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The capstones on this canal bridge are rounded and tied with iron staples. This allowed the tow ropes to pass over the canal bridge, under tension, without dislodging the stones and fraying.
Crystal glasses have gone out of fashion like crystal accents have. I bought 4 of these lovely whiskey glasses for a pound.
Makes a fun filter, too 😁
I just noticed this is off center. Does anyone care?
Getting itself ready for 'the Visit' is this lovely Jerusalem sage.
I might have a few leaves for salad when they've gone!
Instead of the main road, you can use a ginnel to get to Williamson Park that retraces the route used by the quarry workers in the 19th century. Unexpectedly I saw the back of the Ashton Memorial.
The Ashton Memorial is, by chance, close to the mathematical center of Great Britain, if you exclude the Isle of Man. To paraphrase a favorite actor, "not a lot of people know that."
Walk up through the bracken, aiming at the ruins on top of the headland and you will find this view across the bay. This is what Saint Patrick would have seen when he returned to England from captivity in Ireland.
124 St Vincent Street is one of many grand buildings in Glasgow that have been restored and refurbished, providing commercial premises in the thriving business district.
When i cook it's like we're together again.
Apple, blackberry, lemon, sultana, cinnamon, Demerara sugar, finish with apricot jam glaze.
While taking down the laundry I noticed this.
If you have little to do today, research the origins of the Easter Bunny. It's a fascinating rabbit hole 😀
This is a Coade stone that was removed from one of the last three remaining public dispensaries and placed above the door to the infirmary.
Coade stone is an interesting substance developed in the 18th century that consisted of clay, terracota, silicates and glass. It would have been molded and then fired in a kiln for several days to produce this fine relief. I believe it depicts the Good Samaritan tending to the man who had been set upon by robbers and left for dead by several passersby.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_the_Patchwork_Elephant
My local used bookshop had this in the window. I'm very fond of Elmer and his stories.
Mirror Lab Pro on a Galaxy Note9. Cloud photo opened to preset filter number 43 called Kaleidoscope 2.
In the central hall of the museum is the large organ, originally built in 1901. A free public recital is given daily. The acoustic of the hall worked well for me.
Lancaster Castle is old. It's been a fortress, a prison, a court, execution site, and now tourist attraction. There's a pretty good cafe, too 😄
A bee visits some common ragwort.
This plant is potentially lethal to horse and cattle but is the natural feeding plant for the cinnabar moth, whose numbers are down considerably in the last few years. This particular plant was also full of bees doing their pollination job. Humans should not touch this plant either as it can cause rashes and other irritations.
As I stood next to it in the sunshine, there was the most amazing smell of honey coming from it.
Today's lunch was a soup of butternut squash, sweet potato, tomato, and garlic. I finished it with some grated cheese and basil leaves and black pepper.
We have been blanketed by gloomy nimbostratus clouds for days, and I needed some warmth, color and comfort today!
More than 6500 Trig Points, or Triangulation Points, were built across Britain between 1936 and 1962, as part of a big project to re-triangulate Britain. The last observation was made in 1962 from Thornley Gale, Cumbria.
This one is at the top of Arnside Knott. It's easy to see that it isn't used any more as trees obscuring the view had grown up around it. However, trig points are still marked on OS maps, and useful landmarks for walkers.
GPS has made these markers redundant for survey purposes.
I was searching for a recipe for caelacanth soup. I had confused the ancient fish for the ugly-looking root vegetable, celeriac; for some reason, I can seldom remember what it's called. In any event, caelacanth is inedible.
Of course, I wandered off the thread while trying to recall what this vegetable is called and I found a whole bunch of pictures on my G drive, labelled 'partially uploaded', whatever that means. It does mean that the file is quite small, so I thought it would be fun to have a play with it, using Nomacs Image Lounge. While Nomacs is an open source viewer, it has some embedded tools for image manipulation.
As you might notice, this is from 2019 - I have always been intrigued by cranes. This is a construction site near Kings Cross Station in London.
odd things, mannequins. 3D representations of who we want to be, or are, or were.
the skills to make curved window glass have almost disappeared. it's quite something to watch. I hope nobody decides to break this one for a laugh.
Today is World Mental Health Day.
If you can, get outside and take in your surroundings. Breathe. Be grateful. Help someone. Learn or at least notice something new. Smile like a Buddha.
Be kind.
The remains of Arnside Tower. Built around 1340. Tower houses were designed to protect occupants from border raiders, known as reevers.
This glass-filled grating covers somebody's cellar. It keeps the weather and people out, but allows the light to flow in.
The Rights of Light Act 1959 is a legal easement, which gives a property owner the right to enjoy the light passing over someone else's land and through their own 'defined apertures' (windows). The law goes back to the Ancient Lights Law under the rule of William IV, which was superseded by the 1832 Prescription Act.