Boxing Day Walk

 

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Yesterday I ate half a Betty's sticky toffee cake, approximately 10 biscuits of the chocolate and shortbread variety, and about 765 Quality Street, so today I breakfasted lightly on two boiled eggs and strode out, while I could still get out of the front door.

While I was trying to get a closer shot of this ivy, I leaned too far forward and fell into the holly bush.  I mean properly fell, in the dirt, and had to scramble out.  Two people walked past as this happened but neither of them offered to help - I wonder if they thought I was drunk?! 😁

This was the action shot taken as I fell... 😆

Anyone lost a parrot?  Or two parrots?  They're actually ring-necked parakeets, usually only seen in southern England, but occasionally seen elsewhere if escaped from captivity.  

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Snow pics

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Not long now :) #Spring #Flowers #MondayBlogs

 

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Copper and Blue

 

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January Afternoon Sunshine (and an empty shopping centre)

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Spot the dog :)

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The collapse of the High Street retail trade? 

I was walking over to the main shopping centre in the next town - this is on a dry, bright, not very cold Thursday afternoon, at around 4 pm.  Underneath that church spire, above, you can see that the bus station and the bus are empty (my walk took me past it, on a bridge).

Around half the shops have gone - Argos, Pound Shop, bakers', a nail studio, a furniture shop, a shoe shop and many more.  

Before 2020, you'd see more people than this first thing in the morning, or on a Sunday.

Of course, South Park got it exactly right a few years back, in the episode about Amazon.  When there's a strike at the local depot, the boys try to remember where they used to obtain stuff they wanted before.  It's just a couple of minutes long, and very funny!

'Because they previously worked in a mall, 

they've had no human contact for some time'

Me outside Morrisons!  Still no people.