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Saturday 21 June 2014

Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt - Midsummers Day




13. A sunrise - taken from my studio window, located about 16 miles to the west of Stonehenge at approx 5.15am on Midsummers Day.


(with apologies for the cheek of "blogger" to lighten the shot, I find it very annoying that they alter my upload without my knowledge or choice - a big boo to "blogger"). To see the shot as I would like it to be seen, please visit the facebook page.



Thursday 5 June 2014

Five on the Fifth, The Epping Ongar Railway

GM and I are post-war baby-boomers, and as such we can both remember from our childhoods the thrill and excitement of steam rail travel. I dont know if all (or any) of our contemporaries feel the same, but we have a certain nostalgic love of those days, and now we take the opportunity to visit a heritage railway whenever we can.

It just so happens that the newest of these is the Epping Ongar Railway. I was born in Epping and lived there until I was 20, then lived in the Ongar area for the next 16 years, but I can honestly say that in all that time I never once travelled on what was at that time an extension of the central line, run by London Underground. You can read a full history of the line here.

However, we recently found ourselves back in Essex on a Sunday morning with a couple of hours to spare, so what better to do than to pay a visit to the EOR. We were too early to see any actual trains running, but we enjoyed an hour or so just mooching around the station.

In the proper spirit of 5 on 5, these photos should have been taken within a five minute period, but, hey ho, rules are there to be bent (sorry Sandie), mine were taken over a leisurely hour on a lazy sunny Sunday morning.






To see the other Five on the Fifth entries, please visit Sandie's blog, itchifingers.