A year in Crewe...

Returned to Crewe at the end of August last year with my son.

Wife, daughter and camera followed sometime in November.

I finally bothered taking some pictures when it snowed in January.

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That blue thing is my car. My house (rented) is behind it. The other things are my kids. They enjoyed the snow. I didn't.

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My daughter with a hat on

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Fields at the back of the house. There are cows in them now.

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For those of you that are colour-blind, this photo is in black and white.

For some reason I didn't my camera out again for ages. But I did take some crap photos with my phone camera thingy. Took me ages to work out how to get them off my crap phone camera thingy and onto my computer thingy, but I did, so there.

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These cows attacked me and my children. We had to jump over the fence to escape them (I threw the kids actually). We are now on the other side of the fence goading them.

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Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.

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Some horses who lived not far from where Darwin got married. I wonder if they knew him.

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Anyways, they was cousins or something and all the kids were inbreds, which is kind of ironic for the guy who invented evolution

Thats a nice house you live in nick, who lives in those 2 crappy houses on the left of the picture?

One day we went to Shrewsbury, which is in Shropshire.

I think this is the place where you are still allowed to kill welsh people.

I tried, but couldn't find any, I don't suppose it's their top holiday destination

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This Darwin gets around, apparently he was from here.

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a duck

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flowers and stuff

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Mods and their motybikes

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Thats a nice house you live in nick, who lives in those 2 crappy houses on the left of the picture?

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Me:(, I is only renting and will be out in a couple of months.:)

Walking up some hills

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There's our car, down there!

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more hills

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There's a golf course up at the top. Church Stretton it is called

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Walking back down again

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That's probably enough excitement for you lot for now.

I think I'm up to about April so far.

I missed out a bit at the start.

My mate got married to a welsh bird in a barn in wales.

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They were quite blurred apparently

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Outside the barn in wales.I'm there, somewhere

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This place is called Penmachno.

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Trampoline. nough said

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Wedding cake with sheep and stuff

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Animals rearranged on man's head by Little NickA

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Little NickA downs a few lemonades

nice thread mate. excellent commentry

Thanks Tris you make the place look almost livable, well Wales at any rate.

Nice one Nick. Thought you were from Southampton for some reason.

Bet your kids loved it, snow and stuff.

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Thats a nice house you live in nick, who lives in those 2 crappy houses on the left of the picture?

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Me:(, I is only renting and will be out in a couple of months.:)

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Going somewhere nice, like Glasgow?

nice pics
feared the worst when you said crewe
i think its chester where you are still allowed to shoot welsh people and only after dark

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Wedding cake with sheep and stuff

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Looks like a Welsh orgy. :)

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i think its chester where you are still allowed to shoot welsh people and only after dark

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It is.

the rules were after midnight & with a crossbow!

It not legal nowadays though.

Great thread Nick.

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Brown jacket fella in the middle looks a bit sick. The groom?

Nice pix Nick.

Great photo of the Newcastle-under-Lyme sign. Nearly made me homesick again.

Really nice pictures. When the sun is out England can be so beautiful. Don't hold your breath though. As for killing Welsh, well just do it on the quiet and try not to brag and you're probably o.k. with it.
Definition of a Welshman.....Irishman that couldn't swim. Just as well really as I'm quarter Welsh meself boyo ....Yaki Da and sospan foch etc.

Another walk near some old house

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Little Moreton or something like that

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There's a place called Mow Cop somewhere over there

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More cows

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...and bulls

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A Thai festival near Alderley Edge.

Can't remember exactly where, but it was a big hotel with a golf course.


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Bouncy castles and things
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The local thai shop "Tim Thai" was there and supplied us with free food.

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Some old Thai lady with a barbecue in the middle of a golf course

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Didn't stay long as it said on the flyer it was 10am - 6pm, we turned up at 3.30 and it closed at 4pm.

Good organisation as normal

Getting pretty recent now.

Last weekend in Hoylake.

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We are walking out to that island, which isn't an island because the tide is out.

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It was actually hot and sunny, about 28 celsius.

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We managed to collect a few bags of cockles, but apparently they weren't very nice.

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On the island

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looking back

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climbing up

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Out to sea

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Some arty shots

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Walking back

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Playing on the beach

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Last week as well.

Cycling in Delamere forest

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Well, the kids were cycling, we was running after them

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No map and we managed to get lost a few times

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Fortunately I had the wife there to carry a picnic

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Who said cycle helmets aren't cool?

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great pics

^Where are you, Jarvis?

Fantastic pics mate. Nice to see some real life stuff for a change.
When you said 'back to Crewe' does that mean you are a former resident? If so, did you ever live in Goulden St?

Am I allowed to choose between a year in Crewe and a day in Pattaya?

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When you said 'back to Crewe' does that mean you are a former resident? If so, did you ever live in Goulden St?

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Actually never really lived in Crewe. Used to live in Wistaston and now live in Willaston which is technically nearer to Nantwich

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Am I allowed to choose between a year in Crewe and a day in Pattaya?

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Yes, which one do you want?

Both sound like pretty bad options.

Nice pictures Nick, don't seem that you have been here for a year. Not all that far from me then, but you do realise that there are two Willastons in Cheshire.

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Yes, went past the other one on the way to Hoylake.

We are the one with the World Worm Charming Championships:)

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It's on soon at my son's school, so hopefully I'll get some pictures

Who's the totty sitting next to your missus (no, not your Mum)?

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not too far from me either
years since ive been to delamere, used to love it as a kid

^^Don't know, there were two of them and they looked a bit hiso and came in a merc.

So thats the definition of hiso:) Mine has to make do with coming in a suzuki

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Actually never really lived in Crewe. Used to live in Wistaston and now live in Willaston which is technically nearer to Nantwich

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Whoa now we're talking,
i've been a resident of Nantwich most of my life (infact i was born there,which makes me a dabber) not all of it as i'm still alive :)

Quite a few thais here now and we even have an old pub converted into a thai restuarant.

Not to far from Wales too but far too many young farmers in the area :aus:
the lot of em.