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Newton Abbot in Old Pictures: The Globe Hotel To Let, 1992

By July 1992 the old Globe Hotel was up for sale, and had not yet morphed into another building in the Austin’s Department Store empire.
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Memories of Spring?

No.69 Wednesday, 11th.February 2026 We have light to moderate cloud cover this morning which means one thing: we have a modicum of blue sky and even sunny periods. I suppose that could be two things, but then blue skies and sunshine are inexorably linked, like twins who will never be seen apart. It feels like…
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Intercepting Rain!

Tuesday, 10th.February 2026 It is unusually quiet this morning. The recycling team have been and gone. A neighbour has just this moment switched off her heating: the plume of water vapour through the flue in her wall – horizontal in the still air – has ceased. Somebody has called a gas fitter; a sky-blue British…
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Planning for a Country House on Skye!

Found a location for a substantial country house plot on the Isle of Skye. Sadly, I would not be moving in…
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Cloud Energy?

It is cloudy this morning – nothing unusual there – and I got to thinking about saving energy – by reducing my dependence upon cloud storage…
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Over-sensitive?

I feel down after any encounter with a friend, in part because I am probably ‘over-sensitive’, but it is more complex than that. I do not know how to cope with the rapidly increasing divisions in society.
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