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If I squint through the smog down the hill into Southampton centre and over the water, sometimes we can see the north coast of the Isle Of Wight! 😆


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:02 pm
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What an interesting thread! Really enjoyed descriptions and the pics and it needs
more pics!
Our small but glorious garden at the back
https://imgur.com/a/tIb3cW6
A Devon lane at the front but 5 mins cycle away is this view
https://imgur.com/a/uHGQRAN
The village Below and sea, well the Channel would be in this pic if you panned out a little bit.
https://imgur.com/a/mK1VHSo


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:06 pm
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The two towers on a good day ( of Emley moor) if we can’t see them it’s about to rain approx SW from us I would rather be seeing some of the above!!


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:10 pm
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An Teallach, Coigach, Suilven, Stacey Pollaidh


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:17 pm
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NT 500 024 makes my day every morning to see the maidens paps from my window.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:18 pm
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I can see some kind of ridge that I’ve never been able to confidently identify, potentially wedlock edge, but I’m not sure.

Also Birmingham city skyline on a clear day from the bottom of the cul de sac.

Brum is easy to make out and is pretty much exactly 20 miles away in a straight line. Can’t make out any features on the ridge so it’s evidently ‘quite far’ away.

Edit - also we can see the tops of the trees on Cannock chase from our bed, which is nice.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:19 pm
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Tap o Noth, The Buck and Clashindarroch Wind Farm.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:21 pm
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I'll join in this one for reasons that shall become obvious!

From the front of the house - looking straight down onto the River Lochy, and sticking its head up above the riparian birch wood is the summit of Ben Nevis. Carn Mor Dearg and Aonach Mor are obscured by the big oak tree on the river bank, but to the right of the oak the long ridge of the Grey Corries is currently lit up by the evening sun. Looking right from the front of the house I can see the Caledonian Canal and 'my' Corbett Beinn Bhan. Druim Fada also in view.

The east view is just sycamore at this time of the year but once the leaves are down there is an old stone arch bridge built by Thomas Telford with the Grey Corries above that.

Out the back of the house is a view down Loch Lochy with Gairlochy basin close. The backdrop is the munros Meall na Teanga and Sron a Choire Ghairbh. I have a stand of mature Scots pine coming up to the back fence.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:29 pm
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Trees
https://flic.kr/p/7q7raL
No snow today though


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:35 pm
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My dignity


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:38 pm
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This thread needs more pics!


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:46 pm
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I think I can narrow your house down to one or two Waderider - if I’m thinking of the right bridge.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:47 pm
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Photos of Stacey Pollaidh please.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 10:59 pm
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FOD, Malverns and closest at 200m ,the Cotswold Escarpment


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:01 pm
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People pulling over statues like it’s the fall of communism 🙂

Tbh it should be mountains in Spain but I’m a little stuck here for the mo.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:09 pm
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Front: Apple tree
Rear: Apple tree


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:11 pm
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Our driveway

The boreen


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:18 pm
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Leeds Bradford airport.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:22 pm
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on a good day….. the woman across the road getting dressed

Bad day in my case.
Must move to a better neighbourhood.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:27 pm
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I can almost see RAF Menwith Hill (It's the Yanks really) I can't hear them but I bet they can hear me.
Oh & the White Horse at Kilburn.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:31 pm
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I can see the ochils, the flare from grangemouth fuel refinery (if i stand on my toes)
And the top of knockhill, which overlooks the racing circuit.
Could be a lot worse.


 
Posted : 07/06/2020 11:41 pm
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I can see clearly now.

The rain has gone.

Me too 😉

Johnny Nash or Jimmy Cliff


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 12:36 am
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I can’t see the stadium, but I can see the trees in the park that razorrazoo’s house backs on to...


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 12:58 am
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Pretty much the same view as OP, but chuck in St Andrews, the quarry at Balmullo and Leuchars/Tentsmuir as well. It's not a bad view at times:

And from the actual doorstep we're regularly treated to sunsets like this:


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 2:03 am
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Keith Allen's house.


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 8:32 am
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Our front Leeds Liverpool Canal, lots of ducks and gobby geese.
Out back, Pendle Hill, Whinney Hill tip in Altham, the Coppice Accrington.


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 8:33 am
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A'Chailleach one way, the Feshie hills the other. And a lot of sheep. Many, many sheep.


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 8:41 am
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Front door step- not sure much, a road and a hawthorn hedge.

Back door step- fields and the Northern start of the Lake District.

Utility door step- rolling fields, Solway coast and SW Scottish fells.

Some nice sunsets from that side of the house too


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 9:03 am
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I want to live where @felltop lives but without the midges


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 9:11 am
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Rivy pike the mast and winter Hill out back

Fiddlers out the front and just for Bregante's benefit almost the isle of man


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 10:57 am
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I can usually see my nudist neighbour. Sometimes she also has her daughter around too :-O

This is the view from our last house - we moved out as the farmer that owned this field wouldn't sell us a small patch of land to the side of our house. We now know why as there is now planning permission in for residential development. I would be gutted if I was the person that lives there now.


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 11:06 am
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Malverns


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 11:46 am
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Mawddach estuary


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 11:56 am
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Swizzels Matlow factory, the home of Love Hearts and other vile compressed powdered sugar tablets. The start of the road that heads out to The Fox and a bunch of local hills. And, if you can be arsed to walk for a minute, Kinder. And sheep obviously.


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 12:12 pm
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On a clear day, I can see the Dent d'Oche and the Cornettes du Bise on the other side of Lac Léman. On a really clear day, Mont Blanc...:-)

https://flic.kr/p/s3Muvn


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 12:55 pm
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Big hills? I wish! I do live at 0m elevation!

From my doorstep I can see up the driveway, down the cul-de-sac and the lights from the local footy oval (that's AFL not soccer)

((and yes, I know it's not called soccer, but it is here as footy is AFL))


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 1:04 pm
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Can see this from my house.

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Posted : 08/06/2020 1:10 pm
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Blorenge, Skirrid, Waun Fach, Table Mountain, Llangatock Mountain, Crickhowell and The Usk.


 
Posted : 08/06/2020 1:54 pm
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Front doorstep just late 1950 semi's full of people on computers in their box rooms, wfh.

Now from the back step: Werneth Low straight ahead.
To the left Cheshire plains, Stockport, Manchester.
To the right moors near Glossop and Stalybridge.

tthew - we can see Fidders Ferry from the garden, didn't know the chimneys were coming down. Makes sense though now no longer in use.


 
Posted : 09/06/2020 1:14 pm
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Just over the neighbours roof I can see the Aspley Woods, home of the Longslade Trail and Woburn jump park.
It may have been an influencing factor in buying this house!


 
Posted : 09/06/2020 2:11 pm
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Out front to the North a section of badly cut council grass, first time this year (think Maroune Feiliani gets his hair cut with a knife and fork by a blindfolded and drunk chimpanzee)

Out back I can see best part of the Angel of the North and the hills I ride in, always the hills beckoning like a siren....


 
Posted : 09/06/2020 2:38 pm
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