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Lazing on a sunny afternoon...

As The Kinks once sang — nothing beats lazing on a sunny afternoon...

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  Lazing on a sunny afternoon...

With the sun high in the sky and the first warming signs of a real Summer starting to rise the temperatures, tuba player and student nurse Sarah Billard recently took the opportunity to enjoy some practice — and a well deserved snooze — in an oil seed rape field near Darrington, West Yorkshire.

Lazing on a sunny afternoon never felt any better...

Picture: Lorne Campbell / Guzelian

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