Last Days of Summer

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• Guest 645

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  31 August 2011     08:39123920
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  Following on from PaulB's excellent photo and editorial on the front page I have nicked his idea and thought I'd start this thread for the forums excellent photographers to post their photos of our very brief encounter with the sun that the government laughingly labels British Summer Time.
  
  Here are a couple of photos taken yesterday on a visit to St Brelades Bay with my sister and her daughter,who were over from rainy Stockport.
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 715

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  31 August 2011     08:58123924
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  Lovely photos, last day? I am still waiting for it to start
  Audere est facere.
• Guest 717

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  31 August 2011     09:09123925
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  Never been there look like a lovely beach. It is official Martin. Worst summer since early 90's. Well maybe we'll get some great snow this year instead.....
  Keeps politics to myself
• Guest 715

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  31 August 2011     09:27123933
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  as long as it blocks the Deal Road the snow will be very welcome
  Audere est facere.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  31 August 2011     09:30123934
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  yes the beach does look rather enticing, cheerful photos to start the day.
  
  thanks for those marek.
• Guest 657

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  31 August 2011     09:50123941
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  Lovely.
  
  I was in Nottingham during the two hot days we had i.e. summer
  

  

  
  
  Newstead Abbey.
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• Guest 645

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  31 August 2011     09:56123942
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  I love Nottingham ...wait for it Jan and Bern...my first happy vist there in 1978 to see a young girl I met in Jersey in 1972 and continued to be penfriends for many years until she got married....happy carefree days.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 700

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  31 August 2011     14:24123987
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  Jeane - was Newstead Abbey the home of Lord Byron? I went there years ago.
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• Guest 640

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  31 August 2011     16:06123995
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  Gosh it looks like you might have had something resembling a summer over there Marek. Looks very inviting. I will try and add another picture or two to this thread to try and keep our 'summer' alive for a little while longer.
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 640

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  31 August 2011     16:13123996
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  Here we are, a summery picture of that little hidden away nook at St Margarets. Taken a few weeks ago. Didnt Ian Fleming live here, the creator of James Bond. So I heard tell anyway. Looks great on a summers day but imagine it in the dead of winter in a howling gale, with the raging surf n spray thundering onto your verandah..
  The picture here was taken at low tide.
  
  

  
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• Guest 645

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  31 August 2011     17:14124001
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  Lovely photo I have a feeling that Noel Coward was also a frequent visitor to the house.
  Marek
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• Guest 657

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  31 August 2011     17:21124002
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  Yes Kath Newstead Abbey was Byron's home.
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• Brian Dixon

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  31 August 2011     19:17124019
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  yes i can confirm it gets rather chilli down there.
• Guest 663

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  31 August 2011     19:19124020
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  Great pictures there Marek jealously looking at the sunshine,have many moons ago walked along that seafront, the day PaulB took the picture in St margarets, was indeed a beautifull day and very warm if i remember rightly
• Guest 653

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  31 August 2011     20:54124034
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  Lovely photos Marek - thanks.
  
  Reminds me of my stay there 30 years ago; I always promised myself to go back for a holiday, but never did - don't know why, I loved it, I really did.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 651

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  31 August 2011     22:08124044
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  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 645

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  1 September 2011     04:27124058
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  Great photo Paul . I wish I had your talent
  
  From todays Mail
  
  Weathermen have dashed hopes that the gloom of the last few months will be relieved by an Indian summer.
  
  They warned that autumn's first storm will arrive next week. It is likely to be followed by floods and tornadoes in October, while winter's Big Freeze could start in November.
  Meteorologists, who consider today to be the first day of autumn, delivered the bleak forecast after Britain suffered a 'forgettable' summer.
  
  So there you have it. It's official summer has ended.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 653

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  1 September 2011     07:11124066
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  It never really got going after a good April.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 640

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  1 September 2011     07:13124067
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  Work of art there Paul..lovely shot indeed. Youre doing some great work with that camera of yours.
  
  I will be contacting you shortly for another few of dem super duper pictures..
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• Guest 700

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  1 September 2011     17:23124150
  #20      
  Lovely photo Paul, wouldn't it make a lovely painting? Any artists amongst us ?
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