@DrMarkH - one day, will you surprise us with either a selfie or a picture of you on the walk? I’m sure there’s someone in your group who could take a photo of you - even if it is of you taking a photo of him/them 
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You mean…that is not his head in his avatar? I thought it was obligatory, you all have seen mine.
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I moved to Gloucester from a Cotswold village when I was eleven and for a while joined other boys from our nearby school on a bridge overlooking the main line from London to Cheltenham (Spa - it’s still that on the train). Being GWR there were lots of Castles, Abbeys and Halls but to see the majestic Kings I had to go up to Snow Hill, Birmingham.
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Ah, not my region, LNER for the A4 Pacifics (Streaks) and I use to cycle 30 odd miles to where 2 lines crossed, on above the other. I suppose that was LMS,
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The good doctor doesn’t do selfies 
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The good doctor doesn’t do selfies
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But in previous posts, he may have used body doubles.
Or, then again maybe not…
He’s like Hitchcock did in his films - he slides himself into the odd photo without comment.
Though there are more of Gigi than of the doctor - and it’s about time for another one
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His shadow has been recorded several times…
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Went for a wander again this morning, starting from the Rue du Mont near La Celle en Morvan, wandering down past the pig farm before turning off into the hills.
There was a lot of forestry tracks, that looks great at the time but are dull in retrospect, however we did see a (fuzzy) slow worm, and even more rare - a puddle. There’s been quite a lot of rain around here, and the streams are fuller, grass green again. There were also lots of gulleys carved into the trail where rainwater was draining.
After about an hour up and down we started to get views between the trees where we were going to head down.
Eventually we came out on the main road between La Celle and Petit Verriere near La Barrot close to this farm.
Then it’s just a walk along the road back to the car. There were mushrooms growing by the roadside, although we didn’t feel inclined to try them.
And the final corner.
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Ha, that clever subtlety reminds me of Stewart Lee. I like that better than the donald dick one (sorry duck)
Seldom see the sea on this thread, so it’s a particular pleasure for us in landlocked départements.
For me, that’s the only thing wrong with the Aveyron…
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And the only thing that would persuade me away from my forest heaven.
It is funny but I have always appreciated sea views and climate and yet I continued to live about as far in England that you can get away from the sea in Nottingham, and then emigrated to another place about the same distance away. 
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France is a mosaic, and the Aveyron has its own charms!
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We don’t have any large forests here—just lots of woods and hedgerows, but no real, deep forest. Having lived in the Rambouillet Forest before, I sometimes miss the canopy 
Our forests are a haven where one can walk in the summer heat and a visual treat in the autumn.
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Yes, I agree, except for one thing, autumn means a daily chore of sweeping the leaves from the surface of the swimming pond which includes painstakingly sorting on a tray all the little wildlife that needs chucking back, before I can swim.
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When the hunters aren’t there 
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I know that was directed at Dr. Mark but to answer for myself I will explain our exclusion. We live on a large ‘island’ of forest and field containing only 4 houses. This means that the law forbidding shooting within 100 metres or so (?) of habitation makes it not worth while for the hunt to cross the curve of the ‘D’ or the straight bit where we live. 
We do often see the thus protected wild inhabitants though, deer, rabbits and wild boar or see the evidence of their passing.
Once, some years ago as I walked up the edge of the field with my dogs a full grown stag burst out of the forest and soared right over the top of me. Not sure which of us was the most surprised and it happened so quickly that the dogs failed to react. 
Obviously no pics.
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