You're lucky; I was nearly eaten by three lions.
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You're lucky; I was nearly eaten by three lions.
Angles. #photography #pier #sea #Swanage
Bonehill Rocks, Dartmoor, Devon #photography #BonehilRocks #tor #Dartmoor #Devon
Ballard Point, The Pinnacles, Handfast Point & Old Harry's Rocks (and, beyond, the delights of Bournemouth). #photography #Swanage #headlands #coast
Lucky that the voters have made politics Carswell-free.
Boundary Circus, London E2. One of the earliest municipal estates in East London. #photography #BoundaryCircus #EastLondon #CouncilEstate
Yes. I could easily come up with dozen more-important issues than this nonsense. It's a disatraction from the issues we *should* be angry about.
They're looking for the nozzle to re-inflate him.
The Times, wallowing in the gutter. No 'questions' remain; it's all above board.
High Street, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. An adoorable door. #photography #CornerShop #Berkeley #adoorable #Glos
I found the book very author-heavy - I could practically hear Osman typing the text as I read it.
Asymmetric warfare.
I come from a place (NI) where the wrong flag, in the wrong place, could get you killed. And the painting on kerbstones was nothing to do with patriotism; it was about marking territory - intimidating 'the others' from treading on their ground.
Complain.
Railway viaduct for the former Wareham to Swanage Railway (which still runs, for tourist jaunts). Beyond, the remains of Corfe Castle. The viaduct is itself a Listed Building. #photography #CorfeCastle #Swanage #Wareham #railway #viaduct
Yes, they failed, while wise people insisted they would confound the extremists. We need to do better, and *some* of that is reform of our corrupt constitution. I don't care whether it's codified or not.
"norms and civic virtue held across the polity are the ballgame" A lot of Americans thought that too. As did 1930s Germans.
The End of the Pier Show, Swanage. (Don't worry, there's a newer one, right next door.) #photography #Swanage #pier #seaside #Dorset
Mill pond, Swanage, Dorset. #photography #MillPond #Swanage #Dorset
St Nicholas Parish Church, Studland, Dorset Early, early Norman. #photography #Studland #StNicholas #Dorset #Norman
#KitchenUtensilsInASongOrMovie Flight Whisk Personal Strainer The Fourth Protocolander Best Ladle Plans
Reeves doesn't really need to find cash fast. She only needs to convince the money markets she has a predictable source of income in the pipeline.
The Jolly Sailor, Saltford, Somerset #photography #pub #JollySailor #VirginiaCreeper #Saltford #Somerset
If you want these items called something that everyday usage doesn't use - it has *everything* to do with language.
She does so argue - but wants to limit which women have rights, which rather negates her argument.
Good luck policing the English language.
#SeaLifeInSongsOrFilms Prawn of the Dead West Side Dory Field of Breams The Seventh Seal
#SeaLifeInSongsOrFilms Twilight of the Cods The Clambusters Play it Again, Salmon Monty Python and the Coley Grail Anything by Marlin Scorcese
It's not the 40 years that's the problem; it's the 40 inches, round the waist...
To be fair, there was Scottish reaction to Scots Parl's liberalisation of Self-ID ('Women Won't Wheest;), which Rowling latched on to. This was several years ago. It was Scots campaigners who brought the issue to the Supremes.
Think! Don't stink!
I would say the current wave of transphobia is significant. The Equality Act is not fulfilling its intended purpose.
"It was a judicial judgment" It wasn't just a judicial judgment, it was an interpretation of a statute, passed by Parl. The political response should have been to re-examine the statute. Instead, pols doubled-down on the harshest interpretation of the interpretation.
344, Dalston High Street, only a few decades ago. #photography #Dalston #Watsons #market #rubbish
I appreciate what you're saying, but I fear that the anti-migrant crowd rather expect the 'invaders' to treat Brits the way that Brits treated them.
Dove Hole, Dovedale, Derbyshire - the 'White Peak'. #photography #DoveHole #cave #Dovedale #WhitePeak #Derbyshire
An unfortunate lighting post in the gateway of All Saints church, Almondsbury, Gloucestershire #photography #AllSaints #Almondsbury #gateway #gibbet
You could take any single frame of that movie and hang in your wall.
St Mary's, Radcliffe, Bristol. The War Memorial, viewed from the South porch. #photography #StMaryRadcliffe #WarMemorial #Bristol
God really does move in mysterious ways.
"clearly" Anything but clear.
And public libraries/
If that's the only problem...
(Taking the idea more seriously than it deserves...) "A Dyson sphere date center would rapidly overheat" - then we'd emit that heat out of one of the poles, so the Dyson sphere could cruise the universe.
Tudor St Anthony (that's the name of the house), Muchelney, Somerset. #photography #Muchelney #TudorStAnthony #ThatchedCottage #Somerset
If US now approves - or even rewards - a landgrab by force in Ukraine, how can they look China in the face when they invade Taiwan?
"Britain already can't pay for everything it needs now" ...because those with all the money, keep it. UK is a rich country, but all but a tiny minority are poor.
During the West German 'economic miracle', German industry worked on a 6:1 ratio. True, it wasn't enforced by law; they just accepted it as a decent way to behave. There really is no justification for the greed of execs.
The Babycham deer, outside the then Showerings HQ in Shepton Mallet, late 1980s. (The factory is now back in Showerings' hands, brewing cider, but Babycham itself is lost in some booze conglomerate. Who knows where the deer has gone.) #photography #Babycham #Showerings #SheptonMallet #cider #deer
"This turns into a feminist issue" Fuck off. You really are becoming desperate. Grooming is despicable, but it *still* isn't terorism.
Yes. A perfectly adequate charge.
And GBH, if proven, is a perfectly adequate charge. No political dramatising necessary.
Still not terrorism.
It's to stop defenders & attackers wrestling over the same space. Messy.
#SundaySermons St Andrews, Banwell, Somerset
Wood in a wood. #photography #wood #logs
#AuthorsInSongsOrMovies D H Lawrence of Arabia Wolfe of Wall Street Zadie Smith Goes to Washington
#AuthorsInSongsOrMovies Le Carre on Cleo
#AuthorsInSongsOrMovies Whip-Thackeray, Whip-Thackeray. Whip-Thackeraaaaay
#AuthorsInSongsOrMovies The Lavender Milne Mob The Third Mann The Woolf of Wall Street
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing” Jean Baptiste Colbert
Them too.
Nah. Can't keep saying 'somewhere else'. As others have said, wealth isn't just a fiscal issue, it's a social wrong. And if such a tax reduces the burdon on the non-filthy-rich, so much the better.
We can't expect any one measure to cure all ills, but every tiny billion from one measure, means fewer billions required from; fuel duty, reformed council tax, pension/savings taxes. We can't keep saying 'yes, we need more tax, but not from *there*'.
Slightly diminish a band: The 1974
Roots are great - anchoring the tree to the earth, providing stab... Oh. #photography #roots #tree #moss
They'll finally get to work, fascist to fascist.
A pub near me serves rhubarb cider. I tried it, had the 'other half'. Probably won't have it again. On a similar vein, Lidl has been selling cans of Blood Orange cider, which I really liked. But they appear to have discontinued it. Such is life.
Bigot plays victim when challenged.
The view from North Stoke, Somerset, over the Avon valley. #photography #landscape #NorthStoke #Avon
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A reflective moment. #photography #reflection #river #Burgundy
Slightly diminish a band: Yes Maybe
Slightly diminish a band: Kraftcheese
His GF *says* she's 19.
Slightly diminish a band Polyp Bluer Puddle Colour Scene The Strangers
Slightly diminish a band The What
Having lived there for 30 years, an alternative etymology for Stratford-atte-Bowe was a meander in the River Lea. It's worth noting that 'Stratford' is a contraction of Street (Roman Road) Ford. So, it's a shallow crossing, for the Roman Road, at a bend in the river.
Yes. We need to acknowledge that billionairism is a mental illness.
Are they going to announce 'He's from Essex' or 'He's sorta white'? That's going to be the 'ethnicity' of most criminals, after all.
Slightly diminish a band: The Rolling Scree.
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Banwell is ready! #photography #Banwell #Somerset #FireBrigade
Where would you put the 51st star?
"This One's from the Heart" Don't know the figures, but it was no hit.
Goodrington Sands, Devon. Part of the 'English Riviera'. #photography #GoodringtonSands #Devon #EnglishRiviera #BeachHuts
Billionairism is a mental illness, featuring the delusion that acquiring more & more material posessions will somehow make him worth something.
#PutTartsInASongOrMovie Quiche of the Spider Woman
Exmoor colours #photography #Exmoor #heathland
#BeingLazyInASongOrMovie Slothful in Seattle The Nodfather Network Snooze Yawn of the Dead
Waste of time? Hmm.
'Mustn't grumble' eh? Consistent pressure consist of continuous complaining. (& what the hell the dreadful US Constitution has to do with it, I don't know.)
It has been designed - as much by neglect as by action. There's no mystery here; we know how to do it better, but the two parties that benefit from inaction, remain inactive. By design.
You assume that only your definition of "democratically elected" is valid. Democracy requires more than winning a corrupt contest, designed to swap power between two parties, whilst ignoring the other 12.
Ermita San Miguel de Alto, Granada #photography #ErmitaSanMiguel #Granada #Andalucia
The magnificent rood screen of St Andrews, Banwell, Somerset. By the looks of the simpler altar in front, the vicar & parishioners find it somewhat intimidating. #photography #RoodScreen #StAndrews #Banwell #ParishChurch #Somerset
#GroceriesInASongOrMovie Despicable Tea Wizard of Cos Bean Streets You Only Live Rice
