New Forest, Furzey and Rufus Stone in MGF
A little road trip across the New Forest, to Furzey and Rufus Stone in the MGF.
Went to Wan Chai with my pal and his girlfriend, and took a few snaps.
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Being a geeky type of chap, I generally find that the best way to guarantee that Santa puts a decent geek-friendly Christmas present in my stocking is to buy it myself! So this year I treated myself to an Icom IC-R20 hand-held, all-band communications receiver/scanner. I have always had a penchant for small communications receivers….