Photos taken at Bystock Pond near to the delightfully named roads of Inner Ting Tong and Outer Ting Tong.
From Wikepedia: The naming of the two roads on the hill-top in Devon between Budleigh Salterton, Woodbury and Exmouth is widely derided as fanciful, but is regarded by locals as being derived in the normal way from a Thing-Tun - a dun or small settlement around the place where the Thing used to meet. A thing (Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing; German, Dutch ding; modern Scandinavian languages: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead.
7 comments:
Stillness - great light too.
At the bottom right of the first pic, is that a blue can?
cheers
Ting Tong?
Iddle I Poh!
As for blue can, duck!
Mallard, no?
etc. etc.
Cheers and thanks aferrismoon. As tempted as I am to say I was lobbing my empty Tennant Supers in, our 'mystery' commenter has it right, ducks they are, there are a few of them in the photo. If you look to the right side of the can there is a small head on top. Maybe I could run a 'spot the duck' competition like the old 'spot the ball'.
I took the first few as it was raining, so a good combination of rain, lily pads and sunset and in a place I'd never been to before, though I used to drive past Inner Ting Tong when I used to live out that way years ago.
Well spotted Anonymous, you've done this before I think.
blue can on water
becomes Autumn duck floating
as day turns to night
Cheers for now..
Whilst on the subject of ting I suppose I should mention that I used to play triangle in a reggae band. I used to sit at the back and ting.
I like a drop of Old Mallard, y'know the one with the handy duck's head drinking spout.
Down the hatch!
cheers
he he, all good stuff!
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