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A video I made for Age UK Lancashire's exhibition 'Art of Lockdown'. I accompanied images of my artworks and photographs with my narrated blog.
Folks taking their daily permitted exercise at Furzton Lake MK - some more energetically than others.
In theory I should have headed straight across from the trees! All the stiles and signs are there but it's not the most well walked path in the area especially over the last few months of lockdown. A bit of initiative and another "footpath" gave access to a stile into the adjacent sheep pasture which allowed for easier progress and drier legs!
Welland Gliding Club's winch stands idle on the perfect gliding day. Damn this COVID ! I briefly looked inside our hangar to remind myself what a glider actually looks like, it's been that long ! For the uninitiated, there would have been strong thermals (currents of rising air) under every one of those dark clouds today. A 300 km flight would have been entirely feasible
More Blackthorn I think, it was lovely to see spring has sprung the other morning. Saw and heard a Cetti's Warbler, Goldfinches drinking dew from the grass at the edge of the path, a pair of Wren's nest building - and 6 Buzzards circling and calling overhead - in Dereham!
Minolta x700, 35mm 2.8 MD, Fuji Neopan 100 Acros II
Developed and scanned by Studio Argentique.
Parc du Pélican. Montreal. April 2020.
We’ve had our grandson staying
(This was before Lockdown)
We’ve all been to the seaside
And then into the town
He knows his ‘Ps and Qs’ and things
He helps around the house
He’s always very cheerful and
You never hear him grouse
He’s helped us set up Skype and Zoom
So we can keep in touch
When he goes home and we’re alone
We like that very much
But there’s one thing that‘s the best of all
And that earned him a banknote
He’s shown us how the TV works
And programmed the remote!
Out on my lockdown exercise walk (this time along Coventry's River Sowe Valley) and used it as a chance to meet up with this little friend who I'd not seen in weeks.
This facility on Canal Fields in Berkhamsted has been fenced off since late March and it presents a pretty depressing image. No pubs for the adults, no playspaces for the kids. The Swan Youth Centre runs the park which is popular and extremely well used (even if there are a few 'incidents' now and again). The extension was opened a couple of years ago, lobbied for, designed and fund-raised for by the town's young people. Canal Fields previously hosted an open-air swimming pool which opened in 1923 and was still going in the 1980's I believe. Can't find any reference to when it closed.
Left: Gilbert Ledward / 'Awakening'
Right: Jacob Epstein / Roper's Garden
Both pieces in Roper's Garden, a public garden in Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.
An anti-lockdown protest at Queen's Park April 25 attracted about 200 who claimed measures to control the spread of COVID-19 are an infringement of freedom.
Not posted for a while as not really been happy with the way my photos have come out so here is one from early summer.
Being a keen cyclist with more time and good weather, it has been a case of only snapping the odd bus with my iphone whilst out enjoying my government mandated exercise during the Covid lockdown. However, I have captured a few of the odd vehicle movements as operators used the most fuel efficient vehicles or those best suited to applying social distancing.
Seen at Wells depot on May 16th 2020 were a pair of Volvo B7RLEs that continued to be required for use (possibly for the 126) in First 69458 WX59BZM with similar 69447 hidden behind Bath depot e400mmc 33943 YX66WEO, wearing its Unibus livery.