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pfm Picture A Week (PAW) 2021

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Conwy - Two Fools
by David Yeoman, on Flickr

Two Fools (one in the tractor, one behind the Landrover), two derelict boats, two landrovers and a tractor. They decided to pull the smaller fire-damaged boat out of the mud whereapon the keel dug into the mud turning the boat onto its side. continuing to pull it, they got it stuck on the concrete block being used to tie the other boat up. They proceeded to anglegrind the mast off, narrowly missing one of the landrovers, which they had moved closer, and then proceeded to cut up a fire damaged fibreglass boat with a large grinder and no mask, plenty of fibreglass dust in the air! By doing this they blocked in the Landrover with trailer attached as it had nowhere to reverse, maybe we should have waited for the rising tide?
 
Spent a thoroughly pleasant few days in the Derbyshire Peaks at a cottage let in Winster ... at the top of the rise - with the blue/green door:

Winster: East Bank by mik tec, on Flickr

(more to follow)

Winster is small village nestling on the side of a hill that was for centuries the heart of a Lead mining community that was still active into the early 20c - the surrounding hills (and the village itself) are riddled with the remains of this activity.

Nowadays (apart from holiday lets) it is part of a burgeoning retirement industry - mostly reasonably wealthy refugees from Sheffield and Manchester. Darley Dale, which is nearby, is literally a long string of luxury retirement flats and care home developments - many more still in construction.

Olympus OMD: Leitz Summicron 50mm
 
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On the main road running through Winster - now a very desirable residence, this was apparently one of the many pubs and shops in the village:

Winster: Hawker by mik tec, on Flickr

Now only one pub, a 'mini-mart' style shop and a hairdresser remain in the village centre .....

Olympus OMD: Leitz Summicron 50mm
 
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Trawling through some archives today, this one from May 2017. The view across Inominate Tarn on Haystacks looking across to Green & Great Gable - quite possibly my favourite place on God's earth.

Gables by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Olympus Pen F/12-40 2.8 Pro

This is cool...It looks like a metal print...who is the lone photographer standing to attention ??
 
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