@kalamari.bsky.social

Avid reader. Posts only occasionally, mainly landscapes, likes and follows appreciated. Supporting the positive vibes of BlueSky by blocking bots, blatant marketing, misogyny and misandry.All photographs mine unless reposts.

238 Followers 658 Following 79 Posts Joined Aug 2024
1 month ago

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#wordle - a bit of luck for this one.

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

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7 months ago
An ageing & weathered grey tree trunk with a nest hole. There's an owlet peeping out of the hole - it was calling for food.

A thick tree trunk with an Owlet. This was taken some weeks ago, the owlet will be fledged by now.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#NationalTrust
#FelbriggHallNT
#Birds

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7 months ago
A three way signpost (fingerpost) with each route identified as 'via quiet lanes'.

Happy Friday, here's a cyclist's dream fingerpost.

#FingerpostFriday

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7 months ago

Gary has been banned from the club for suggesting that Berger and Minge are the best thing to happen to Saturday night since Morecambe and Wise. #NewAlanBennetts

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8 months ago
A length of fallen tree trunk, stripped of bark, the wood a warm yellow.

I loved the warm colour of this length of trunk, ageing in the grounds of Moseley Old Hall

##ThickTrunkTuesday
##NationalTrust
#MoseleyOldHallNT
#Photography

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8 months ago
A red breasted Robin in a spring border. A few green shoots pushing up through last autumn's leaf litter.

My garden Robin posing with his head turned #sideways

#BlueSkyArtShow

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8 months ago
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A view of the Rotunda at Ickworth House, near Bury St Edmunds.

With a thick trunk of course!

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#NationalTrust
#IckworthHouse
#Photography

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8 months ago
A substantial tree, around 7 branches reaching up to a high level canopy. In the background, right and left gable ends of the ruined Nymans House.

A tree in the gardens of Nymans, West Sussex. In the background are the ruins of the house, which is currently partly restored.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography

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8 months ago
A giant globe, covered with  NASA image of Mars, suspended in the nave of Chichester Cathedral

There's only the narrowest of gaps between Mars and the nave of Chichester Cathedral

#BlueSkyArtShow
#narrow
#photography

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9 months ago
An old Sweet Chestnut tree, many lifeless branches silhouetted against the sky.

This is a 350 year old Sweet Chestnut at Moseley Old Hall, Staffordshire, UK. The Romans made flour from sweet chestnuts.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography

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9 months ago
A ewe looking out from behind a tree. It has black ears, one with a yellow tag, one with a red tag. There are distinctive black eyebrows and black chin. The face strongly resembles a badger, the coloured tags give a punk effect.

A punk badger in sheep's clothing.
The Eyebrows are a tribute to Dennis Healey.

#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekWforWacky
#Photography

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9 months ago
A 3m diameter globe, placed with the southern hemisphere up, so the north is underneath.
Outside the LSE, London.

The North #Underneath the South.

##BlueSkyArtShow

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9 months ago
A bowl full of strawberries, one evening's harvest.

My #strawberry harvest tonight.

I have a lot of completion with the local wildlife, so I pick as soon as they start to ripen.

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9 months ago
A cluster of purple chive flowers. Two bees are head down, pushing in to reach the nectar.

Two bees head down in chive flowers.

#wildwebswednesday

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9 months ago
 A small insect on the edge of a light pink tinged petals of a peony. Lower centre the golden yellow centre.

Small insect (I welcome an ID) on a Peony flower.
Kent, UK

#wildwebswednesday

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9 months ago
A woodland with a substantial Beech tree trunk, in front a small picnic table with four scattered chairs

Have you brought the picnic?

#ThickTrunkTuesday

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9 months ago
Five pink to purple petals on a small flower. Better colour descriptions are possible but beyond my skills.

Five petals

#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekVforfive

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9 months ago
The mountains of Madeira, lit in the distance by the morning sun behind.
The foreground is shaded, except for two encircled green bushes, giving the impression of the viewer being observed.

Who's looking at you?

#LightandShadow
#BlueSkyArtShow

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9 months ago

Apologies, I'm very pleased with this one after a run of 6/6 and 5/6

#Wordle 1,434 3/6

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9 months ago
A wide angle view of the Church Tower reaching to the blue sky, flanked by trees, with a lantern central at the top of the picture.

##Alphabetchallenge
#WeekUforUp

Looking Up to the top of the Church Tower - and the lantern lighting the entrance.
Saint Mary the Virgin, Salehurst, Kent, UK

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9 months ago

I remember The Who at Charlton Athletic's ground as the best gig I've seen. I guess they'd improved by 1978 - or is my recollection mellowed by the scrumpy 🍻 the Somerset lads were sharing.

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9 months ago
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Perfect velvet lining the inside of a Scarlet Elf Cup

#Texture
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photography

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9 months ago

#WeekTforTime

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9 months ago
A clock face where each hour from 1 to 12 is shown as a calculation of nines. For example two is '(9+9)/9'

Is 9 your favourite number?

#Alphabetchallenge
#TforTime

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10 months ago
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Rigging #lines on the Cutty Sark, Greenwich.

##BlueSkyArtShow

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10 months ago
Rocks with a natural, silvery, reflective lustre, on the South West Coast Path, Cornwall. A calm sea behind, a steep, grassy, slope in the foreground.

Silver rocks on an overcast day, the South West Coast Path, Cornwall

#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekSforSilver

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10 months ago
A colourful white, pink and cream common horse-chestnut in full sun, set against the dark, shaded interior of the tree.

This is Common Horse-chestnut, enjoying the wonderful #Kent sunshine.

#flowers #photos #spring

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10 months ago
A black poodle, fast asleep on his back, with a front leg raised, fully bent at the knee

Where do pooches go when they're dreaming?

#Dream #BlueSkyArtShow

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11 months ago
A detail of a white door, with a black letterbox, the house name Bolywinky and a sign saying 'In 1832 on this spot nothing happened'.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Peaceful

Nor since

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