Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[ginger_syn]

Yesterday's minimal effort.

 

[kebabking]

yesterday, but i ask for forgiveness...

 

[Leafster]

Yesterday I checked the weather forecast carefully and worked out I could get out for a while between the downpours.

I was wrong.

The dark clouds building



Garmin having fun trying to re-route me after it lost the plot and then took me up a gulley only just wide enough for my pedals!
The Strava segment is known as the Bone Grinder - not much fun in the pissing rain

 

[quimcunx]

From an accidental walk this morning.

A break from your bucolic period to experiment with the 'gritty realism' genre?

 

[Leafster]

A break from your bucolic period to experiment with the 'gritty realism' genre?

Yes, I took my life in my hands and walked through the mean streets of Caterham. All for the sake of my art.

The poverty was shocking. Did you know that some people have to park their Teslas on their drives as they don't have garages?!!!

 

[Ground Elder]

Got out once the storm had moved on and checked out the local rock pool action. I can report shrimps, but not much else.

 

[metalguru]

Soggy today:

 

[Roadkill]

 

[ginger_syn]

Out side my house-ish, zoom in on the white fungus on the tree.
My son took this one

 

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[Orang Utan]

Out side my house-ish, zoom in on the white fungus on the tree.
My son took this one
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you have a haunted tree!

 

[Badgers]

 

[hash tag]

Sculpture park on Monday

 

[hash tag]

 

[Boru]

The tide is out in this one...


This reminds me of a story about Brendan Behan when asked the difference between poetry and prose, he is supposed to have replied with this Dublin rhyme.

There was a young fella named Rollocks
Who worked for the farrier Pollocks
As he walked on the Strand
With a girl by the hand
The tide came up to his ankles.

‘Now that is prose,’ Behan said, but ‘If the tide had been in, it would’ve been poetry.

 

[hash tag]

A little sunshine before the rain

 

[Roadkill]

I think the Prime Minister must be coming:

 

[SpookyFrank]

 

[rubbershoes]

Not from my exercise but I went to the beach after

 

[rubbershoes]

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Exmouth?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Exmouth?

Full marks

 

[rubbershoes]

Full marks

Exmouth used to have the country's worst Mexican restaurant. They served me a findus crispy pancake once claiming it was a burrito

 

[SpookyFrank]

Exmouth used to have the country's worst Mexican restaurant. They served me a findus crispy pancake once claiming it was a burrito

There was a noodle place that looked promising but it was shut, so we had some overpriced and disappointing filled baguettes instead.

 

[Leafster]

A much better day for a ride than last Sunday.





I visited the Crowhurst Yew I mentioned up thread. Its age is uncertain. Some say it's as young as 1,000 years old (!) but may be as much as 4,000 years old. It was hollowed out and at one point even had a table and chairs in it. They even put a door on it some time around 1820.







The view from inside looking up...



One of several "offerings" inside



This is the lockup in Lingfield.





Outwood Windmill

 

[Boru]

Croaghan mountain, Achill island and a bit of airplane engine from crash in 1950s.
Lovely sunny day here but cold weather on the way...

 

[not a trot]

Was a nice field at one time. Had horses grazing and could take the dog for a walk there. Now about to become an expensive housing development.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[kebabking]

Autumn: dismal, and shit.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

urgh, oregano salesmen on every street corner there kebabking

 

[kebabking]

urgh, oregano salesmen on every street corner there kebabking

well, you know what life in the 'hood is like for me and my homies - Labs, Springers, Spinones and Pointers cruising the barrio looking for trouble, discarded wood piles, Forestry Commission Rangers going tooled up: its a wonder anyone from round here lives long enough to buy that second holiday home in Umbria....