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This is probably the most photographed cove at Watson Lake, but from the Peavine Trail high above behind me. This morning, several ducks invited me down to water level, but then swam away before I could snap them. I realized then the cove appears much wider from this angle...and more peaceful.
Car: Ford Escort Popular.
Date of first registration: 12th March 1980.
Region of registration: Huddersfield.
Latest recorded mileage: 43,645 (MOT 13th March 2019).
Date taken: 19th May 2019.
Location: Cardiff, UK.
Album: Classics in Cardiff May 2019
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This is not one of the acrobatic scenes from the Matrix trilogy or any other action film. It's a scene from a sepak takraw match, a particularly popular sport in Southeast Asia. Essentially a net game played with feet, sepak takraw is a hybrid of football soccer and volleyball with a bit of gymnastics and kung fu thrown in. Countless variations of the game are played throughout the region, but the basic objective of each is to keep the hollow, grapefruit-sized ball from touching the ground by keeping it airborne with the feet, knees, head, shoulders, elbows - or almost every part of the body, except the hands. Sepak takraw or kick volleyball is a sport native to Southeast Asia, resembling volleyball, except that it uses a rattan ball and only allows players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. It is a popular sport in Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines and Indonesia. In Lao the call it twine and kick while in Thailand it is called takraw. Similar games include footbag net, footvolley, football tennis, Bossaball, jianzi and sipa. Sepak is the Malay word for kick Takraw is the Thai word for the hand-woven ball originally used in the game. So the game is essentially kick ball.
Photo of kids playing a game of Sepak takraw taken in Kieng Than Lei. This little village is located on the Bolaven Plateau and is a great place to explore some of the lesser-known areas of the southern region of Laos. The area surrounding it is very peaceful, scenic and no other tourists to be found.
The first sepak takraw ball was made out of rattan. Most rattans differ from other palms in having slender stems, 2–5 cm diameter, with long internodes between the leaves. The sepak takraw ball shall be spherical in shape, made nowadays of synthetic fiber or one woven layer. In Bangkok, murals at Wat Phra Keow which was built in 1785, depict the Hindu god Hanuman playing sepak takraw in a ring with a troop of monkeys. Other historical accounts mention the game earlier during the reign of King Naresuan 1590 – 1605 of Ayutthaya. The game remained in its circle form for hundreds of years, and the modern version of sepak takraw began taking shape in Thailand sometime during early 1740s. In 1866 the Siam Sports Association drafted the first rules for takraw competition.
Car: Ford Popular.
Year of manufacture: 1953.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st December 1987.
Region of registration: Kincardineshire.
Latest recorded mileage: 5,214 (MOT 13th June 2012).
Date of last V5 issued: 2nd September 2020.
Date taken: 8th February 2015.
Location: Queen Square, Bristol, UK.
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A 197cc Villiers powered machine from the early 1950s. Seen on the Isle of Man during the TT festival in 1995. From a 35mm negative scan.
A lucky shot, rush hour at the pickerel weeds ;-)!
"Pontederia cordata", Pickerel weed, Herzblättriges Hechtkraut!
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Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine - Kyoto, Japan. Also known as “O-inari-san”, Inari shrines are the most familiar shrines to Japanese people. There are said to be some thirty thousand throughout the country, frequented by people of all ages.
Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine with which all the others are affiliated. In the 1300 years since its establishment in 711AD, people have gathered here to pray for bountiful harvests, business prosperity, the safety of their home and family and the fulfillment of all kinds of other wishes.
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Media Baguete 125 Gr........................................ 0,37 €
Sardinas en aceite de oliva................................. 0,79 €
Vino de Madrid. (Colmenar de oreja) 75Cl......... 1,19 €
Total.................................................................... 2,35 €
(Para toda aquella gente que una simple lata de sardinas y algo de pan sería una solución) En ellos pienso y este es mi homenaje tan facil de cumplir.
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Whitby is a popular seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk.
As far back as the Middle Ages it had an established Herring and Whale fleet.
It is renowned as the town in which Captain Cook learned seamanship and where his exploration ship HMS Endeavour was built.
James Cook made three epic voyages to the western Pacific between 1768 and 1779, becoming, it is believed, the first European to chart the east coast of Australia and much of New Zealand.
Settlement in Whitby dates back to 656 A.D.
The first Monastery was destroyed during Viking raids in the 9th. Century.
The present Abbey ruins stand high on Whitby’s East Cliff as an unmissable landmark.
Its demise, like so many others, came as a result of
King Henry V111’s Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th. Century.
Whitby’s fishing fleets still exist but have declined in recent centuries.
The Whaling fleet has gone because of moral and ecological reasons.
The status quo came to see it as cruel and unnecessary.
Shipbuilding too, has greatly diminished, but boats do still cross the North Sea, trading with Scandinavia.
As with so many seaside locations around the British coast,
tourism began to grow following the coming of the railway in 1839.
Similarly to places like Royal Tunbridge Wells, Leamington Spa and Harrogate, the discovery of Chalybeate springs in the town encouraged wealthier families to benefit from the medicinal waters.
If it was good enough for Royalty, it was good enough for them.
Now, the town is a very popular holiday resort for day-trips, week-ends and longer holidays.
It could be seen as a good base to visit many valued locations in North and East Yorkshire.
However, the North York Moors to the west of the town
can be seen as a major physical barrier to getting there.
Thus, the local roads infrastructure needs developing, and this
can make the town feel remote and a tad inaccessible.
However, my visit this time, being in late evening, was well rewarded with a splendid sunset.
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MET bring the Wasp fans to the Ricoh arena every match. One of MET's latest arrivals is YG65APX a Yutong TC12 C51FT. Photo taken 12/03/16
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East Midlands Railway Class 222 Meridian No. 222015 arrives at Nottingham with 1D48, the 14:35 from London St Pancras on 27 November 2024.
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"A cultura
a civilização
elas que se danem
ou não."
(Cultura e Civilização - Gilberto Gil)
Less ambitious and mystical than Lang’s previous sci-fi film “Metropolis,” “Woman in the Moon” combines an imaginative adventure yarn, a triangular love story and a conspiracy thriller. Helius, a German entrepreneur, plans a journey to the moon to fulfil the dreams of the elderly, demented scientist Professor Manfeldt, but he’s blackmailed by Turner, a ruthless American conman, into collaborating with a cabal of rich businessmen bent on controlling the gold that Manfeldt believes is to be found on the moon. He’s also compelled to take on to the spacecraft his close associate, Windegger, and Friede, the modern liberated woman both men love. Like “Metropolis” and most of Lang’s other pictures, “Woman in the Moon” was written by his wife Thea von Harbou.
[From a review by Philip French in “The Guardian,” November 22, 2014]
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnqSc1T3k0
The launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7XgP7rws5c
55009 draws plenty of attention at Minehead on day 1 of the West Somerset Railways 2023 Diesel Gala.