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SE London history & landscape, paused blogger, socialist, green, runner, #runningpunk, #goodgym member, acting curator of #TidesOutTuesday, views mine, poor proof reader - he/him/me duck, real name Paul
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer and his team mount a leadership challenge … to himself | John Crace
It’s as if everyone at No 10 has had a collective breakdown, an act of self-harm on an unimaginable scale
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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One for the maybe not pile ….
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special

The new Private Eye is out now.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1662 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The front cover reads “BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special” and shows Broadcasting House with speech bubbles coming from the building. The quotes include “Donald Trump says we broadcast fake news!”, “Nigel Farage says we’re totally biased!”, “Boris Johnson says we’re liars!”, “The Daily Mail says we’re peddling conspiracy theories!”, “Kemi Badenoch highlights poor leadership!”, “The Daily Telegraph says we’re editing for political purposes!”, and “Liz Truss says we’ve done huge damage to the country!”
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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We are very short of marshals this Saturday - if you are not sure what this involves have a look at the cut out and keep guide below. Apply via the link (other roles are available too!)
www.parkrun.org.uk/catford/futu...
A guide to the steps of being a #parkrun marshal 1 Sign up 2 Turn up (around 8:30) 3 Wear hi viz - picture is yellow, although it will be pink 4 Stand at marshal point 5 Direct 6 High 5 7 Encourage 8 All done, feel satisfied
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A purple rose, appropriately from the Rose Garden in Greenwich Park #RoseWednesday
A purple rose bloom quite close up, it is dotted with raindrops, there are several buds behind.
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
A green notice at South Norwood Lake that is over 60 years old, it gives the cost in shillings of tickets and the size of fish that must be returned in inches, plus various prohibitions.
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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This week’s long run headed northwards with detours around Greenwich Park, still some summer colour there, Mudchute Farm and Limehouse Basin for about 16k. #RunningPunks #JogDivision #GreenRunners
Looking towards the towers of London Docklands from the escarpment in Greenwich Park, a low level shot which includes some autumnal leaves in the foreground. A white Peace rose A field with sheep and office block towers behind Runner attempting to balance on log, goodness knows why - he’s in all neon orange in case you wondered.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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#TidesOutTuesday

The tide was heading back out after a King Tide a couple hours earlier. Pismo Beach Pier, California.

#EastCoastKin #PismoBeach #Pier #LandscapePhotography
Looking through the pilings of the Pismo Beach Pier. The sand in the foreground is wet and has remnants of foam and bubbles, while the waves are now crashing some ways out. Part of the underside of the pier is seen, and you can also see that the pier juts out at an angle towards the end. Pismo Beach, California.
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
A marquee, not my photo but who keeps photos of marquees …? A full moon
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Sun trying to break through. Bridlington last week. #TidesOutTuesday
Low sun appearing though grey clouds. Reflecting on water and sand.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Following friends. Broadbeach, QLD Australia #TidesOutTuesday #EastCoastKin #landscape #PhotoHour #photography #PhotographersofBlueSky #landscapephotography
A group of women walking along a wide sandy beach. The tide is out and the air is hazy, hot and humid. In the distance, behind a green hill are high-rise hotels and apartments reaching into the sky.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision

Baywatch (from a balcony overlooking Caswell Bay)
#TidesOutTuesday
Wide bay at an early morning low tide - a stream fans across the sand. The sea is flat and calm, the sun is about to rise from behind a promontory to the left. To the distant right is the north Devon coast.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
Open All Hours (alas no David Jason in there)
Costcutter shop at night which has open 24/7 above door, van parked to right.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
Panorama (from above Watendlath in the Lake District)
A panorama with a blue cloudy sky, in the foreground a grassy fell side with some trees. In the middle distance rolling hills and a tarn. At the rear mountains.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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An easy paced run to and around Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries which included pausing for the Remembrance Sunday event there. I stopped too by the memorial to some of the civilian deaths from WW1
Autumnal trees in a Victorian cemetery A leaf strewn cemetery path A memorial to those who died in aerial attacks in World War 1 in Hither Green and Sydenham. Autumnal trees in a cemetery
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
Shadows on Remembrance Sunday
A 1914-18 War Memorial just after a Remembrance Day event today, blue skies, graves, autumn trees and a curving cemetery road are behind. A Remembrance Sunday wreath at the foot of a war memorial
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The Choral was a bit disappointing, felt a bit like a Sunday evening TV period drama which tried too hard to be a WW1 history, look at class, death, sexuality and love. It wasn’t successful in any of them, but a pleasant enough watch, set in Saltaire.
Poster for film The Choral Winter view over Saltaire withe large mill at foot of valley, moors behind and terraced houses in front.
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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8 November 1868 | A Polish Jew, Szlama Dajczer, was born in Przedbórz. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 16 October 1941.
No. 21563
He perished in the camp on 18 October 1941.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A beautiful sunny Catford #parkrun with the quickest time since March and 1st in age group; litter picking and fallen branch dragging (course check) before and unleashing my inner two year old with lessons from an actual two year old afterwards. #JogDivision #RunningPunks #GreenRunners
Early sun over the start - trees in silhouette, the sun partially hidden by one of them and a halo being created. Parkland in front. Runner in neon pink and blue leopard print top, grinning inanely, an oak tree above and to the left. Path through trees up a hill, blue skies above. Large oak tree in parkland setting, heavy shadow across the grass as it is quite early.
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Five bits of summer from the garden still clinging on, plus my favourite winter flower in the garden.
#SixOnSaturday #bloomscrolling
Six flowers - clockwise from the top left - a magenta salvia, and white and magenta salvia, a red geranium, a purple salvia, the little bit of winter - the mahonia, and a light orange begonia.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows

Summer shadows of parkrunners at Catford #parkrun
Just before the start at Catford #parkrun, runners and walkers listening to the Run Director’s briefing. There are relatively short shadows and the edge of the bandstand is visible.
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Alpaca lost in Deptford…. If any Bo Peeps (or whatever the South American equivalent is) have lost one of your flock, it was by the playground in Brookmill Park, having been rescued from near the River Ravensbourne.
Toy alpaca sitting on blue playground fence brown leaves below.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Green Chain Walk and Capital Ring signage in Beckenham Place Park #FingerpostFriday
Green signs in three directions to several locations in woodland with autumnal colours
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows

A shadow of Tower Bridge in early morning sun in late summer.
The shadow of Tower Bridge upstream on the Thames with London Bridge in the distance and the Shard to the left. Wide angle shot.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #art #painting
Oil on canvas. An old blue bicycle with a bent basket casts a shadow on the concrete. Behind, a low boxwood hedge and a tall screen of deep green foliage.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM