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Rich May
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Actor, Musician, Sportsman, Poet, Writer, Fighter, Lover, Liar - Pictures taken on #Pixel9ProXL.
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Views from the #Dunoon - #Gourock #ferry, #Scotland
Sea, mountains and clouds On board the ferry The other ferry passing the opposite direction at the bottom of a hazy rainbow Houses and a church clinging to the gap between the hills and the sea
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Always good to have a fly by past #Saltburn (the real one) when visiting one of my schools
The funicular railway looking down to the sea and the pier with one of the cars just about to reach the top A view across Saltburn beach with pier and cliffs
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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@impq.bsky.social in other news I asked AI what Steve would look like if he was in the country life butter ads. The result was, of course, quite shit.
A Real Cunty Live One
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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@impq.bsky.social can't believe that Alice missed out the friendship between Bruce and that famous Scottish Heavy Metal Band singer Mr Derek Dick. Pictured here at a Fishy wedding.

She clearly needs to spend more time doing your work for you rather than all that woke caring nonsense
Paul and Derek
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A film you've seen more than seven times, with a gif
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Some lovely small #cloudinversions in #Teesdale this morning in the Balder and Lune valleys
Clouds sit low over Selset Reservoir whilst clear blue skies above make a bright scene of the moorland behind a dry stone wall (with stile) in the foreground A dry stone wall in the foreground in front of some grassy moorland with a line of trees in the middle distance and behind it a line of low lying cloud above Hury Reservoir Henry the Springador stands on a dry stone wall in front of some grassy moorland and the line of low clouds over the Balderdale Reservoirs A country lane leads downhill past a small barn whilst the bright morning shines through some light upper clouds whilst a line of white cloud sits in the Balderdale valley above Hury Reservoir
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A #lakedistrict wander up to Bowscale Fell. We were going to go further across to Blencathra but the weather was awful at the top so for safety sake we came back down
The Beast of Bowscale Fell. Henry the hound sitting in the middle of the cairn at the top of Bowscale Fell Sunshine over Mungrisdale. On a cloudy day the sun is breaking through some clouds and shining brightly over the village of Mungrisdale and surrounding fields Here's what you could have won. Henry standing in front of the hills around Blencathra Rainbow over Bowscale
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Morning
A deer is standing very properly on the skyline but hiding in-between some trees and bushes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Nice pint of #Wainwright in the The Rose and Crown at #Romaldkirk as usual However I'm sure Alfred would be amused they serve a beer named after him in there

"The Rose and Crown was out of the question for me. It looked much too fine and expensive and would have scrutinised me from head to foot"
A, mostly supped, pint of Wainwright beer
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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...there is this lovely cottage in All Saints Street, Hastings. It's named Shovells as apparently his mother lived there.
Shovells. A lovely small timber framed house in Hastings Old Town.
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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@impq.bsky.social bastards..look what you made me buy. Used to have the VHS somewhere but never just the audio. Didn't want a physical copy but it was cheaper than the MP3. Now ripped, so forward this on and if anyone (in UK) wants it I'll stick it in a jiffy bag with a 2nd class large letter stamp
Maiden England CD
October 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Exploring the third and final of the English Curry Stool #trigpoint #ordnancesurvey. See the alt text of Henry telling me about them for more info
Henry sitting on the central point of the curry stool (a triangular concrete base) with Cow Green reservoir visible in the low clouds behind him Just the curry stool showing it's three legged form with a central bolt indicating the datum point "you see up here on the peat moorland a regular trig point would sink so instead they drove three deep rods into the bedrock and then put a concrete triangular cap on top from which to survey"
October 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I think Pets at Home had this in mind when they created this giraffe dog toy
All body and no neck
October 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I was scanning some old photos from the early 90s today and look who I stumbled upon
The Merchant Adventurers Hall. The Merchant Adventurers Hall.
October 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Person opposite me on the train has a water bottle on the table. Is this just wear and tear or deliberate defacement?
A "contigo" bottle with a part of one of the letters scratched out
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Long Meg and her Daughters
#standingstonesunday
The face of Long Meg Long Meg and her Daughters The daughters Long Meg and her Daughters
October 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Some truly amazing #cloudinversions filling the entirety of the #Eden Valley this afternoon as viewed from the #NorthPennines with the #Howgills and #LakeDistrict rising out of the sea of clouds. #Meteorology #weather
Panoramic photo from Hartshead Summit across the wide expanse of the Eden Valley. The sun is just about to set.into the clouds The hills of the Lake District (Skiddaw, Blencathra area) can be seen riding above the cloud inversion An earlier photo from a different point but with the Eden Valley filled with cloud. The Howgill hills are rising out of the clouds A panoramic view of the cloud filled Eden Valley from Shot Moss on the edge of the North Pennines
October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Sheffield Cathedral. An interesting combination of medieval parish church and 1960s additions
Inside Sheffield Cathedral. Looking east down the medieval nave from next to the modern don't Looking east into the medieval chancel The modern (1960s) west end and lantern The exterior of the cathedral from the SW showing the mix of medieval and modern
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Birmingham from the top of the BT offices in Snow Hill
A panoramic view of Birmingham A panoramic view of Birmingham A panoramic view of Birmingham
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Morning! Up and out at sparrowfart today with the boy before heading to get a train to Sheffield. The clouds were playing silly games at 5am when they thought nobody was watching
#clouds #moon #beforesunrise #blackandwhite
An oval shaped cloud (I just missed getting the phone out of my pocket when it was being almost perfectly circular) flanked by trees and a fenceline The same cloud a minute or two later further down the path. Just one small tree on the horizon. The cloud has now become a triangle A third photo of the same cloud formation with the same tree as the second photo but again, taken from further along the railway path. The cloud is now, to my mind at least, in the shape of Australia Final of four photos. Back In an embankment on the railway path with the cloud again flanked by bushes and a fence. This time the formation has changed to two imperfect circles joined together
October 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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A meeting of minds
#dog #hedgehog
Henry the Springador comes nose to nose with one of the garden hedgehogs
October 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Watching you watching me. #Deer #NorthPennines
A family of three deer are standing at the edge of some trees. They are all staring straight at me
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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From the top I followed the wagonways back to parkhead station and then down the Stanhope and Tyne Railway line

#auden #weardale #sdr200 #wagonway
An old railway carriage, some bikes, and a sculpture of a horse pulling a wagon at Parkhead Station Crawleyside tunnel. It's a steep drop down Crawleyside bank Old Stockton and Darlington Railway marker above the tunnel A view across Weardale
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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W. H. Auden, 1940

Photos from a mountain bike ride on the wagonways of Weardale.

Bolts Law Engine House was the highest point of standard gauge railway in the UK. The engine pulled wagons up from the quarries and mines of Rookhope
The remains of Bolt Law Engine House Bolts Law Engine House main engine shed Another view of the engine house with my mountain bike in front. Sadly the engine wasn't there to pull me up Me on the mountain bike at the top of Bolts Law
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM