View allAll Photos Tagged tidy
I don't make a bad housewife in all truth. I don't mind doing the washing and tidying however i am not keen on cooking i think its one of those in the shadow of my wife (who is a fab cook) kind of things. cheese on toast isn't really a dinner is it.
If these two photos haven't disturbed you enough the next will.
Nice view from the local dump.
Finally surrendered the pre digital tv of my mum's which had been sitting in the garage for years after I bought her a fancy updated one.
This place is not a stinking mess, but kept very neat and tidy..there's no huge mountains of refuse out in the open.
A quick drive up a slope above huge transport containers and each sort of garbage goes into designated ones, for household, garden prunings, plastics, aluminium cans etc.
Just throw it down from the car.
Tv's have to be carried into a special enclosure too. Probably the electronics..
Unfortunately it's not a 'Recycle Depot' where you can buy 2nd hand items ~ shame, because I've seen some great stuff there, and physically impossible (also not allowed..) to retrieve, once they're deposited into these 'pits'.
These transport containers are routinely loaded up on a semi trailer and taken away somewhere else.
The supervisor told me that sometimes absolutely fantastic items, decent furniture etc., get brought in by the ute load ~ nasty leftovers from a broken marriage.
Reminders of ex's, tossed out with anger, heartbreak, resentment… revenge, LOL.
Sorry, just had to chuckle...
Great policy for a fresh new beginning…if one can afford it !!
So anyway, it's quite a pretty place up on this plateau, 2 mins from town.
Almost a 360 degree view.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cannibalised RM 1343 at Bexleyheath Garage on 26 August 1982. If the bodywork looks reasonably tidy (especially for a New Cross bus) it`s because it only worked in service for a year following overhaul in 1974. Remarkably it languished in various locations thereafter and whilst other long term out of use RM`s in the 1970`s were eventually rebuilt, this one wasn`t.
It finally left LT in late 1983 having been one of the longest delicensed RM in stock.
I remember working on it as a conductor at Tottenham in 1975 when it had been left there overnight following a mechanical issue. We worked it back to New Cross and swapped it for the Tottenham bus that the New Cross crew had used to get home. I had never seen an RM interior so filthy as RM 1343 even though it was a fairly recent overhaul but it was typical of most NX buses.
1979 VW 1300 Beetle Cabriolet
A very tidy example, with a cassette radio as its most advanced feature.
Pontefract (or Pomfret) Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War.
The castle, on a rock to the east of the town above All Saints' Church, was constructed in approximately 1070 by Ilbert de Lacy on land which had been granted to him by William the Conqueror as a reward for his support during the Norman Conquest. There is, however, evidence of earlier occupation of the site. Initially the castle was a wooden structure which was replaced with stone over time. The Domesday Survey of 1086 recorded "Ilbert's Castle" which probably referred to Pontefract Castle.
Robert de Lacy failed to support King Henry I during his power struggle with his brother, and the King confiscated the castle from the family during the 12th century. Roger de Lacy paid King Richard I 3,000 marks for the Honour of Pontefract, but the King retained possession of the castle. His successor King John gave de Lacy the castle in 1199, the year John ascended the throne. Roger died in 1213 and was succeeded by his eldest son, John. However, the King took possession of Castle Donington and Pontefract Castle. The de Lacys lived in the castle until the early 14th century. It was under the tenure of the de Lacys that the magnificent multilobate donjon was built.
In 1311 the castle passed by marriage to the estates of the House of Lancaster. Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (circa 1278–1322) was beheaded outside the castle walls six days after his defeat at the Battle of Boroughbridge, a sentence placed on him by King Edward II himself in the great hall. This resulted in the earl becoming a martyr with his tomb at Pontefract Priory becoming a shrine. It next went to Henry, Duke of Lancaster and subsequently to John of Gaunt, third son of King Edward III. He made the castle his personal residence, spending vast amounts of money improving it.
In the closing years of the 14th century, Richard II banished John of Gaunt’s son Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, from England. Following the death of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in 1399, Richard II seized much of the property due to Bolingbroke. Richard then shared some of the seized property around among his favourites. The castle at Pontefract was among such properties which was under threat. These events aroused Bolingbroke to return to England to claim his rights to the Duchy of Lancaster and the properties of his father. Shakespeare's play Richard II (Act 2, scene 1, 277) relates Bolingbroke’s homecoming in the words of Northumberland in the speech of the eight tall ships:-
NORTHUMBERLAND
Then thus: I have from Port Le Blanc,
A bay in Brittany, receiv’d intelligence,
That Harry Duke of Herford, Rainold Lord Cobham,
Thomas, son and heir to th’ Earl of Arundel,
That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,
His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,
Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,
Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton, and Francis Quoint—
All these, well furnished by the Duke of Brittany
With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,
Are making hither with all due expedience,
And shortly mean to touch our northern shore
When Bolingbroke landed at Ravenspur on the Humber, he made straight way for his castle at Pontefract. King Richard II, being in Ireland at the time, was in no position to oppose Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke soon deposed Richard and took the crown for himself as Henry IV.
Richard II was captured by Henry Bolingbroke's supporters in August 1399 and was initially imprisoned in the Tower of London. Sometime before Christmas that year he was moved to Pontefract Castle (via Knaresborough) where he remained under guard until his death, perhaps on 14 February 1400. William Shakespeare's play Richard III mentions this incident:
Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
Within the guilty closure of thy walls
Richard the second here was hack'd to death;
And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.
Various chroniclers suggest that Richard was starved to death by his captors, and others suggest he starved himself. A contemporary French chronicler suggested that Richard II had been hacked to death, but this is, according to the ODNB, "almost certainly fictitious"
Richard III had two relatives of Elizabeth Woodville beheaded at Pontefract Castle on 25 June 1483 – her son, Sir Richard Grey, and her brother, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers.
n 1536, the castle's guardian, Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy handed over the castle to the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a Catholic rebellion from northern England against the rule of King Henry VIII. Lord Darcy was executed for this alleged "surrender", which the king viewed as an act of treason.
In 1541, during a royal tour of the provinces, it was alleged that King Henry's fifth wife, Queen Catherine Howard, committed her first act of adultery with Sir Thomas Culpeper at Pontefract Castle, a crime for which she was apprehended and executed without trial. Mary, Queen of Scots was lodged at the castle on 28 January 1569, travelling between Wetherby and Rotherham.
On his way south to London, King James rode from Grimston Park to view Pontefract Castle on 19 April 1603 and stayed the night at the Bear Inn at Doncaster. The castle was included in English jointure property of his wife, Anne of Denmark.
Royalists controlled Pontefract Castle at the start of the English Civil War. The first of three sieges began in December 1644 and continued until the following March when Marmaduke Langdale, 1st Baron Langdale of Holme arrived with Royalist reinforcements and the Parliamentarian army retreated. During the siege, mining and artillery caused damage and the Piper Tower collapsed as a result. The second siege began on 21 March 1645, shortly after the end of the first siege, and the garrison surrendered in July after hearing the news of Charles I's defeat at the Battle of Naseby. Parliament garrisoned the castle until June 1648 when Royalists sneaked into the castle and took control. Pontefract Castle was an important base for the Royalists, and raiding parties harried Parliamentarians in the area.
Oliver Cromwell led the final siege of Pontefract Castle in November 1648. Charles I was executed in January, and Pontefract's garrison came to an agreement and Colonel Morrice handed over the castle to Major General John Lambert on 24 March 1649. Following requests from the townspeople, the grand jury at York, and Major General Lambert, on 27 March Parliament gave orders that Pontefract Castle should be "totally demolished & levelled to the ground" and materials from the castle would be sold off. Piecemeal dismantling after the main organised activity of slighting may have further contributed to the castle's ruined state.
It is still possible to visit the castle's 11th-century cellars, which were used to store military equipment during the civil war.
Little survives of what "must have been one of the most impressive castles in Yorkshire" other than parts of the curtain wall and excavated and tidied inner walls. It had inner and outer baileys. Parts of a 12th-century wall and the Piper Tower's postern gate and the foundations of a chapel are the oldest remains. The ruins of the Round Tower or keep are on the 11th-century mound. The Great Gate flanked by 14th-century semi-circular towers had inner and outer barbicans. Chambers excavated into the rock in the inner bailey possibly indicate the site of the old hall and the North Bailey gate is marked by the remains of a rectangular tower.
The castle has several unusual features. The donjon has a rare Quatrefoil design. Other examples of this type of Keep are Clifford's Tower, York and at the Château d'Étampes in France. Pontefract also has an torre albarrana, a fortification almost unknown outside the Iberian Peninsula. Known as the Swillington Tower, the detached tower was attached to the north wall by a bridge. Its purpose was to increase the defender's range of flanking fire.
Wakefield Council, who manage the site, commissioned William Anelay Ltd to begin repairs on the castle in September 2015, but work stopped in November 2016 when Anelay went into administration. The Council then engaged Heritage Building & Conservation (North) Ltd, who began work on the site in March 2017. A new visitor centre and cafe were opened in July 2017; but in April 2018 the council announced that they had terminated the contract with HB&C (North) Ltd, as no work had been done since mid-March, and they had not had any reassurances that the work would restart. On Yorkshire Day 2019, the restoration was completed, and the castle was removed from Historic England's "Heritage At Risk" list.
A clean looking 66044 passes through a remarkably tidy Gaer Junction before the masts started to appear back in May 2017. 6H23 06:24 Margam Terminal Complex to Llanwern Exchange Sidings.
The smartest King Long i have seen so far, complete except for seats is Maynes N88GSM a King Long XMQ6120C C68F ???...Photo taken in the garage 28/04/14
Tidying up in the Quaker cemetery on the newly laid wood chipped path, Hull General Cemetery. A memorial to Matthew Gold Photos taken with an iPhone SE on a cold blustery day.In monochrome.
Tidying up my photo collections and found this. I can't remember if I had shared it before, whatever, sharing it now.
This picture is looking down Drapery towards the junction with Mercers Row in Northampton. The two buses are both Daimler CVG6 with Roe H33/26R bodies. JVV 213 dates from 05/1959 and ENH 253D from 01/1966 some naughty person has opened the emergency exit upstairs on 253. Also present in this traffic free shot is an Austin 1800 and a very new looking white Bedford HA van. the picture is undated but I would suggest 1968 as a start.
Peter Shoesmith.
*Scanners note. This picture come from a new box of Peter's bus pictures discovered this morning in a box marked trains, bless him! This particular picture is so thin there is no visible detail in the sky or road. The Epson scanner found it, how did it do that? I only scanned it to see what would happen, Photoshop did the rest! okay it's not wonderful but it nearly went in the bin.
Copyright miracle Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; All rights reserved
Today will be my weekly semi-formal day so I will do a double upload for my two different takes on this outfit. To reiterate what I have explained before, my goal with these semi-formal outfits is to be dressed nicely in at least a shirt and neckwear all day. If I do not work, I can still be nicely dressed but with more comfortable items of clothing such as jeans and oxfords that would be more appropriate for a day spent doing chores and relaxing, but still dressed in something proper.
Today the weather is bad so the first thing I have done is necktie myself with this cozy and comfortable sweater. Instead of jeans, which is my plan with my semi-formal outfits, I am going to stick with trousers and my usual high heels because shortly I will go to the bakery and purchase some bread and buns. Once I get home I will make myself breakfast and coffee, followed by checking my morning emails and catching up on the news.
After that I will tidy up my breakfast mess and do some general chores around the house, then watch a documentary on tv if I have the time. I have noticed that I tend to slouch sometimes when I eat or watch tv normally, but even having on a semi-formal outfit helps me sit more ladylike and I have come to appreciate that I have that encouragement to better my posture even when I am not wearing fully formal clothing. To me it is just one of those matters of personal pride to act with a higher standard for no other reason than self-respect. If I can achieve that with a comfortable sweater in addition to a nice collar and tie then all the better.
Before work today I will stop for lunch at my parents' house. I will change my outfit slightly for that by exchanging my sweater for my jacket. I like how these semi-formal outfits will be so versatile that I can simply change jeans for a skirt or a sweater for a jacket and I go from simply looking nice and proper to being dressed appropriately for work.
I have discussed expanding my wardrobe to more formal outfits in the future, but I also intend to expand it into this style as well. For now I will dress like this once a week, but I hope to increase that in the future as my schedule permits.
This is one of the cupboard drawers in the grandkids bedroom. When they've been drawing with their pencils and crayons they're always told, when finished, "now put them away nice and tidy" ... generally speaking they do just that!!
Flickr Lounge ~ Weekly Theme (Week 7) ~ Cupboard Love ....
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
A tidy preserved 1957 Daimler CVD6-30 (Gardner 6LW) (D217) at the Riverside Museum, Glasgow, alongside two Garelochhead Coaches (SPT) clean electric Optare Solos. D217 is owned by Glasgow City Council but it is stored at Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust's Bridgeton Garage. It was working circular tours between the Riverside Museum and the Botanic Gardens to mark 50 years since the trolleybuses where retired. A Glasgow Corporation trolleybus (FYS 988/TBS13) has been brought out of storage and is on display at the Riverside Museum to mark the anniversary.
Want to use this photograph? Send me a private message.
Glasgow Corp. line-up at the Riverside Museum: flic.kr/p/pnyGYC
Glasgow Corp. line-up at Bridgeton Garage (incl. LA1): flic.kr/p/uiwESz
I made a new video yesterday. My first attempt at a little stop motion film using BJD's :)
Please check it out here:
Tidying up in the Quaker cemetery on the newly laid wood chipped path, Hull General Cemetery. A memorial to Matthew Gold Photos taken with an iPhone SE on a cold blustery day.In monochrome.
Making good progress towards Tyseley station, 66188 is leading freshly repainted 66190 "Martin House Children's Hospice" and 60066. The trio are at the head of 6E11, the 11.47 Appleford Sidings to Milford West Sidings.
I did intend not to upload yet another shot at Tyseley but there are few places where 3 locomotives and a long train can be view in its entirety.
Copyright Geoff Dowling: All rights reserved
I can hear your collective groans at my title!
Seems I have a new young fan. On holiday my 8 year old granddaughter liked to review the day's shots on my laptop with her Gran. She informed me that "Granny says your photos of the waves are boring. But I really like them. They're a bit like art".
That's my girl. "A bit like art" will do me!