Born a Portsmuthian. Longtime building & landscape designer + CADmonkey #Greenbuild #Architecture #Art #PeoplesRepublicofPortseaIsland Now #LakeDistrict postie.
Kendal, Cumbria
Joined May 2010
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10 June 1944. 642 men, women and children were murdered by the German Waffen SS in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening episode of the classic ITV documentary series World at War.
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Just heading off to visit Oradour-sur-Glane for the first time, a location I have wanted to visit for a long time.
‘Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France.’
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🚩The peloton leaves Compiègne, Paris-Roubaix 2026 is underway!
🚩Le peloton s’élance de Compiègne. C’est parti pour #ParisRoubaix 2026 !
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It's nearly Candlemas, traditionally the very end of the Christmas season, which joins a last look back to midwinter with the first glimmer of spring. Time for a few more medieval carols: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
'Tidings, tidings that be true:
Sorrow is past and joy doth renew.'
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'Ða easternan tungelwitegan gesawon niwne steorran beorhtne, angenga betwux heofenum and eorðan.'
'The eastern astronomers saw a new bright star, a lone wanderer between heaven and earth.'
An Anglo-Saxon sermon for the feast of the Epiphany: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
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'Though men be merry in mind when they have much drunk,
A year runs full swift, and yields never the same again;
The first part and the finish fit seldom together.'
(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
Yule and the 'young year' in some medieval poems: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
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This is probably the oldest surviving Nativity. 4th/5th century. Carved in marble and on show in Athens. Note the absence of Mary and Joseph. Just the ox and the ass in attendance. Interesting how priorities change in religions art. I deal with it here. zczfilms.com/films/
#RedKite circling, seen looking North towards Ratherheath Lane/fields to Plumgarths, from Cunswick scar yesterday #Kendal @lakedistrictnpa @cumbriawildlife #LakeDistrict #WinterSolstice Kentmere in background. #GrizedaleForest release?@ForestryComm . Seen one near Hugill Fell b4
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The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
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Ice cold on #ScoutScar #Kendal Views from the Bradleyfield (Barrowfield) Trig, Scout Scar, to the #Lakeland Fells to the West. A Blue skies day.
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Incredible final day of Grand Sumo Tournament in London!!
Congratulations to Yokozuna Hoshoryu and thank you to all Sumo wrestlers for charming the British people across the country.
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"That the water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed, it will go very successfully indeed, and perhaps therefore we had better wait and see so that we can pontificate in the light of the facts”.
Hmm? 🤔 So how's that one working out.
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The Cliffs of Moher emerging from the morning mists.
County Clare, Ireland.
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One of the great things about living near the Forth at this time of the year is the geese migration. Tonight’s showing was one of the best I’ve seen in years. Here’s a short snippet.
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Today is Michaelmas, the autumnal feast of the mighty St Michael the Archangel - in medieval tradition the guardian of high places, weigher of souls after death, heavenly warrior against the forces of evil, and defender against the dark. aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
