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I stumbled upon the first of my anemone to bloom this summer. These flowers usher late summer in a most elegant way! And the *&#%@$ deer don't like 'em! :)
Very early Tuesday; pink is in order
Some more fun with a present I was sent off my wishlist.
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Perhaps too much of a good thing. This room is full of Scandinavian modern style furniture. Some of it from Scandinavia/Denmark, some from Canada and even Italy. The orange cushions on the teak chairs are ottoman pads from Ikea so I guess Sweden and China are represented as well.
A combo trail and forest shot, I love the light in this little scene near the Plover River. Fall is so great. Well, until stick season.
Go Ahead have assumed the long and winding 366 from Stagecoach, now operated from River Road.
The associated new electrics aren’t ready, so the recently displaced SE268-287 batch (plus SEN35) have been moved over to start the contract.
I never rode a few of these in their previous employment at Merton, SE278 here being one such example.
It’s seen arriving at the Redbridge Library stop in Ilford.
A solid diesel bash apart from the EH at the start. 19.6.23.
EH153 Aldgate-Canning Town 115
E214 Canning Town-Custom House 147
WVL359 Custom House-East Ham 304
WVL358 East Ham-Wanstead 101
10318 Wanstead-Redbridge 145
SE273 Redbridge-Ilford 366
10312 Ilford-Redbridge 145
SE287 Redbridge-Barking Park 366
SE271 Barking Park-Ilford 366
SE278 Ilford-Redbridge 366
DW209 Redbridge-Wanstead 66
37792 Wanstead-Leytonstone W13
37587 Leytonstone-Leyton W14
15098 Leyton-Stratford 97
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Seen on Trail to the top of Multnomah Falls. I thought I'd better post it before snow was too distant of a memory.
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A detail portion of a larger sculpture from the International Sand Sculpting Championship in Virginia Beach. Impressive artists for sure.
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My final shot of 2025 on a gloomy New Year's Eve shows Southern Transit Enviro 200 "MiniMe" GB21 JCB at Hop Oast on Metrobus service 23 to Worthing. It was new to Hams as DW21 HAM and is on hire to Metrobus to cover the temporary withdrawal of the hydrogen single deck fleet..
"I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
~Mitch Hedberg
41/52 for the group 2021 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: O is for Optician
I need to make an appointment with the optician because the arm on my glasses had snapped. I've managed a temporary repair, so it's not urgent, but I will have to do it before too long.
Undated view east from the Monument showing the temporary buildings and power plant that occupied the Mall from WW1 through 1936. Lantern slide found on eBay.
The National Archives building appears to be under construction at left, so this is likely c. 1934-5.
Tried this wig on Nashira, but it's a bit too big. Solution? Stuff it under a flower crown! hehe
(These crowns are currently available in my etsy shop)
She's getting a complete make-over soon, so I figured I should play with her as-is for a bit. ♥
I also removed her eyelashes, since they seemed to just get in the way.
The Old Royal Naval College had been temporarily transformed into 19th century France for the making of Les Miserables.
Filming of the new adaptation of the hit musical starred Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.
Visitors to the Greenwich landmark regularly find themselves on the set of the next Hollywood blockbuster - in recent years it has provided the backdrop for films including Pirates of the Caribbean, Sherlock Holmes and Batman.
Les Miserables is scheduled for release in January 2013.
The bus stands on The Broadway have been dug up, so buses from the east are having to drop off at Locke Way stop 7 if they've got layover to take before their next departure.
They seem to park there if there's room, but if it's full, then they need to go round to Duke Street. If that's full, then they need to go back out, and down Stanley Road and up Chertsey Road to the lower half of Duke Street, where the car parking has been suspended to create more bus parking.
That's demonstrated by Arriva 4209 (YJ61 CJV), which is in the suspended-car-parking lower half of Duke Street, having come in on a 436 and found Abellios already occupying Locke Way.
The amusing part of all these arrangements is that, with the roadworks and fencing, the right turn from Duke Street back onto The Broadway to get to the pick up stands is not actually possible to do in a bus without driving over the pavement...
...especially so in a Versa, the right hand lock of which is not their strong point.
Duke Street, Woking, Surrey.
Remodeling the living room means no big sound system. So I figured I might as well set up my headphones gear in the meantime. (and I see a couple spots I missed with the paint..)
Art is an effort to turn something normal or plain to something interesting or magical, something insignificant to something of awareness.
Science is the undeniably fact of what works and what not. The technical limitations, underlying concepts and the real differences among the materials, build quality and durability of the quality level.
The interplay of the two results in low probability of success, hence deriving great amount of surprise and satisfaction upon achievement. Hopefully with time and efforts, skills and knowledge can be greatly enhanced, applied and progressed in upward cycles.
Temporary marketing kiosk with timber lattice over what looks like a GRP shell. Greenwich Peninsula, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.
On March 26, 2013, when hundreds of campaigners from across London and the rest of England converged on Parliament for a protest against the Tory-led coalition government's attempts to subject almost the whole of the NHS to privatisation, a small number of the protestors staged a brief "die-in," lying down in the road in front of Parliament and temporarily bring traffic to a halt.
The main focus of the day was a powerful and rousing meeting inside the House of Commons, featuring the Green MP Caroline Lucas, the Labour MPs Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Heidi Alexander, and the Labour peer Philip Hunt (Baron Hunt of Kings Heath). The government plans to achieve this underhand privatisation through secondary legislation relating to Section 75 of the wretched Health and Social Care Act that was passed last year, and the regulations first came to light just a month ago.
Although 350,000 people recently signed a 38 Degrees petition opposing the plans, and Lib Dem minister Norman Lamb promised that the key regulations on competition in the NHS would be rewritten, the rewritten regulations have barely changed, and they still oblige the NHS -- and, specifically, the Clinical Commissioning Groups of GPs who will take over responsibility for 80 percent of the NHS's budget from April 1 -- to put almost all NHS services out to tender, allowing private companies to begin to devour the whole of the NHS or face legal challenges that they will probably lose because enforced competition will have been made into a key component of the provision of NHS services.
The need to oppose the implementation of the Section 75 regulations is hugely important, and we only have until the third week of April to persuade members of the House of Lords (and particularly Lib Dem and cross-bench peers) to join with Labour peers in striking down the legislation. Opponents of the government's plans are also encouraged to write to their MPs to ask them to sign an Early Day Motion calling for the regulations to be overturned.
Find out how to write to members of the House of Lords -- and what to say -- here: www.savelewishamhospital.com/write-letters-to-lords-now/
Contact your MP here to ask them to sign EDM 1188, calling for the Section 75 regulations to be annulled: www.writetothem.com/
And here's the EDM: www.parliament.uk/edm/2012-13/1188
For my article about the regulations, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/02/25/urgent-save-the-nhs-...
For the 38 Degrees petition, see: secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/nhs-section-75
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For all my NHS protest photos, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/tags/nhs/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
UPDATE JUNE 2017: I've just set up a Facebook page, 'The State of London', featuring, every day, a photo of London from my five years of cycling around and taking photos of the capital. Please join me! www.facebook.com/thestateoflondon/
Not sure if it's because there are so many bus stops out of action due to road works, gas works and other necessary obstacles that we see quite a few of these signs indicating Temporary Bus Stop. This is a relatively new idea and passengers could very easily miss seeing it altogether.
My dad and I were walking down from Cafe Truva (just beside the temporary traffic lights in the picture) and we didn't notice this sign due to its positioning facing the wrong way from our direction!). It's only when you suspect something isn't normal that you decide to walk down to this sign and see what it says!
Meanwhile the proper bus stop (on the other side of this bus) has no warning or alert as to what's changed - and gone are the days when the flag would be covered up by a little fabric caver. And one wonders if drivers have eyes in the front, side and back of their heads having to notice such unclear signposts like this, especially on the first run of their shift.
At the Shore Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 2, number 346 (SN59 BGZ) is on Service 22 as usual with its pink topping to identify one of three flagship services in the Capital and I must say how good the appearance of these buses is.
At seven years old the slogan Lothian's Buses Shine is one I'd endorse any day!
This photo could be better but the weather was abysmal; it was absolutely tipping it down. The bus stops at Ambury in Bath were used by Faresaver and setting down only but are now in use by First for some services displaced from the bus station to aid social distancing.
Streetlite 47442 SK63KNP was sent on loan from Bristol for additional services whilst 66720 WX54XDF had been displaced from its usual work at Wells depot whilst still retaining Mendip Explorer fleetnames.
7 Days of Shooting/Week #23/Contrasts/Unusual PoV Tuesday
The Edinburgh Christmas funfair has taken up residence beside the Scott Monument. One has stood there for a hundred and sixty eight years; the other will be dismantled in the new year.
These Birmingham Railway, Carriage & Wagon Co. Bo-Bo Type 3s, from the Southern Region, came to be seen quite regularly on the line through Lawrence Hill and Stapleton Road, Bristol, during the mid-1970s. They must have had a regular freight working which approached Bristol from the direction of Westbury and Bath. I don't think I ever saw them north of Narroways Junction, so perhaps they went down to Avonmouth and "Severnside". This one must be working back to the Southern "light engine". A few yards ahead of the locomotive the points are set for it to turn east, towards Bath, at Dr Day's Junction. Sulzer 8LDA-28 engines; therefore intermediate between the Class 24's 6-cylinder LDA-28, and the Peaks' 12-cylinder jobbies. Taken Monday 19th May 1975.
The lights of Class 70 no.70815 are seen as the loco runs through the short tunnel which carries the A678 road overhead at Rishton, on the outskirts of Blackburn. The train is the 6E32 10:05 Preston Docks to Lindsey bitumen empties, photographed on 06/04/2021.
2021 represents a significant milestone in the history of the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle, with the celebration of our 50th anniversary. Phoenix was set up in spring 1971, and was created to promote an alternative approach to railway photography. Why not take a look at the PRPC website at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.
Harriet Tubman African American Museum.
Who was this woman who had no links to Macon but had the African American Museum named after her? Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 in Maryland into the Ross slave family. The Ross's relatively stable family life on Thompson's plantation came to abrupt end in 1824 when Tubman and some siblings were hired out to temporary masters. Whilst working as a field hand while a young teen, Tubman was nearly killed by a blow to her head from an iron weight, thrown by an angry overseer at another fleeing slave. The severe injury left her suffering from headaches for the rest of her life. About 1844 she married a local free black man named John Tubman. In the fall of 1849 Tubman took her own liberty. She tapped into the Underground Railroad: travelling by night and using the North Star and instructions from white and black helpers she found her way to Philadelphia. She sought work as a domestic, saving her money to help the rest of her family escape. From 1850 to 1860, Tubman conducted between 11 and 13 escape missions bringing away 300 slave people to freedom. Tubman took many of her charges to St. Catherine’s, Ontario, where they settled into a growing community of free blacks. Her dangerous missions won the admiration of black and white Abolitionists throughout the North. In 1859, William Henry Seward, Lincoln's future Secretary of State, sold Tubman a home on the outskirts of New York, where she eventually settled her aged parents and other family members. In early 1862, Tubman joined Northern Abolitionists in support of Union activities at Port Royal, South Carolina. Throughout the Civil War she provided badly needed nursing care to black soldiers and hundreds of newly liberated slaves who crowded Union camps. Tubman's military service expanded to include spying and scouting behind Confederate lines. In early June 1863, she became the first woman to command an armed military raid when she guided Col. James Montgomery and his 2nd South Carolina black regiment up the Combahee River, routing out Confederate outposts, destroying stockpiles of cotton, food and weapons, and liberating over 700 slaves. After the Civil War she remarried on her first husband’s death. She married Nelson Davis in 1869 a former soldier in the black Union forces. She struggled financially the rest of her life. Denied her own military pension, she eventually received a widow's pension as the wife of Nelson Davis, and later she was awarded a Civil War nurse's pension. Active in the women’s’ suffrage movement since 1860, Tubman continued to appear at local and national suffrage conventions until the early 1900s. She died at the age of 91 in 1913 in New York. What an amazing life from slave to runaway, to Underground Railroad leader to Union spy behind Confederate lines!
Life was difficult for former slaves in Macon but during the era of Jim Crow legislation designed to segregate all public and commercial facilities (schools, buses, hotels, restaurants, toilets, waiting rooms, railcars etc) the Georgia Baptist College was founded in 1899 by the Reverend E.K. Love under the auspices of the Baptist Church. It was the only institution for high school or college study for black Americans in Macon. The College struggled to survive financially, finally failing during the Great Depression in 1937. The college property was foreclosed by a white businessman who had lent money to the college. But he was also a philanthropist and he placed the College’s assets under the control of the Georgia Baptist Missionary Convention. During the era of segregation it was difficult to continue raising funds only from the impoverished black community and the college was closed in 1957 just as the era of desegregation was about to begin in the South.