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Located at Irstead in Norfolk, Turf Fen drainage mill was built by Yarmouth millwright, William Rust c.1875 to drain Horning marshes into the River Ant.
It was 31' high with a Norfolk style boat shaped cap, four double shuttered sails of seven bays and a six bladed fantail.
Vidimyrakirkja, Iceland.
Built in the 1820's, the church is still used as a place of worship and is one of Iceland's rare, surviving pre-20th Century buildings.
What do they say? If you sit in a barber's shop long enough, you will get a hair cut.........Just like while in Antarctica, if you stay still long enough, inquisitive friends will approach you with no fear.
Gentoo penguins looking for food and friendship.
Cincinnati, OH. July 18, 2021. Shot on a Fujifilm GA645 and Kodak Portra 160. Developed and scanned by The Darkroom.
Burnley 1 - 0 Swansea City
We won by getting a penalty in the 94th minute. It was handball.
Before the game there was a 2 minute silence for Remembrance Sunday. A trumpeter played the Last Post. It made me well up… it was very emotional.
I live about 8 or 9 miles from the stadium. Through the mist that you can see on the hillside.
Turf Moor
Burnley
Lancashire
The new Premier league season kicks off today..
Adidas have brought out a training shoe / sneaker called Turf Royal, as shown. Turf Moor is the name of Burnley’s stadium.
The colours available are either just Claret or blue - Burnley’s colours.
So it makes it difficult to decide which pair to buy if you’re a Burnley fan... so I bought both! 😊😊
Which is your favourite?
Icelandic Turf Houses situated up on a hill at Vatnajökull National Park looking out towards the ocean. An amazing hike up to see Svartifoss.
Photo by Russell Eck
There's this dilapidated building in the middle of a commercial turf farm. It's surrounded by acres of nothing but nice green lawn. I'm glad the owners haven't torn down the house.
As the days went on the invasion of the foreigners became more and more apparent.
Kai and Kaze decided to walk the streets to attempt to protect the locals from the wrath and greed that the foreigners were raining down on those less fortunate daily.
As they exited the shop they found exactly what they were looking for. Demon Dodge, Evil Emil and Fleetin' Ethan were all three ready for them.
Quickly they nodded to one another and Kaze took off at a run. He leapt into the air as he was trained to do, his legs taking on the crane formation. His face was determined, angry even. With his youth it was normal for him to be a hothead, but in times like this it wasn't a bad thing. His anger would fuel him.
Kai on the other hand took a protective stance, his eyes hard, cold and calculating. He'd get the two that were left, his sword sliced the air with a speed that was unmatched by his opponents.
Demon Dodge's eyes blazed with determination, his blades at the ready in a stance that was typical to those that were not of this place.
Evil Emil, known to be the most twisted of them, had a look on his face of sheer glee at the blood fray that was about to ensue. It was known that he took delight in others pain and even their deaths.
All that Kai could think is, "they do not belong" as he struck out finally at his enemy. HIs heritage, his training, his composure was second to none of his age, his eyes shone black in the night, colorless during the day. Only this time, they were cold as a black ice running down your spine.
The battle would begin, but where would it end?
someone's surfing board.
this shot was taken during our family vacation at Boracay for me and my daughter's birthday celebration (late post - October 2019).
Peat (/piːt/), also known as turf (/tɜːrf/), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers 3.7 million square kilometres and is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture carbon dioxide (CO2) naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. In natural peatlands, the "annual rate of biomass production is greater than the rate of decomposition", but it takes "thousands of years for peatlands to develop the deposits of 1.5 to 2.3 m [4.9 to 7.5 ft], which is the average depth of the boreal [northern] peatlands", which store around 415 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon (about 46 times 2019 global CO2 emissions). Sphagnum moss, also called peat moss, is one of the most common components in peat, although many other plants can contribute. The biological features of sphagnum mosses act to create a habitat aiding peat formation, a phenomenon termed 'habitat manipulation'. (Wikipedia)
A bit of work to do…
So yesterday we had 60 sq metres of turf arrive along with 12 tonnes of grade 2 soil.
We’re lawning the back garden, where the planters are. I think I’ve over done it with the amount of soil that I’ve ordered, but if so it’ll do for the side garden (for next year, I’m thinking).
Well, I’m not a real gardener so I’ve got a gardener coming with his lad. I’ll be wheelbarrowing the soil around to the back mainly… and the turf of course.
It’s about 50 yards.
I think I’m lucky that I could get it all delivered over the fence… they used a Hiab.
I am looking forward to the day ahead.
At the moment it’s looking like I’ll have to miss today’s football … Burnley v Blackpool, a derby game too, which is unfortunate! But this has to take precedence.
Happy Soil Saturday! #HSS
Stacksteads
Lancashire
The Icelandic turf houses were the product of a difficult climate, offering superior insulation compared to buildings solely made of wood or stone, and the relative difficulty in obtaining other construction materials in sufficient quantities.
Sunset at Turf Fen windpump, near How Hill on the River Ant in the Norfolk Broads.
All the 200 or so windpumps that were built to drain the fens of East Anglia in the 19th century have been replaced with diesel or electric pumps. Most have disappeared or fallen into disrepair; only a handful have been restored and are maintained in working order.
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