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Did they get the USACE in to build this fort?

Epic Fury = Epstein Files

This.

Most people don’t care about trans issues, which Labour have completely misunderstood. It’s “don’t care” as in “live & let live”. As you know, TERFs are a fringe bunch of nutters, they just have billionaire funding & get amplified by the media

An important couple of days in the calendar.
Yesterday, my first sighting of a Lapwing this year; followed by the first Oystercatcher and calling Curlews today.
The waders are back to breed in our corner of Bowland.

His hand is like a pin cushion.

N.B. Everything Trump touches turns to shit; in this case, radioactive shit with a potential half-life of 24,000 years.

Rescituate Scituate.

Sunset with colourful clouds over West Field, Galway, Ireland

Sunset Ireland - The sun is setting tonight with colourful clouds over West Field, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #CloudScape #IrishSunset #SkyScape #Photography

A lovely photo.

Hello, 'ello, 'ello.

Beautiful light. The hills do have their moments.

When the wind changes during your prostate examination.

In an attempt to wet my filthy Ventile jacket, my wife has weighed it down in the bath with an upside-down, white, tubular, metal shower stool issued for her hip replacement.
I keep doing a double take, seeing a Boston Dynamics robo-dog drowning in the bathtub.
Too much time in this new dystopia.

If only it was as warm in reality as it looks on this beautiful photo.

The poster boy for the ravages of foetal alcohol and fags.

A black and white infrared image of the junction of 3 drystone walls with a step stile and a gateway in the walls. In the background is a leafless Sycamore tree. The sky is grey and cold looking. The grass glows whitish, as if covered with snow, due to the infrared light.

Step stile. Pain Hill Farm, Slaidburn.

Put the gate a few yards further along the wall at the of side the stile if you need it for disabled access. No need to demolish it.

More than a shame IMHO.
As the Slaidburn Estate is in arrangements with English Heritage and the Inland Revenue to avoid taxes for preserving the said estate, IMO they should be made to reinstate such a heritage asset.

A step and squeeze stile in a limestone wall in verdant green grassland with trees.

A close-up of a squeeze stile where a gap of about 6" in a limestone drystone wall prevents sheep getting through but is wide enough for the walker's legs to pass. Noted Canadian master drystone waller, John Shaw-Rimmington stands behind.

Step and squeeze stile. Bell Sykes Farm, Slaidburn. Now thought to have been demolished and replaced with a gate to get a quad bike through.
Stewards of the countryside and all that.

Unfortunately the musical soundtrack seems to have deteriorated, but it remains my favourite film about letter-cutting in stone. Well worth a watch.

Final Marks: The Art of the Carved Letter : Skylight Films (Firm) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Title from data sheet

A wonderful film from the 1970s about the John Stevens Shop in Rhode Island. My career dream would have been an apprenticeship there.
archive.org/details/fina...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

If a retiree in her 60s can be detained, it could happen to anyone.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Looks a bit strange to me.
Letter-cutters out there; hand-cut or stencil and sand-blasted?

After getting up before dawn for over a month I think sunrise in the hills is overrated. Not one decent dawn for me so far. Merely grey and dismal, unlike this beauty from Paula.
I must go down to the seas again...

Submerged trees during late afternoon at Nottinghamshire's Attenborough Nature Reserve, a wetland next to the river Trent. It is a riparian wetland, an important ecosystem connecting river and land.

Submerged tree at a connecting point between the river Trent and one of the lakes of Nottinghamshire's Attenborough Nature Reserve. I love the natural, almost symmetrical reflection!

#Tree reflections of woodlands at Attenborough Nature Reserve.
A #flood #scape after relentless rain & an ecologically important 'riparian' wetland habitat, supporting biodiversity. 💙💚🩵🌳🌧️

#EastCoastKin #photography
#ForestFriday #Trees
#PhotographersofBluesky #naturephotography #BlueskyPhotography

The Great Wave of Lewis.

Very painterly.

FPDOTUS.
First pole dancer of the United States.

Does "embarrassment" mean "risk"?

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.