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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2012-06-01 03:04 pm
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Holiday snaps

This is the view from our bedroom window. Mum walking away from cows who she has been instructing not to chew on our fencing.


At Hound Tor, with parents and Julie


In the remains of Hundatora, a village abandoned in 1350 when the climate of Devon changed.
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[identity profile] alitheapipkin.livejournal.com 2012-06-01 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely, looks like you are having a nice relaxing time :)

I didn't know about Devon's climate changing in the 14th Century (goes off to look up some details)

[identity profile] skx.livejournal.com 2012-06-01 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I so want to steal your dog :)
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[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2012-06-01 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like a lovely spot - I've never been to Devon, and really should put that right.
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[personal profile] kmusser 2012-06-01 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I direct you to my latest LJ post? I'm headed to Devon in the near future and would love ideas on what to see.

[identity profile] pigwotflies.livejournal.com 2012-06-01 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay Devon! Have you been to the Bowerman's nose?

[identity profile] sigmonster.livejournal.com 2012-06-01 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh hey, I'll be able to wave hullo from Ashburton tomorrow! I'll wave in all four directions just to make sure...

(Not my mum's birthday but I'm visiting anyway.)

[identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com 2012-06-01 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Going my your mum's stride, I doubt that the kine would dare to so much as nibble at your fencing. What leaves me gasping in awe, of course (because I'm a Southern Californian) is the verdant plant growth as seen from that window -- with nary a sprinkler-head or irrigation-ditch in view.  Mind you, there's also the niggling feeling that this is Wrong & Unnatural.

I'm wondering if those are the bases, or the (more nearly) tops, of the village's walls. The way things work in England, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the basal part of some of them were pre-Roman. (We Americans, as you know, are inordinately impressed by Antiquity, and consider a century to be A Very Long Time.)

[identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com 2012-06-03 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
This really smacks me in the face with "In England, a hundred miles is far. In America, a hundred years is old."
I'm putting together some notes for a walking tour around the Chicago Worldcon, and there's an interesting building from 1872, right after the fire, across the street from a wonderful, important building from the 1809's. Last weekend I went to a fairly nearby con in Madison, Wisconsin, only 150 miles away.

By the way -- talking to cows is easy. How do you get them to listen?
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