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June 2009
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It's summer!
To mark the arrival of summer, slightly
earlier than booked (unlike spring, which was six weeks late as
usual), our photography team went for a hilly 9 mile walk on the
hottest day of the year with 1 litre of orange squash and a packet
of crisps. They returned with a fine collection of photographs,
mostly featuring large quantities of water (possibly a reflection
of a psychological desire to go swimming), a copy of Modern
Railways and an empty water bottle. Hopefully they will have
recovered from chronic dehydration by the time we want them to
produce a July image, otherwise we'll have to go for a dig in
the archives again.
The little hamlet of Cowlands is towards
the Truro end of this walk, taking in all four valleys between
the railway stations at Perranwell and Truro. It sits around one
of the tidal inlets which stretch off the River Fal into the surrounding
hills and seems to have rather more boats than cars. Although
sufficiently close to Truro to have the important-sounding postcode
of TR3, it is too insignificant to have a Wikipedia article. House
prices remain comfortably over a million pounds, which may be
a case of supply and demand (if, say, six families want to live
there, since there are only 5 houses).
Meanwhile, in a bid to continue the
animal and electricity themes for this month (which originated
in April and seem to be remaining as a gimmick), we have a picture
of some cows on the Wentloog in South Wales (from last year) and
some dead electric locomotives in a field near Long Marston (also
from last year). Those dead electrics which have not yet been
revived and despatched to Eastern Europe will feature (or, if
you're reading this after the 7th of June, featured) at the Long
Marston Open Weekend, when hundreds of railway enthusiasts will
be (were) allowed to enter the field and see these iron horses
which have been put out to grass. The cows, by contrast, are not
deemed to be of interest to railway enthusiats and are not being
exported to Eastern Europe - it is unlikely that there is a connection
between these two points.
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