Andy Clark

The kids text me "plz" Because it's shorter than "please". I text back "no" because it's shorter than "yes"

#philosophy

Sunset over Castillo de San Marcial de Ruby on de Fermés, Playa Blanca Lanzarote

Mine, smartphone x2 zoom

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#meme #memes #comic #cartoon #winter #snow #dogs #Dachshunds

Historic Map of Town Centre Wigan, Lancashire in 1832 pop 20,000 drawn by LT. Dawkins of the Royal Engineers. The Douglas Navigation had been the outlet for trade from 1740 to the Ribble nr Preston. The canal finally linked the Wigan coalfields to Manchester in 1820. The Liverpool/Manchester Railway arrived on the 8th Sept 1832 and Wigan exploded. By 1901 the District population was over 220,000

I love my maps. This is the 1832 plan of Wigan Town centre drawn up by LT.Robert K Dawkins of the Royal Engineers.Transport of Coal/Cloth was first by the Douglas Navigation to the Ribble from 1740 and the canal had opened in 1820. Everything was about to change as the rail arrived 8 Sept 1832.

The surviving lower courses of a rectangular stone tower, set into wall foundations that curve away on either side. There is a complete, later wall behind it, of more regularly cur stone. Modern buildings are behind and above that. Part of a pub beer garden is visible on the right, beside the remains of the tower. The dominant colours in the stonework are shades of sandy brown.

The remains of the tower at the SE corner of the Roman legionary fort at #Chester / Deva, with a section of the mediaeval wall behind it. Built in the late first century, it originally had a ditch in front, filled in long ago. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain
📷 my own, from 2024

My grandmother always said ;

"If tha can't say owt nice,
Say Nowt!"

A paradigm for life,
which increasingly harder
to live by 🙄

Get the rotary gestetner out that'll warm you up 💪

Stunning 👏

The guys in Broughton must be from the Airbus factory on an overnight before flying more wings out to toulouse in the morning- not much else to do there. Bit o bad luck really 🤭

People walking around Piazza del Duomo, and gawking at the most stunning piece of architecture in Milan, Duomo di Milano. In the daytime this place is packed.

Duomo di Milano

Piazza del Duomo. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic #UrbanGaze

Milano, Italia
🧭 45°27'52.4"N 9°11'20.9"E

#photography #originalcontent #landscape #NightPhotography #StreetPhotography #architecture #Duomo #travel #scape #Italia #Italy #Milano #Milan

Standard practice NW England too, spend years on rugby and football pitches as kids in winter, so nothing out of the ordinary 👌
As a concession to age, I do wear a woolly hat 😉

A low barn like slated rural building heavily buttressed with a simple stubby bell tower. Bell was cast in Wigan circa 1740. Worship took place there from around 1245 to its demolition in 1878.

Interior of the chapel showing its wooden beam construction with individual box pews its speaking dias was removed and placed as pulpit in nearby Christchurch, Parbold when it took over as the parish in 1875. Local lore has it that the Parliamentarians (roundheads) stabled their horses here during the Siege of Lathom in 1644

A couple of pictures of Douglas Chapel, Parbold, Lancashire from William Prices 1895 notes on it.
My 4x Great Grandfather was clerk there from about 1820 to his death in 1860

Street-art un enfant géant regarde à la loupe un homme qui passe sur le trottoir.

Street-art comme j'aime
#JamaisSansPoésie

Richmond, Portland, OR
#pdx #murals #streetart #botjoy

Good luck lasting the three hours

Get ready for the new tariff threats : the EU has just done a massive trade deal with India, and the UK's trade delegation is off to China tomorrow 💪

Aaaaargh, now it's in my head

Lince ibérico...

Lince ibérico...

📸: Eko Parmanto
#Animal #Nature #Wildlife

If you’re going outside, don’t forget to wrap up well as some of you are very ugly.

You'd need it, even his terriers won't go near it !

That's not the Roo from my brother in law's back yard, cos he's a right vicious so n so 😂

Well that was a fail on the carbs front- 1/2 loaf and followed by 4 double choc cookies 🤦

Must've felt so great to get back out there 👌

Check out your blood sugar levels

A great egret perches upon a log in a bayou and cranes its long neck down the water for a drink. Its reflection looks like an inverted twin.

“Pleased to meet you…”

#Photography #Birds #EastCoastKin

I live in the land of ginnels 😀

January views looking down a windy Haweswater in the Lake District. It was so windy whilst taking this picture I struggled to stay standing.

#landscapephotography
#lakedistrict
#uk

Pre 8am daylight 🥳👏 - we're getting there !