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I took this photo in 2016 but never really showed it as I thought it was a bit sad. Maybe its the right time now with whats happing here with the threat of Brexit hanging over us through no fault of our own! Such a shameful mess!! P@t.
"1847 was the year it all began,
Driving pains of hunger drove a million from this land,
They journeyed not for glory,
There motive wasnt greed,
A voyage of survival,
Far across the stormy seas,
To the city of Chicago,
As the evening shadows fall,
There are people dreamin`
Of the hills of Donegal
Some of them knew fortune,
Some of them knew pain,
More of them knew heartbreak,
Died upon the plains,
They spread throughout the nation,
Rode the railroad cars,
Brought their songs and music,
To ease their lonely hearts, "
To the city of Chicago
Etc.
[ Luka Bloom ]
Luka is the brother of Christy Moore and he is a superb artist and composer who Ive been lucky to have seen many times. He knows more than 3 chords and can play!!! Brilliant! Look him up on uTube! P.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqnHJy0elc4
Another photo from last Saturdays trek.
Maulin mountain stands at 570m and is part of the Wicklow National park. Its a wild, boggy place but it has the most amazing views looking east towards the Irish sea and south Dublin Bay.
I find it a very sad place as I know the history of it. Its not bad thing in my opinion to remember these dreadful happenings here, with respect and reverence as thankfully, we have all moved on in regard to our treatment and regard for our fellow humans, None in my opinion, more so than the Irish who in recent years have really grasped the nettle regarding peoples freedom, rights and civil liberties, including the removal in 1999 of article 2 and 3 from the constitution where the Republic of Ireland laid claim to Northern Ireland. A brave and a wonderful step which lead to the good Friday agreement and a lasting peace which we all work tirelessly to keep.
The stone walls crossing this mountain for more than 600 yards, serve no useful purpose whatsoever and were built during the Famine years of 1847-1850, a terrible time when over one million died and another million emigrated to the new World. No one is quite certain of the exact numbers and im also certain that there are quite a number of bodies buried along this wall as they died of starvation while building it. The Government decided to start these hair brained schemes under the OPW as rather than give the starving food it was decided to make them work for it " So as not to foster and promote laziness " amongst the Irish! Work, when they were dying. Its so deep in the Irish psyche that people still talk about and everyone knows what "famine beds" and "Hungry Grass" is
It still casts a "blight" upon all of us!
The round stone structure in the fourground is competely covered in and incorporated into the wall. Its about 3ft high and 4ft in diameter with a 2 ft square hole in one side. No one seems to know what it is but its from the famine yearss Maybe a dog shelter. could be for food but................!
Because of the way the English ruled Ireland, the land was divided into very small areas, sometimes of no more than a half an acre. This was so that the landlords could obtain more rents doubling or tripling the number of tennants, The rents were more than most people could afford anyway.Little has changed much there Im afraid! There could be up to 12 or 13 children together with their parents and maybe their grandparents living in a small rough house in each of theses homesteads struggling to live anyway so when the famine came, it was devastation.
There was a population explosion here in the 1830s as the potato sustained so many of the population.It was thought that the potato was introduced to Ireland by Sir Walter Raleigh
but it is now widely accepted that it arrived with the Spanish Armada in 1588. The Armada tried to invade England but were routed and they tried to escape across the top of Scotland and down the west coast Ireland but sadly they were caught in severe gales and many sunk and many were captured here by the English and the Irish who killed them or held them for randsome. Its said that women collecting seaweed in west, possibly Co. Kerry, found potato tubers washed up on the shore. They planted them in the poor peaty soil and to their amazement they grew extremely well, yielding up to 20 potatoes per stalk. This meant that they could easily feed their families so it became the mainstay of the diet here. This of course lead to a population explosion which Im certain the infamous drink, Poiteen played no "small" part in! Lol! Sorry ! Bad choice of words!!!!!!
In 1847 [ black 47 ] a blight struck the potato crop blackening the stems and rotting the young tubers in the ground. and in storage pits { Clamps } in the ground, This resulted in total starvation for millions. At the same time thousands of tons of other foods, like Maize and Wheat were exported out of the ports here under armed guard. Queen Victoria contributed £5 to the Irish famine relief fund but was advised by her ministers to als give the same amount to Battersea Dogs Home as they didnt want it to appear that she was favouring us!!! How appalling!
A sad time and we should never forget but we move on thankfully and rise way above it all. We now live in peace here on our beautiful island and we must ensure that it remains that way for all our sakes.
Hugs and best wishes to all my friends here who just like us, are spread out to the 4 corners of our World! Thank you!
P
FOOTNOTE; 4/6/2019
Trump is in the UK at the moment and coming here tomorrow unfortunately. Hes not welcome! Hes still spouting his rheteroic about immigration. I have a question for him! The native American is the Red Indian so where does he think everybody else. including his ancestors came from? Indeed were it not for America, millions of Irish would have died here because of the famine. Australia also took many Irish people So think on! It was the immigrants that made America what it is today Fortunately they are not all like Trump! Hes in the minority and he wont last the distance. Statesman? Give us a break!!!!
P.
A bit of a new direction here, thanks to Nicole (www.flickr.com/photos/42756235@N02/)
and Steveblackdog (www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/) for encouragement and inspiration.
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went to this spot bit tides were out. very tricky to get this location right, as it's hard to get back when the tide comes in. you can get trapped. :s
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Left to right, back to front: Engine strut and engine brick core for a now dead mini Steampunk Serenity; Power cell? Futuristic light? Miniature sun ala' Spiderman II? >_< The world (including me) may never know; Connection bit; connection bit #2.
Bit of a lazy day, despite not staying up till midnight for the first time in years... We usually watch Hootenanny, but George Ezra was up first, which caused us to turn TV off and go to bed at 11.30pm. Not much point, as the West Chiltington bazooka brigade started up at midnight or thereabouts. More money than sense round here. At least I didn't have to deal with a terrified horse...
A first attempt at oil and water pictures... More work required methinks.
Gooood Morning !!!
I have had a few flickrmail asking what has happened to the photoshop side of me !
And to be honest..I just got bored with it. The end of the 365 projects has took away the need for me to be pushing my creativity.
And I was starting to enjoy doing weddings and portraits again. But after a crazy few months and a few more flickrmail asking me to upload something ha ha ha
I decided to have another go at one I did a while back...just to see if I could still do it !
This has turned out sort of according to plan...It is very similar to the first one... just more colour and it was a little harder to do all the layer work on this one.
And I remember the first one took me 2 hours...while this has just took 45 minutes !
The image has a total of 36 layers and around 22 masks.. sounds complicated.. but it isn't. Its just a lot of shit to keep your eye on and remembering what layer does what !.
Oh yeah...and the birds are back !!! ha ha
WOW !!!! You people really have missed the photoshop stuff !!!!
Explored !! Thank you all !!
Highest position: #45 on Wednesday, September 1, 2010
I was terribly sick for two days and I begin to' feeling better only today.So all the packages from my last BC update and my CC on PP are shipped only today, sorry.From the pic you can see I'm having a so needed shower and a don't needed iPhone new cover (but cute AND pink).(-:
Bit of an unexpected working which turned out to be Locomotive Services Christmas Jolly to Holyhead with a trainee fireman!
46100 Royal Scot , in the rain,
powers through Bangor with the 1Z49, and running with no centre light on the buffer beam, just like the good old days!
Morning! Bit of exciting news, one of my photos (my Snowdon Wild Camp) has been featured in the October issue of Trail Magazine! (Image in the comments below).
Moving onto this mornings shot, it is one I've had on my dream shot list for quite some time and failed to achieve on a few attempts previously. So here we have the Milkyway at Durdle Door on the Jurassic Coast, Dorset.
Astrophotography is by far my favourite kind of photography, unfortunately up in the Peak District we get very few clear skies at night and even if we're lucky enough to get a clear sky, the light pollution generally washes out all but the brightest of stars. Heading down to Dorset with our main aim being to capture the Milkyway, you can imagine my sheer excitement when on the first night there, the sky was perfectly clear! Topped off by a show of the tail end of the Perseids Meteor shower!
Unbeknown to us at the time, it wasn't the only clear sky we were to be treated to, watch this space... Glad to have ticked this one off the list.
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Cadair Idris - Minffordd Path
Lovely walk with my sister and her friend back in April. I'm finding the descents are harder on my knees than they used to be, seriously considering getting some walking poles.
The first weekend of 2021 and we wish everybody the best for 2021.
Wanted to go out for a hike again. Found a place we didn't have seen before.
Visited a small reserve called Heuvingerzand near Hooghalen and followed some of the trails at this reserve.
We had some luck with the weather and did see a glimpse of the sun.
With some temperatures close to 4c and some wind a nice hike to get a cold face and hands.
Great place ,great athmosphere, just a bit..
With the winds howling and occasional brief patches of sunlight scudding across the ground, we had 5 cracks at this spot before the Dear Leader was happy with the result.
Getting the train and the sun in the right spot being a bit like herding cats on unicycles using only telepathy and limp noodles.
29 Aug 2019, La Trochita 101 north of Nahuel Pan, Agentina
Gather what ye may of the world around you, but when it whithers and dies you'll have naught left but dusty remains.
This change was a bit unintended... I bought the wig so I could try it on Momoe. But it made her look somehow sad and dark. Then still thought to try it on Nanami and I must say that I love the result <3
Funny thing... this wig was my first choise when searching a new wig for veritas but I didn't know how monique wigs would be like and was afraid to try.. And now she still got the wig :D
A nice bit of Santa Fe heritage is found on the foamer MoPac iron of the Fort Smith Railroad tucked in a little parcel between Riverfront Drive and B Street adjacent to the infamous Miss Laura's that has looked upon the yards for a century and a quarter and undoubtedly entertained many a railroad man in the first half of the 20th century.
PREX 2031 is a rebuilt GP20U blt. Dec. 1961 by EMD as a GP20 numbered ATSF 1167. It was renumbered 3167 in 1970 and then 3067 after being rebuilt in Jan. 1980. Lasting into the BNSF era its final number was BNSF 2031 assigned Aug. 1999. I'm unsure when it was retired and picked up by Pioneer Railcorp but it doesn't look half bad for 60 years old.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Friday September 3, 2021
Little Bit Country Little Bit Rock-n-Roll debuted 30th May 2008 at Inn On The Green, Ladbroke Grove, London. The new club night featured live music and performance, including:
Cheer A Go Go
House of Hee Haw!
JC & The Disciples
The 7th December saw the introduction of the 278 between Heathrow & Ruislip. A very useful route indeed. Also nice to have a bit of a mixed allocation however the majority is formed of 69 plate USB fitted MMCs.
this is a handy little screwdriver that holds 5 small bits in the handle. The problem is that the bits don't stay in place. I think they're supposed to be held in by a magnet but it's not working. Can magnets lose their magnetism?
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