2012 - A Good Start
The first two months of 2012 have slipped by and I've done very little of my beloved stationary steam but have managed to keep busy and when I get round to March I have some good stuff to share.
The year started in Devon with friends visiting my sister's holiday home. first up was Sidmouth on a miserable New Year's day . The following day we had lunch in Lympstone before returning home to resume the day job on the Tuesday.
Casting about for a new experience, I decided it was time to visit Wiltshire to record the remains of the textile industry in that corner of the south-west. My day took in Malmesbury , Trowbridge and Melksham .
A skin cancer study day saw me just down the road in Tewkesbury and the opportunity was not wasted - .
The weekend of 21 and 22 January was spent in Somerset and Devon and industrial archaeology can always be found if you cast the net wide enough - .
On 28 January I met up with fellow Geograph member Ashley Dace and we had a fantastic day at the Great Central Railway's biggest ever winter steam gala - .
I also got my first PotY nomination of the year .
Plans for the next weekend were scuppered by snow so I stayed local and garnered another PotY nomination - .
The next weekend's plans were torpedoed by a severely cracked windscreen forcing me to abandon a trip to Lancashire. Instead, I stayed local and landed my second ever PotY winner - . On the Sunday I went for a walk around the neighbourhood and bagged three personal points, including - .
After a week in Switzerland I returned in the small hours of 26 February and later that day grabbed my first new stationary steam engine (pump) of the year - - I practically fell over this only a few miles away while grabbing a missing section of my possible article on the Mid-Worcestershire Ring.
That's all for now and March will commence in the next blog.
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