Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[marty21]

Art stuff , Hackney Marshes

 

[kebabking]

foraging for Christmas decorations in the forest....

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Hankley Common with sis in law...

 

[ginger_syn]

Today

 

[killer b]

Today our walk on the bleak west pennine moors was on Haslingden Grane, a former bustling village that was abandoned over the second part of the 19th century after parts of it were flooded to create a reservoir, and industrialisation forced the remaining villagers - the local trade was in hand-loom weaving and illicit whisky distilling - to move to nearby towns and cities to find work.

A glorious walk with numerous ruined houses, disused quarries and the like, lush in parts and spooky in places. Recommended (although its very muddy at points)

 

[killer b]

Sunday bonus - I went for a 10k muddy foot run with my bezzer this morning in the pouring rain and it was glorious.

 

[marty21]

Hackney Marshes , 9am this morning

 

[kebabking]

 

[Clair De Lune]

Quack

 

[platinumsage]

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I bought myself an early Christmas present...a boat. It was lovely on the lagoa this morning. I hope this picture is particularly enhanced by the festive falling snow. It was 26C at 7 am.

 

[frogwoman]

Saw these beauties today - bryony and 7 spot. A year or so ago I found the first record of the bryony ladybird in Buckinghamshire , was dead pleased with myself.



I also saw these fungi- Velvet Shanks apparently

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[marty21]

Had a coffee from the man in the van at Coppermill Fields this morning.

 

[Leafster]

It was a beautiful morning so I went for a ride. I ended up walking home after a puncture and a pump which wouldn't work!





I wish I had my proper camera which me.









Mud and puddles



Trust me, these a red kites



See! It's a red kite!





And then I had a puncture

 

[SpookyFrank]

 

[hash tag]

High and dry

 

[Boru]

Happy solstice everyone.. the year has turned. Midwinter sunset here this evening and also a poem I love..


The Shortest Day
by Susan Cooper

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Happy Yule..

 

[neonwilderness]

Fog on the Tyne. No sign of Gazza though

 

[hash tag]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Today Baby Bahn 2 and I went on an adventure to find an abandoned mansion. We walked through deep, dark woods on the muddiest of paths, after around a mile we found a steep path up the hill that was covered in the slippiest mud, took ages slipping up and down to reach the top of the hill, still covered in thick woods, we pushed on and eventually came across it...

Spoiler: Spooky Mansion

 

[BoatieBird]

Do you know the story behind it Bahnhof Strasse ?

 

[marty21]

Today Baby Bahn 2 and I went on an adventure to find an abandoned mansion. We walked through deep, dark woods on the muddiest of paths, after around a mile we found a steep path up the hill that was covered in the slippiest mud, took ages slipping up and down to reach the top of the hill, still covered in thick woods, we pushed on and eventually came across it...

Spoiler: Spooky Mansion

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Does Miss Havisham live there ?

 

[hash tag]

Today Baby Bahn 2 and I went on an adventure to find an abandoned mansion. We walked through deep, dark woods on the muddiest of paths, after around a mile we found a steep path up the hill that was covered in the slippiest mud, took ages slipping up and down to reach the top of the hill, still covered in thick woods, we pushed on and eventually came across it...

Spoiler: Spooky Mansion

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At a guess, Conan-Doyles house near Hindhead?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Do you know the story behind it Bahnhof Strasse ?

No, just heard a rumour it was there and went to find it. It’s massive, goes back further than the width of the front.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

At a guess, Conan-Doyles house near Hindhead?

No, that’s restored now and is a school, I think. This is behind Charterhouse School.

 

[hash tag]

I heard a rumour there was an action group for Conan Dyles place trying to stop it being turned into a hotel.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I heard a rumour there was an action group for Conan Dyles place trying to stop it being turned into a hotel.

It was turned in to a hotel soon after Doyle sold it. Waverley Council refused to buy it and then gave permission to turn it in to flats, was overturned in the High Court and turned in to some kind of school...

 

[hash tag]

Too much festive spirit?

 

[Leafster]

Merry Christmas from the North Downs!

A chilly start - there was ice in some of the puddles! I should have worn two pairs of socks.







South Downs from the North Downs



Winter berries (the house behind dates back to 1326)



Winter Barley, I think



Croydon, the City, Crystal Palace and Docklands in the distance