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Tim Manwaring
@timmanwaring.bsky.social
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Social account. Mainly photos and hope. Garden Centre Receptionist of the Year 1996. Driver Trainer, Forest of Bowland.
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The turn and ford. #my400
The entryway to a tractor ford curves around a fence and tree from the field into the river. The exit is downstream, to allow the tractor to cross partially with the flow. Green November fields, late autumn trees and an ominous sky above.
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Of course, memory plays up! (Born and brought up - escaped at 18!)

When the King controls the Roa custom house, and owns all the land from the Walney light house to Birkrigg stone circle to Paradise, he'll have all the custom his pub needs.
Black and white photo of the Roa Island a custom house, with a child on the rocky foreshore. The boat pier where the ferry takes customers from Roa to the Island of Piel (on the horizon across a calm sea), with it's houses, pub (the landlord of which is automatically considered the monarch of Piel) and the ruins of its castle. The old Beacon tower leans Piza-like on the marshy shore. One of the boats which seems to always be abandoned alongside the causeway to Roa.
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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It's actually quite colourful out there. #my400
Autumnal treeline with spruce centre, flanked by bright bronzy orangey leafed trees (poss beech, maybe sycamore). Green field in front of a dry stone wall which surrounds the copse. Novemberish sky above.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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What were the skies like when you were young? #my400
Vehicle tracks lead to a gate in a line of nature trees. Foreground grass is green, with a fence line alongside the track. Sky is blue, with the occasional little fluffy cloud.
October 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The Revolution is here. (But we still need people to paint the walls.)
The top of the Revolution roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Big One in the background, autumnal trees between concession stands in the foreground. A chap on a ladder paints a wall.
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Mists and mellow wossnames. (With apologies to Mr Kipling. (And Keats.))
View over a field with a fence line across it to autumnal wooded areas toward the bottom of the valley. Mist clinging around the middle distance and a hint of hill in the cloud beyond. Grey sky.
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Chaos, but we're working on it. The October mist on the hill over the garden wall keeps me going!
View over the mossy dry stone wall at the end of the garden. Looking through the cherry tree branches across the valley to grass, trees, mist. Cloud breaks above to a hint of blue.
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Watch out once it does get going...!
The fermentation lock on a demijohn of cider which is full of krausen after a slightly exuberant beginning.
October 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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@oaknational.bsky.social erm...! And this is just one of the slightly odd incorrect answers on this subject.
A question from the Oak National Academy's year 9 Computing syllabus: 'Where is data most commonly stored and accessed, making it accessible from anywhere in the world?' in the answer box 'servers' has been written, but it has been marked 'Incorrect' with correct answers suggested as: 'online, the cloud, cloud'.
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Today's drive out, and the view from the top.
View down over Bowland moorland (mainly bracken) to a gap in the fells where there's just a hint of sun in the landscape, below a leaden sky. 4x4 track with a virtiginous drop into the valley below. Mist obscures the distance, except for a lone tree. The track leads up the valley into, yes, you guessed it, mist. Mist. Dark at the bottom, lighter at the top.
September 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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It's that time of year again. #my400
Three laden, vertical, branches of bright red, wet, Hawthorn berries. Path through the copse behind is out of focus.
September 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Make hay... #my400 (Even 9:00am was hot. If you're taking your dogs out, please take care of them, especially feet on hot tracks.)
August 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Quick phone snap of the moon last night. Didn't notice white how nicely it turned out.
The moon, slightly obscured by clouds, above a beach, curving around the bay with trees on the hillside silhouetted.
August 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Outstanding view. Gotta love a bit of haar. Almost a #Rothno.
Grey. Small horizontal strip of slightly darker grey at the bottom of the picture might be sea. Who knows?
August 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I'm entirely comfortable with my sexuality. (There's a common theme around all of the doodles that makes people think they're cool, it's the Poodle. Just get a poodle from a good, registered, breeder and be done with it.)
Mildly pissed off looking black(ish) poodle, with grass around its mush.
August 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"Why the hell are you going to the arse* end of Scotland in August?" (*Or more appropriately "bell".)
View of a beach and inlet, through wildflowers. Rocky outcrops, with sand beyond, and a curving bay. Trees outline the hills and the silhouettes of the island across the sound lie beneath white clouds in a blue sky.
August 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Not a New Order album cover.
A fascinatingly tightly layered rock, eroded and folded to create a topography reminiscent of that New Order album cover.
August 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Guess who left the green filter on the Kaleinar.
A very atmospheric, if green, photo of the sea, with a boat and the hills of Aran beyond.
August 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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They really are a magnet for them, aren't they. By coincidence, we spotted these on ours this afternoon!
Loads of bees on the purple flower of a cardoon.
August 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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We're jammin'...
A pan full of plums, with a spoon, ready to be turned into jam.
August 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Lads, where'd we leave the truck? #ForestofBowland
A long, rocky track leads down the side of the fell. Heather moorland, with patches of bracken. A white dot is where we left the pickup truck, just short of a ford across a stream. Beyond the hills, the sky is bleak.
July 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Evenin'. #my400
View of the river, flowers drift pinkly along the bank. Trees pose, a la Constable's landscapes, and the sun oozes through the clouds and pools across the water. At least it's neither sunset, nor a long exposure of misty water...
July 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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What size are Chantenay carrots meant to be again? Boot for scale. #my400
Some very large Chantenay carrots I left in the ground for far too long before pulling them. With one of my size 9s in the picture for scale.
July 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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It's been a busy month, but here's some flaars for the #my400 brigade:
A smoky lavender (?) coloured poppy, with orange dahlias behind. Another of the grey/blue/purple poppies. Some wonderful value pale yellow things whose name escapes me... Red poppy wiv a bee.
July 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM