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Mary Oz
@maryoz.bsky.social
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I'm an avid Slow Ways walker.
I like train travel, astronomy, canals, maps, graphs, prog rock and a bit of jazz, beer, remnants of the past, countryside furniture...
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#SilentSunday near Lancaster #UKCanals #reflections
Late afternoon in low winter sunlight looking along the Lancaster Canal at reflections of tree trunks.
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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#FreakyFriday
An array of hovering white squares are spread out across a very blue sky, filling most of the picture. There are some trees and buildings along the bottom of the frame.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#FungiFriday
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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#FingerpostFriday from
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route from Garstang to Lancaster.
A rusty old road fingerpost showing distances to the nearest quarter mile. Includes Dolphin Holme, Clitheroe, Bay Horse and Garstang.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Four very different styles of bridge, encountered on a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Garstang to Lancaster. #Bridges
Ornate, white painted concrete , 1930s bridge over the River Wyre solely to hide the pipe that it carries. No footpath over it. You may have seen it in the distance from the M6 or the West Coast mainline railway. Traditional narrow wooden footbridge over a stream. Looking down from a road bridge onto the M6 and the iconic mushroom tower of Forton Services.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Four very different styles of stile, encountered on a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Garstang to Lancaster. #Stiles
A small stile with concrete A shaped verticals and five metal ladder rungs in total, up then down. Two parallel wooden steps through a post and wire netting fence. Distant view of Morecambe Bay. Two stone pillars with a narrow gap between then a drop down into an extremely muddy field corner. Bowland Fells in the distance. Stone steps leading up to a traditional wooden stile out from a field straight onto the busy A6.
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Late afternoon on the #Lancaster #Canal on a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Garstang. #reflections #UKCanals #trees
Late afternoon sunlight on a row of tree trunks on the opposite bank of a canal. The lower part is in shadow and the sky behind the trees is blue. The scene is mirrored by the canal, in the lower half of the image.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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#MilepostMonday on the Trent and Mersey Canal, from a recent @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk.
#UKCanals
Typical low level, black and white, curved sign. One side says Shardlow 79 miles, the other side says Preston Brook 13 miles. A tiny note at the base says R&D Stone 1819.
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#MuddyMonday or is it
#MuckyMonday given the presence of those cows 😲
Very muddy or mucky section of unavoidable field leading to a footbridge. Cows in the distance. Hoofprints in the mud. View along a very muddy narrow metal footbridge into a field.
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A ventilation shaft above the disused Docks Railway from Edge Hill Station to #Liverpool Docks. Spotted on @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Belle Vale to Liverpool.
A really tall brick ventilation shaft in a park, with graffiti at the base of it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Bins
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Shadows
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#PostboxSaturday in Childwall on the way into Liverpool on a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Belle Vale.
A standard red postbox with GR written on it in plain capitals. Suburban background of road, houses, trees and hedges.
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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As if I would want to trespass here?! @slowwaysuk.bsky.social from Prescot to Belle Vale near Liverpool.
A wooden barred gate covered in brambles. I it was possible to open it, you'd be straight into a small field completely filled with brambles more than a metre high. A faded notice on the gate says "No entry. Private property."
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Two for #FingerpostFriday from further north. @slowwaysuk.bsky.social
Rural fingerpost between Northwich and Stretton. Lots of fallen leaves. Liverpool Loop Line cycle and walking track. Lots of ivy and brambles from the side of the track.
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#FingerpostFriday from Somerset @slowwaysuk.bsky.social with bus shelter, #bench and #postbox. It's sad that the word "Station" had been painted out though.
The fingerpost pointed to Edington Station but Station is painted white like the background instead of black. Other destinations include Bridgwater and Glastonbury.
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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#PostboxSaturday
A Victorian wall box in Thurloxton on @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Bridgewater to Taunton.
The old brick side of a building with a filled in window and a small postbox with the letters VR on it. Ivy growing up from the ground with sign of earlier cut back ivy higher up.
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Fingerless #FingerpostFriday
Approaching Wells on the East Mendip Way. @slowwaysuk.bsky.social
Wooden post at the end of a wooden gate next to a wall. The writing on the post is vertical and in capitals. It says Dinder 1/2M Kings Castle 1/2M Wells 2M
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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#Remembrance
#FingerpostFriday
with added #bench @myfavouritebench.bsky.social
@slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Midsomer Norton to Wells
On the grass between two roads stands the silhouette of a soldier in front of a fingerpost pointing to Trowbridge, Wells and Nettlebridge. In the background a bench, a bin and a tree.
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Sadly not quite so #ADoorableThursday. Looks as if it was once lovely with #tiles on the floor and sides, and a nameplate above.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Four views from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Street to Bridgwater in #Somerset.
Old AA roadsign in the village of Stawell. It's a yellow metal plaque on the wall with black writing. There's a car in front of the wall (naturally) and a red wall postbox. Looking along a straight drainage channel in the Somerset Levels, with sunlit poplar trees lining one side. Blue cycle route signs on a post, red-berried hawthorn, stone wall, grey sky, partial rainbow. Looking along a quiet single track road. Tree silhouetted against a cloud in a blue sky with the sun behind the cloud.
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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#ThursGate#Autumn
#ThuickTrunkThursday
From Maesbury Castle near Wells #Somerset
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November 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Contrasting #weather in #Somerset on 1st November.
Very dark sky, dark grey with lighter grey on top, filling the top two thirds of the picture. Green grass in the foreground with sunlit autumn trees and hedge in between. Blue sky at dusk with grey and white, partially sunlit clouds. Green grass and a silhouetted tree in the foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Some weird milestones on the @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from #Wells to #Glastonbury in #Somerset.
A large upright stone, pointed at the top, with an inset symbol near the top and a sort of clover leaf carving at the bottom and a more feeble bit of writing saying The Tor 5M Wells 3M. A large upright stone, pointed at the top, with an inset symbol near the top and three large eight-pointed stick-stars carved at the bottom and a more feeble bit of writing saying The Tor 2 3/4M.
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM