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iPhone died and then everything else seemed to collapse.
But hopefully all will be restored soon.
"Self-care is how you take your power back"
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These 2 old boys were out before dawn in the middle of winter, swimming around in the surf. I'd say crazy, but that's just me....
It's hard to believe, but a few of our aloe plants put up flower stalks in December. I don't know what they are thinking because we have had some freezing mornings. I hope they survive: it is nice to see the color in the drab winter landscape.
Another shot from 1986, this time we see 50032 'Courageous' passing Hayes & Harlington with a Paddington-Oxford Service.
Seacat Services offshore energy support vessel SEACAT COURAGEOUS making its way towards Wick Harbour on 4/10/2024 pictured in a choppy Wick Bay.
Venturing Courageously Into The Unknown.
Zeitgenössische Kämpfe epische Konsequenzen lauern wesentliche naturgeschichtliche Kräfte, die die Existenz besänftigen,
peleas evidentes nectares morales entretenimientos peligrosos armar agravios luchando contra enemigos increíble personaje regresando,
iratosque animos adversantium impetus inmissa leonum ultionem magnae victoriae daemoniis immolarent extraordinarii,
travestimenti restituiscono parole abrasive terrificante situazione terribile viaggio disavventure grandi risposte di svolta,
escalade implications représentations constantes murées combats diables à l'intérieur digressions profonds ordres mal brut brut moyen poète,
tráchtanna suibiachtúla agallamh óráidí teachtaireachtaí línte dian obair mhothúchánach cur síos fíorúil,
レーシングステップの重要性煙大量の感情恥ずかしい指導者貴重な秘密の写本幸せな公演編入事件征服した.
Steve.D.Hammond.
'Courageous' with the 1K42 20.43 Scarborough to Manchester Piccadilly service.
These trains will be missed. A fine livery and boy, do those Cats sound good!
Courageous, visually spectacular, emotionally engaging production of raw, provocative dance theatre, inspired by Japanese Butoh, burlesque and cabaret, performed by infamous Australian physical theatre company Zen Zen Zo. Played to packed houses across Australia.
Fishing vessels Courageous and Titan Explorer. The Courageous was built in 1943 as a Coast Guard cutter and has undergone various name changes since then. I always thought there was something retro about her look but did not think she was that old. This video shows her in the Bering Sea on a search and rescue mission: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzZsWylR1XI.
50032"Courageous" passes Newnham on 03/March/1986 with the 08.11 Exeter St. Davids to Waterloo service.
A member of staff takes a quiet moment at Paddington alongside 50 032 Courageous
I've no record of the working, but from adjacent frames on the film this was taken on 01-10-82
Courageous, visually spectacular,emotionally engaging, production of raw, provocative dance theatre, inspired by Japanese Butoh, burlesque and cabaret, performed by infamous Australian physical theatre company Zen Zen Zo. Played to packed houses across Australia. www.zenzenzo.com
Brave, courageous, determined, bold.
Being told you have a visual impairment that can't be treated can be difficult to come to terms with.
Some people go through a process similar to bereavement, where they experience a range of emotions including shock, anger, and denial, before eventually coming to accept their condition.
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The RNIB's website is specially designed for people with sight loss and provides a wide range of useful information and resources, including an online community and RNIB online shop.
Taunton, Somerset, UK.
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50032 Courageous passes Langford Bridge on the line to Plymouth just past Aller Junction on 14-5-81 just after 7 in the evening.
Liverpoon Lime Street to Plymouth working.
As with other locations in South Devon the electricity pylons and their wires could be problematic here. After the loop was removed it was never quite as good especially for the morning shot which showed off the trackbed more clearly.
50032 was named Courageous on 7-7-78.
and refurbished 31-11-80 at which point it will have received Large Logo livery.
Withdrawn on 15-10-90. Scrapped at Old Oak Common TMD, London in February 1991.
50 032 Courageous is just coming to the end of the reinforced rail section of the Cornish mainline at Coombe. As can be seen from the speed limit signs, the area was subject to severe restrictions. As well as the reinforced track to combat mining subsidence, there are sharp curves to contend with too. Note the line in the background. Since this section was redoubled in the 2000s I don't know if the speed restrictions were retained
Courageous is working 1V76, the 09:36 Liverpool - Penzance
Mrs P and myself recently visited the RNLI college in Poole, Dorset, a very impressive state of the art facility, something I have wanted to do for some time.
We booked ‘The Discovery Tour’ details of which can be found on the internet.
We can highly recommend this tour to people from all walks of life.
There were many reasons for wanting to do this tour, living by the coast all our lives and our fascination of the sea being one. Also there are three lifeboat stations a short distance from home which we look in on a regular basis, one of these being a station with an all weather boat.
Sadly but not least a Father and Son, both friends of ours ended up in the sea locally following a freak accident many years ago. Arriving on scene The RNLI were faced with a 3 meter breaking sea, plus waves rebounding off the cliff face. Following an extremely dangerous manoeuvre the boats helm took the boat in stern first, close into the cliffs under extreme conditions.
Locating the one casualty whose condition was deteriorating rapidly, the crew got him on board got away from the cliff where he was transferred to a helicopter and taken to hospital which saved his life.
Sadly his father had died in the accident, but once again the crew in the most challenging of circumstances returned to the scene, carried out an incredible manoeuvre in order to recover the Fathers body so the family could lay him to rest.
Following this outstanding rescue all three crew members were awarded gallantry medals by the RNLI, with the helm awarded the Silver medal.
I have the greatest admiration and respect for the crews as in the main they are all non paid volunteers who go out in all manner of weather conditions to save the lives of others.
Some stations which have an all weather boat do have one crew member mainly a mechanic on station who does get paid. But these stations are in the minority.
On the way home from Poole, we decided to drop in on Kimmeridge Bay, a location I have wanted to visit and photograph. Conditions were not ideal, but what is it they say, ‘you have to photograph what is in front of you’.
A word of caution to anyone visiting here. An old trick of mine over the years even before I got a camera is to get a nearby stone and skim it across any rocks. If the stone takes off like a long dog you know the rocks are very slippery.
When I threw a stone across these lovely inviting rocks, the stone took off like a bullet. So though they did not look it at first glance these are very slippery indeed, so please take care.
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50032 'Courageous' leads the 09.10 Birmingham - Weston Super Mare, presumably diverted away from the Lickey on this grey Sunday morning.
Manual signalling survived this close to the Second City.
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Moving forward, while facing backwards, like rowing a boat down a stream. Unable to see the future, but capable of examining the past. All that one can hope for is the best. Ready to move forward, blindly; but, through an optimist's perspective.
"That was a beautiful moment that so many elders never thought they’d live to see. So there are things that we don’t yet know, that we don’t think we’re going to live to see, that are also going to give us power and beauty if we hold up our own.
We rightly think that the virtue of courage requires a certain psychological flexibility. A courageous person must know how to act well in all sorts of circumstances. We recognize that there can be times in life when the stock images of courage will be inappropriate, and the truly courageous person will recognize this extraordinary situation and act in an unusual yet courageous way.
If we think of the virtues, or human excellences, as they are actually taught by cultures across history, it is plausible to expect that the virtuous person will be ready to tackle the wide variety of challenges that life might throw his way. It is unclear that there is anything in such training that will prepare him for the breakdown of the form of life itself. We would like our ethics to be grounded in psychological reality. Thus whatever flexibility is required of a virtuous person, it ought to be something that can be inculcated in the education and training of a culture. But a culture does not tend to train the young to endure its own breakdown — and it is fairly easy to see why. A culture embodies a sense of life’s possibilities, and it tries to instill that sense in the young. An outstanding young member of the culture will learn to face these possibilities well.
The inability to conceive of its own devastation will tend to be the blind spot of any culture… A culture tends to propagate itself, and it will do that by instilling its own sense of possibility in the young.
For what may we hope? Kant put this question in the first-person singular along with two others — What can I know? and What ought I to do? — that he thought essentially marked the human condition. With two centuries of philosophical reflection, it seems that these questions are best transposed to the first-person plural. And with that same hindsight: rather than attempt an a priori inquiry, I would like to consider hope as it might arise at one of the limits of human existence… What makes this hope radical is that it is directed toward a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is. Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it. What would it be for such hope to be justified?"
Memories of the fine art of Vac bashing
Between 1983 and 1991 I spent many, many happy hours with my friends riding the rails behind the mighty 'Hoovers' or Class 50s. As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share ;)
Here is one of a set of photos I took on one of my last visits to Old Oak Common in 1990 - with Class 50 50032 'Courageous' in reflective mood after a 22 career on British Rail.
50032 always stood out from the crowd in NSE livery because of the unique blue nameplate. The loco was a particular favourite of mine, and I was disappointed that she escaped preservation.
Something new for 2023...Sound & Vision on SoundCloud - more memories from a mis-spent youth 😎 During the 1980s, I spent a lot of my time riding around the British Rail network, mainly chasing Class 40s and then Class 50s, but also seeing and riding behind a number of other classes. I made a number of tape recordings at the time - many from the front window, some from the platform - using my trusty 'ghetto-blaster' or 'boom box' - and now these recordings can finally be heard :)
Join me at the front window for two recordings of Class 50 50032 'Courageous' on 1B56 18.07 Paddington - Hereford. Firstly, we leave London Paddington and then travel the five miles or so to Ealing Broadway, where the train is slowed by a p.w. restriction, and then accelerates off again. I even managed to capture the ticket check :) Then, for the second recording, we leave Oxford and take the cross-country route to Worcester & Hereford. Apologies for the wind buffeting noise but that's what it was like hanging out of the front window back in the day 😎 - recorded on 8th August 1986.
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...and now with Part Two - further recordings made at Worcester Shrub Hill, Foregate St., Malvern Link & the train departing Great Malvern :) soundcloud.com/sound-vision-10193594/class-50-50032-coura...
Locomotive History
D432 entered service 13-Jul-68
Renumbered 50032 in 1974
Named 'Courageous' 17-Jul-78
Withdrawn 15-Oct-90
After surviving in service until October 1990, the locomotive was stripped of useful parts at Old Oak Common and then cut up on site by Coopers Metals, along with my least favourite machine 50034 'Furious'. 50032 never carried the later version of NSE livery.
Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR camera and 75-200mm zoom lens.
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to my son
Life is the most beautiful of adventures but only the adventurer finds out.
Gilbert Keith Chesterto
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This is dedicated to my courageous friend Alejandra H. Covarrubias.......the muse for this piece.
I created this photo montage using three separate and unrelated found images. This this story came to me after I finished this montage.
You are invited to join in writing the rest of this dream epic...a reality that IS uncomfortably closer than we can affort to imagine....... The fable continues taking some strange twists.....read on....
(A “Dolphin Dream story-in-progress Flickr group” www.flickr.com/groups/dolphin_dreams_story-in-progress/ )
A Dolphin dream of mind control......
.......The White Elephant in the room looked on patiently at the 800 pound gorilla laying on the creaking couch, encouraging her to continue with his kind silence….. She resumed speaking in confessional tones: …..don’t you sometimes marvel at how perversely bizarre the simple” truth” can sometimes sound? ……So strange we go around denying what’s happening rather than run the risk of sounding crazy.
The unconditional positive regard emanating from the elephant across the room was having an effect …..
......As an example, even as a senior Congresswoman, when bringing up the topic of the "silent government coup" amongst colleages, I feel like I’m walking on eggshells . You know; it’s something that usually happens in a third world country….but never us….. To even speculate on this possibility feels too frighteningly unthinkable….except in the realm of literary fantasies.
Go on, said the gentle pachyderm…..
The gorilla exhaled and continued….You see, ....even now, just talking about it, I find myself struggling to avoid words of off-the-wall sounding conspiracy theorists. ….let’s face it, .....we have enough problems without sounding like paranoid loonies….and become the butt of ridicule on Fox TV.....even though some privately admit to being plagued by the very same unspeakable thoughts...
The gently nodding head and swaying trunk were strangely relaxing…..
Stretched out langerously on the straining furniture, the humongous gorilla absently flicked dander from her chest as she continued to speculate in hushed tones:
…..When one thinks about this, the whole self-censoring dynamic sounds like a counter-phobic reaction. It shuts down all questioning or critical thinking about the very idea of a silent coup…..How pervasively fool-proof is that, eh?
The White Elephant nodded its head pensively, adding…..Humm, maybe the notion IS so unthinkable that the very idea eludes us.....even as it actually unfolds in plain sight…….After it’s happened, we may not even notice…..
She preened herself nervously while sinking still deeper into the straining couch. She stared impassively into the darkness and in a far off, hesitating voice volunteered…....I don’t know that this is related…..but, of all things, I just remembered a dream I had……of a baby dolphin who spoke to me of a life altering experience she'd once gone through.
.....She talked about a defining moment that came to pass in the midst of Hurricane Katrina. . During the storm surge and flooding that followed, she came to realize that the water filled spaces where she’d always experienced her being were in fact unnatural.
As the storm swept her further away from home, she took note that her childhood sanctuary had actually been cleverly compartmentalized, heated, cooled and articulated.....it had controlled and colored every facet of her existence.
With this knowledge, she would never see the world in the same way. She spoke of experiencing an exhilarating sense of freedom that was, at first, quite disorienting…..
As we swam and frolicked in the warm Gulf and Caribbean Sea waters, she marveled at the blinding array of choices and possible futures before her….. We drifted in the midst of a calm sun dappled ocean that went on forever…..
We floated lazily on our backs facing a brilliant sky and talked about everything under the sun. I remember dozing off during a long pause…..then awakening to the sound of her child-like whisperings as she confided thoughts and longings intruding on her new life of freedom….. They seemed to flood her with nostalgic memories of a simpler time in a place called Lake Pontchartrain..…on a US naval base she’d called home…..
After a waiting for her next words for some time, Ganesha, the towering white elephant cleared it's throat and, said the expected thing in moments like this... Now what do you suppose that’s all about Madam Speaker?….
To be continued…..stay tuned….
By the way, any resemblance between this charcter and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi may, or may not, be purely coincidental.
If you found this entertaining and all you’re getting is a fanciful fable......watch this:video:
The Cave Of The Blue Buddha - Prayers for The Thailand Boys in The Tham Luang Cave by Daniel Arrhakis (2018)
คำอธิษฐานสำหรับเด็กชายไทยในถ้ำหลวง
With the music : Sacred Earth ॐ Inner Peace Music
youtu.be/OHx4SyN7UWc?list=RDOHx4SyN7UWc
My best wishes and prayers for the courageous 12 young boys and their football coach of the Thai football team, trapped deep inside a cave in Thailand ! Hope they can go out soon and save !
The 12 boys and their coach were found 200 meters from Pattaya Beach in the Tham Luang cave near the region of Chiang Rai, Thailand.
www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/07/04/thailand-boys-cave-bl...
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This is dedicated to my courageous friend Alejandra H. Covarrubias.......the muse for this piece.
(This photo montage was created using three separate and unrelated found images.) This scene came to me after writing the allegorical fantasy you see below.
You are invited to join in writing the rest of this dream epic...a reality that IS closer than we can afford to imagine....... The fable continues taking some strange twists.....read on....
(A “Dolphin Dream story-in-progress Flickr group” www.flickr.com/groups/dolphin_dreams_story-in-progress/ )
.......The White Elephant in the room looked on patiently at the 800 pound gorilla laying on the creaking couch, encouraging her to continue with his kind silence….. She resumed speaking in confessional tones: …..don’t you sometimes marvel at how perversely bizarre the simple” truth” can sometimes sound? ……So strange we go around denying what’s happening rather than run the risk of sounding crazy.
The unconditional positive regard emanating from the elephant across the room was having an effect …..
......As an example, even as a senior Congresswoman, when bringing up the topic of the "silent government coup" amongst colleages, I feel like I’m walking on eggshells . You know; it’s something that usually happens in a third world country….but never us….. To even speculate on this possibility feels too frighteningly unthinkable….except in the realm of literary fantasies.
Go on, said the gentle pachyderm…..
The gorilla exhaled and continued….You see, ....even now, just talking about it, I find myself struggling to avoid words often associated with off-the-wall sounding conspiracy theorists. ….let’s face it, .....we have enough problems without sounding like paranoid loonies….and become the butt of ridicule on Fox TV.....even though some necons privately admit being plagued by the very same unspeakable thoughts...
The gently nodding head and swaying trunk were strangely relaxing…..
Stretched out langerously on the straining furniture, the humongous gorilla absently flicked dander from her chest as she continued to speculate in hushed tones:
…..When one thinks about this, the whole self-censoring dynamic sounds like a counter-phobic reaction. It shuts down all questioning or critical thinking about the very idea of a silent coup…..How pervasively fool-proof is that, eh?
The White Elephant nodded its head pensively, adding…..Humm, maybe the notion IS so unthinkable that the very idea eludes us.....even as it actually unfolds in plain sight…….After it’s happened, we may not even notice…..
She preened herself nervously while sinking still deeper into the straining couch. She stared impassively into the darkness and in a far off, hesitating voice volunteered…....I don’t know that this is related…..but, of all things, I just remembered a dream I had……of a baby dolphin who spoke to me of a life altering experience she'd once gone through.
.....She talked about a defining moment that came to pass in the midst of Hurricane Katrina. . During the storm surge and flooding that followed, she came to realize that the water filled spaces where she’d always experienced her being were in fact unnatural.
As the storm swept her further away from home, she took note that her childhood sanctuary had actually been cleverly compartmentalized, heated, cooled and articulated.....it had controlled and colored every facet of her existence.
With this knowledge, she would never see the world in the same way. She spoke of experiencing an exhilarating sense of freedom that was, at first, quite disorienting…..
As we swam and frolicked in the warm Gulf and Caribbean Sea waters, she marveled at the blinding array of choices and possible futures before her….. We drifted in the midst of a calm sun dappled ocean that went on forever…..
We floated lazily on our backs facing a brilliant sky while we talked about everything under the sun. I must have dozzed-off during a long pause…..I remember awakening to the sound of her child-like whisperings as she confided thoughts and longings intruding on her new life of freedom….. They seemed to flood her with nostalgic memories of a simpler time in a place called Lake Pontchartrain..…on a US naval base she’d called home…..
After waiting for her next words for some time, Ganesha, the towering white elephant cleared it's throat and, said the expected thing in moments like this... Now what do you suppose that’s all about Madam Speaker?….
To be continued…..stay tuned….
By the way, any resemblance between this character and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi may, or may not, be purely coincidental.
If you found this entertaining and all you’re getting is a fanciful fable......watch this:video:
68029 'Courageous' leaving Warrington Central working 1B85 1524 Cleethorpes - Liverpool Lime Street 25/07/23.
In the first full year after the Westerns were withdrawn class 50 no. 50032 "Courageous" powers along the seawall at Teignmouth with a Plymouth - Paddington express on 22nd July 1978
Shot in C/ Ferran, Barcelona
We all have a past. Pedro is an example of how we can overcome troubles and go ahead. Thank you so much Pedro for your strength and for sharing your story with me.
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58017 arrives at Birmingham New Street with 50032 and 1S61 07:47 Cardiff Central to Glasgow Central on 25th February 1986.
50032 'Courageous' failed to get to the top of the lickey incline and had to be rescued by 58017.
86208 'City of Chester' sits alongside and AM4 class 304 EMU 304013 waits in the middle road.
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Laira depot's work-worn "Hoover" Class 50 No.50032 'Courageous', then a regular visitor to Gloucester, between passenger duties on Gloucester's Horton Road depot on 19th August 1979, waiting for a balanced diagram returning it to its home county. In just over one year from this time, in November 1980, it would be released from Doncaster works after its full refurbishment, resplendent in the BR large logo livery. 50032 emerged from the Vulcan works as D432 in July 1968, and was withdrawn from Laira Depot in October 1990, ten years after its full refurbishment and in Network South East colours, finally being disposed of by Coopers Metals at Old Oak Common depot during February 1991.
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A splendid website to be found here concerning the refurbishment programme at Doncaster:
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It is the abandon boat anchors near the sea side. Image was taken on a strong evening wind. Waited for the tide gets higher. Dang, its cold and my fingers got freeze..:)
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50032 'Courageous' at Exeter St Davids with the 13.24 Paignton-Paddington on Saturday 25 August 1990. The loco was removed here in favour of 50018 'Resolution'.
'Courageous' approaches journey's end with a decent 9 coach load in tow. The view from the flats was still pretty clear back in the late 80s but the trees at left would soon explode in height and bulk. The erection of 25kV electrification would completely wreck the view anyway!
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