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2 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Hugh. Got some strange looks walking into the Asda across a snowy carpark wearing shorts, North face  t shirt and trainers with as much ventilation as leather .  Yorkshire   you sure know how to treat a girl mate 🤣🤣🤣😜

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔She's a very lucky woman....

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A grand selection of reader photos in this week's "Your pictures of Scotland" courtesy of the BBC News.

I don't know why, but the images sent into the BBC News by readers in Scotland are nearly always way more interesting than those from England.

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Source: BBC News / © Florence Royer

Pics here: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-59432986

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On 02/12/2021 at 16:59, Winsford Soul said:

Spent the day fishing at Pilsworth lake , Bury today. Never had a single  bite but it was a lovely crisp day at +2"C

 

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Lovely sky Steve, that looks a great little lake. Went to Mathern Mill Saturday night, like you blanked, maybe two liners, but the Carp were like me tucked up in bed in as warm water as they could find I guess, not a single show until the morning, and that was just one Carp over the other side of the lake. No amount of food is gonna make you eat when you are freezing your balls off, or should that be fins...! lol

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11 hours ago, Mal C said:

Lovely sky Steve, that looks a great little lake. Went to Mathern Mill Saturday night, like you blanked, maybe two liners, but the Carp were like me tucked up in bed in as warm water as they could find I guess, not a single show until the morning, and that was just one Carp over the other side of the lake. No amount of food is gonna make you eat when you are freezing your balls off, or should that be fins...! lol

Cheers mate 👍.  The lake is quite big really probably half was visible in the picture as it goes to the right in the distance for about the same amount.  I fished the shallow part of the lake as the bailiff had seen cormorants catching Roach there earlier in the morning.  Going again tomorrow but about halfway down the lake into much deeper water so hopefully I will catch  a few . 

Winter fishing is a totally different way of catching compared to summer as you well know my friend but if nothing else we are optimistic 😀 

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A few festive photos from our annual pre-Christmas trip to the local garden centre. The garden centre, which is the largest in the Netherlands, always puts in a lot of effort to create a huge festive display of its wares. It's always worth a visit regardless of whether you buy anything or not, and I love going around with my iPhone looking for interesting Christmassy shots.

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More to follow... Ho, ho, ho!

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We took a trip out to the Amsterdam water supply dunes this afternoon. Although the weather is fairly mild still, it was very overcast most of the time, which doesn't provide great conditions for taking pics. 

But, I managed to nab a few, including one of a pair of goosanders, which I was thrilled to see.

A crow in silhouette. To give bit more of an atmosphere to the pic, I added a vignette.

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Hundreds of canals here supply much of Amsterdam's fresh water.

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Chaffinch against a grey sky, which pretty much typified the day.

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Fallow deer fawn

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Goosanders (male in front, female behind). Initially I thought these were red breasted mergansers, but the RSPB bird identification pages tell me otherwise.

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Just a boring old crow - except that the light was quite good for this shot and shows up a lot of detail in the feathers. Normally, we just think of them being black all over.

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From the BBC News website:

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A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by news agency photographers around the UK this year.

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"A tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore lights up Piccadilly Circus, London. The 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden, died with coronavirus in February."

Source: BBC News / © Aaron Chown PA Media

Photos here: https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-59478434

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And another selection of photos to round off the year. This time from the Euronews website. 

Here's one from the selection.

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Caption: A bolt of lightning crosses the sky as people look at buildings displaying a light show related to the anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, China. June 2021.

Source: Euronews / © Noel Cellis/AFP

Pics here: In pictures: 30 breathtaking nature and landscape views from 2021.

 

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Here's one for cricket fans. The ball used in the T20 world cup West Indies v Australia on 6th November, signed by Chris Gayle you took Mitchell Marsh's wicket with it. Probably the last time Chris will play world cup cricket. Present from Richard Illingworth test umpire.

Moderators please feel free to move if you feel this is in the wrong place.

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