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Today's wacko activities, Quite often if I'm taking the dogs out on a rather quick walk I walk the old route or the Railway link Between Billingsley Coal Mine and the Severn Valley Railway.
There is a brook there ( Borle Brook) which runs near enough the same coarse zigzagging over the Brooke on bridges some of which are now in the Brooke. In the past when I've been out mooching I've noticed there is a fair amount of Coal in the Brook, I'm guessing coal that has been dropped from the railway and some washed down in storm conditions. Today I decided to take 5 minutes to collect enough coal to use in my Multi fuel stove so I am using coal that was mined in Billingsley Colliery at least 101 years after it was closed.

This is worth a look at There are still a lots of the mine buildings at Billingsley which make good photographic subjects. Colliery

I have collected approx two buckets full

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BADGER.BRAD said:
Today's wacko activities, Quite often if I'm taking the dogs out on a rather quick walk I walk the old route or the Railway link Between Billingsley Coal Mine and the Severn Valley Railway.
There is a brook there ( Borle Brook) which runs near enough the same coarse zigzagging over the Brooke on bridges some of which are now in the Brooke.
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BADGER.BRAD said:
Today I decided to take 5 minutes to collect enough coal to use in my Multi fuel stove so I am using coal that was mined in Billingsley Colliery at least 101 years after it was closed.

This is worth a look at There are still a lots of the mine buildings at Billingsley which make good photographic subjects. Colliery

I have collected approx two buckets full
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Waste not want not as the saying goes.
 
Hi, we had fibre-optic cables installed. - However, the talented workmen damaged a power cable, which burnt through.

And now all neighbours worry which water and gas pipes might have been damaged, too ... --- :



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Some autumn leaves (taken through our double glazed kitchen window)...

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Billingsley coal at work 101 years after the mine was closed, Toasty warm ! I'm going to make this my little project/dog walk for the next few days. One of the blocks was about 2 foot cubed and had to be broken up to fit my little fire box !

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A couple of phone snaps from Redcar seafront.

The long ride... and in the distance we can see the vertical pier.

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The view towards Marske and Saltburn. The sea defences and in the distance the cliffs at Saltburn.

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You can't really see much in this one but I'll post it anyway. We watched this dog as he paddled in every puddle having a great time whilst his humans just looked on and chatted :D

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Wow I came down this morning and thought I had walked into an oven, One load of my gleaned coal which produced massive amounts of heat was still going strong ( The Burner is small so I cannot fit a lot in) taken at 10 am Sat, fire lit at 5pm fri I think this is the best coal I've ever tried !

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Went for another early morning walk. I hate setting the alarm for 5:15am, but dawn is just wonderful at this time of year.

Saw some deer.
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Some mushrooms

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A cobweb







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and some red kites


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Another pointy up shot, This time with my Hand me down battered old Phone ! It does quite well if it has plenty of light ! Last night we had the down pour of all down pours with the wind whipping up the bouncing rain, today I'm walking the dogs in my teeshirt under a super blue sky !

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I walked out of the house to see these two coming up the road ( A fairly regular occurrence) Then realized I knew them both !

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This two I didn't know !

Mrs Badger Brought these to use as decoration, I just wanted to eat them !

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More mobile phone fun. This is an old hand me down but I do have a new one waiting to be brought into use :D

My car going for a check up. I couldn't resist taking this when I saw the rays :cool:

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I was a bit worried when I saw this as I thought they might be cannibals :oops: :$ but all was well and they charged me... nothing, Which was nice :D

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