Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[Marty1]

I must have spent a good 30mins just browsing this thread - amazing pics

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[marty21]

I like this pair of expensive looking houses in Homerton, with a handy kebab place next door

 

[chainsawjob]

Bracken, mushrooms, sideways reflection, blurry deer, nearly fell in taking this one, path home, "I'm too tired so I'm just waiting here", lavender & orange flowers

 

[ginger_syn]

Some swans on the taff and a rain blurred bridge

 

[pseudonarcissus]

it was a beautiful morning here, and more importantly, after walking the dog I went rowing. The club is open again for single sculls. It felt good to be out on the water again.

 

[Boru]

Out for a spin today...

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[kebabking]

i went up to the Stiperstones in Shropshire yesterday - a 10km ridge that sits at around 500m and is a stones throw from the Montgomeryshire border...


it was a grey, blustery day. Red Kites, Kestrels, and Buzzards patrolled the skies, and the Barrow Wights rest in the tormented sleep of the undead...

 

[marty21]

Out for a spin today...
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my Dad's old stomping ground

 

[Boru]

my Dad's old stomping ground

Yes, you said so earlier in thread, that's why I took the pics

It's worth the trip in any weather to see these

 

[chainsawjob]

Garden walk



fancy rose, simple rose, purple flower (geranium?), fuschia


Forest walk



forest walk, rabbit poo fungus, foxglove, foal, conifer new growth, tiny white flowers (will look up)

 

[chainsawjob]

tiny white flowers (will look up)

I think it's heath bedstraw.

 

[chainsawjob]

Fucking love a moist flower me

Me too, ^^^

 

[Leafster]

Docklands in the distance













London skyline (just!)

 

[Saffy]

I didn't realise how hot it was this afternoon! Luckily there were lots of shady trees to walk under.

 

[Leafster]

It was hot this morning for my walk too. I planned a lot of it with tree cover but even so I couldn't always keep out of the sun. I'm glad I took plenty of water with me.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Grange over Sands

Community Orchard



Ornamental Gardens

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Grange over Sands

I remember going to the lido when I was a kid

 

[hash tag]

A rare trip out today. I can't tell you how many times I have been past this tower and have never visited it before today.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I remember going to the lido when I was a kid

supposedly reopening after nearly 30 years

Grange Lido site to reopen to the public

The refurbishment leaves the option of bringing the swimming pool back into use in the future.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[pseudonarcissus]

supposedly reopening after nearly 30 years

Grange Lido site to reopen to the public

The refurbishment leaves the option of bringing the swimming pool back into use in the future.

www.bbc.co.uk

My abiding memory is that the water was freezing and full of dead flies. I’ve been following the saga over the years...the “proper” swimming pool that had to be demolished and the talk of renovating it. I’m getting to the age where I’m thinking of moving to Grange
(I was born in Kendal)

 

[pseudonarcissus]

A rare trip out today. I can't tell you how many times I have been past this tower and have never visited it before today.
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Looks like you caught it at its best

 

[frogwoman]

Cream spot ladybird.

 

[marty21]

The signets getting much larger , I've watched these kids grow up .

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Superfluous hazard tape...

 

[neonwilderness]

The signets getting much larger , I've watched these kids grow up .

Be careful, they'll be able to break your arm soon.

 

[crossthebreeze]

 

[pseudonarcissus]

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what a story:

December 17.-A frightful and lamentable accident took place on the Town Moor, Newcastle-on-Tyne, whereby eight persons lost their lives...

From the evidence brought out at the inquest, it appeared that a considerable quantity of a very dangerous material, which, on examination, proved to be nitro-glycerine (for blasting purposes in mines, &c.), was stored in a cellar at the White Swan Yard, Cloth Market. .. After conferring with the magistrates and Town Clerk, it was ordered to be removed out of the town or destroyed. Not being able to induce the Railway Company to carry it, it was decided to destroy it by removing it to the Town Moor, and emptying it into the earth at a part of the Moor where there was a subsidence in the ground, caused by the workings of the Spital Tongues Colliery.

What occurred here is unknown, and probably never will be. The Sub-Inspector had got his task completed, and was about leaving to join the others, when a dreadful explosion took place. Wallace felt the earth shake, and at the same time saw fragments of clothing and other articles flying high up in the air. Though so near to the scene of the explosion, he was happily uninjured himself, his escape being accounted for by the fact that the bank was between him and the explosion.

...He immediately proceeded to the spot, and, on the west side of the hill, where the explosion took place, found a portion of the body of P.C. Bain dreadfully mutilated and shattered - the other portions of the body, horrible to relate, being blown away.

...The jury returned the following verdict:- "That death has been caused by the explosion of nitro-glycerine accidentally; and the jury are unanimously of opinion that the law in reference to the storing of nitro-glycerine has been grossly violated in this case."