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Go on, have a guess!? Well, just the one, and not a soul got on, either.
Despite visiting this station a great amount of times in the past, I've always neglected platforms three and four. Truth be told, compositionally, and literally too, they're both infinitely more interesting than one and two on the Birmingham Gloucester line. I guess the reason I'd neglected them is because the 'interesting' workings stay on the other side.
Specifics out of the way, the unidentified W.M.T. unit drifts into the station, stops for an amount of time, giving the guard a small addition to his ten thousand daily steps - the front of the train cannot be seen from the rear - and then continues on to New Street, as silence claims the station.
Barnt Green. 11-02-2020.
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This Richardson Ground Squirrel was a little ticked off with me and was doing his best to tell me to bugger off!
Railway guard on duty at Bo'ness, 19th October 2010. (Please view F11 in lightbox for intended best.)
“Merry Christmas, Maurice! Time to wake up and see all your presents.”
“Where’s Bentley? I thought I lost him!”
“Bentley is right here, dear. He just fell to the floor by your bed.”
“I must have had a dream that I was at the North Pole.”
“You had a dream like that last year, didn’t you?”
“I don’t remember, but I do remember how I had to wake up with Yoda and I traveled on a land speeder, and...”
“Remember, you were watching all those Star Wars movies the day before Christmas.”
“But look what one of your presents is.”
“It’s Grogu! I wanted a stuffed one to play with! Thank you.”
“And since you were so good in helping with our remodeling project this summer, we also got you something you wanted.”
“And your cousin Jill Ellyn is here to give you that gift, too!”
“Oh, thank you, Jill Ellyn. What is it?”
“You’ll just have to open it and see.”
“Oh, it is another tool set! Neat! Thank you!”
“Your aunt called to ask if you made her favorite pie. I told her you made her lemon meringue pie recipe all from memory. She was impressed. We can’t wait to have it for our dessert.”
“Thank you, mom and dad, for helping me memorize all kinds of things. That was very useful.”
“You’re welcome, son. You know, you learned a lot from your parents, and we’re glad you love doing the things you were taught. But the one thing that impresses your mother and me is how you show your appreciation to others, even when you may feel grumpy about things.”
“I guess you’re right. Working at the North Pole also taught me a lot about being patient. And that’s a hard lesson to learn.”
“How can you say you were at the North Pole? You’ve been here all the time.”
But Bentley knows!
You know in films, sexy women always wear those tops that flop off one shoulder seductively. In the real world they do not do this, either they flop down altogether wopping out a rather surprised and never erect nip or the top simply keeps righting itself and climbs back up your shoulder. (trained at the same school as bra straps the poor jumper knows no better and was sure that it is supposed to cling onto the shoulder for dear life). These tops can only ever be worn at home, wear it out and you spend the entire time distracted and constantly adjusting, or frozen into position to maintain the look. "No no don't touch me Brad Pitt my top is 'just so' and if you snog me now it will all get messed up."
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New bike just needs some mud on it.
This picture was taken with an old Asahi Pentax SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4 lens attached to a Canon 600D digital camera.
1st January 2020.
Started off the New Year with a lovely lunch cooked, as usual by bondog61.
Roast lamb, served with boiled potatoes, leeks with redcurrant jelly and a white sauce to cover the leeks, which got poured on after I'd taken my photos. We'll be having a slice of Christmas cake later on this evening.
January Overview – Ringing in a new year means new beginnings and endings. But the world didn’t always see January that way.
Even when January replaced March as the first month of the year after Roman king Numa Pompilius revised the calendar around 700 B.C., many religions held to celebrating the new year either on March 25th or December 25th according to their church calendars. Even the Julian calendar didn’t motivate a clear beginning and end to the year. It wasn’t until the Gregorian calendar, developed by Pope Gregory who introduced it in 1582, that most of the world began to see January 1 as the beginning of the New Year.
Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and endings. He’s a protector of gates, doorways and transitions. January takes its name from this tow headed god, and it makes us wonder why it took so long to celebrate the new year in January, but it did.
January Culture Overview
Fortunately for anyone born in January, their birthstone is the Garnet which comes in a wide variety of stunning colors.
Capricorns and Aquarius are born in January. You share your birthday month with Elvis Presley, Virginia Woolf, JRR Tolkien, Bessie Coleman, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Jeannette Piccard, J.D. Salinger, Zora Hurston, A.A. Milne, Carrie Chapman Catt, Edgar Allan Poe, Alma Ziegler, and Dian Fossey.
January is often a month of new beginnings and endings. Some of us embark on new health club memberships in an attempt to end old habits. Our new year’s resolutions help kick off healthy habits placing us squarely on a path of health and renewal. While some of us succeed, many admit we will need to keep trying. New beginnings don’t always have to do with our physical self, though. Sometimes we challenge ourselves to new adventures or lifestyles.
Standardly, many insurance policies start new in January. It’s also a time to hang up a fresh new calendar.
Just for fun : It's National Hangover Day.
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This eagle made so many low passes over my head that I finally began to think it was showing off its spectacular plumage design. The encounter took place on a private estancia in Chilean Patagonia.
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Truck trails down the M4 near Lapstone. A lucky catch really because of the angle, i managed to get the loop-around at the top of the trails on the left.
ISO200 f14 120sec
The holidays have really crept up on me! This is a reminder about the NouveauXmas event.
Gift cards are up for sale at 50% off their value. Spoil your friends— or yourself! <3
Taxi & more:
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I used a Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens on my Nikon N90s for this shot. I waited over an hour for the eagle to take off. Sometimes patience works. I used Fujichrome Sensia 200 for this shot.
The sky cooperated nicely as well.
A more 'recent time' posting from me tonight, I was on my way to a beer festival so didn't have my regular camea so the phone had to stand in.
Target Travel ex Ensign and Stagecoach Trident in the latter days before their licence was revoked.
Actually looks quite smart but as we gathered from the commissions' report it was what you couldn't see that raised concerns!
Anyway this was a regular working for dropping off kids at the Plymouth Life Centre (swimming pool), actually quite liked the chequered paved floor so aimed to get a lot of this in!