Plus the Ørsted cancellation. He's really got it in for Denmark.
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Plus the Ørsted cancellation. He's really got it in for Denmark.
I've got the 100 Days card set - we've used them a fair bit but we're enjoying using figures at the moment. 2mm is a good scale for the game, will be very aesthetically pleasing.
Do you use Sam's cards or minis? My regular oppo and I have been playing a fair bit of Blücher lately - he repurposed a lot of Warlord Epic scale stuff, using mug coasters as bases & they look good. We're brewing a campaign too, should be fun.
An Icon BOGOF for #WeekIforIcons. Iconic Glastonbury Tor in the background and Glastonbury Festival's iconic Pyramid Stage to the fore, albeit naked in 2021 when there wasn't a festival. Also a pic of the clothed Pyramid in full flow for living icon Paul McCartney in 2022. #AlphabetChallenge
But she is SoS for Media (& Culture & Sport) - the point here is not to do with immigration as such but with the amount of airtime given to Farage/Reform to spew on national TV channels - esp. when compared with airtime allowed to other parties with as many or many more MPs.
This is my other half at Glasto '23 with her Alice in Wonderland themed hat. She made the ears, embroidered the cat and crocheted/knitted all the other ornaments. It has since expanded with more additions. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #Glasto #FestivalHats
Terrible photo, sorry - no way to avoid the reflections I'm afraid - but great hats. Do we think that anyone who bought the hat with THAT feather might be compensating for something? Taken in Berchtesgaden, Bayern, a few years ago. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #BayerischeKultur
A deeply stupid comment. Really appalling - the kind of garbage to be expected from Farage or Jenrick. You should be ashamed. Enough to make me not vote Labour at the next election - if you were my MP, luckily you aren't.
Better outcome than Brexit tho'
N.B. - I wasn't driving the car - also I'm actually a lot older than 1984 - but I was of an age to enjoy the song, then and still.
"You can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong, but now Who's gonna drive you home tonight?" "Drive" by The Cars. Photo taken from a moving car somewhere near Bonn probably, maybe around 1984 - when that song was current, because that's how old I am. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDrivetime #SlideFilm
Glastonbury Festival (2022 - not this year, didn't get tickets 😞) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBars #Glasto
Here's a couple of things from today's walk to the Outwards near Loughborough. Don't know what the 'shroom is - but it looked pretty. As do the feathers - do the latter qualify for #WeekZforZoology? The iridescence on the crow feather is lovely. #AlphabetChallenge #TheOutwoods #Loughborough
Thank you - that narrowed it down enough to get Vicia Cracca - tufted vetch - from a search, which seems to match.
Here's some pics from my daily - when possible - walk. The wheat was waving gently in the soft breeze, which was nice. Can someone tell me what the flower is? (My phone camera's a bit crap, sorry). #Photography #DailyWalk #Scape #Woods #Landscape #Charnwood #Outwoods #Loughborough
Nice lots of yellow on display in the walled garden at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, just don't ask me what any of them are. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow
West Kirby marine lake, the Wirral, UK - scan from a slightly crappy old negative. Ilford of some sort probably, maybe Fujifilm. #HumansOfBluesky #streetphotography #photography #urbangaze #EastCoastKin #classicmono #film
Dancers in FuXing Park, Shanghai. Who needs a partner? Just get out there and strut your stuff! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXs #StreetPhotography
Jolly green giant? Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall - we found them, there's signposts to them apart from anything. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWacky
One from the Zwerglgarten - Dwarf Garden - in Salzburg. Dating back to the 17th century and to be found in the Mirabell Gardens. In the 1600's Dwarf Gardens were what every fashionable Prince Archbishop wanted apparently. This dude is a gardener. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWacky #Salzburg
Street art installation in Paris. Bit worse for wear - presumably, it had a nose to start with but still good for #WeekWforWacky I think. #AlphabetChallenge #StreetArt #Paris
5 cats carved into a Shanghai temple roof - this type of upwardly curved roof is called FeiYan apparently - flying eaves. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforFive
#AdoorableThursday - in the Great Mosque of Xi'an #photography #EastCoastKin #Monochrome
Pic 1 is a panorama shot of the stone circle at #WorthyFarm - home of Glastonbury festival. Taken in 2021 when there wasn't a festival but there was some camping going on. The first trailer in the gap in the hedge is no. 5 - second pic confirms. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforFive #Glasto
St Patrick's, 5th Avenue, NYC - tops of spires caught in the sun. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforFive
A 14th century roof boss from the east side of Norwich Cathedral cloisters depicting the Harrowing of Hell - when Jesus retrieved righteous souls from hell. I'm not religious but do like ecclesiastical buildings and art. 5 souls being retrieved here, lucky! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforFive #Norwich
Wind's up, surf's up - kite surfers at Perranporth beach, Cornwall. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUp #Cornwall
View from a porthole on a Liberty Island/Ellis Island ferry, NYC. #WindowsonWednesday #Photography #Monochrome
A view from up a Bavarian mountain. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUp
This individual had done the up & was beginning the down - but was still relatively speaking up. Bavarian Alps. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUp
Take back control. Not sure what of but if you just believe hard enough in whatever it is *poof* unicorns! And fish! Apparently.
If you get caught out by the tide coming up while you're crossing the causeway to Lindisfarne Island, climb up the steps into the shelter & make yourself comfortable because you'll be there for a while. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUp #ClassicMonochrome
Sir John Betjeman at 9.30. Taken a St Pancras station a decade ago - time flies. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime
Sundial in Salzburg. Looks to be about 2.30 - which from the photo info appears to be the right time. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime #Monochrome
Old #cityscape slide photo from Prague, 1987. Camera would have been my old Pentax ME Super, film - don't know but probably Ektachrome. #EastCoastKin #photography #Art #PhotographersUnited#PhotographersofBluesky #ArtChallenges #Prague
Sorry! At least it's Friday 🍷🍻(don't mix your drinks tho').
NB - the last 2 lines are at the bottom of the gravestone - I couldn't get the full stone as there were chairs in the way. He was interred upright in the belief that this would give him a head start come judgement day - and it would have cost a lot to be interred in the cathedral.
"All you that do this pass bye Remember death for you must dye As you are now even so was I And as I am so shall you be Thomas Gooding here do staye Wayting for God's judgement day." Mr Gooding was buried upright in Norwich Cathedral in 1600. The passage of time. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime
Thanks for the reposts!
Induce animus sapientem - instill a wise mind
What time is it? About 10 past a bit cloudy. Sundial in Eyam, Derbyshire - which looks like the sundial equivalent of a moon phase watch with extra dials & can tell the time in 24 time zones. Unless it's a bit cloudy... #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime #Monochrome
Looks like rain o'clock - tho' I don't think it did actually rain - time was 11.12 a.m according the church clock. Oberammergau, Bavaria. Some nice Luftmalerei on the closer building. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime #Bavaria
This is my other 1/2's hand - we were staying near Skenfrith, Wales & the path for our walk went thru' a cornfield. I said "remember the cornfield scene in Gladiator?" Only she had a watch on rather than a wrist guard. It was 3.10. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime #Monochrome
Him time. Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime #Paris #StreetPhotography
Another of a sunny sea turning into a huge mirror- at Cape Cornwall. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver #Monochrome
Silvery moon at Cape Cornwall. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver #Monochrome #Cornwall
These lines are part of the Heytor Granite Tramway - made of granite & used to transport granite from Heytor Down, Dartmoor, Devon, UK to the Stover canal. In use from 1820 to 1858. #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #EastCoastKin #Monochrome #Devon
Lines - tour Effeil, Paris. #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #EastCoastKin #Paris
Yep, all good thanks Paul.
The Obersee, Bavaria - like a mirror - hard to tell where the land stops and the reflection starts. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver #BayerischeAlpen
Silver sea and lone paddle boarder. Marazion beach, Cornwall. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver
#Monochrome Idiot!
"Dear Diary - today I bought something nice from Zadig & Voltaire & then I had a coffee in Borough Market." Old pic from the Monmouth Coffee Co.. When you didn't have to queue to get in. Great coffee - hope it still is. #Photography #StreetPhotography #Filmsnotdead #Monchrome #EastCoastKin
Thanks Tony - it is an amazing place!
I like the sky in b&w.
NB This is a natural formation in the rock, formed by the flow of the water.
Hi Paul - hope all well with you & yours!
When one has walked along the Trevillet, one reaches St Nectan's Glen and one sits for a suitable length of time to admire the beauty and absorb the tranquility of the place. #Photography #Cornwall #WaterfallWednesday #StNectansGlen
It's big and it's silver, seen from the Brooklyn Bridge, NYC. Don't know what it is but it prob costs a lot to live in it. Choice of colour or b&w. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver #NYC #Monochrome
Silver birch (maybe) plus addition at Stone Lane Gardens, Devon. A birch tree specialist and sculpture garden - we have a beautiful young white birch in our garden which came from them. Don't know the artist, sorry. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver
Silver sea at Chapel Porth beach, Cornwall. Struggling a bit for silver but got one or two. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver #Cornwall
That's also allowed!
This is Bradgate Park just outside Leicester, UK. A significant chunk of Leicester folk head here on nice days to enjoy the stunning scenery. #Photography #ClassicMonochrome #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Stunday
Sheep road on Dartmoor, Devon. This may well have been part of the Rattlebrook Peat Railway which took peat from the moor to Bridestowe Station in the 1870's, as we were walking a lot of the route that day. B&w or colour? #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #ClassicMonochrome #Sheep
Roads need bridges when they meet water - like this one: Fye Bridge in Norwich, which carries Fye Bridge Rd. over the Wensum. The Ribs of Beef is on one side and the Mischief Tavern is on the other side. Old slide recent scan. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #SlideFilm #Norwich
Love a road were the trees meet overhead and turn it into a tunnel. This one's in Devon, near Lydford. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #Monochrome #Devon
This is a repost - but it's a good one for #WeekRforRoads: A road near Lydford, Devon where you could drive at the national speed limit if you could actually drive on it- but you can't as it's not suitable for motor vehicles 🤷 #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #Monochrome #Devon
Here's a view up 10th Avenue from the High Line in Chelsea, NYC. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #NYC
#WaterfallWednesday - still going up the Trevillet on the way to St Nectan's Glen. #Photography #Cornwall #EastCoastKin
The Queensboro bridge exit in NYC, taken from the Roosevelt Island tramway. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #Monochrome
This is the Rue de Tournon, Paris - and I bet she pressed the shutter just in time to get the road crossers' heads front and centre. C'est la vie. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #Paris #StreetPhotography #BitInconsiderate
It was a bit scary crossing it I don't mind admitting - we just followed a local person from one side of the road to the other and did what they did!
Apologies for it not being a photograph but I thought it was worth posting!
In contrast to yesterday's no cars road, this is a 4 lane crossroads in Xian, China. Pedestrian crossings at all junctions. NO TRAFFIC LIGHTS! I was mesmerised & took a short time lapse. If they tried this in the uk, it'd be carnage! #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #TimeLapse
#WeekRforRoads - this is the main road through Clovelly in Devon. Cars aren't allowed & the sledges propped up against the walls on either side of the road are used by the folks who live there to haul stuff up & down the road. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #Devon #Clovelly
More quaintness for #WeekQforQs - this was in Füssen, Bavaria. The local band rocked up to the fountain in the town square and promptly got into it to play. This was because the local bands were all challenging each other to play whilst in water. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #Oompah
Quite possibly the most fun I've had at a gig since the last time I had that much fun (prob 2 weeks ago tbf) - the Flaming Lips in Brum on Friday. Here's Wayne Coyne quaintly dressed as a flower - and the traditional balloons at the end. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQs #YoshimiBattlesthePinkRobots
This is the Obersee in Bavaria, the view from the other end is just as lovely. #BlueSkyArtShow #Earth #Photography #Landscape #Bayern
Very random neg scan, taken on Castle Meadow in Norwich. There was a very short, very sharp shower, followed by really bright sun which lit up the wet pavement and roads & threw up some interesting silhouettes & shadows, maybe. Yashica Electro. #Photography #ClassicMonochrome #StreetPhotography
Another Quoit for #WeekQforQs. This is Lanyon Quoit, near Morvah, Cornwall. In the background is the ruin of the Greenburrow Engine house. Taken on a murky day - choice of B&W or colour & obviously B&W is better! #AlphabetChallenge #Photography #Monochrome #Black&White #AlwaysChooseBlack&White
Lamorna Cove in Cornwall used to be a granite quarry. Plenty of evidence remains - here's 2 pics of the quarry side of the cove - colour or B&W according to preference. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQs #Cornwall
Recent scan, old photo - street artist in Florence 1981. Used to be loads of these guys around tourist attractions back then - not so many now? All very Quick on the draw! The artist looks cool - so do the plaid trousers! #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQs #StreetPhotography #Ektachrome
#WaterfallWednesday again - so here's another small one on the Trevillet on the way to St Nectan's Glen - there's a couple more to go before we get to the glen itself and St Nectan's kieve. #Photography #EastCoastKin #Cornwall
Another random old and scuzzy neg scan. This was in the Fachhochschule Köln in about 1981 - where I studiously avoided doing any study for a year. Bit of #BrokenVeil feel about it maybe? #Photography #Monochrome #Black&White #CreepyCorridor
Quiet places, libraries - this one is in the former monastery which is now the museum in Füssen, Bavaria. The other pic is the ceiling of the Kaisersaal in the same building - which isn't always quiet but it was when we were there. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQs #Travelphotography
I popped down to Magdalen St. on Saturday to see how much this view had changed. A fair bit - the houses that replaced the Allen & Page buildings look pretty good I think - fit it well.
Quoits begin with Q - not the game, the stone burial chambers in West Penwith, Cornwall. This one is Chûn Quoit - in b&w or colour - I like b&w personally. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQs #Monochrome #Cornwall
Here's Quayside in Norwich, scanned from a slide - probably Ektachrome cos why wouldn't it be - taken decades ago, don't know when exactly - but it was obviously a bit chilly. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQ's
For #BlueSkyMonday here is the iicon (sic) stage in #Glasto's S.E. corner - where all the action starts happening after the main stages have done their bit - all lit up in blue. That is a DJ at work in there for scale. #Photography #EastCoastKin #GlastonburyFestival
Some patterns here I guess - this was thru' the window of a shop in Paris which sold (prob still sells?) old phonographic equipment. Somewhere in Montmartre I think. Pic from 2014. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPatterns #EastCoastKin #TravelPhotography
Thing is, my usual oppo is diabetic, so it's a win win for me!
Patterns in decay - slowly deconstructing tree in the Outwoods, #Loughborough. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPatterns
#AlphabetChallenge - patterns in the sand at St Ives, Cornwall. #Photography #WeekPforPatterns
Happy finger post Good Friday - here's the mother of all finger posts from Williams Green at #GlastonburyFestival. #WilliamsGreen
Thanks Pete - don't think I've been back to Hemsby since to be honest, certainly not very recently anyway. I've got a few more to scan I think plus I've got some of Riverside Rd. in Norwich before the old industrial buildings went so I'll get round to those as well at some point.
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From Good Friday 3 April 2010 - Norwich lost at Tranmere on the Thurs eve - Eddie Ilderton maybe the worst ref I've ever seen. Son & self had a look at the Wirral & then into L'pool via the tunnel. This was in West Kirby. Yashica Electro. #Photography #ClassicMono #UrbanGaze #TheWirral #Pigeons #B&W
Festival flags for #WeekPforPatterns. These were at Beautiful Days 2 or 3 years back. #Photography #AlphabetChallenge
Is this in the book? Please say yes!
Bluebelly hill. #FlowersofBlueSky #FatsDomino #Loughborough
