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Women in transit - The Nubra Valley - Indian-controlled Kashmir. So - you are in the middle of nowhere - really, it's the dot above the letter 'I' in the word shit - and you set off from the hamlet you spent the previous night in - village would be too big a word - to get to the next place. You come across figures in the landscape - where have they come from and where are they going? There had been no easily identifiable signs of human settlement for hours. We offered them a lift which they gracefully declined.I'm not prone to such thoughts ordinarily but the Nubra Valley is - according to the locals - a haunted place - it put the shits up me, I'm not easily scared. It's also the world's highest - altitude-wise - and probably the most pointless battlefield currently on the go.

Gear - this I can remember - Nikon F2 AS high-eyepoint , 200, Tri-X. Yellow filter. This is one of my favourite ever cameras. Ideal for a bar room brawl as a self-defense buddy or you could hammer nails into a wall with it. In my experience indestructible.

Cheers - I
 
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It was a couple of years ago in the Dales up near Kirkby Stephen. We were on a holiday with the NCT group we joined before my eldest was born. All the oldest kids were born within months of each other. We meet up once a year and rent a house/barn/yurts for a weekend five families all with at least two kids. They all remember each other and get on fine, the new kids get absorbed along the way. The ears were from being a Christmas Pixie I think and Anwen loved wearing them for a while.
 
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