Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[Boru]

When you need the castle repairs done in the good weather...

 

[planetgeli]

Cows in river, red kite.

Poetry not as good as chainsawjob

 

[Sprocket.]

 

[Sprocket.]

 

[chainsawjob]

Poetry not as good as @chainsawjob

Good kite tho'! Cows are nice too

 

[marty21]

saw a fat version of our cat , on a barge .

 

[Sprocket.]

 

[Clair De Lune]

 

[SpookyFrank]

Those birds are baby pheasants I think.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Here's the whole family look...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Today's state-sanctioned excercise pictures are from Warbstow Bury, a 2500 year old hill fort in north Cornwall. It's hard to take photos of because of the sheer scale of it but I thought I'd have a go. It's made up of two concentric rings of walls, each surrounded by ditches. The inner circle alone is about the size of a cricket stadium.

Here's one of the two 'entrances' to the inner ring:



The walls either side of this gap rise to over ten feet and the ditch outside them is almost as deep again. Here's the view out through that same entrance:



The high ground on the horizon there is Dartmoor, about 30 miles to the South East. Here's a close up:



Here you can see one of the inner walls, and the ditch outside it:



And here's the view from the top of the wall, with the ditch on the right:



It's the best place I know of to see Red Kites, but you'll have to take my word for it because there were none about today. It's also the best-preserved hill fort of this kind I've seen, and best of all hardly anyone else ever goes there.

 

[clicker]

Crossbones graveyard, Borough. 15000 mostly women and children's bodies found under what was a school playground, when TFL bought the school to build on. There is now a 30 year lease preventing building over the bodies again......bastarding church threw them all in unconsecrated ground.



Red Cross way....So called because in plague times nearly every door had a red cross.
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Wibbly Wobbly bridge.

Warhol exhibition in Tate.


Andy Warhol's syrup.

 

[Leafster]

Earlier in the year I posted up a photo of a tree covered in blossom from one of my walks. I walked past it today and it's now covered in fruit! (pears)

 

[Clair De Lune]

Nature is having a fucking orgy right now.

 

[Clair De Lune]

 

[platinumsage]

 

[SpookyFrank]

Today on State Sanctioned Excercise Pictures it's (pause for effect) interesting rock formations!



The last one is my favourite. The thin iron-rich seams are an inch or so proud of the rock face. This has created a distinctive concentric pattern of erosion within the resulting cell-like structures, presumably because the rock in the middle of each 'cell' has been worn down through more strata where it's less sheltered by the iron.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Today on State Sanctioned Excercise Pictures (pause for effect) it's interesting rock formations!

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The last one is my favourite. The thin iron-rich seams are an inch or so proud of the rock face. This has created a distinctive concentric pattern of erosion within the resulting cell-like structures, presumably because the rock in the middle of each 'cell' has been worn down through more strata where it's less sheltered by the iron.

That's really cool!

 

[Orang Utan]

Today on State Sanctioned Excercise Pictures it's (pause for effect) interesting rock formations!

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The last one is my favourite. The thin iron-rich seams are an inch or so proud of the rock face. This has created a distinctive concentric pattern of erosion within the resulting cell-like structures, presumably because the rock in the middle of each 'cell' has been worn down through more strata where it's less sheltered by the iron.

they would look great on acid or mushrooms.

 

[Clair De Lune]

 

[yield]

 

[Clair De Lune]

 

[marty21]

A bench on Walthamstow Marshes where I often ring my mum .Train crossing the marshes No idea what this machine did .View from a bench on Hackney Marshes, looking towards Stratford.

 

[hash tag]

Anything to do with resurfacing roads?

 

[SpookyFrank]

 

[SpookyFrank]

 

[Boru]

Art exhibition on direct provision centres for asylum seekers in Ireland

 

[brogdale]

One for all you farmers! (also posted over on the Croydon thread)

The Sussex cattle herd are back on the Roundshaw Downs open space (formerly the old Croydon/London airport site):

 

[marty21]

One for all you farmers! (also posted over on the Croydon thread)

The Sussex cattle herd are back on the Roundshaw Downs open space (formerly the old Croydon/London airport site):

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Reminds me , I must take some pictures of our local cattle , on Leyton Marsh.

 

[WouldBe]

One for all you farmers! (also posted over on the Croydon thread)

The Sussex cattle herd are back on the Roundshaw Downs open space (formerly the old Croydon/London airport site):

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Bullocks.