Running Past

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#WeekJforJuxtaposition Those boat people eh? Coming over here on their posh yachts . . .🙄

A clump of real natural grass growing up through a horrible carpet of plastic grass in a city centre.

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Real natural grass growing up through a plastic grass lawn in #Swansea city centre.

Die Aufnahme zeigt das Wattenmeer bei Sonnenuntergang. Die Sonne steht tief am Horizont und spiegelt sich als leuchtender Punkt auf der ruhigen Wasseroberfläche. Im Vordergrund sind flache Wasserflächen und Schlickstrukturen zu erkennen. Am Horizont verläuft ein dunkles, schmales Wolkenband und im Wasser sind Buhnen zu sehen. Die Farbgebung ist von warmen Orange- und Brauntönen geprägt, die eine ruhige Stimmung vermitteln. Ein Vogel fliegt knapp über das Wasser.

Saharastaub über dem
Wattenmeer. 🌊
Saharan dust over the Wadden Sea.
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#waterwednesday

For all those who go on about how winter is the best season. No. Spring, in London, when the magnolias bloom and it's almost warm enough to stand outside a pub after work. That's the best.

A pink pig covered in mud

A farm with the happiest pigs …

A sunny day with a very low tide. A the front a groyne and shingle then sand beach. This leads onto mud/sand flats - with a man digging for shellfish. Beyond is the sea, some shipping is visible as are the Maunsell Forts off the Essex coast.

Seasalter beach at a very low tide #TidesOutTuesday

Sheep grazing in a field of an urban farm - towers of offices and flats sit beyond.

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The financial centre of Canary Wharf from the farm next door - Mudchute

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All thoughts go to Jello and his family.

Remember: Think FAST

F - Face (drooping)
A - Arms (weakness on one side)
S - Speech (slurred or not making sense)
T - Time to call 999 (or 112 or 911, depending on where you are)

I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.

Heron standing on wall below which is a mural of heron. A red DLR train behind.

To be honest I have several photos with a heron and the mural - I walk past that point every week and it’s a common fishing perch by herons. One with a bonus Docklands Light Railway train.

Kingfisher mural with actual kingfisher next to it (stickers may have been created and used!

Took a bit longer than a minute, although it isn’t as impressive as the occasion last autumn when a kingfisher landed momentarily on my litter picker - that was far too quick for photos

A large riverside mural of a heron on a concrete wall is seemingly observed by an actual heron in the Ravensbourne in Deptford.

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Heron with a mural of a heron

Island with three trees reflected on large lake in grey conditions - looks monochrome but is in colour

Dark and light caramel coloured striped fungus on rotting wood

Large lake with several islands grey skies and low cloud hiding hills that should be at the rear of the photo.

Willow leaves budding up

A lovely walk around Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve where the weather forecast promised that the gloom would break, but it never did. Instead there was a beautiful, slightly eerie feel to the lakes.

Freshwater cistern (17th century), probably built by Vauban, on the island of Belle Ile, off the coast of Brittany.

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Dozens of arches all topped with terracotta and cream bricks and a cream ceiling.

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Mezquita de Córdoba

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

8 March 1890 | A Pole, Józef Bałuk, was born in Krakow. A Polish railway worker.

He was deported to #Auschwitz on 14 June 1940 from Tarnów in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 756
He perished in the camp on 18 February 1941.

Early stroll. Mist plays with distance. The satsuma I am eating wanes like the moon. A red plastic square on the pavement. The hill welcomes my footsteps. That tree’s sapling dreams.

A stone circle in a green field with hills beyond

For #StandingStoneSunday The peaceful, rural stone circle of the Piper's Stones, Athgreany, Co. Wicklow in Ireland in 2019.

I first visited in autumn 1989 on a bike during my year off as an aspiring archaeologist waiting to go to uni.

📷 My own, 2019

Hope it goes/went well

A tunnel painted in mainly turquoise and orange with a kingfisher and fish painted by Artmongers.

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Inside a tunnel under a railway

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

It was! Hope you are having a good weekend ☮️

That is a very low bar

Me in a blue tabard with Isabelle also in a blue pacing tabard.

Muddy cones of two different sizes and arrows waiting to be put out by me.

A large oak called Quercus in a parkland setting. It is grey and gloomy, it is beginning to bud up.

Trees leafing up in the gloom, grass around them.

It was pacing week at Catford #parkrun, I had a slightly bigger number than normal on my back - there were a couple two PBs as a result. Artistic arrow & cone flinging before (set up) & puddle jumping & fallen tree climbing like a 3 year old, with a 3 year old, afterwards. #JogDivision #GreenRunners

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

7 March 1925 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Lenczner, was born in Częstochowa.

In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23597
He did not survive.
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🎧/📖 Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://bit.ly/46t6L5w

First timers welcome

Scanners in pink tabards

RD Jan before the start

The large oak near the start and finish

Catford #parkrun 339 saw 191 finishers in slippery conditions - there were 33 1st timers, with 3 doing their 1st parkrun. There were 24 PBs some helped by our brilliant team of pacers. As always, a massive thank you to the 31 volunteers who made it all happen!

www.parkrun.org.uk/catford/resu...

Well done! That’s brilliant!

A large building with floor to ceiling windows and ornate ceiling. There is a stuffed giraffe in a strange position dominating the room.

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Inside the Petit Palais in Paris complete with a taxidermy giraffe

That first sitting out in the garden of the year is psychologically so important.