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Since 2012 I have taken it upon myself to embark upon the some might say foolhardy endeavour to wrestle Valentine’s Day away from its saccharine, cellophane wrapped cliches into a festival of love which is about all kinds of love, just like those wise old ancient Greeks told us
I decided to do that the first year by dashing around London with my mates Asif and Chris dispensing home-made Valentine Day cards, cakes and other love themed items to unsuspecting strangers. It was amazing. You can see a little film of that day here: vimeo.com/58022085
Since then, every year, I put a shout out on social media to anyone who knows anyone who would appreciate a card to remind them that they are loved. So far, I have made and posted 600 Valentine’s cards. I have also covered railings, phone boxes, windows and park benches with paper hearts, chalked love poems onto roads and written love poems with seniors in sheltered housing.
if you see this, and you fancy it, join in!
Write to someone you love who you might not tell enough, someone who needs to be reminded that they are loved, especially if they are lonely or having a difficult time at the moment. Could be your partner, your sibling, your best friend, your nan, your newsagent, your teacher . Think about who might need this the most right now. You can write a letter, postcard, hand make a card, send a postcard, the “rules” are:
The “Rules”
Post it with an actual stamp if this is possible for you- why? Just because it is so much nicer getting stuff that isn’t bills through the post.
Take your time with what you want to say and make it personal, think about how they will feel when they receive it (obvious I know but we all do things too quickly sometimes)
Ask them to pass the love on by writing in turn to someone they love and telling them so, and so beginning a love chain, which may, if we are lucky, never end, reminding us all of who we love and how much we are loved
(if you need it, here are some suggested words: “hope you like your message- I am trying to do my bit to pass love around the world- if you can please write to someone you love too, and we can keep this love chain travelling round the world and make sure everyone knows how much they are loved”
Summing up (because I know I go on a bit!)
1.Write to someone and tell them you love them. Post or hand deliver your message.
2.Ask them to do the same
3.Remind yourself of the things you love about yourself too*
* Let’s not forget this one : philautia (self love): as well as writing to someone to tell them you love them, take a moment this V Day to think about what you love about yourself. This can feel squirmy sometimes, try just thinking of 3 things to start with (3 is a magic number) that you love about yourself. If you find it hard to think of things, that’s ok, ask a good friend to help you think of things. Loving ourselves is important too.
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” Ben Okri
“And may your first love last forever.
P.S. You are your first love. Take care of yourself.”
Cleo Wade
Few will be unaware of Broadway, since it's Edwardian rediscovery this picturesque Cotswold town has attracted visitors from all over the world. Broadway has fallen from the high wolds lying at the foot of the escarpment, the main street once climbed the lower slopes of Fish Hill slipping away as the ascent defied further building, Now a bypass takes the heavy traffic past Broadway, returning the upper part of the village to it's Victorian calm.
In common with several other Cotswold settlements Broadway began as a planned medieval town created by Pershore Abbey in the late 12th or early 13th centuries as a source of revenue. This may explain the position of the Norman church dedicated to St Eadburgha, which is a mile or so along the Snowshill road close to an older route over Fish Hill. The town prospered in the 17th and 18th centuries deriving a large portion of it's income from the wool and cloth trades and served as an important stopping place when coach travel blossomed, stimulated by the creation of turnpike roads. A medieval building the Abbot's Grange survives at the eastern end of the town.
As the old church was an inconvenient distance from the 17th century town, a chapel of ease was built near the marketplace in 1608, St Michael, this church was rebuilt in 1839. However, the wonderfully evocative Norman church St Eadburgha's is still used in the summer months. Eadburgha was a Saxon princess who as a child chose a bible over a bag of jewels, she was the daughter of Edward the Elder. A Saxon dedication suggests the presence of an earlier church on the site. St Eadburgha stands on the edge of Broadway perched above a wooded valley surrounded by fields. The elegant exterior gives the impression of a wealthy Perpendicular wool church but a soon as you step into the lofty nave a Norman structure is revealed. A three-bay pointed arcade with round piers betrays the buildings Norman origins, outside two west buttresses and the remains of an east buttress show the whole building to be c1200. The towers seems to have been built into the original nave preserving the piers of a fourth bay while the east responds were topped with battlements.The west and east tower arches are 14th century but the chancel arch retains imposts c1200. A vaulted roof spans the tower-crossing while the upper stages are Perpendicular as are the chancel windows although there is evidence of 13th century lancets. A Jacobean altar rail guards the communion table at the eat end of the chancel. The chancel has a trefoil headed piscina with continuous roll-moulding. A 13th century south transept has a south window of three stepped pointed-trefoiled lights, a piscina suggests the transept was used as an additional chapel. The nave roof sits on a wall plate with fleurons and one carved head. Above the chancel arch is a Royal Coat of Arms of Charles I dated to 1641.A Norman tub font has medieval encaustic tiles around it but inside the north door is the base of a 13th century hexagonal font with slender shafts. The church guide suggests the pulpit, that has Perpendicular panels, was once a travelling pulpit that would have been tied to the back of a horse. There are screens and benches in the choir which were constructed from medieval fragments. On the east wall is a brass to Anton Daston died 1571, this is a palimpsest, engraved on a Flemish brass plate, part of which is now in Westerham, Kent. There are fragments of medieval glass in many of the windows. A recent edition are beautiful oak pews made by Christopher Holmes of Rookery Farm, Broadway. The church has a peal of six bells including a Bagley bell of 1778.
Unfortunately the church has been a victim of several thefts, particularly a carved Flemish panel and the parish chest, these are illustrated on my Flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/bwthornton/sets/72157633151004936, it would be wonderful if these pieces could be found and restored to their proper place.
Since I've stopped taking Zyprexa I suddenly no longer have to wear 36/30...the 34/30 fits just fine. Please ignore yesterday's image.
Since 2013 the Oldham Music Centre has celebrated the end of its year by giving an open-air public festival which features all of its ensembles. These include choirs, brass and wind bands, orchestras, rock and pop and so much more.
In 2023 the Festival took place at Oldham Parish Church and used both the church itself and the grounds surrounding it.
The first part of the Festival took place on the evening of Friday 7th July and featured some of our Rock and Pop groups including all three electric guitar groups (EGGs), Acoustic Adult Guitars and our adult guitar group (BBC).
The following day it was the turn of everyone else and from 10am through to 5pm over thirty different ensembles entertained their families, friends and members of the public that were drawn to come and listen by the great sounds being produced.
It was the only time this event has taken there so far, but it certainly won't be the last!
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Since their relocation to Jesmond upon the sale of their original home of Hexham to Go North East, the DAF SB3000 Coaches have been making regular appearances on more local work compared to their normal 685 runs. 1204 is seen in North Shields on the 306 bound for Newcastle.
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Since the handover of Hong Kong, the former British colony , to Beijing in 1st July 1997, the annual July 1 march became a rallying point for Hong Kong's pro-democracy activitists.
The themes of this year include protest against the empty promise of one country two systems, to release Liu Xiaobo and investigate the former Chief Executive , CY Leung for accepting money from UGL
自從香港的主權於一九九七年七月一日移交中國北京政府後，每年七一遊行便成為了市民和平表達民主訴求及對政施不滿的渠道
今年的訴求包括 : 抗議北京政府沒有履行一國兩制的承諾 , 要求釋放中國異見人士、二零一零年諾貝爾和平獎得主劉曉波 , 以及徹查前行政長官梁振英收取UGL 五千萬的事件
Hico, Texas is located at the intersection of US Highway 281 and state highways 6 and 220 in northeastern Hamilton County. It was originally founded in the mid-1850s on the banks of nearby Honey Creek. By the mid-1870s, the town had eight businesses, including a cotton gin, though most area residents raised cattle and horses. With the arrival of the Central Texas Railroad in 1880, the town relocated 2½ miles to the line. Hico was incorporated in 1883 and became a shipping center for the area. The population had risen to 1480 when, in 1890, a fire destroyed the buildings on the east side of Pecan Street, one of the main streets of the town. A few weeks later, another fire destroyed the buildings on the west side. Reconstruction was performed using stone to lessen the exposure to fire in the future and many of those stone buildings are still standing and in use. Low-lying areas continued to be subjected to periodic flooding from the Bosque River, however. Over time, Hico prospered as a cotton and cattle market center. In 1940, the population was 1242 and the town had 50 businesses. In the 2000 census, the population was recorded at 1341. For more information, see www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjh08.
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Since everyone else is posting their blizzard pictures here is mine. The drift at the end of the driveway was 3 feet, but I can't complain too much. Talked to my daughter who lives a few miles outside Madison and she woke up to find a 6 foot drift against her garage door.
Since the handover of Hong Kong, the former British colony , to Beijing in 1st July 1997, the annual July 1 march became a rallying point for Hong Kong's pro-democracy activitists.
The themes of this year include protest against the empty promise of one country two systems, to release Liu Xiaobo and investigate the former Chief Executive , CY Leung for accepting money from UGL
自從香港的主權於一九九七年七月一日移交中國北京政府後，每年七一遊行便成為了市民和平表達民主訴求及對政施不滿的渠道
今年的訴求包括 : 抗議北京政府沒有履行一國兩制的承諾 , 要求釋放中國異見人士、二零一零年諾貝爾和平獎得主劉曉波 , 以及徹查前行政長官梁振英收取UGL 五千萬的事件
Since launching in 2012, the Medical Radiography program at Camosun College has graduated about 135 students from nine cohorts, with two more in the wings.
Since the Temecula KFC kicked out Long John Silver's this is one of 2 locations near Temecula...
Also I noticed the clock above the door is broken as the time was WAY off...
Since I was asked, no this was not staged :P I came around the corner in Portsmouth and saw the sign from across the street. It briefly crossed my mind that it would be hella great if someone with a belly came walking by (really). I then took a couple of steps, realized that the couple was standing there, stopped down the lens and clicked. A lucky shot, although, after all, I was out looking for lucky shots.
Since I haven't been out in nature in awhile, what I have is portraits and a lot of them! This is one of my friends daughter Victoria.
Come on warm weather and lets see some color........I need a road trip......that is if I can afford it.....my truck and my Jeep kinda like to drink the fuel!
Since the picture was recorded,
EK-32039 migrated to Spain and became EC-MEG with Iberia Express on 2015-03-06.
Storms have sinced past and I'm in a parking lot outside the gates of Dayton's International Airport. The annual airshow is about to kick off.
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The four churches of STANTA have had no congregations since 1943, and in the intervening years, have just sat there letting time and the occasional bored squaddie do their worst.
Over the past ten years, work has been undertaken to ensure the churches are dried out, with long an elaborate guttering and down pipes to get rain water away from the foundations of the the buildings.
It was almost too late for All Saints, as the plasterwork added to the church by a Victorian Vicar on the Chancel arch began to sag and break.
The Norfolk Churches Trust paid to have a scaffold frame put in the nave to support the plasterwork, and it has been like that for the best part of the decade.
Most of the nave is fenced off for safety reasons, meaning we all were squeezed into a small part of the west end as we were told the history of the building and plans for the future.
All Saints is the only round-towered church in the STANTA area. Te nave and ailses seem wider than the nave and chancel is long. A striking combination.
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Stanford is at the very heart of the training area, and so far from civilisation that the silence in the air is stunning. I had not heard such a silence in England before. The sheep were fearless, inquisitive as we let ourselves into the churchyard; their lambs hid behind, chins tilted upwards as they watched. As at Tottington, the roofs are blast-proof panels rather than tiles, but this is so well done that you wouldn't know unless you looked carefully.
This is the only round-towered church in the training area, although there are several more just outside, including Threxton and Merton. Here, the Norman round part is surmounted by an octagonal belfry stage, as at nearby Breckles. It probably dates from the 15th century.
As I wandered about the graveyard, tiny spring rabbits bolted from beneath my feet. At first, this was startling, and then comical; they had never seen a human before, and so they waited until I was right on top of them before running for the scrub. I became wary lest I step on one, but I don't think they were ever in any real danger.
As at West Tofts, this church underwent a considerable 19th century restoration, but the difference here is that it seems to have been carried out by the Rector. You might even say that it was an amateur restoration. His is the chancel with its pastel murals, his the great rood, his even the painted glass in the north aisle window, which Pevsner thought worthy of mention, but which is mostly now lost. The arcades rest on elegant, fluted columns, and something very odd has happened at the east end of the south aisle, where a fomer archway appears to have been truncated by the eastern wall. Or was it begun and never finished? Curious.
Again, the roof tiles are stored here, but the benches are gone, the bells have gone. And yet this still feels as if it must have been a very warm and welcoming building, busy in the years of its restoration, and still a touchstone for generations.
Outside, Quantrills and Clarks, Rudds and Gathercoles. One Quantrill memorial has a very curious inset relief which must have been the height of fashion in the early 19th century. A badly eroded Gathercole memorial is profoundly evangelical: Weep not for us our children dear, because we die and leave you here. But look to Christ the crucified, that you may feel his blood applied.
Another for a Quantrill wife hopes that God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes. All about, the silence continues.
Simon Knott, May 2004
Since I posted pics of my roommate's guitar, here's my piece of mahogany as well. Parker Nitefly-M. Mahogany body with satin oil finish, mahogany neck with carbon-fiber/glass/epoxy reinforcement and fretboard. Hardened stainless steel frets, DiMarzio custom-wound humbuckers with coil taps, Fishman piezo pickup, stereo output, Parker custom cast aluminum vibrato bridge, and Sperzel locking tuners. 6.5lbs.
I have liven in Kent since 2007, and hadn't visited Sevenoaks before yesterday. It being one of Kent's major towns, this is something of a surprise, I even had to check my photostream on here to make sure: nothing for Sevenoaks.
For me, Sevenoaks is famous for two things: 1. the seven oaks destroyed in the 1987 "hurricane" and I suppose home to the chain of hi-fi shops, Sevenoaks Audio, though I didn't see a branch during my visit.
I don't know why I decided to visit here today, the idea had been to go to Nunhead to a large rambling and overgrown Victorian cemetery (more of that later), and the Southeastern website suggested the way there was via St Pancras and then on Thameslink. I thought there must have been a route across Kent, which is how I came to be in Sevenoaks, change here for Nunhead.
So, why not explore the town before travelling on?
So, I guess that's why I was here.
The spread of the new COVID variant meant I did consider cancelling the trip, but with no new lockdowns announced on Monday, and armed with a mask I set off, Jools dropping me off at Dover Priory at half six, withenough time for a gingerbread latte (with an extra shot) before my train pulled in.
Less than a dozen got in the 12 carriages, and there service trundled through Kent, Ashford, Pluckley, Marden, Staplehurst, Tonbdrige to deposit me here at Sevenoaks.
I and half a dozen people got off, I lingered to take a couple of shots before the long walk up the hill to the town centre.
Thanks to GSV, I had travelled up London Road to the centre of town, so knew it was a hike, but worth it. I mean, no point going somewhere if there was nothing of worth to snap, was there?
At first I walked past large houses, then at the major road junction, a sparkling Ferrari Dealership, not something we have in Dover, and not sure if Canterbury even has one. But Sevenoaks does, as well as on one, not two, but three dry cleaners, all looking busy.
The main shopping area had old pubs and coaching inns, clapboard houses and other with peg tiles decorating the outside, all got photographed, of course.
Att he top of the shopping streets, where the two A roads meet, there is a fine pre-warboys signpost that I snapped good and proper.
Finally, as the hill flattened out, the buildings got older still, before coming to the parish church, which I knew from research was almost impossible to get inside judging by the reviews left.
It wasn't yet nine, my back was complaining, so I took a seat in the chuchyard to wait.
Wait for what, I do not know.
After leaving the churchyard, I walk back through the town, winding my way down the network of alleyways and find that the town has its own version of The Shambles, though from what I remember, shambles is an area of any town where butchery took place.
Back down to the station, to catch a train to Nunhead, but I find that the next train is cancelled, and staff can't tell me when the next one will run, of if I get there, if I could get back.
A train straight to Dover is due to leave in five minutes, so I go onto the platform to wait, and so I am heading back home by ten past eleven, sitting on an almost deserted train, though only eight car this time.
Thanksgiving at Bagram. Since we can’t be with family, the DFAC folks go all out to decorate and have the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner with all the trimmings. 401st personnel took turns serving before they sat down to enjoy the spread.
(photos by Clayton Harrington)
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Since the invasion in 1974, Famagusta has remained uninhabited. The buildings in the distance are derelict apartment blocks and hotels. Prior to the invasion, Famagusta was by far Cyprus' biggest resort - with some 90% of all the available hotel beds on the island. The building in the foreground houses some of the armed Turkish troops who illegally remain to this day. Picture taken from the Cultural Centre, in the unoccupied part of Deryneia, Cyprus.
Since we put up our tree on Christmas Eve, I didn't get too many opportunities for the mandatory "dog in front of bokehed decorated tree" portrait - so here we go :)
Castle Hill at Almondbury has been the site of a settlement since around 2100 BC. Defences were built during the Iron Age starting with a single rampart but significant upgrades were made in the decades that followed. A fire gutted the site around 400 BC and it was then abandoned until the Normans built a motte-and-bailey in the eleventh century.
History
Castle Hill, Almondbury stands over 300 metres above sea level and dominates the Holme Valley just south of its confluence with the River Colne. The latter was a key artery of trade and communication since prehistoric times and connected the site to the Peak District, Lancashire and beyond. For this reason it has been occupied for thousands of years with the earliest settlers using the site during the Neolithic (4000 BC to 2500 BC) period. Use continued during the Bronze (2500 BC to 800 BC) then Iron (800 BC to AD 43) Ages and around the seventh century BC the site was first fortified with the construction of a single rampart enclosing an area of around 5 acres. This univallate hillfort was upgraded in the sixth century BC into a multivallate (multiple rampart) configuration when a ditch was dug external to the existing defences and the spoil used to create a new rampart. Further upgrades were made in the late sixth century BC with the addition of another ditch and the defences were also extended to the north-east effectively doubling the size of the original enclosure.
By the Fifth Century BC the hillfort was occupied by the Brigantes tribe and undoubtedly was an important site as substantial upgrades were made to the hillfort's defences. The main rampart was revetted in stone which was held in place with timber frames. An outwork, one of the earliest examples of its kind, replaced a simple in-turned entrance. The outer ditch was also enhanced and converted into a deep V-shaped trench. The site was once thought to have been Camulodunum, a tribal centre of the Brigantes tribe during the Roman-era that was mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography. However archaeological investigation has now confirmed the settlement was destroyed by fire circa-400 BC and was thereafter abandoned long before the Romans arrived. It remained unoccupied for the next 1,500 years.
Following the Norman Conquest, an earth and timber motte-and-bailey fortification was built by Ilbert de Lacy. He had been granted extensive lands in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire with the latter including the Honour of Pontefract. Almondbury formed part of his estate and he constructed the castle as part of his efforts to secure control of the region. The proximity of the River Colne was probably the key factor here although building such a fortification within a former hill fort was unusual as, although such sites were naturally strong, they lacked the political impact of being built overlooking an existing settlement. The castle re-used the existing Iron Age earthworks but further ditches were excavated to create three separate enclosures for the motte and two baileys. The Outer Bailey was used for an associated settlement which grew up to serve the castle. King Stephen granted Henry de Lacy a licence to crenellate in the early-twelfth century and this probably reflected the partial rebuilding of the structure in stone.
The castle was abandoned in the late thirteenth century, probably due to its exposed and impractical location, and was reported as ruinous by 1320. Nevertheless the attached settlement continued and was still occupied in the fifteenth century. After the settlement was abandoned, Castle Hill remained unoccupied although the site's dominant position meant beacons were periodically placed here (including one to warn of the Spanish Armada). A public house was built on the hill in the nineteenth century and in 1897 a large folly, Victoria Tower, was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee. During WWII an anti-aircraft battery was installed on the site.
since the Christmas present was opened by a great niece - a shoulder bag constructed from recycled denim jeans (including the waistband as shoulder strap), quilt project fabric remnants, and an old latch hook sampler (the butterfly). She loved it. :-)
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Since I uploaded a photo of Waseda University last time, I thought I might as well upload one of Keio University （慶応大学）as well. Unfortunately, I don't have one of Tokyo University (東大）and the famous red on its campus. Hopefully this winter break when I go back to Tokyo to visit, I'll be able to remedy that!
Notice how European the architecture is. It's an odd mix of traditional European syles and modern-looking reflective glass (the kind that just screams "skyscraper" in my mind).
Since our cat Lulu barely survived a recent health crisis this memorial, encountered in Mystic, Ct., makes more sense to me than it once would have.
Since it was 70 degrees in the middle of December I decided to take a little day trip to Sulphur Oklahoma to this little National Park. It is the 7th oldest national park in the USA. Its not real large but is full of small waterfalls along the meandering little stream. Okay there not large waterfalls but they are Oklahoma waterfalls.
Since I've done the Empire State and Flatiron Buildings this week already, why not complete the trifecta?
The sunlight hitting the upper floors of the building was very strong, washing out some detail, so I'm slightly disappointed with the way this came out. Fortunately I work close enough to come back another day and try it again...
Abandoned since 1959 this 1226 yard tunnel runs from a deep cutting near Upton to a partially infilled cutting next to the northbound Barnsdale Bar Services on the A1.
Taken from just north of Trout Lake, Washington on the 82 road, from near Plenty Pines road on July 13th in the morning
my night shot was on the channel 2 news!
www.katu.com/news/25490264.html
this website was set up for this fire
www.inciweb.org/incident/1428/#sum
There is a wonderful huge crew now working on the fire, they are amazing.
Thank you all for your wonderful insightful and inspiring comments on the nighttime fire shot... I enjoyed them all so much! My computer is acting up, and I have little time now..bear with me!
I will be posting a whole set of this fire starting at about 11:00 am Sunday July 13, 2008...
On July 13, 2008, this fire started in the morning as a small blaze with a spindly column that may have been smoldering since the lightning strikes in the area 8 days earlier. When I started observing the fire around 11 am, it was small... within 20 minutes I saw helicopters and tankers with retardant attack the small blaze. WHile they were returning to Troutdale to restock on retardant, the fire sprang to life wiith the growing winds and trees to the SE and to the west began to blaze up as the fire jumped from crown to crown. This area along the tree line of Mt. Adams is choked with dead trees that have not seen a fire in many years... and many standing dead trees from a heavy infestation of Spruce Bud Worm and Bark Beetles. There has been great debate for years about cleaning up this area, but many who fought to keep it natural. Naturally, in history, the area was occasionally swept by fire which renewed the grazing for elk and other critters, and encouraged the growth of the huckleberries.
Fire, the great destroyer and the great purifier all at the same time... a primeval force that is overwhelming if you are downwind... yet so awe-inspiring. How can something so destructive be so beautiful??? Destruction and Purification all in one... Nature balancing itself.
A Blundstone steel tipped safety boot.
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