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The Colas newbies 43050 and 43060 are pictured at Chesterfield on there very first outing for Network Rail .
Pausing for a crew change whilst working the 1Q27 Derby RTC - Derby RTC via the Hope Valley .
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Our Anna's the Care Bears of the flying world. Typically, they'll chase each other a bit, but sharing is the operative word (once a certain population 'tipping point' is achieved)
However, over last month or so I've been waging war with one particular big, bold Red Headed A**Hole Hummer. He's right in front of my kitchen sink so I've had an ever-escalating arena of powerful water guns to try and drive him away. No luck he absolutely OWNS two of these feeders and will lay in ambush to any unfortunate unlucky enough to approach. He's got his hiding spot in the same branch and is a very worthy opponent!
How the Blitz created the welfare state
As the 70th anniversary of the Nazi bombardment of Britain approaches, Bob Holman recalls how adversity brought a nation together
On 7 September 1940, 340 German bombers raided London. Aged five, I lived in Ilford, and can recall the first air raid siren sending my family rushing to the shelter. This sustained bombing of Britain during the second world war began with raids on London for 76 consecutive nights and lasted for nine months.
Dad worked in a munitions factory by day and was a volunteer warden with Air Raid Precautions (ARP) at night, when he put out fires and dug out bodies. I once heard him telling his colleagues how he entered a bombed house where a woman dropped her knickers and asked him to pull out the glass. His mates roared with laughter. Mum was not amused.
London took the brunt of the Blitz, receiving 71 major attacks. After the capital, Hull was the most heavily bombed city in England. Liverpool, Plymouth and Birmingham followed, each with eight attacks. In Coventry, in one 10-hour raid, 554 people were killed. In Clydebank, Glasgow, two raids saw all but eight of its 12,000 dwellings damaged.
Yet, for all its devastations, the Blitz is considered a German failure. Across the UK, the docks survived and most munition factories escaped. Morale was not broken.
Why was it successfully resisted? A major reason was that civilians tackled the effects of the bombing. Numbers in the ARP reached over a million, 260,000 people joined the fire services, and countless volunteers ran rest centres for people whose homes had been destroyed. Local authorities, the police and doctors were essential, but Britain could not have coped without the people's army.
In 1942, we were evacuated from east London. When we returned in 1943, the raids were not over. On 12 March, a bomber dived across our street spitting bullets. We held hands on the landing. A couple of shots came through the bathroom window. The plane dropped a 500kg bomb that tore the high road apart. We were lucky to escape.
Then Hitler launched his pilotless V1 rockets. Some 57 dropped on Ilford. I was in the greengrocer's when the engine of one cut out. I stood transfixed as it dropped towards us. Someone dragged me under the counter while it flattened the terrace houses opposite.
Worse was to follow with the V2 rockets, which fell throughout 1944. Once again, Ilford, with its factories, was a prime target. In Britain, more than a thousand rockets fell, taking 2,274 lives.
Our family nearly added to that number. On 24 November, an explosion rocked our school. We all knew it was a V2 and the teachers sent us home. The wall on one side of our house was demolished. I climbed over rubble, convinced my mum and our new baby brother were underneath. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder, "It's all right, son," said Dad. He had been at work. Mum and the baby had been buried alive but dug out and rushed to hospital.
Eventually they recovered and we were evacuated, this time to Hastings, where the four of us slept in one room. We returned home to peace in May 1945.
The bombings left significant social effects, both negative and positive. Thousands of individuals experienced separation and loss. Evacuation separated some children from their parents for years. Some 60,000 civilians were killed, leaving distraught families. Fear of starvation, gas attacks and invasion was widespread.
Continual bombing was a trauma for children. I could not talk about the Blitz experience for 20 years.
Education was undermined. In bombed areas, schools were often closed. In 1941, 92,000 children in London were without education. I had little schooling and had to stay an extra year in junior school.
The number of youngsters committing offences and found by the courts to be in need of care and protection rose markedly. The increases were attributed to the absence of fathers in the forces and children roaming wild.
Yet the many difficulties provoked by the Blitz led to a response from the state. Day nurseries were opened for mothers working in factories. Central government began to control medical services more fully. Local authorities became more adept at dealing with the homeless.
At a neighbourhood level, ordinary folk realised that they could shape a better Britain, which contributed to the Labour election victory in 1945 and the creation of the welfare state. As the historian AJP Taylor put it: "The Luftwaffe was a powerful missionary for the welfare state."
• Bob Holman is the author of Keir Hardie: Labour's Greatest Hero?
Bob Holman
The Guardian, Tuesday 31 August 2010
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White Deer and spotted Fawn sharing an ear of corn, Oregon Dairy, Lititz, PA. My husband and I went to the Oregon Dairy for Sunday Brunch. Of course we had to stop next door at the animal habitat to visit my "deer" friends. I had Chocolate Chip Pancakes - they did not.
Couple relaxing on a bench in the city of Peterborough, UK 2014, surrounded by dappled light from nearby trees. Small moments like this make my heart sing to be honest...
The Dunes of St Marguerite lie between the L'Aber Benoit and l'Aber Wrac'h near the village Landéda in Finistère.
Finistère or Penn-ar-Bed in Breton is a département of France, located in Brittany (Breizh in Breton and Bretagne in French).
The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth. In Breton Penn ar Bed means Head of the World. All a matter of perspective I guess. ;)
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July's almost coming to a close, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on a few new films that I was able to catch in the past week or two!
Sorry to Bother You -
This movie was so fucking weird... So we need more movies like this, please! Now although I felt the base storyline to be a little average and slightly clichéd, everything else that surrounds this film is so different and so unique that it was such a visceral experience to watch. Not to mention the layers and layers of important social commentary that was packed into the movie that made the experience even more insightful. When weird has a purpose and drives a message like it did in this movie, it clicks for me; and let me tell ya, this movie SO DAMN WEIRD. I'm so glad I wasn't spoiled about anything going into this movie, if you plan on seeing this, go in as blind as you can. There was one surprise that just made this film my kind of weird movie, and once it happened I was all in! I'm so excited to see where Boots Riley's career's going to go, but I'm not gonna lie that first thing I thought when walking out of this movie was Boots Riley for an Earthbound movie PLEASE.
Score: 8.5/10
Three Identical Strangers -
2018 has been an absolutely excellent year for documentaries, and this film is no exception! The emotional journey that this film takes you through is absolutely incredible. The way how this story starts off with these triplets finding each other is fairytale-like and becomes such a fee-good flick. But as these brothers grow older and discover what truly happened to them, things become so sinister, tragic, but extremely fanscinating. I definitely recommend going into this film knowing absolutely nothing about these brothers and their story because it makes the film all the more visceral and engaging.
Score: 8/10
Hearts Beat Loud -
The saving grace of this movie is that NICK OFFERMAN DEADASS PERFORMS OCEAN MAN BY WEEN. I had absolutely zero expectations going into Hearts Beat Loud. I had my Movie Pass and this was the only film I could use it with (since I've used my Movie Pass for every other film) at my local independent theater, so I decided to give it a shot with the only piece of information in my head being the poster. This is such a tricky film for me, Hearts Beat Loud is one of those great feel-good movies with excellent music and performances, but I felt if this film was written as a 45 minute short film with extended sequences of the main characters just making and playing songs. They're good songs, but it overall dragged the pace of the film down for me. I would recommend seeing this film, it has great performances and music, but I just found the story to be so shallow and drawn out. Perhaps if Nick Offerman sang Ocean Man by Ween more in this film I would've enjoyed it more...
Score: 6.5/10
The Death of Superman -
Man, it's been a while since a DC animated film's been this good! The Death of Superman is a near perfect adaptation of the classic comic. The film is packaged with all the action and emotion that the original has, with some welcomed additions including the Justice League. While I must say I'm getting pretty tired of this bland art style and character designs in these newer DC animated movies, really hope DC ditches this bland art style soon for something a big more vibrant and stylized to the genre because their storylines do deserve better. But I must say the animation took a big leap in quality and became very cinematic and anime-like once the fight against Doomsday begun! I'm interested to see where this story goes with the Rein of the Superman, but I'm also fine with this film standing on its own. Let's hope DC fixes their animation problem but keeps this film's quality in storytelling!
Score: 8/10
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As we in the US are preparing for Thanksgiving Day
here's wishing a Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.
And wishing Everyone a safe and happy end to your week. May you enjoy the company of friends and loved ones when you want it, peace & quiet when you need it, and may your cameras always be fully charged and in focus.
Just a quick shot of American Goldfinches sharing a freshly filled feeder with a Carolina Chickadee. Sharing the bounty.
A southbound MARTA Red Line train of CQ311 cars (Hitachi, 1984-1988) is seen racing past Norfolk Southern's Industry Yard in East Point, GA. Outside of downtown Atlanta, the MARTA Rail lines generally follow established freight corridors, sharing the right-of-way with CSX and Norfolk Southern freight trains.
Plenty of room in the human world for half a tree.
“Well, they cut down all the trees,
And put ‘em in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see ‘em …”
Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
How could I have understood the world,
without Joni to explain it to me?
Happy Tree Tuesday!