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Hoi An 5:30 people are exercising before gets to hot and market is busy sell veges, fruit, meat, and flowers. seems to be followed by tea or coffee and a time to catch up on the news
A visit to the Library of Congress and all its wonders. You can take the kid out of the library but you cannot take the knowledge learned out of the kid.
On loan to Reading Buses is Stagecoach Fife Scania Omnilik SP57CNK, and is seen at London Victoria coach station having worked a 702 from Bracknell bus station, 21st January
Reading Buses "Greenline" YY15OYC 761 seen parked up on Buckingham Palace Road, London after arriving into London on service 702 from Legoland Windsor
My collection of Westerns is slim to say the least. A trip out to Reading in 1974 got me Hussar and Stalwart.
This particular part of Kennet Side has changed very little since I attended Newtown School - the building almost in the centre of the photograph - almost 60 years ago. Behind the school you can just see a gasometer in its downward position. I seem to recall there were two and both dominated the skyline and surrounding houses when they were at their maximum height.
The bridge across the river is the railway line from Reading to London Waterloo.
The annual Alton Bus Rally, one of the biggest in the UK, took place on a gloriously sunny July 15th 2018 and attracted upwards of 150 buses & coaches including Reading Buses Optare Metrodecker 899 YJ16DFG.
Seen in Bracknell Bus Station in September 2019 is Reading Buses Green Line express-liveried Alexander Dennis Enviro400 / ADL H47/30F 1208 GO11LDN. This bus was new as SN11BRX.
For the Monochrome Bokeh Thursday group
For the 52 in 2017 group - week 3 - Anything that you touch with your hands in the house
My neat, small pocket-friendly reading specs. Ultra thin, the case will slip easily into a pocket or purse. I was thinking mono - and playing around with my favourite macro lens, shooting at (for me) a high ISO setting to see what the effects would be with mono conversion. I liked the result, and then thought it would fit this week's "52 in 2017" group as well.
B/W IR Tinted Mono or nearly! B/W IR Tinted Mono or nearly!
My Bokeh set: Elisa's bokeh set
Shot with the Zeiss 50mm Makro lens: Zeiss 50mm Makro
Paisley is not addicted to reading. She can quit as soon as she finishes one more chapter.
Paisley is Mandy Cotton Candy. She is posing (in the BIG dolly chair I found at the antique mall) for the theme "Reading is Fundamental" in the Blythe a Day group.
Reading Buses currently have 3 Scania K270UB6 / Scania OmniLink tri-axle buses on long term loan from Stagecoach. Numbered 10-12 (SP57CNK/N/U) they have been vinyled for use on their Green Line 702 Reading/Bracknell-London Victoria service.
Seen in Bracknell bus station in February 2018 is 11 SP57CNN.
Continuing my Lockdown Lookback @ 2020, March saw me in Reading which of course is home to the colourful fleet of Reading Buses.
Pashley Manor Gardens at Ticehurst, East Sussex. The sculpture is called Reading Boy by Kate Denton.
Of all the Urban Readers I've photographed, this was the only one of a person reading while standing...
Seen in Reading in January 2019 is Reading Buses Scania N280UD4 / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC H45/27F 705 YN66EZS..
50 008 Thunderer stands at Reading with an Oxford - Paddington service. I've just enjoyed Hoover haulage behind her from Oxford.
A couple of months before I'd managed a cab ride from Didcot - Oxford and then back to Reading in her
Another cold and foggy evening sees 50025 after arrival at Reading with the 13:48 Plymouth - Paddington on 20/02/78
Poem 14 from OUTCASTS IN GREENWOOD: Poems inspired by the Medieval Robin Hood Ballads
THE KING'S PARDON
His forearms burly as oak limbs,
His eyes singular as acorns:
I should have known.
The flexed wrist tendoned as leaf veins,
The narrow iris green as chlorophyll,
Were due warning.
When fox and wolf missed the butts
My zeal was sharp for buffeting,
Lugs red from clouting.
An arrow astray; his fist
Is hard as oakwood, seasoned
With sun and smoke.
I croak, and spit out loam;
The oak leaves wreath his snarl.
I cringe, and call him king.
Poem by Giles Watson; reading recorded on 2nd April, 2010.
For further details on the background to these poems, see my Outcasts in Greenwood set, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/29320962@N07/sets/72157608384905983/
The pictures are illustrations of the Robin Hood legend, spanning the 15th to the 20th centuries. The photo and the pencil drawing of the King are my own.
A June 2022 trip to Reading to ride the Reading Buses open-topper on service 17 plus a half hour photting passing buses whilst scoffing a meal deal!
240,000 fans attended Reading Rock Festival over the August Bank Holiday weekend this year... this is just one of them