Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Late last night I returned from a few days away in Carcassonne. I was treated to lovely warm and mostly sunny weather unlike the weather in England when I left.
I will be posting all about my travels soon, but before I do that I need to fix my computer because it is in danger of keeling over completely. In any case until it is fixed I can’t edit any of my holiday photos 
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Just below the dam of the top pool at Daniels Mill you can see the ruin of an older mill. It was used until the mid 19th century and was known locally as ‘The Mill in the Hole’.
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From a signboard at Daniels Mill:
In the late 1850s the railway came to the area and the imposing Oldbury Viaduct was built. Absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s, the mill owners were one of many small share owners of the original construction company.
The connection has been maintained, and the present miller Alan George, became a founder member of the Severn Valley Railway Society set up in the late 1960s to rescue the line after it was closed under the ‘Beeching Axe’. Today it operates as a successful heritage railway with regular services between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster
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I raise a toast to the Duke of Lancaster.
“Congratulations on your diamond jubilee and long may you reign.”
In celebration of the Diamond Jubilee I had planned to attend the ‘three gardens party’ arranged by my neighbours for Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas… It turned bitterly cold overnight and there was torrential rain all day.
Mum was visiting for an evening meal and we decided that discretion was the better part of valour so the afternoon was spent watching the BBC coverage of the Flotilla along the Thames. I took a few photographs of the BBC coverage and this is one of them.
In celebration of the event (and another upcoming one) we cracked a bottle of bubbly to accompany our evening meal.
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