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We stop by the road for a quick picture of the northern welsh country

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<p>A Red Kite in February snow, mid Wales.<br />
For Smile on Saturday theme of 'Birds', 7th March 2026.<br />
(I don't take many bird photos, so this one is from deep in my archives!)</p>

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<p>H115XYC - 1991 Ford Sierra 1.8 LX Estate Seen at Fords at the castle 2025<br />
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Caldicot castle, Wales <br />
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Taken with a Nikon D7000</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/november_song/55132527092/" title="Cornwall - Penzance - Penlee Gardens Prior to 1951"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55132527092_459f1d3ef8_m.jpg" width="240" height="136" alt="Cornwall - Penzance - Penlee Gardens Prior to 1951" /></a></p>

<p><u>The Postcard</u><br />
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A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Penzance using a 2d. stamp on Wednesday the 25th. July 1951. The card was sent to:<br />
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Mr. & Mrs. J. Daft,<br />
12, Cornwell Road,<br />
Williamstown,<br />
Penygraig,<br />
S. Wales.<br />
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The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:<br />
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"Dear Mr. & Mrs. Daft,<br />
Just a line. Trust you<br />
are all OK.<br />
We are having lovely<br />
weather and having a<br />
very nice holiday.<br />
Went to Army service<br />
Sunday - the officers<br />
know you.<br />
Love,<br />
B.D."<br />
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<u>Penzance</u><br />
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Penzance is a town and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England. It is the westernmost major town in Cornwall, and is about 64 miles (103 km) west-southwest of Plymouth, and 255 miles (410 km) west-southwest of London. <br />
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Situated in the shelter of Mount's Bay, the town faces south-east onto the English Channel. It is bordered to the west by the fishing port of Newlyn. Granted various royal charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated on the 9th. May 1614, Penzance has a population of 21,200 (2011 census).<br />
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Penzance's Chapel Street has a number of interesting features, including the Egyptian House, and The Admiral Benbow public house (home to a real life 19th.-century smuggling gang, and allegedly the inspiration for Treasure Island's "Admiral Benbow Inn").<br />
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Chapel Street also features the Union Hotel (including a Georgian theatre which is no longer in use), and Branwell House, where the mother and aunt of the famous Brontë sisters once lived. <br />
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Regency and Georgian terraces and houses are common in some parts of the town. The nearby sub-tropical Morrab Gardens has a large collection of tender trees and shrubs, many of which cannot be grown outdoors anywhere else in the UK. <br />
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Also of interest is the seafront with its promenade and the open-air seawater Jubilee Pool (one of the oldest surviving Art Deco swimming baths in the country).<br />
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Penzance is the base of the pirates in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. At the time the libretto was written, 1879, Penzance had become popular as a peaceful resort town, so the idea of it being overrun by pirates was amusing to contemporaries.<br />
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<u>Patti D'Arbanville</u><br />
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So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?<br />
<br />
Well, the 25th. July 1951 marked the birth of the American actress Patti D'Arbanville. Patti is known for her appearance in Andy Warhol projects.<br />
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After appearing in Flesh (1968), D'Arbanville performed in Warhol's L'Amour (1973), and as the title character in the David Hamilton film Bilitis (1977).<br />
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D'Arbanville has worked in film and television series in the United States and France, including her role as Lt. Virginia Cooper on the Fox series New York Undercover,<br />
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<u>Patti D'Arbanville's Personal Life</u><br />
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In the late 1960's, when Patti was a model in London, D'Arbanville met and developed a romance with singer and songwriter Cat Stevens. She was the inspiration for his 1970 song "Lady D'Arbanville".<br />
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D'Arbanville left Stevens for periods of time to continue her modeling career in Paris and NYC, and was a part of Warhol's Factory scene. In an interview with Warhol, she said of the song "Lady D'Arbanville":<br />
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"Stevens wrote that song "Lady D'Arbanville" <br />
when I left for New York. I left for a month, it <br />
wasn't the end of the world was it? <br />
But he wrote this whole song about 'Lady <br />
D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still?' <br />
It's about me dead. So while I was in New <br />
York, for him it was like I was lying in a coffin... <br />
He wrote that because he missed me, <br />
because he was down... It's a sad song."<br />
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D'Arbanville later had a relationship with actor Don Johnson from 1981 to 1985. The couple had a son, Jesse Wayne Johnson (born 7th. December 1982).<br />
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D'Arbanville has been married and divorced three times. She lived in France for 10 years, becoming fluent in French, and was married to French actor Roger Miremont from 1975 to 1980. <br />
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She was married to Steve Curry from 1980 to 1981. She was then married to former NYC firefighter Terry Quinn from 1993 to 2002. They have three children.<br />
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<u>Patti D'Arbanville's Filmography</u><br />
<br />
-- 1968 - Flesh<br />
-- 1970 - The House<br />
-- 1971 - The Blood Letting<br />
-- 1973 - L'Amour<br />
-- 1975 - Rancho Deluxe<br />
-- 1977 - Bilitis<br />
-- 1977 - La fille d'Amérique<br />
-- 1978 - Big Wednesday<br />
-- 1978 - The Fifth Floor<br />
-- 1979 - The Main Event<br />
-- 1979 - Time After Time<br />
-- 1980 - Hog Wild<br />
-- 1981 - Modern Problems <br />
-- 1985 - Real Genius<br />
-- 1985 - The Boys Next Door<br />
-- 1988 - Call Me Cori<br />
-- 1988 - Fresh Horses<br />
-- 1989 - Wired<br />
-- 1994 - Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up<br />
-- 1996 - The Fan<br />
-- 1997 - Fathers' Day<br />
-- 1998 - Archibald the Rainbow Painter<br />
-- 1998 - Celebrity<br />
-- 2002 - Personal Velocity: Three Portraits<br />
-- 2003 - A Tale of Two Pizzas<br />
-- 2006 - World Trade Center<br />
-- 2007 - Perfect Stranger<br />
-- 2007 - You Belong to Me<br />
-- 2008 - The Marconi Bros.<br />
-- 2010 - The Extra Man<br />
-- 2010 - Morning Glory.</p>

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<p>Near this point, at modern Kurnell, the first well-documented contact between European and east coastal Australian indigenous people occurred in April 1770; when Lieutenant James Cook and his party landed and encountered people of the Gweagal clan of the Dharawal people.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_voyage_of_James_Cook#:~:text=The%20first%20voyage%20of%20James,Endeavour%2C%20from%201768%20to%201771" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_voyage_of_James_Cook#:~:text=...</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweagal" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweagal</a><br />
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On 28 April Cook named Point Solander in honour of HMS Endeavour's botanist, Daniel Solander.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Solander" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Solander</a><br />
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On the same date he named Botany Bay, noting "The great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the Name of Botany Bay"<br />
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Banks' enthusiasm for the botanical richness and novelty he found at this landing point led to the first British settlement in 1788 being located at Botany Bay --- soon realised to be a mistake because of the poor, sandy soil and paucity of water supply --- and the consequent relocation to modern Sydney Cove/Harbour [the entrance to which Cook had sighted, noted as a "safe anchorage" and named "Port Jackson" but never entered.]</p>

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<p>Taken using Canon 70-200mm f2.8 Mark 1 (non-IS)</p>

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<p>Mynydd Mawr from Blae y Cae</p>

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<p>Rainbow over Ty'n y fawnog</p>

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<p>AF4150 from Paris CDG</p>

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<p>VLG4556 from Toulouse</p>

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