Just an ordinary day in my life.... pics...

hollydolly

hollydolly

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As I'm one of the few Brits on here I thought some of you might be interested in seeing pics of an ordinary day's shopping and travel for me... and see how it differs or not to where you live...

I went shopping to the supermarket first.. glorious day.. then to the town cafe for a drink.. then to the Museum to see a Textile exhibition, just a very small exhibition in a small town Museum.. then home again.. and as I drive through the woods to get home, I stopped and took some pics of the carpets of Bluebells ... enjoy...

Supermarket ( tesco )...outside..

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Inside...
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Jules said:
Nature and the shops are beautiful there. The UK is at the top of my list for places to visit.

I’m tired of all the modern strip malls they build here.
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yes we don't have strip Malls, we do have big retail parks with Malls... and of course the smaller shops that are in town as in my photos.. we refer to them as High street stores.. and unfortunately we're losing them at a rate of Knots, due to online shopping..even some malls are closing...leaving only the biggest still open.. I don't live anywhere near any big retail parks they tend to exist in more populated areas ..
 
Jules said:
These are just random online photos that I chose. And they keep building them while many of the same sit empty.
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ours are similar and are called Retail parks, but most of the stores are inside.. although some larger ones remain outside.. but within an enclosed complex... not like the US where each store is often a good walk away from the next store.. or even a little drive away...

here for example is Lakeside the retail park about 40 minutes from me

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Della said:
You live a beautiful country, Holly. It was spring when we went to England and all the flowers and deep green grass took my breath away.
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It's green all year round tbf... I remember one time I was coming back to the UK on a Spanish flight...and as we started to descend towards the airport we fly over lots of farmland .. and of course everything is very green , and especially compared to the Arid part of Spain we'd just left... and I remember 2 guys behind me ..as one said to the other.. ''Wow, this place is so green it looks like England manufactures Chlorophyll''...made me smile.. :D
 
SeaBreeze said:
Beautiful photos Holly, very interesting too, thanks for sharing. Looks like you enjoyed a very pleasant and peaceful day. :cool:
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I did SB... it was much quieter than it would be in town.. due to so many people being away this holiday weekend.. so it was lovely and peaceful especially in the supermarket.. :D...however all that said, I went into the next nearby town, and thought I'd go and get a drink at the pub.. but it was packed, the queue at the bar were 3 deep... so hot today.. and so many people come from the cities on a holiday weekend out here to the country and love to roam around our small towns and villages .. so I ended up buying a small bottle of coke, and drinking it in my car..

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Pinky said:
@hollydolly .. I like the way the produce is laid out in the grocery mart. The downtown streets appear to be very tidy, and I like the bollards. You live in a very picturesque area :)
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thanks Pinks... the town where the pics of the supermarket and cafe is.. is not my nearest market town.. it's about 15 miles from here.. but yes everyone says the same about our market town, how clean it looks. ..however the woods and the lane are right here beside my house... :love:
 
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hollydolly said:
As I'm one of the few Brits on here I thought some of you might be interested in seeing pics of an ordinary day's shopping and travel for me... and see how it differs or not to where you live...

I went shopping to the supermarket first.. glorious day.. then to the town cafe for a drink.. then to the Museum to see a Textile exhibition, just a very small exhibition in a small town Museum.. then home again.. and as I drive through the woods to get home, I stopped and took some pics of the carpets of Bluebells ... enjoy...

Supermarket ( tesco )...outside.. enjoyed
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Tesco has rescued quite a few older buildings, or at least the facade of those buildings, so much easier on the eye than the glass, chrome and plastic of so many supermarkets.

Following on from Holly's inspirational post, I too, like Holly, am British. I lived in East London until 1981. That year I was promoted but it meant moving 70 miles north to the county of Northamptonshire. We lived there for 15 years until 1996, when my job took me to the southern city of Southampton. Two reasons stopped us buying a home there, firstly we had gotten used to being out of London and city life and secondly, the only vacancy that my paramedic wife could take was in the market town of Ringwood, on the edge of the New Forest. We bought a beautiful house about four miles from Ringwood, leaving me a half hour's commute to work.

The New Forest is anything but new, Following the Norman Conquest, that's the invasion of England in 1066, the New Forest was proclaimed a royal forest, in about 1079, by William the Conqueror. It was used for royal hunts, mainly of deer. It was created at the expense of more than 20 small hamlets and isolated farmsteads; hence it was then 'new' as a single compact area. Here's a few images of where I live:
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There's a lot of quite tame wildlife in The New Forest, it can be quite a sight seeing the new born.
 
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Holly spoke of the bluebells, you really can't miss them when they cover the floor of The New Forest.
Just beyond the existing forest perimeter are some famous cities that are known well beyond our shores.
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The city of Portsmouth is home to HMS Victory. Today Victory is preserved at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and, as the flagship of the First Sea Lord & Chief of Naval Staff, is the oldest commissioned warship in the world.

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Just outside the city of Salisbury, about half an hour's drive from the edge of the forest, is the site of Stonehenge.
Stonehenge is perhaps the world's most famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2500 BC.

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The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winchester Cathedral, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is amongst the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.
https://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/explore/architecture/
 
I didn't just speak of the bluebells... I posted the pics. They are in my backyard basically... don't need to go to the new forest to see them
 

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