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The drainage ditches on Romney Marsh are called sewers. This one was about a mile from our lodge on Puddock Farm, Fairfield.
This is the view out of the back door of our holiday cottage in Caynham, Shropshire. The cottage was surrounded by these little fields with apple trees in them, and cattle grazing under the trees. It was a lovely scene.
A fantastic visitor destination, perched on a rocky promontory above Loch Ness, near Inverness, and commanding one of the best views of the Great Glen. The castle is just 25 minutes' drive from Moniack - best to get their close to opening in the peak visitor period, or you could take a Jacobite cruise to the castle from Inverness.
I like to have a reminder of the accommodation when we go away, and thought it would be nice to share it with you too! We had two bedrooms and one living room, but it was enough for the three plus dog!
Top left: The window at the front of the cottage
Top right: The kitchen
Bottom left: The lounge, looking towards the front (we think the fireplace was made out of a pallet!)
Bottom right: The lounge, looking towards the courtyard
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TED: "Can yew see Chesil Beach behind me? It's part of the Jurassic Coast - I bin readin' up abowt it."
The Quoy Of Houton is on the Stromness side of Orkney's Houton Bay and is close to my own house and garden. This photo was looking slightly east of south.
These buildings are only about 200 metres from the Houton Bay shoreline and enjoy a lovely and interesting seaside outlook. By the way those outbuildings were very well upgraded a few years ago to qualify for a Five Star Rating!
The wooden house beyond it is my own Houton home - Cullya-Quoy which has a very large garden. Then the white house beyond it is "Upper Fleck" which for many years was owned by the Husband family but is now Katy & Johnny's.
The sunlight in this capture was from a very low sunrise around 09.00 am just under 2 weeks before the Winter Solstice or "Shortest Day".
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This sunny October view was taken from near the Houton Bay piers. It just happens that my own Houton modern wooden house is a short distance to the right of this capture!
Those old farm outbuildings were extensively and comprehensively restored several years ago - gaining an ongoing Five Star Grading!
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View NW from the flanks of Garn Fawr towards Carn Melyn. There's evidence of human habitation going back to pre-historic, perhaps neolithic, times on the headland; just how old are those field boundaries? At about 150m at GB National Grid SM 8938 3882.
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The swimming pool at Chateau Charbontiere where we had the whole place for a whole week, wonderful sunsets and grounds
The entrance to Gearrannan blackhouse village on the Atlantic coast of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It includes self-catering accomodation. You can see (and read) more about it here -
A big thanks to everyone who faved, liked and looked at this shot on 500px. We hit a max pulse 99.1 on 19th August and made it to page 2 of popular shots that morning.
The view of the village from the Old Cider Mill, the cottage we stayed in in Caynham, Shropshire, England. It's thought that the location of the cottage might be where Caynham castle was in Medieval times. It's certainly on a raised bit of ground, falling steeply away in all directions around it. A wintry sunset, taken way back in January.
We wondered if these strange round farm buildings might formerly have been oast houses.
On our 28th wedding anniversary, we left Puddock Farm pine lodges early to birdwatch on Romney Marsh, breakfast and shopping in Rye, more birdwatching on Pett Levels, then through the villages to the Queens Head, Icklesham, Sussex, where we had lunch.
At the cusp of the Cotswold Way National Trail, this wee, former cider barn, converted now to a self-catering cottage, has been our home away from home seven or eight times in the last decade. Situated on Wick Street, a narrow lane whose hedgerows tower over the sides of vehicles, it sits between two stunningly gorgeous Cotswold villages bearing the monikers of Stroud and Painswick, both in County Gloucestershire, UK.
Into our gardens wander deer, pheasant, partridge, quail and many other bird species on frequent bases. Additionally, squirrels are present to ward off the fowl more often than not.
Fields filled with livestock across the way consist of droves of swine, herds of bovine and mobs of ovine. These animals contentedly feed on the verdant pastures and the supplemental nutrients supplied by their custodians in whose charge they are vested.
I just loved this dinky little cottage, opposite the National Trust's Smallhythe Place. Built of brick, the gable end of the roof is tile hung, so typical of Wealden architecture.
This is where we stay when we go to Shropshire. The Old Cider Mill in Caynham is the partially hidden building with the lower roofline on the right. The owners' house is the brick building - it doesn't look old, but at the back it is half timbered. The stone building on the left is now being converted into another holiday cottage. I photographed it in 2013 when it was a semi-derelict shed - see photo in comments below.
And all of these buildings stand on the sight of what is thought to have been Caynham Castle. It makes sense, because on three sides, the land falls away steeply, there is a good deep well in the front garden, so a good water source, and the owners have dug up some huge pieces of old worked stone. In fact, this field in the foreground is known locally as Castle Field.
Caynham, Shropshire, England.
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On the Appledore to Puddock Farm road, Romney Marsh, Kent. What looks like a river next to the trees is in fact one of the drainage ditches on the marsh, locally called a "sewer" (and no,it has nothing to do with draining sewage and they aren't smelly!).
This has got to be one of our favourite times of day when we stay at Puddock Farm - sunset time. The skies are enormous, and we're frequently treated to a beautiful golden or pink display. Photo taken from the veranda of the pine lodge that we stay in, Five Waterings, Brookland, Kent, England.
TED: "This is the faymus Chesil Beach - it's all pebbly! There's a sine tellin' peepul not to take the pebbuls but I..."
*looking guilty*
*whispers* "I only took 3...lickle ones..."
Moorland View Cottage is a two-bedroom holiday cottage in Dartmoor, Devon, available to rent for three, four and seven-night stays.
A view of the former Traditional Old Farmhouse - now a B&B - Quoy of Houton. The recently renovated Steading etc - partially visible extreme right - are now very high standard Self-Catering units.
My own Retirement House - Cullya-Quoy - is only about 200 metres from "The Quoy" - to the right of this view. Incidentally "Quoy" in old Orkney dialect was a word for field - or fields - and is common today in Farm/House/Street Names.
Pronounciation hint - forget how the word looks in print - "Quoy" in Orkney is invariably pronounced by Orcadians "Kwai" as if in the film "Bridge On The River Kwai".
We spent quite a bit of our April holiday admiring the blossom - it was a beautiful spring. We often passed this tree and lovely group of cottages on our way out of Rye.
Our home for one week while we stayed in Cornwall. just on the outside of the village of Blisland.
Out base for exploring the south of the county.
The Weather as we arrived was blistering sunshine, the following days where not so sunny.
The Cottage was a self contained holiday let. and we had a wonderful stay here.
Cornwall Holiday 2013 04 0255 Little Lanxon Cottage HDR
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