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Chrispin2
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Writer of words
Baker of bread
Player of guitar
Father of two
Husband to one
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If you see this, quite a bridge #Bridge

The Millennium Bridge, Newcastle
The Millennium Bridge in Newcastle is an elegantly curved pedestrian bridge over the Tyne with a sweeping support structure forming an eye-shaped structure. It is built so that it can rotate upwards, leaving space for ships to pass beneath, giving the bridge the name The Blinking Eye. The picture shows the bridge against an early evening sky with clouds reflecting a lowering sun and mirrored in the river beneath. The iconic Glasshouse is visible through the arc of the bridge.
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Sky watchers...
This mine, right now...
A patchy clouded blue sky with tinges showing the beginnings of what promises to be a great sunset.
September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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18000 children killed officially by Israelis. But we know that the reality is far worse
18000 children killed officially by Israelis. But we know that the reality is far worse
September 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The staff of life
August 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Late night bake off
Seeded half n half sourdough loaf.
A Seeded half n half sourdough loaf, on a cooling rack. The loaf is golden brown and covered with sesame seeds A Seeded half n half sourdough loaf, on a beer board. The crust is golden brown and covered with sesame seeds. Two slices have been cut from the loaf revealing and open soft textured crumb.
August 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Elephant hawk moth caterpillar in my back garden yesterday
July 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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If you see this, quite with a time travel movie that's not Back To The Future
July 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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A dense wholemeal sourdough with sunflower, sesame and golden linseed. Made with a protein of Hodmedod's Black Wheat flour to give it that dark colour.
A loaf of dark homemade bread on a wooden breadboard, with two slices cut from the end. Golden linseed cover the top of the loaf and the cut slices show sunflower and sesame seeds.
July 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Birthday flowers from a lovely friend...
A glass vase stands on a rush mat on a checkered table cloth. The base contains a bouquet of sweet peas in pastel pinks and purple, with green leafy stems. You can't see it in the picture but the scent is divine!
June 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This is my favourite tree in my local woods. It's a lime tree, also known as a Linden tree. It exudes a powerful benign energy with just a hint of 'don't mess with me!'... Somehow reminds me of my mum.
May 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Bluebells in the woods A woodland glade with bluebells Bluebells and sunshine in the woods
May 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Ships don't sink because of the water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.
April 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Another of mine...
Last Year Leaves
Seasons slip by, merge into each other..
March 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Curbar Edge, Derbyshire
March 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Came home to a note from OH:
Not quite sure what to do.
Is this a command?
I've never previously had to leave just because the oven was on.
March 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Bluesky!
Have a great weekend, folks
February 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Well at least I got out of the house...
A view across a residential valley showing a night sky and illuminated buildings. A car is parked by the ken and another a little easy further off had its headlamps on.
February 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A hand-written sticker on a metal railing post reads 'I don't think I'll ever stop worrying about you' with a cartoon picture of a cat wearing a T-shirt beating a picture of a fish skeleton.
February 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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To Carlos
January 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A haiku, published in 'But Not Defeated' - a collection by Broomspring Writers 2022
thick mud in the wood a walk in the afternoon then in the kitchen, mud Chris Baldwin
January 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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My daughter gave me this bookmark for Christmas... 😆
Feels like it's Hemingway inspired...
You just sit at the typewriter and bleed.
An old natural history book 'Exploring England' published 1948 is open at a page showing the beginning of Chapter Nine, illustrated with an engraving of a herring gull. The page is partially covered with a bookmark that reads 'NEWS - WRITING BOOKS IS EASY'.
January 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Any guesses who this fine young man is? From 1966 I would estimate.
A bit of about 6 with white blonde hair and a somewhat mischievous expression. Just in front of him to his right is the face of another boy with dark hair and a slightly worried look. A colour photograph of two lines of children in a garden from the 1960's. There are 4 girls and 4 boys of varying agrees from 4 to 9 years old.
January 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Christmassy.
A text post that reads But I don't feel Christmassy... Yes you do No I don't Yes you do - this is always how you feel at Christmas. No it isn't Yes it is. You always feel tired, and stressed, and not ready, and disappointed. That is always what you feel like at Christmas, isn't it? Yes, but it isn't like Christmas was when I was a kid. But you aren't a kid anymore No I know Do you want to be a kid again No of course not, I just want to feel excited again, like I did then. So feeling Christmassy actually means that you feel nostalgic and slightly sad, and perhaps a sense of bereavement for simpler times. Yes. But that is how you feel. Well... So you are feeling Christmassy, it's just that Christmassy has changed. Am I not right? Yes, you ruined it
December 23, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Players from my copy of Exploring England: An Introduction To Nature Craft by Charles S 'Squirrel' Bayne. 1944.

This book belonged to my father and was a favourite of mine as a boy.
These stunning prints are by C F Tunnicliffe.

I am, of course, very sad that the much torn fly jacket is missing.
A monochrome lino print of honeysuckle blossoms being visited by a large hawk moth. Text caption reads: 'The plant always opens its blossoms first in the evening.' A monochrome lino print of a flock of Oystercatchers flying over a river that follows down to the sea. The sky above is heavy with low cloud. In the foreground a curlew is probing with its long curved beak in the mud of the river bank by some derelict groynes A monochrome lino print of a bumble bee visiting a thrift plant on a rugged rock face overlooking the sea. The text caption reads: 'It grows abundantly in the shire and in the face and edge of cliffs.' A monochrome lino print of four small turnstones on a rock upon which is growing an abundance of bladderwrack seaweed
December 15, 2024 at 11:32 PM