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Mark Lawson
@marklawsonkernow.bsky.social
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Graphic #designer in #Cornwall, UK - marklawson.design - #EV, #renewables, mad cocker spaniel #dog, #wine, volunteer youth worker, wrong side of 50. Treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself. Creative problem solver.
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Irony not lost… make space for horses when passing in your vehicle. But don’t make space for pedestrians trying to walk past your vehicle. Hypocrite. #car #parking #pavement #horse #pedestrian #footpath #badparking #pavementparking
A dark maroon colour estate car with a sticker on the back window asking fellow drivers to leave 2 meters gap between cars and horses and please pass slowly, the same car is parked up on a footpath pavement leaving barely half a meter gap for pedestrians to pass the car. Car owner seems to value horses over pedestrians rights. Ironic.
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Wot? These guys? Plastic patriots
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Might explain why my vision hasn’t exactly great today 👓
Close up of a pair of blue framed glasses held by a hand on the left arm, where the lenses are smudged and flecked with spots of dirt and grease making them blurry for looking through
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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“What The Doctor Is Doing”

A page from the 1934 book
“The Story of the World in Pictures”

#history #1930s #TheStoryOfTheWorldInPictures
#Medicine #X-Ray #Doctors
#photograph

“The magic x-rays” picturing a man’s chest, heart and lungs clearly visible in a black and white photo.
A black and white photograph from a 1934 book showing a man stood in an x-ray machine where his chest ribs and heart can be seen in a frame in front of him. Two men in white coats stand either side of him looking toward him, the man on the left in front of a cabinet on wheels presumably the controls for the contraption the x-rayed man is stood in. The book page has a description stating: “this complex piece of apparatus looks like something out of alchemist’s cell. It is really a modern arrangement whereby the doctor can examine his patient by means of x-rays. A man’s chest heart and lungs are clearly seen in this picture.”
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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That moment The Wine Society (UK) think you’re up for a £182.50 bottle of wine 🍷 🤣

Familiar with Gaja as i work with their UK importer, but honestly the WS can whistle if I’m paying THAT much for wine, even if it’s undoubtedly lovely.

#wine #barbaresco #italian
Screenshot of an email from wine company trying to sell a very expensive bottle of Barbaresco wine from Italy
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Daisy the #CockerSpaniel #Dog is seeking fuss with her outstretched paw on my arm and trying to be subtle about it… #DogsOfBlueSky
A brown cocker spaniel sat facing photographer with her head looking slightly off to the right. She has her left front leg out on the photographers arm as she is seeking attention. Both are sat on a dark grey sofa in a warmly lit sitting room. Wood bookshelves can be seen behind the dog to the right and farther back on the left.
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I think she’s happy 😆 #CockerSpaniel #dog
A brown furry dog is lying on her back looking straight at the camera
October 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Have you tried turning the United States off and back on again?

(Moss is a character from the British sitcom "The IT Crowd," portrayed by Richard Ayoade)
An image of Moss from the UK comedy series “the IT Crowd”. He’s sat behind a desk talking on the telephone saying “Have you tried turning the United States off and back on again” - which is the caption of the image. Maurice Moss is a character from the British sitcom "The IT Crowd," portrayed by Richard Ayoade. He is known for being a socially awkward but highly skilled IT technician who often finds himself in humorous and absurd situations.
September 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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A brief moment of joy among the gloom of the day to day. A Peacock butterfly feeding on yellow solidago flowers in Cornwall.
A dusky red butterfly with multicolour ‘eye’ shape on the corner of its wings, sitting on a fine yellow froth of a Solidago flower A dusky red butterfly with multicolour ‘eye’ shape on the corner of its wings, sitting on a fine yellow froth of a Solidago flower
September 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Despite living the other side of Saltash, was woken at 530am by the pervasive noise of a Search & Rescue Sikorsky S-92A slowly flying around Forder & River Lynher. Gave up sleep, took dog for 3+ mile walk, back to hang out washing & pick a bounty of beans. All before 8am. Probably need a nap later 😆
A map of Saltash in Cornwall which is a screenshot of the Flightradar app detailing the yellow marked line wiggling across the map indicating the flight path of a white and red large search and rescue Sikorsky S-92A helicopter that had just left the area, details of the helicopter in a panel of information below Two bowls of freshly picked green beans sitting on a grey worktop. The upper bowl in the picture with Cobra variety larger beans and the lower bowl a smaller finer more vibrant green variety
August 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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There you go- technically rock buns but ‘cake’ was shorter to write! Thx for the free hour. Couldn’t squeeze more juice into my EV - would it have credited an hour even if I didn’t need any for the EV battery? Managed to cut the grass, boil kettle, clean coffee machine & charge some devices too 👍🏻
Close up view of freshly baked rock buns, lightly browned peaks on the lumpy pale crust with vine fruits poking out in places while they cool on a wire rack, fresh out the oven Close up view of a freshly baked loaf of bread with the crust lightly cracking on top
August 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Sleeping bumblebee resting on a purple allium flower head in Cornwall
A bumblebee black in colour with two gold yellow stripes around its body is resting, clinging to a purple flower head, with its clear bee wings folded back, presumably sleeping on the ball of tiny purple flowers that make up allium plant
July 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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A brief visit to Yorkshire and ended up at Fountains Abbey on a pleasant day
Deer with impressive antlers laying under the shade of a tree away from the sun among open grassy parkland Looking along an empty old low long monastery room with vaulted stone arched roof, rough stone gravel floor of abandoned Fountains Abbey Ruined monastery stone buildings, walls in the foreground are low and few as the rest have been removed to build elsewhere after the monastery closed, a grassy courtyard is surrounded to left and back with higher ruin walls and a four sided bell tower stands at the back. A blue sky is above. The vista of water gardens, a long straight lake disappears to the distance on the left which in our foreground bends toward and out the right of the picture. Green large shrubs fill the foreground we are looking down at the lakes from. An additional round and two half moon shape ponds are top right in front of a small stone built folly with pillars in Greco-Roman style. A hillside of trees rises behind
July 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Garden therapy, a deadheading of flowers work screen break in the sun
Close up view of pink scabious flowers bordering green grass with a burst of orange flowers in the distance
June 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Verbena bonariensis adds slender height with a pop of purple that stands out especially in the evening light. I have them all over the garden front and back, so much so I had to start giving away seedlings I’ve got so many!
A largely green plants scene in the garden with tall slender stems of Verbena bonariensis which are tall with small pops of vibrant mid purple colour at the tops of each stem A largely green plants scene in the garden with tall slender stems of Verbena bonariensis which are tall with small pops of vibrant mid purple colour at the tops of each stem
June 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Oh, and this. Again can’t bring myself to throw it even tho i have nothing to play it on! Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy box set
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy tape cassette box set of 6 audio cassettes in different metallic colour labels
June 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I don’t have a cassette player any more and threw out pretty much everything in the last few years as a result. Yet I still have these two…!
Two music cassette tapes pictured on their cases. One is black - David A Stewart featuring Candy Dulfer “Lily Was Here”, the other is red and is the CBS album of Freiheit ‘Fantasy’.
June 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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As mornings go, it’s been fairly productive in the garden 🪴. Peas and beans planted in pots, some tidying and top dressing of others, and sown more salad seeds. I do love this time of year when various shades of green and pops of colour come out to brighten late spring #Cornwall #BloomScrolling
A bed of flowers - an abundance of small purple flowers below with pops of mid pink in the middle, pale pink clusters rise on top of tall stalks and pops of orange in the distance with sprays of white daisies in the top left corner, all surrounded by luscious spring green foliage
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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So there’s the white smoke everyone’s been anticipating. But who won The Traitors then? Was it a Faithful or a Traitor?!
White smoke coming out of a metal chimney set against a blue sky
May 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Put my hand down on the sofa and my working cocker spaniel puts hers on top! I think she may have been angling after a belly rub but the spontaneity was touching. #dog #dogsofBlueSky
Human hand resting on the brown sofa cover with a brown dog paw on top of the hand
April 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Yeah. Doing just fine.
April 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Just spotted the partial solar eclipse on the ceiling thanks to glass ornament on the windowsill casting a shape on the ceiling. Cornwall, UK.
Partial solar eclipse seen on the white ceiling - the white ellipse shape of sunlight with a small crescent bite out of one edge.
March 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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This Cantoiseau Vin de France from @thewinesociety.bsky.social is good value and dangerously gluggable! Will be joined by sausage and mash shortly 😋 #wine
Hand holding a red wine bottle against a grey worktop with a white label close in upon which are an illustration of brown branches and red yellow and faded green leaves. A glass of red wine is in the top corner of the photo
March 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The weather gods smiled on crazy Daisy 🐕 and myself for our early Sunday morning walk. Managed to get a decent walk in before today’s rains set in. Trying to stop her chasing pipits 🐦 flitting across the playing fields very difficult but we’re getting there slowly. #cockerspaniel #dog #cornwall
Resting head of a brown cocker spaniel dog on a grey blanket
February 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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February 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM