order.

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Sometimes the internet strikes me as a very strange place, a little like a library full of books which would have been published (if they’d ever seen the light of day) as thick hardbacks put on a shelf to gather dust. Only a few would have been sold, probably to libraries, and there would be no second edition for corrections and updates. On the internet however there’s no such dust. Hence the Lighthouse Directory, which I’ve filed alongside Windmill World (random fact: As part of EngDesign I’m currently involved in the restoration of Ashby’s [AKA Brixton] Windmill). Of course, speaking of libraries, Wikipedia has a list of lighthouses and lightvessels and a list of windmills.

Apparently it’s National Poetry Day. Everything seems to have a day these days. Anyway, just to celebrate and for Jan, who may have been a little neglected of late…

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