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Richard
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Dad to Narcissa (Cissy), the chocolate lab. A bit grumpy and forgetful.
Good with computers and baking cookies / flapjacks.
Also forgetful.
It’s been snowing all evening and there’s one full millimetre outside.

If this storm doesn’t let up there’ll be two millimetres, mark my words!
January 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I think it’s a fungus of some sort.
Looks like fluffy grains of rice.

#Fungus
#Ashton-under-Lyne
December 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Walking my dog along the canal and saw Irene.
#PortlandBasin
#Ashton-under-Lyne
#Manchester_to_Huddersfield_Canal
#Nikon #D850
Nikon D850 with 24-70mm VR lens f/5.6 1/250s ISO200
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My son with Bellatrix (may she rest in peace).
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Tree stump covered in fungus just doesn’t seem enough.
Taken outside the BP Petrol station opposite Ashton police station, Ashton-under-Lyne
Original images taken on a Nikon D850 with Nikon 24-120mm lens: 1/60s and f/5.6 at ISO 400 and zoomed 65mm.

#Fungu #mushroom #D850 #Nikon
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Parked at an angle. Where did that driver learn?

#Bad_Drivers #Parking
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
IMHO a chocolate Labrador is totally useless as any sort of dog.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Not many of these to a kilo. Size of a plate.
Oxford Park, Ashton-under-Lyne UK.

#Nikon #D850 #VR_24-120mm #50mm #f/7.1 #1/200s #ISO400
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Cars must be the epitome of car on album cover.
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Pitch black at 3pm, soon.
In the UK, clocks went back last week.

I always remember ’Spring forward, Autumn back’…
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Here's the swan.
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Got out my long lens for the first three.
Medium lens for the last two as I was dog-walking Cissy.

BTW, Swans are really big, close up (2 Geese = 1 Swan).

All are heavily cropped from the original. Gotta love them 45 megapixels!

#Nikon #D850 #70mm-200mm #24mm-70mm
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Been a lot of fireworks recently and my dog … loves them to bits. She rushes to the window to see the lights.

What a good girl she is.
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Bobbie and Cissy on a play date.

#Ashton-under-Lyne
October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Cissy is watching Harry Potter, waiting for her namesake to appear.

#Labrador
#Harry_Potter
October 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Having a goosey on the canal in Ashton-under-Lyne, UK.
September 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
September 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Looks like it’s conker season.
Who’s up for a game?

#Conker
September 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Harmonia axyridis, the harlequin ladybird. I took her for a walk at Oxford Park.

Heavily cropped from a larger image as I don’t own a macro lens.

Taken with #Nikon #D850 and #24-70mm lens.
Manual 1/160 and F/6.3 and ISO 900, 720 and 560 (auto ISO).
September 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Just checking the hidden details in a photo today.
You can see the mesh keeping out the bats (or pigeons) from the belfry.
St Peter’s church, Ashton-under-Lyne.
#Nikon #D850 #24-70mm

Manual mode, 1/200s, f/10, Auto ISO 64 taken at 50mm
August 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’ve just had a delicious bowl of Fusilli Cheeses.
It’s like Macaroni Chesse but whe you’ve run out of macaroni but have a bag of Fusilli.
Made with fried diced onions and Red Leicester cheese with fresh ground pepper.
August 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Narcissa and Shadow having a runaround.
#Ashton-under-Lyne
#Labrador
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This is what you get when you quit Obedience Training half way through.
#ChocLab
# Nikon
#D850
#Labrador
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
These are called ‘Lost my ball forever’ and ‘Daddy, help me - I’ve lost my ball’.
July 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Top Dog
July 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM