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BTW, the temporary gazebo toward the front of the square is Santa's grotto. He had a good number of visitors shortly after 5:00 PM yesterday. During the rest of the year, there are tables and chairs set out in the square for anyone to use.

And now we head into the light! The growing season will start soon, and there will be sufficient fresh food for man and beast.

Here's the EarthCam of one of the best city squares in the country, in the city just down the road from my home village. earthcam.com/usa/newyork/corning/?cam=corning-ny You'll need to copy the URL and paste it to a new tab.

Often, after the spring floods, the swimming hole would end up in the section of the creek that flowed through our farm. Except during a polio epidemic, all the youngsters in the neighborhood had an open invitation to swim there as long as they brought an someone expert in lifesaving with them...

That would account for the Church tower not being visible in the photo.

I use one like Foggy's!

And as we've aged, we notice more sun damage to the skin on the side facing the open window.

It was more the configuration of the roads than the building architecture that clued me in.

'Elf and Safety would throw a fit about the child on the running board!

A fellow I dated briefly in the early '60s drove a Ford Console. Can't remember his name, but the car was memorable because it was an unusual model.

Not as far back as the photo, but early 1980s Oxford and Canterbury.

A selection of her home-baked temptations (well-preserved, of course).

Den looks extremely pleased!

More d****d fly tippers! I've lost count of the number of photos/reports on the Holmfirth Community Group Facebook page. One of them, within the last couple of days, was on Woodhead Road, across from the intersection with Greenfield Road. Looked like a load of furniture.

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Very good! My first thought, though, was that the Spirit must have been Earnshaw.

I used to put it up whenever I had time, but didn't turn on the lights until Yule, on December 21st.

I grew up on the farm that my paternal grandfather bought in 1911, when my father was three years old. Moved from there to reduce the commute to work in 1965, when I was 21. The efficiency flat I rented was miserable, so I moved to another a few months later. Married in 1967, separated in...

I have major difficulty staying with an exercise program unless I enjoy that particular exercise. I might have less difficulty if I saw results from it, though. The only one I've ever enjoyed has been walking, outside when the weather isn't too awful and inside on a high-tech treadmill with my...