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Debbie Smyth

Homonym – rock

Shetland, August 2019 Rock (solid mineral material) versus rock (a genre of music) Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your […]

-East Sussex

Point this way

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, January 2020 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 11 April 2020 Posted as part of Shadow Shot Sunday

A Coffee and a Book

Cocktail Time

The end of a warm Friday and a gorgeous setting sun, and I succumbed to a bright refreshment and a jovial novel. Coffee just didn’t match the orange tones of […]

-Hertfordshire

Looking a bit thin on top

A surprise encounter in my garden, April 2020 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 11 April 2020 Posted as part of Squaretops

-Hertfordshire

I dreamed it was raining bluebells

Bluebells have started to bloom, St Albans, April 2020 Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings. I’ll admit that many of […]

-Portugal

Making friends with a local

Barreiro, Portugal, March 2020 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 10 April 2019 Posted as part of Weekend B&W

-London

Double-checking railway time

If we go back to the days before railways, the time of day differed around Britain based on the geographic position in which you found yourself. For example, there was […]

A Coffee and a Book

Falling in love with Caroline

“this was the moment when the whole strange affair began; … two strangers come face to face; the heart thumps; an overpowering force shakes them, like the wind in the […]

-Cambridgeshire

Top and sails

Wicken Fen is just a small portion of the way this part of England used to be: un-drained fen once covered the vast lowlands of East Anglia. Calcium-rich water from […]

-Hertfordshire