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Around 5 weeks ago I bought this order, and it came today! I ordered a bunch of foliage, and some other useful pieces that will be used in future MOCs. Tell me what you think!
The rear container wagons of 4S43, the Daventry to Mossend Tescoliner pass through Carlisle station on 19th May 2015.
The Volvo F-series from the first generation does have a great appeal to me. During my childhood in the 80s I always saw the fleet of a regional hauler which had a couple of those. Also the German series ‘Auf Achse’, in which one of the main vehicles was a flat roofed F12 is still in my mind. Somehow I do feel more about trucks of four decades ago than the latest ones which all look the same to me. During the 70s, 80s and 90s there where more brands on the market and these decades were for the real drivers. Sometimes still with double clutch, no power steering and engines with around 350 hp max. It sounds like the middle age but I guess those trucks might still be useful nowadays. More than 20 years ago they went out of service and found a second life somewhere in southern Europe, Africa or Latin America. A couple of years ago I saw many Volvo F-series drawbar outfits in Peru and Bolivia like I saw in my neighbourhood during my childhood. And they’re still in service. Really fantastic!
It might not be a surprise such a truck was on my list to be build. One of the European transport companies which got a cult status is Stie's from Norway. For decades they ran a fleet of mainly Volvo’s and drove across Europe with refrigerated cargo. I found some useful pictures on a Norwegian forum of early 80s drawbar outfits. Sties used to have all three generations of F-series but the first generation is my favourite with a flat roof cab and vintage lettering on the bodyworks.
Many, many years ago I built a Volvo FH12 in the Nor-Cargo outfit, the predecessor of Sties, also in blue and white livery. But this time I should be a far more accurate model. The basis is 6x2 driven rigid chassis. Other than previous models I definitely wanted to have a factory green engine thus I collected a lot of sand green elements and used old style grey pieces for those who aren’t available in sand green. Of course it has a tilted cab with full interior and opening doors. The gear shifter is fitted on top of the engine. The interior is just like from trucks from the early 80s which lots of brown and medium orange. The finishing touch is with a typical roof rack, ladder etc. A quite common sight then but also on new Dutch trucks to give them and old skool look.
The drawbar trailer is a product of former Norwegian trailer manufacturer Dapa. The bodyworks were built by VBA, a company which also built busses and coaches on chassis delivered from the factory.
Both bodyworks are mainly built of 2x4 tiles and 2x2 inverted tiles on the inside. Yes, I also paid attention to the inner part. Even the cooling engines are having a replica of the engine and inner part inside the bodyworks. Rear end doors and side doors of course can be opened.
One of the benefits of scale 1:13 box outfits is that the smaller scale 1:17 unit do fit in the bodyworks; it saves some space when carrying those to events.
Nice details underneath are the spare wheels and snow chains which are inevitable. And also look at the blue ones on the drawbar; I found some which weren’t that cheap but really add something to the model.
The truck has quite some metal chrome elements like the wheels, front bumper, cooling engines and some parts of the engine. In my opinion it doesn’t look right without. All decals are supplied by JaapTechnic. At LEGO World last year I brought the model without decals and during the event Jaap took care of it. He really did a great job as the model looks far better with than without them!
With scale 1:13 comes quite a large model. This one is about 145 cm in length.
It took a while before I finished it October 2019 while I already started about a year and a half before. I had to put a lot of effort in it like getting the shapes of the cab right and acquiring all pieces need. But it really is a great addition to my vintage fleet!
This is 'work in progress' but makes a useful (for me!) comparison with the LRGB image I posted a couple of days ago. Also it has some nice detail and effects already. Here I have used my 130mm scope with the wider formatted Atik 460EX CCD compared to the ZWO ASI174MM CMOS camera used with the 80mm scope. The image time is considerably longer than needed with the ZWO but by using specific narrowband filters I have been able to restrict the dominance of Alnitak, which in LRGB sequences will always be extremely bright. For this image I have combined H Alpha (used as luminance and red), H Beta (used as blue) and Oxygen III (used as green). For all three the colour chosen is nearest to their actual frequency transmitted.
It is 'work in progress' as I intend to leave my set-up oriented to allow me to capture further data in narrowband next time we have clear skies to combine with the data in this image to date.
Peter
One of the most useful and thoroughly used tools in the Blood Skull's arsenal, the Blood Skull Adaptable Power-Suit is best known for its extreme versatility. Any number of weapons, tools, and mechanisms can be added on to the suit to suit any mission. These suits maximize the speed and agility of the pilot ten-fold , making them one of the best choices in a tight situation.
A few people have asked me why I haven't used the BA miniguns I received in my MOTM prizes, so I built this quick suit as an excuse to use one of them. The suit was based off the Pyresuit coupled with Lord Dane's sweet mechs. On another note, I'm sorry I haven't been active recently, but I'm working on something big that I'm going to unveil at Brickfair and post pictures of afterwards. So don't expect much out of me in the next week or so :)
Tide was receding, unfortunately I didn't have a tripod though which would have been useful for making this look nice and calm. Luckily it wasn't *too* dark yet though!
The Battle of Durrough: The Black Swan
A story of rebellion against tyranny, from Lands of Roawia Castle Builders Game. Global Challenge 7, Unrestricted Entry.
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Commentary: GC7 was all the reason I needed to build the Black Swan, but what a build it turned into...one of the most challenging and largest of all my builds. The studs-not-on-top half-timber technique alone was a handful, not to mention that gabled roof. It all comes apart in levels too, including the roof.
Please read the story; I know it's long but it's action-packed and my best writing yet, I believe. Cheers!
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The Black Swan Tavern was known for its dark ale brew, catering to sea captains, high prices and outstanding hot food served using fresh ingredients. It benefited from its location next to Angus Square, which hosted an excellent market every weekend, with fresh fish from the Aines River and wares from all over the Provinces. On this day however, reputations would change forever, and what was once a peaceful cobbled square would soon be known by all as The Bloody Market.
Lord Oslet moved his men as silently as possible through the misty morning streets of Durrough, determined to catch his prey, one Baron Munro and his lackey of an archer captain, Tavish. Oslet had ensured everything was ready; he had chosen the best shots in the entire garrison, all armed with deadly crossbows. He carried one himself—except his had a little extra potency to it. His 100 hand-picked troops had soft boots and no armor or shields to cause noise, and they moved carefully in the pre-dawn shadows toward the meeting place, the tavern the traitorous Duke Cartney had referred to as The Black Swan.
Oslet had seen to everything, sending a troop of 50 more men farther east to circle back around and approach Angus Square from the opposite end of the city. He even had his best tactical commander, Captain Bladari, standing by with another 200 men in the Bastion on call in case there was trouble.
There wouldn’t be, of course. The Aines River was flowing swiftly, and no boats were in the immediate vicinity, leaving no avenue of escape for this Caelan Munro. Lord Oslet’s anticipation of ridding himself of a thorn in his side, the leaders of those deadly Scout Snipers, grew with every step, and by the time they reached the Swan he was in high spirits. His men approached cautiously, but all appeared well in the mist as they were well ahead of the reported meeting time between Munro and his disreputable spy-traitor to the Queen.
His vanguard moved silently along the wharf and up to the riverside door of the Swan, trying to open it quietly. It wouldn’t budge, and several of them set about trying to force it while the rest moved past the Swan and peaked around the corner into Angus Square. The mist obscured much, but what they saw made them pause, and then motion for their lord to see.
Oslet came forward and peaked himself. The square was heavily cluttered with barrels, wagons, and stands from the three Factions of Roawia, but no movement. It smelled heavily of fish, but there was nothing strange about that. Oslet looked at his men to see what they meant, and one of them whispered, “Too much here.”
“It’s Market Day, you dolt, what did you exp….” he trailed off, for approaching from the other end of the wharf were two cloaked figures moving cautiously in the shadows. As they drew closer it was clear the two forms had bows strapped over their backs and wore green cloaks.
“Early, are we?” Oslet mumbled, and motioned for his men to spread out in reception, as the two unwary men were headed straight for the Black Swan. Oslet smiled at the sight of his prey, and when the moment was right he called out, “It’s to be the gallows for you, Sir Caelan!”
His two targets froze, but as his mind registered this he heard a calm but firm voice call from only thirty feet to his left, “It’s arrows for you stupid.”
And then all chaos broke out. The fly of arrows filled the air, and all around him his men fell like stalks of wheat before a scythe. Windows opened above him, and he caught sight out of the corner of his eye forms leaning out and raining deadly shots upon his troops from the top floors of the Swan. Oslet felt a pain in his thigh, and instinctively rounded behind one of his men, who immediately caught in the chest an arrow meant for him. He made his way back behind his guards one at a time, and only called for a retreat after he had passed them to ensure he had human shields to absorb the shots meant for him. By the time he rallied what men he had left, well out of arrow range, he had less than half of what he came with to that bloody tavern. Without their armor, they were easy pickings.
“Did you get him?” Sir Caelan looked up at Captain Tavish, perched atop the Angus Fountain to improve his shot advantage.
“Nah, I missed the blighter I think…perhaps grazed him.” Tavish shrugged, “Hard to tell in this mist.”
“Mist?” Munro pretended to object, “You’re slipping.”
Tavish frowned. “He kept duckin’ behind his men, the coward!”
“It’s not manly to complain, you know.” This received Tavish’s most undignified look yet.
Caelan moved forward to see better and to wave congratulations at his 25 men in the Swan. Behind him were 75 more, all having hidden amongst the “clutter” and buildings surrounding Angus Square. The remaining 25 Scout Snipers under his command were farther to the east, serving as rear guard to oppose the encircling Queen’s troops no doubt trying to cut their path of retreat off. They would soon be getting the same brutal treatment Caelan had just given Oslet. Before him lay numerous bodies and wounded crawling away to anywhere they could. Some of his men were sniping those still able to aim their crossbows. They just couldn’t resist one of their primary roles they had been trained for: counter-archer fire.
One hundred yards west, Oslet cursed furiously, mostly for his lost dignity and little for the loss of his men. He had suffered only a flesh wound in his thigh, but had suffered greatly in the eyes of his command. When he learned however that Caelan was neither pursuing nor retreating, he brightened and immediately sent for Bladari and his 200 men, including his best unit, the Silver Spears. They were fully armored, and that alone ensured victory, so long as Caelan stood his ground.
And he did. As Bladari came up and saluted his master, Lord Oslet stated, “I have to admit they surprised us and we lost most of our crossbowmen, but the great fool has decided to stay and fight—pride, no doubt. Now we get them all—how stupid, a major threat in the countryside but now hopelessly outnumbered and outclassed in street fighting. Either way, I must ask the Silver Spears to storm that tavern and square. Kill them all.”
Captain Bladari indeed tried valiantly. His men moved in like a landslide, charging forward into a hail of arrows. The sun had come up, burning the mist off, and now the Spears were charging toward the east with the sun directly in their eyes. Their armor did help tremendously, until close range was reached. Then the Scout Snipers’ accuracy made any opening in their armor fair game.
Much worse waited for them in the square however. The Snipers had stacked the deck, for in the time in between attacks they had slammed open the many barrels they had brought, and out poured fish oil, the stuff of slippery nightmares on cobblestones. Just at the point where the Silver Spears should have made contact with the Snipers, the soldiers slipped perilously instead, and blood now mixed freely with the fish oil.
Up on the fountain, Tavish had a field day. He took particular delight in shooting whoever carried the Silver Spears’ banner, and after four fell in succession as they picked it up to lead forward, the spear-tipped signal remained on the ground for the rest of the fight.
The Snipers inside the Swan however had no such fish oil barrier to help them. Bladari’s men were able to withstand enough shots to approach and break through the windows, and the ones that lived to see the other side made it to the door to move the blockade keeping it closed. In addition, Lord Oslet was carefully taking those Snipers shooting from the windows out with shots from his poisoned quarrel bolts. The ten Snipers who held the bottom floor were overwhelmed as the Queen’s troops poured into the Swan, only happy to avoid the meat grinder in the square. Only two Scouts made it up the stairs before the others blocked it off with tables, but now their attention had to be on survival, and Bladari’s men were able to storm the wharf almost unopposed.
Sir Caelan only had a handful of pikemen to hold the attackers off for the Snipers to have shooting room, and they paid heavily for their bravery. Caelan’s squire, Sholto, was standing off to the side, taking an occasional shot with his short bow when he could, but to him it looked like they would soon be overwhelmed. Then he watched his knight charge forward into the fray in Lenfald armor, fighting two-handed as was his method, and swiftly four more of the attackers fell.
One who caught sight of this action was Captain Bladari, who immediately recognized that he could end this madness if he could down Caelan. He moved carefully forward as to not slip on the oil while relying on his full plate armor to deflect every arrow. The two exchanged quick glances and then went right to work without any words. Bladari’s broadsword made brutal impact with Caelan’s armor, but with such a heavy weapon he couldn’t keep up with his opponent’s longsword with long dagger follow-up. Caelan eventually gave him a deep slash to his right thigh, then his left knee, and Bladari went down fighting. He continued swinging until Caelan slashed his sword hand and that was it. Expecting a death blow, he stared up at the young Baron defiant, but was surprised when Munro charged forward instead, leaving him wounded but alive. What he missed was the arrival of Duke Cartney at the head of his own Durrough men-at-arms, who swept all before them.
Lord Oslet was quite pleased with himself now that he was clearly winning the fight, when a runner arrived and announced that the North Gate of the city had fallen to Sir Haymar Glen, and an armed horde of Lenfel troops was storming down High Street. “Who the deuce is Haymar?!?” he yelled in surprise. “How can this…” and his eyes suddenly set in the distance upon Bladari’s men scrambling in full rout toward him. Right behind them were Lenfels in full charge, and leading them was Duke Cartney himself. All came clear to him; the entire engagement was a trap set by Duke Cartney himself with his lies of an easy ambush on Caelan, and he now knew full well that the entire city was in rebellion against the Queen.
“To the Bastion!” he screamed as loud as possible, holding up his crossbow for all to recognize him, and cries of retreat echoed his command. But he did not turn with the others immediately. Instead he lowered his weapon with poisoned quarrel loaded, and aimed it straight at the approaching Duke Cartney…
…To be continued in the next build, Battle of Durrough: Cobblestone Bridge
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I haven't been able to find anything out about the curious name of this town. If anyone knows anything, I'd be happy to hear about it.
UPDATE: janwalkerimages rocks. See her information on the town and its name origin below.
after a short trip to moscow - maybe some useful shots taken (unfortunately no tripod with me...)?
this shot was taken at appr. 10 pm during the first few drops of a massive thunderstorm coming in.
View from Red Square to the building that houses the historic museum. Kremlin and the Lenin mausoleum is on the left of my position.
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most interesting.
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Castle Park, Bristol, South West of England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 9th of July 2022.
About this photograph.
On a very warm morning, at around 10am or thereabouts, I arrived at Castle Park in Bristol city centre.
The park was the gathering place for all people of LGBT lifestyle, to come and build up, before the start of the Pride march through the city centre.
Back in the late 1980s while attending college, I had taken photos of college students protesting by going on a march through a city. As it was a long ago, my skills and experience may be rusty, so I decided to get to practise shooting documentary and journalism kind of photographs, to refresh my skills.
It was at that time, I spotted this one little lonely bubble floating in the air.
And I decided to have a go trying to capture it. See if I can get my camera to focus on it, and if I can take a shot of it.
It could be useful to check my camera’s auto-focusing system as my camera is like about 15 years old (or thereabouts), and I need to know if I’ve got the right AF settings turned on.
So there it is, I tried my best to focus on it, and capture it. I think it’s a little out of focus, but it was the best I could manage.
After that, I continued to take photos of the gathering, before the start of the march.
About the event.
Bristol Pride is an annual festival held over couple of weeks, promoting equality for the various LGBT+ people, with a march through the city at a weekend.
The Bristol Pride started life in 1977 as a fundraiser for the local LGBT community, and evolved into an annual event held every year. There was a gap of only some years between 1994 to 2010 when it was restarted.
The 2022 march started at Castle Park, near Castle Street. The route took them past Cabot Circus, and went around the major shopping area by using The Horsefair and Union Street, and as they went down Union Street, they headed towards Castle Park. When they reached Castle Park, they turned into Wine Street, went into High Street, and into Baldwin Street, headed towards the A38 which is Anchor Road. This route took them into Canon’s Road, and ended up near the Bristol Aquarium.
The march was said to take about an hour, but as a photographer whom would go back and forth, up and down the line, looking for good shots, it took me at least a couple of hours to complete the route.
After the march, those whom bought tickets, can attend an evening musical festival at The Downs, approximately to the north-west of city centre. I did not attend this event, and by the time I got back to my friend’s home, I was worn out from the heat.
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Elfia Francois - Christmas Member
Elia is an extremely useful resource to the team, her great engineering skills from her home planet "Argu" allow her to creat large mechs and even weaponry for the team. Her small stature makes her enemies often misjudge her but she is quite fast and very deadly at close combat due to her knowing some sweet fighting skills her father taught her.
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This week we are visiting "The Republican Photograph Collection". I believe this is our second visit. I feel sure you will be able to get the location, I am hopeful you will discover the names of the two friars. Would it be too much to hope for anything more?
With thanks initially to our own Carol Maddock and corroberation from sharon.corbet and BeachcomberAustralia it is confirmed that this image is of Capuchin Father's Albert Bibby and Dominic O'Connor.
With the help of additional material from the RTÉ Stills Library and the ever-useful NLA Trove Archive it seems that this image is likely associated to the arrest of both men in the winter of 1920 - during the Irish War of Independence. Probably dating from after their release it is likely captured at the Capuchin friary and church on Church Street in Dublin....
Photographers: Unknown
Collection: Republican Photograph Collection
Date: c.1920
NLI Ref: NPA RPH17
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
The most useful extraterrestrials in Somewhereville are the Compostoids who hail from the planet Sludgelon-8. They exist completely on organic waste and save the city big bucks on those pesky garbage collection fees. They may look scary but their organic diet makes them quite peaceful creatures.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
This connection of the Throwbot Visor is one of the most rigid and useful I've come up with. The trigger from the minifig shooter fits almost perfectly into the lever base.
C'est la pleine saison de la floraison dans les Vosges.
La plante est protégée et sa cueillette réglementée et suivie. Elle a fait l'objet d'une convention dans le massif des Vosges entre cueilleurs, agriculteurs (éleveurs) et industriels.
La fleur est utilisée principalement dans des produits pharmaceutiques, phytothérapiques (huile de massage particulièrement efficace chez les sportifs) et homéopathiques.
Quelle maman n'a pas son petit tube de pommade à l'Arnica pour les bobos de tous les jours ? :-)
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English : Arnica flower blossoms, growing in the Vosges mountains.
These plants are protected and the harvesting/picking is controlled.
Useful in drugs (especially to cure light injuries like bumps and bruises), massage oils and cosmetics
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Some useful points for my flickr friends..................
A Negative person always thinks what others can do for him. But A Positive person always thinks what he can do for others ! Everything is PRE-Written - Nothing Can be RE-Written.
SO, Live the Best and L E A V E the rest ! Wanna Know how rich you are ? Don't count your assets .. Just drop a tear and see how many hands come to wipe it !
We often do not express our feelings For fear of losing the one we care for.. But we often loose the one who cares for us By not expressing our feelings for them !
The best things about STONES that come accross your path in Life Is that once you have crossed them, they become MILESTONES in your life !
A drop of water falls in the sea - Loses its identity. A drop of water falls on a Lotus - Shines brilliantly. A drop of water falls in a Shell - Becomes a Pearl.
Drop is the same - Its the company that counts !
In happiness - You'll remember the person who you love the most. In sadness - You'll remember the person who loves you the most !
Even a correct decision is wrong - When its taken too late. Vision without Action is DayDream Action without Vision is a Nightmare !
10 fingers that come together to Clap for our Victory are nothing in comparison to that One finger that wipes someones Tears ! Anger is meaningless - Because, Its always about something that has already passed !
Success is like your own shadow -Try catching it, It always runs away. Just walk your true path, And it obediently follows you !
A duck looks calm and beautiful gliding peacefully on the water. But below she is 'paddling' furiously !
Spend time improving yourself-You won't find time to criticise others !
You can win in LIFE - Just stop COMPARING and EXPECTING ! Your DREAMS require soundless Sleep Your AIMS require sleepless Efforts
The ruler is proving immensely useful for the long straight lines of this 18th century building. Not far to go now, the foreground will be important for placing the building into the space. Drawn with a Pentel GraphGear 0.3mm pencil and Tombow Mono Zero eraser in an A4 cartridge paper sketchbook.
350/365 #1396
Mike has this among his collection of treasures. He claims it will do all sorts of useful things.
The trails that I hiked in Palo Duro Canyon State Park are among the best-marked I have seen. Signs appear every one-tenth of a mile & provide both the distance to the trailhead as well as the trail's name, I guess in case you have forgotten. (JC= Juniper Trail-Cliffside.) They're easy to see, and each trail sign has its own color; helpful if you've remembered to bring the park's hiking guide along. All kidding aside, this is not a place to wander far from the trail or hike aimlessly.
The BNSF Media, IL train trestle is coming down. Well, as we know it, anyway! The girders which have supported this bridge since the late 1800s (when things were built to last) have now reached the end of their useful life. In their place, concrete beams are being put into place, and the cutover to the new supports will happen later this year or next year. Since I found out about this, I knew I wanted to light up this bridge, and Galesburg Railroad Days was the appropriate time and place for it to happen. Two temporary roads and bridges to move equipment and beams in and out are present; the fate of the county road which went underneath it is unknown, but a new support beam occupies what was the the south lane of the road, so the original won't ever reopen. To prevent erosion and landslides from falliing onto the road which goes by it, a barricade was erected at the bottom right corner of the shot to protect drivers from being hit by falling rocks or debris.
And thankfully, we didn't have to wait long for a train! BNSF 7546 leads two NS engines westbound over the old bridge.
Not sure if you've had enough of these kites, but the light was so good the day I went to Nant yr Arian I can't help posting another one! There were nearly always two or more birds coming down for meat on the water which made for untidy pictures, but in this instance I thought it worked in the composition as well as showing the behaviour.
I read a review of the 7D MkII the other day, written by Andy Rouse, and in it I learnt something useful that I hadn't known before and which applies to all Canon (and maybe other) cameras. I'll mention it here in case its useful to anyone: The default Picture Style is Standard, and I've always left it on that with all the cameras I've had, but he points out that this style sharpens the whole picture slightly even when you're shooting raw. If you choose the Faithful Picture Style it won't do that. Its useful because you will probably want to selectively sharpen your images rather than sharpen across the board, so you can leave the background nice and smooth…. I've immediately changed my settings, but I haven't taken any pictures yet, since changing it!!
Because there is some doubt about what I've said above about Picture Styles, this is the quote from the Andy Rouse article:
"Now a little about the processing. It was shot with a "Faithful" picture style which applies 0 sharpening. This is a really really important point and you need to understand its significance. If you set the style as " Standard" then sharpening is applied to the whole image. If you leave this untouched then the RAW converter, Canon's DPP in this case, will sharpen the RAW during processing to the same degree and you will get a TIFF that has been sharpened across the whole image. This means all the noisy bits have been sharpened too!!! Myself, and many pros like me, never ever ever do this. We sharpen only the bits of the image that need sharpening, i.e. the deer here. This means that I switch off all sharpening, by using "Faithful" and ensure that the RAW converter does the same at processing time. Then, when I am finished my colour correction in Photoshop I sharpen only the deer using Nik Sharpen on a layer. That way I avoid any background noise being sharpened. I have done this with every single camera I have ever used and I have applied it here to the 7D2 as well."
Keys are useful. They do so much. They can take you on adventures, unlock mysteries, keep things in/others out and get you home.
Talons are useful, but you have to use them carefully.
Barred owl (Strix varia) at Dillant-Hopkins Airport, Swanzey, NH
(23 Noveomber, 2024)
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Before the Pavilion Tearooms opened in 2015, they were disused changing rooms at the edge of Southsea Common. They looked quite attractive, as local artists had 'decorated' it, as shown here. I guess it's far more useful as a cafe, as it always seems to be busy!
This is a map from this morning, showing carbon monoxide levels in the west. The magenta color is off-the-chart levels, and shows where all the fires and poor air quality is.
My thoughts and concerns are with friends and family who live out there.
This useful map is from earth.nullschool.net