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..... trying to go placidly amongst the noise.....
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'If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word'

Happy birthday Margaret Atwood! Novelist, essayist, poet, activist, inventor, occasional puppeteer and full time genius - few writers have shaped our imaginations quite like her: waterstones.com/author/marga... 🥳
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Cape Spring, South Africa,
September 2007, #photography #flora
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Try explaining to someone outside the UK that this road, shared with walkers, cyclists and horse riders, legally has a 60mph speed limit. Madness, really.
August 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Zgornja Radovna, Slovenia, a glorious evening in the Julian Alps, July 2025 #photography
July 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A ray of sunshine.
A Speckled Wood in our porch, waiting to greet me when I got home today. An early appearance in Shropshire, surely. #ukbutterflies #photography
February 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Another of my tree drawings from the past, for today's #thicktrunktuesday. A Beech (Fagus sylvatica) at the top of a steep valley-side slope in the foothill zone of the Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian, Scotland. Pen drawing; 21 x 30 cm.
February 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Island life.
St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall. April 2019.
#photography
January 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Another of my tree drawings from past years, for #thicktrunktuesday. This is a pen drawing of The Darnaway Oak, in Moray, northern Scotland. This tree has a trunk circumference exceeding 9 metres and is thought to be at least 700 years old. Drawing size: 21 x 30 cm.
January 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Tarifa, Algarve, Portugal, 2017. Blue sky for a grey day. #photography
January 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Sun artwork ☀️ Helios is heading to Old Royal Naval College, London. Visit for some winter Sun & explore Sunspots, spicules and the origins of solar flares…https://ornc.org/whats-on/helios/ #heliosartwork
January 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Bird Nests,Ghana, 16.01.2012. #photography
January 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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So the Delia group of butterflies of Australia are a real gem! Here is the first seen on our trip - the Yellow-banded Jezebel...🦋🦋 #AusInverts #WildOz #Insects #Butterflies #BugSky #ArtAdventCalendar
December 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Proboscis crossing. March 2014
#photography
December 5, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Tesco, Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall. April 2019 #photography
December 5, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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This is not the highly-magnified antennae of some exotic insect, nor is it a fancy toilet brush ~ it’s the magnificent skeleton of a sting ray
December 4, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Scrooge Rage: A grave situation in Shrewsbury

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Scrooge Rage
A grave situation in Shrewsbury
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December 2, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Bexhill (De La War) Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, June 2006 #photography
December 3, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Blue sky for Bluesky. Algarve, Portugal, Spring 2017. #photography
November 30, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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You can sense the slickness of the wet street in this 1929 woodblock print ‘Flower Street after Night Rain’ (Yoshida Hiroshi), then warm up in the cosiness of ‘Noodle Restaurant on A Rainy Night’ (Tomikichiro Tokuriki)
November 26, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech, April 2014. #photography
November 25, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Dylan Thomas's writing shed,Laugharne, 2021. #photography
November 20, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Margaret Bourke-White, intrepid photojournalist for Life magazine, seen here setting up her camera on a metal eagle sculpture on the 61st story of Chrysler Building, NY (1934) ~ photographed by Oscar Graubner from a less precarious perch!
November 18, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Christmas shop, York, 2023.
I don't think it's too soon 😀
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November 17, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Open, Jerome Arizona, 2013. #photography
November 16, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Evening, Topsham Devon, 2014. #photography
November 16, 2024 at 7:26 AM