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...may want to install their lavatories elsewhere?

It's an embarrassingly long time since I last visited Cambridge Botanic Gardens. Probably measurable in decades.

And that's a pity, because it's walking distance from my house and, as I discovered again today, it's really a very pleasant spot.

Pretty clouds today, stretching as far away across East Anglia as I could see.

I know, I keep taking photos of it, but, hey...

They're filming the new season of Grantchester in, well, Grantchester, at the moment. I wrote last year about spotting a favourite tree in one of the episodes. Well, it must have been a good location, because they were setting up for filming there again this morning as Tilly & I walked past.

Were I a true paperazzo, of course, I would have had something better than a zoomed iPhone camera with which to take the picture.

More importantly, it would not have been back in my pocket when, a few minutes later, the stars (James Norton and Morven Christie), in full costume and beautifully lit by the early morning sun, smiled their thanks at me as I stepped aside to let their LandRover cross the cattle grid. :-)

Bird Hills, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This unusually-shaped tree changed its appearance completely as I walked around it, but this was my favourite angle. Click for larger image.

Having bought a large number of items on Amazon this week, I felt there was a certain irony about this sign at a bricks-and-mortar store...

Well, that's what they reminded me of! Crooked Lake, Michigan.