View allAll Photos Tagged tidy
One of those wonderful afternoons where the cloud drapes itself over the escarpement.
Pentax K1 w Tamron SP AF 70-200/2.8
ISO100 f/13 -2 and 0.0ev @160mm
Two frames raw developed and stacked in ON1 Photo Raw 2023, tidied up in Affinity Photo 2, colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5, polished in Topaz AI and finished off back in PhotoLab 6
I made a new video yesterday. My first attempt at a little stop motion film using BJD's :)
Please check it out here:
52 in 2025 Challenge - 15. The View from my Window
The builders have been with us for 2 and half years, and they tell me they should be all finished by the end of next week.
The final job is to tarmac the drive next week, so the skip and all the junk will have to go on Monday.
A few photos from a visit to Amport & District / Bob Vale Coach Sales in Thruxton near Andover today, 15/09/2016.
Here, Toyota Coaster / Caetano Optimo V SIL1847 is a recent arrival at Bob Vale. It was new to MCT of Motherwell in 2007 as SN57EHH and last operated for Silverlink of Nailsea.
Thanks go to the staff for granting permission to photograph.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard published by N. L. of Morlaix bearing an early photograph of the Roscoff house of Marie Stuart, better known in the UK as Mary Queen of Scots.
Let us hope that the place was a bit tidier when Mary was there. Also note the barrel tap on top of the capital of the column next to the barrel.
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary was born at Linlithgow Palace in Scotland on the 8th. December 1542. Her father was King James V of Scotland, and her mother was Mary of Guise, who was French.
Her father died when Mary was only six days old, and so she was only a baby when she was crowned Queen of Scotland at Stirling Castle in 1543.
When she was five, Mary was sent to France to spend the next thirteen years at the French court. The French fleet sent by Henry II, and commanded by Nicolas de Villegagnon, sailed with Mary from Dumbarton on the 7th. August 1548 and arrived a week later at Roscoff in Brittany.
Vivacious, beautiful, and clever, Mary had a promising childhood. At the French court, she was a favourite with everyone, except Henry II's wife Catherine de' Medici.
Mary learned to play the lute and virginals, was competent in prose, poetry, horsemanship, falconry, and needlework, and was taught French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Greek, in addition to speaking her native Scots. Her future sister-in-law, Elisabeth of Valois, became a close friend of whom Mary retained nostalgic memories in later life.
Portraits of Mary show that she had a small, oval-shaped head, a long, graceful neck, bright auburn hair, hazel-brown eyes, under heavy lowered eyelids and finely arched brows, smooth pale skin, a high forehead, and regular, firm features.
She was considered a pretty child and later, as a woman, strikingly attractive. At some point in her infancy or childhood, she caught smallpox, but it did not mark her features.
Mary was eloquent and especially tall, even by modern standards (she attained an adult height of 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m).
Mary was Queen of Scotland until 1567, when she was forced to give up the crown and flee the country for England.
Mary was considered a threat to Elizabeth I’s throne so was held prisoner in England for 19 years.
On the 8th. February 1587, at the age of 44, Mary Queen of Scots was sentenced to death. She had been found guilty of plotting to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I, although many Roman Catholics thought the throne of England was rightfully Mary's.
The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
While Mary was being held captive at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire, on the evening of the 7th. February 1587, Mary was told she was to be executed the next morning.
She spent the last hours of her life in prayer, distributing her belongings to her household, and writing her will and a letter to the King of France.
The scaffold that was erected in the Great Hall was draped in black cloth. It was reached by two or three steps, and furnished with the block, a cushion for her to kneel on, and three stools for her and the earls of Shrewsbury and Kent, who were there to witness the execution.
The executioner Bull and his assistant knelt before her and asked forgiveness, as it was typical for the executioner to request the pardon of the one being put to death. Mary replied:
"I forgive you with all my heart,
for now, I hope, you shall make
an end of all my troubles."
Her servants, Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curle, and the executioners helped Mary remove her outer garments, revealing a velvet petticoat and a pair of sleeves in crimson brown, the liturgical colour of martyrdom in the Catholic Church, with a black satin bodice and black trimmings.
As she disrobed, Mary smiled and said:
"I have never had such grooms
before ... nor ever put off my
clothes before such a company".
She was blindfolded by Kennedy with a white veil embroidered in gold, knelt down on the cushion in front of the block on which she positioned her head, and stretched out her arms. Her last words were:
"Into thy hands, O Lord,
I commend my spirit".
Mary was not beheaded with a single strike. The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head. The second blow severed the neck, except for a small bit of sinew, which the executioner cut through using the axe.
Afterwards, he held her head aloft and declared:
"God save the Queen."
At that moment, the auburn tresses in his hand turned out to be a wig and the head fell to the ground, revealing that Mary had very short, grey hair.
Cecil's nephew, who was present at the execution, reported to his uncle that after her death:
"Her lips stirred up and down
a quarter of an hour after her
head was cut off".
He also recorded that a small dog owned by the queen emerged from hiding from among her skirts, although eye-witness Emanuel Tomascon did not include those details in his 'exhaustive report'.
Items supposedly worn or carried by Mary at her execution are of doubtful provenance, because contemporary accounts state that all her clothing, the block, and everything touched by her blood was burnt in the fireplace of the Great Hall to obstruct relic hunters.
Mary's request to be buried in France was refused by Elizabeth. Her body was embalmed and left in a secure lead coffin until her burial in a Protestant service at Peterborough Cathedral in late July 1587.
Her entrails, removed as part of the embalming process, were buried secretly within Fotheringhay Castle. Her body was exhumed in 1612 when her son, King James VI, ordered that she be re-interred in Westminster Abbey in a chapel opposite the tomb of Elizabeth.
***Laura and Andrew nabbed this one for a nice little vignette in their bedroom. Thanks guys!
Hey there buddy! Great multi purpose piece at 36 inches long. Use this one as side table, display piece, small stool with, or modest coffee table.
Crazy old Mary hardly ever does any cleaning up, and rarely actually throws anything away, but she does move stuff around in the spirit of tidiness.
A&M Salvage
N. Baynard
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R
For more info about the dioramas, check out the FAQ: 1stPix FAQ
An underexposed slide from March 1983 which I've tried to rescue.
The Ministry of Defence used to keep their locos in immaculate condition, and this shows the interior of the loco shed at Tidworth which served the Ludgershall complex in Wiltshire.
In front is Army 406, one of a batch of 14 0-4-0DH locos supplied to MOD by North British from 1955. This one (27427 of 1955) was withdrawn in 1985 as the fleet were replaced by Thomas Hill Vanguard locos, two examples are seen behind, believed to be TH 299v of 1981 and TH303v of 1982.
Both Vanguards have since found life elsewhere, but the NB was scrapped although its predecessor 27426 has been nicely preserved at Whitwell & Reepham station in Norfolk.