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Heather Newman Blue Badge Guide

I am a qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guide for the Heart of England area, which includes delights suc

03/08/2023

Rob spent the day gardening, by gardening I mean endangering all my plants with her propellor tail!
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11/07/2023

Rob the Dog found a crop circle on her walk today!
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04/07/2023

Robin and I went for a different walk today, our usual wild flower meadow has been mowed for hay. We had a wonderful time it was full of flowers and butterflies and we didn’t see a single person!
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We also only saw two lonely orchids but masses of other flowers such as Bedstraw, Vetches and Milkworts. We also found some Squinancywort which is a type of Bedstraw, it was traditionally used to cure a sore throat (traditionally called squincy) and can be found across chalk grasslands.
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16/06/2023

I love this time of year, in no small part due to the wild Orchids! My favourite is the Bee Orchid and they are back this year in the fields above the house!
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15/06/2023

Rob the Dog and I went out for an early morning walk this morning to beat the heat! Hundreds of Orchids!
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I think she may have enjoyed herself!
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02/06/2023

One of my favourite places to visit in Cornwall is St Enodoc’s Church.
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This little church used to sit in the middle of sand dunes (at certain points covered over by them) but now sits nestled in the middle of a golf course!
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01/06/2023

Fabulous walk around Stonehenge in the sunshine yesterday!
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23/05/2023

A beautiful day today in Cornwall - a beautiful walk around Pentire and to St Enodoc Church before a wander around Port Isaac!
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14/05/2023

I love the doors of Chippjng Campden especially when the Wisteria is out!
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I had a lovely day touring yesterday with some American travellers.
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11/05/2023

The Norfolk Coast Path is a beautiful walk, I particularly like this lighthouse at Happisburgh which sits back from the coastline in the centre of a field!
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The lighthouse was built in the 1790s and is now the only independently run lighthouse in Great Britain.
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10/05/2023

Big sky country in Dorset yesterday! This was taken above the beautiful village of Piddlehinton. The Rapeseed is at its absolute best now.
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02/05/2023

A different walk today for me and Robin. We had a lovely six miler around Thursley Common in Surrey enjoying the heath land and the duckboards!
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15/04/2023

I am currently in Norfolk and it is a beautiful day so I had a pleasant stroll out to the windmill at Cley Next The Sea.
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13/04/2023

Got to love blossom season! Spring has most definitely sprung!
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12/04/2023

I am going away on a two week tour on Monday so I am enjoying spending time with Rob the Dog before I go away. On Easter Sunday we had a fabulous 8 miler walk across the Wiltshire Downland! The weather was utterly beautiful!
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08/04/2023

Rob the Dog and I had a fabulous walk this morning around Frensham Ponds.
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14/03/2023

Had a great evening tour in Oxford yesterday and the light was just perfect!
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This lamp post is reputed to be CS Lewis’ inspiration for the Iron Tree in his book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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09/03/2023

Looking out from Old Portsmouth through the gates that naval officers would have walked through to return to their ships.
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The land on the other side is Gosport and Fort Blockhouse on the opposite side of the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour.
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Fort Blockhouse started off as a blockhouse (a small fort of only one or two rooms) in the 1430s, it became a gun battery under Henry VIII, this battery fired upon Portsmouth during the English Civil War.
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Fort Blockhouse was handed over to the Royal Navy in 1905 and it became HMS Dolphin and was the home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service until 1999. The cream tower in the picture is the Submarine Escape Training Tower which trained submariner recruits from July 1954 til it closed in 2020. Recruits who wanted to ‘earn their dolphins’ had to escape through a simulated airlock and swim unaided through 100ft of water towards the top of the tower. Something my Grandad succeeded in doing!
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I am currently training for my second Blue Badge Tourist Guide qualification - the Central Southern area.
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04/03/2023

Portsmouth Cathedral has a beautiful lawn of crocuses which are planted to form shapes such as anchors and fish. It is absolutely gorgeous at the moment!
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10/02/2023

I do love snowdrop season and where I live I am very close to some wonderful Snowdrop gardens and Shaftesbury with its Snowdrop Festival!
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Sadly my trusty camera has given up the ghost so I have a new (to me) camera! I went out for a play with it this morning and found some lovely snowdrops in the churchyard in Sutton Veny.
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07/02/2023

I was looking through some of my old pictures and found this one of a Solver Washed Fritillary that I took on Exmoor in 2013.
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They are one of my favourite butterflies and are always moving about from food source to food source and so it was a real privilege to manage to catch one so still! It was feeding on Thistles one of their favourite food sources.
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05/02/2023

The light today has been beautiful. I went for a walk around the millpond at Beaulieu in the New Forest National Park - I do love a good reed bed with the birds singing from within.
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01/02/2023

The Snowdrops are definitely thriving on the Isle of Wight.
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31/01/2023

I had a lovely walk down to Newtown Harbour, across the salt marshes, on the Isle of Wight today.
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30/01/2023

What a beautiful day today on the Isle of Wight and a lovely bracing walk up from Alum Bay onto Tennyson Down. I am here to look around as part of the Central Southern Blue Badge Guide Course I am on.
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Alum Bay and The Needles sits on the very westerly point of the Isle of Wight. Alum Bay is famous for its beautiful multicoloured cliffs that come from layers of clay and sand being pushed up and condensed in almost verticale seams.
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22/01/2023

Me and my sister went up to Birmingham today to visit a relative and drove back down cross country. The sky was so beautiful that I couldn’t resist a detour to visit Arlington Row and Bibury. The mist was just beginning to settle on the River Coln when we arrived.
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19/12/2022

Another picture from the Salisbury Cathedral Close. It looks particularly lovely in the winter!
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17/12/2022

Robin and I had a lovely walk down Old Shaftesbury Drove from Ansty to Salisbury yesterday. It was a lovely winter day, although very cold!
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Drove Roads were used for driving animals to market or between summer and winter grazing.
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14/12/2022

I went to Salisbury Market yesterday for a little bit of Christmas shopping and it was the most glorious cold and clear day - perfect for a walk around the Cathedral Close.
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Salisburys Cathedral Close is over 80 acres making it the largest in the UK. The close was originally built for the canons of Salisbury Cathedral in the 1200s, to surround the new cathedral they were building. Today almost 600 people live within the confines of the close!
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One of my favourite buildings in the close is No.68, Myles Place, which was built in 1718 on the site of one of the canonries. Myles Place was home at one point to the first two physicians at Salisbury Infirmary (founded in the 1760s).
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It has been used for filming and was recently used in the 2022 Great Expectations with Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham.
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18/11/2022

This is Scylla, aka Squalo di Terra aka Land Shark, my parents new Labrador puppy. She is the loveliest thing although she is very chewy!
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28/10/2022

Robin is loving her walks (mushroom hunts), New Forest yesterday and Stourhead today!
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18/10/2022

I love autumn at Heligan!
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17/10/2022

We had a stop in the beautiful Charlestown during our two week Cotswolds and Cornwall trip so the group could see the harbour where Poldark and others were filmed.
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28/09/2022

Painswick Church and it’s Yew Trees is particularly beautiful in the autumn sunshine.
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It is said to have 99 Yew Trees and that a 100th can never grow.
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17/09/2022

Recently I lead a series of walks along the Thames Path and one of them took us through Abingdon.
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16/09/2022

I have been so busy over the last couple of weeks that I haven’t put any pictures up from my recent travels! Here is one of my favourites from the last couple of weeks - taken at the Black Country Living Museum.
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I was in and around Dudley to research for a genealogy tour.
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07/08/2022

Putting Mum and Dads hens away tonight and their dog Flurry couldn’t stop growling and going mad in a corner of the veg patch.
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Through further investigation found this very sweet young hedgehog and decided it was best to move it through the gate into another area of the garden… out of sight out of mind! Robin couldn’t understand what all the excitement was about, gave it one sniff, and went back to bed!
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It’s so lovely to see them!
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05/07/2022

Robin the dog with her find on one of our orchid hunts last month. This rather lovely specimen is a Butterfly Orchid, as you can see from the second picture she is rather proud of herself!
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03/07/2022

I went to Chichester for the first time the other week. I love the cathedral especially with the campanile!
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01/07/2022

Even in driving rain Heligan is beautiful, I love the Ravine with all of its tree ferns and twists and turns!
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