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Chris The Boatman
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Art, narrowboats and an eclectic mix.
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Whitewash Lichen 🍄🧪🌱
Oval shaped White wash lichen on a wooden gate bar
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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"There was a square room with a deep old bay window and a stone fireplace in which a fire of juniper logs burned lazily. It was wainscoted in walnut and had a frieze of faded damask above the panelling. The ceiling was high and remote. There was a smell of cold sea."
A photo of a copy of the 2000 Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler. The cover photo, of three men in dark suits and hats, two of them covering their faces with handkerchiefs, is from the Weegee archive.
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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‘Gate : Entry (Birches Head)‘
Ink. Varnish on Paper
#SixTownsSketchbook
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November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Road to the Forest, Bertha Lum 1913
Road to the Forest, Bertha Lum 1913
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Wout Schram, Dutch (1895-1987), Reclining Nude in Front of a Window, 1931, oil on canvas, 129 x 170 cm, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Ah, the famous urban myth: “duvet round the prop “ #UKCanals 🤳
A large white water sodden duvet hanging over an open weed hatch and engine bay of a narrow boat
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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George Eliot - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Susan Hayward
#Caturday
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Nature isn’t a “blocker” – it makes our lives better.

Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.
Sunshine filtering between the autumnal leaves. It creates a glow in a woodland space and feels quite magical.
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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A #giftlink #gurtarticle 🎁Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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English Elm #Bonsai
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The end
#UKCanals
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A brick built bridge at a canal Juntion with an iron oval plaque sho the number one. A narrow boat passing under
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Henry James once quipped his two favourite words in the English language were ‘summer afternoon.’ James Tissot’s picture is of his partner and muse, Kathleen Newton, reading in the garden of their house in Grove End Road, St. John’s Wood, London, in 1878.
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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One of the locks at Hurleston Junction #UKCanals
Narrowboat leaving one of the locks at Hurleston Junction Lock gates open, a blue sky above
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In prossimità della riva del mare, il sole coperto dalle nuvole si riflette sulla vasca di una fontana temporaneamente inattiva.
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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More attempt at nature journaling. Pen and water-soluble color pencils. My goal is to sketch things in situ as much as possible rather than from photos. But today, my toes got cold. Time to pull out the heavy winter rubber boots. #NatureJournaling
ウバユリのスケッチ。足が寒かった。 #スケッチ
Sketch of heart-leaf lily or ubayuri and the actual plant on the right. The plant has four seedpods that are cracking opening but held together with filaments. Flat seeds are visible.
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Day two
Grindley Brook Staircase Lock
#UKCanals
A narrowboat moving out of a lock chamber with th lock gates in the background
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Ellesmere 😂😂
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Day one Rlesmere Tunnel
#UKCanals
The entrance to Elsmere Tunnel viewed from the New Narrowboat
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Metacampanella subdendrophora growing on scotch broom in Pacific County, Washington.

#metacampanella #mycology #macrophotography #fungi #fungifriends
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Place des Vosges, from the window of Number23
pen and aquarelle pencils
#UrbanGaze #drawing #mixedmedia #art #France #Paris #urban #buildings
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM