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Justin

County Fermanagh, previously Peak District.

Like hiking, classical music, art, wildlife, gardening.

Don't like bananas.

He/him. Trans ally. 🏳️‍⚧️

Used to blog at: http://www.occasionallylost.com/
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Duni: Les Deux Chasseurs et La Laitière

Soloists, Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg

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A screenshot of an album cover for a boxed set of two opera comiques by Egidio Duni. The label is Aparté.
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Outstanding in its field...

🌳

Photo: Autumn 2019, somewhere in the Peak District

#ThickTrunkTuesday #PeakDistrict #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #Autumn #Fall
A large tree in the middle of a recently mown field. There are some scattered sheep grazing. In the background, woodland. In the foreground, a bank of wildflowers, gone to seed. The sky above is hazy with clouds and the scene is partially sunlit.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Tonight's Monday Night Head Torch Club put the head torches to good use, artfully lighting funghi.
A beautiful, small chestnut coloured mushroom, growing out of a mossy log, lit brilliantly from the left.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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"Do you want to come round and play? I've got loads of toys!"

Today's Mavis pic...

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A German Shepherd sitting at a wooden fence and poking her nose through the vertical slats. There is a brown donkey on the other side of the fence, in a field, and it is looking at the dog. The ground is covered in fallen leaves and there is a fern on the left.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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#BlueSkyMonday
Looking from the Bishop's Road towards the Mussenden Temple perched on the edge of a cliff. Portstewart, Portrush, and the headlands of North Antrim are visible in the distance.
More in alt text.
#EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #Ireland
Photo taken from the Bishop's Road - so-called because Frederick Hervey, the Earl-Bishop, liked to use this route when travelling from Derry to Downhill. Perhaps he liked the road because it gives such a good view of the Mussenden Temple - built for him around 1783 - standing on the edge of the cliff. The trees currently obscure the view of Downhill House. Beyond the Temple, Portstewart is visible with Portrush further away and the headlands of North Antrim in the distance.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Latest painting: oil on panel, 70 x 100cm. I wanted to try and portray the hills as a place where I feel at home.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #wicklowmountains #autumn #ireland #irishart
Landscape in oil: rolling hills in autumn colours, with the suggestion of trees in green, brown, ochre and red filling the left side of the composition, and a lighter green, bare hillside to the right. Light blue sky with fair weather clouds above a gentle ridge line.
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Kinder Scout sheep, November 2021

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#BlueMonday #SheepOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #PeakDistrict
View up to a sheep with a black face, standing on a grassy ridge. Behind it, the sky is clear and bright blue. The scene is lit up by sunlight.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Szymanowski: Król Roger

Soloists, City of Birmingham Chorus and Youth Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle

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A screenshot of the album cover for a boxed set of Szymanowski's opera King Roger on the EMI label.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Martinů: Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra, H329

Matoušek, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Hogwood

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A screenshot of the album cover to a Hyperion boxed set of The Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra by Martinů.
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Morning, folks - it's the start of a new week again and here's hoping you all have a good one, wherever it takes you...

😎👍

Photo: Edale, November 2021

#MondayMotivation #PeakDistrict #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Today's Mavis pic...

"Yes, I know I just had a long walk but I reserved some energy to play as soon as we got home."

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A German Shepherd sitting on a rug with a fireplace behind her. She is lifting her paw to request something or other, as she is inclined to do constantly throughout the day.
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We have a new neighbour... Allow me to introduce Vincey - likes treats, being stroked, and biting apparently.

🐴😬😄
Close up of a brown donkey, looking over a wooden fence. Its head is turned slightly to the side. There is a field in the background and blue sky above.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Last night's leftover mushroom and lentil stew repurposed for lunch today with the addition of a few roast potatoes.

#WhatsForLunch
#HomeCooking
#NomNomNom
#DoPeopleStillSayNomNomNom?

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A white ceramic bowl with roasted baby potatoes on a bed of mushroom and lentil stew.
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Matthews: String Quartet No. 16, Op. 161

Kreutzer Quartet

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A screenshot of the album cover for Toccata Classics' Volume 6 in their survey of the complete music for string quartet by David Matthews. There is a photo of the composer on the cover.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Creevykeel Court Tomb, Sligo, last month.

heritageireland.ie/unguided-sit...

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#AncientSiteSunday #Prehistoric #Archaeology #Sligo #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A curved line of standing stones that would have formed the walls of the large interior chamber of a neolithic court tomb. There is a gap in the wall and a stone lintel over it, forming an entrance to another chamber behind. There is grass in the foreground and a circular, low wall in front of the entrance that would have originally been another small chamber within the tomb. Trees in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Laks: Concerto da camera

Holger Groschopp, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Johannes Zurl

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A screenshot of an album cover for a disc entitled Écoles de Paris – Paris Pour École, containing music by Antheil, Ibert, Laks, Mihalovici, and Stravinsky. The label is Wergo.
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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If I was in L.A.
brendar.bsky.social Brenda🥕R @brendar.bsky.social · 2d
I'd be safe and warm
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All the leaves are brown......
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Sunset stroll.
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I've been for a walk
brendar.bsky.social Brenda🥕R @brendar.bsky.social · 2d
And the sky is gray
dribelad.bsky.social Sir Twonkalot @dribelad.bsky.social · 2d
All the leaves are brown......
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Crikey, mind the cairn!

✈️ 🙄

South Head, on this day in 2021.

#OnThisDay #PeakDistrict
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

La Captive du Sérail (Turqueries galantes)

Florie Valiquette, Nicholas Scott, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Gaétan Jarry

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A screenshot of an album cover for a disc of arias and orchestral music from eighteenth century, Orientalist French operas. The label is Château de Versailles Spectacles.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Rome if you want to #fingerpostfriday
Multiple route options in the back streets of Rome, Italy.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko

Soloists, Bolshoi Chorus and Orchestra, Golovanov

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A screenshot of an album cover for a CD boxed set of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, Sadko.
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Dunluce Castle, on the North Antrim coast, bathed in #sunshine yesterday afternoon.
This view of the #castle is from the nearby Magheracross Viewing Point.
The castle was abandoned in 1639 - more in alt text.
#scape #landscape #EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #Ireland @loveballymena.online
The ruins of Dunluce Castle, in the centre of the photo, are bathed in sunlight. In the distance, the sky is dark. The castle, built around 1500 by the MacQuillan family, was seized by the MacDonnell clan in the 1550's and was abandoned in 1639 after the castle kitchens fell into the sea one stormy night. The castle ruins are currently cared for by the Department for Communities, a Northern Ireland Government department.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Today's Mavis pic.

"Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you,
Birds singin' in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of treats..."

🎶 🐾 💭 🦴 🐾 🎶
Close up of a German Shepherd's nose and face as she sleeps, resting on my leg.
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM