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Runs, reads, travels, bakes, messes around with watercolours. Retired. Likes coffee.

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Still some bluebells out.

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Woodland walk

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One of the Clopton brasses, Long Melford church.

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No. 51 and family pose for the camera.

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Not much actual 'stained' glass left after Henry VIII had his way. Church at Cavendish, Suffolk.

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No shortage of paths to follow near Long Melforrd

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The River Deben estuary South of Woodbridge

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This will do us nicely.

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Our nearest neighbour...

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Having a moment on this balmy April evening after arrival at our pad in rural Suffolk.

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Finished a section of the Viking Coast Path today at sunny Broadstairs.

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Beautiful spring morning at Stodmarsh with many bird and waterfowl sightings.

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Thinking of my mum today who would have been a great-grandmother this March. ❤️

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Sumi-e birdie!

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And just to return to Leighton Hse, had to add this one: the stunning Arab Hall (1877-81)

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British Library ‘Treasures’ exhibit: a cartoon by Siegfried Sassoon which accompanied the handwritten draft of his poem The March Past (dated Christmas Day, 1916).

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Leighton's bedroom is a little monastic but reminiscent of Ruskin's at Brantwood.

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The Silk Room is one of many stunning interiors at Leighton Hse, home of Frederick, Lord Leighton.

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The beautiful Fitzrovia Chapel.

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Aphra Behn (1640-89). English playwright and author. Beaney House of Knowledge, Canterbury.