Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.
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Just another country road
Down the proverbial leafy Suffolk lane this mild autumn there appeared a classic on the verge. I could not see the doctor anywhere so just took a snap. Glad to see the recycling bin to rear not sure about the bird box though?
Looks the McCoy. Or is that too much Doctoring!
Dr Who gave me the pleasure and enjoyment of things done with minimum resources. Even while you could go to multi million dollar movies somehow programmes like dr who, dare I say Blake’s seven and later red dwarf allowed you to suspend disbelief on a massive scale in a great fun way.
Through modern eyes the old programmes seem archaic but they retain a certain innocence of production now mostly lost to tv and film, but not quite perhaps.
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Intermission 23k
Not so many cloud formations caught my eye over summer and autumn.
Here are some I liked for their shapes, colour and of course contrast with sky blues and sun yellows……
Sunrise – sometimes like sunset!
Clouds – in an autumn sunset
Sunset with expansive skies
Skipton, Conisbrough and Barnsley……
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Intermission 23j
The sky is always full of interesting shapes and moods.
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Intermission 23i
Up in the Lake District I encountered this very friendly robin near Ambleside.
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Armed forces day
Here is some coronation day music on armed forces day – a time to reflect on those that defend our greater liberty and freedoms.
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Intermission 23h colour
Nature has a way of making even colour it’s own magic
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Garibaldi live to fights another day!
The Garibaldi – Nottingham Forest have earned another season in the Association Football Premiership. So every home game next season the Garibaldi stand will rock to the cheers of Forest fans.
Nottingham Forest adopted red shirts and because at the time (1865) Garibaldi was still a star they chose a particular red as a tribute to the Italian Freedom Fighter.
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Intermission 23g – Stars
The other night, as we entered a concerted high pressure weather system, the moon rose through an interesting cloud fragmentation (which I missed capturing) only to reveal absolute clarity in the night sky. Stars in my eyes followed………..
The sky was very blue black and bright in the moonlight and the stars were very very bright and clear. So with a simple phone camera I caught some surprising images. Normally I struggle to replicate my naked eye views of the stars.
I think by the TV aerial just above is Aldebaran and Hyades? while centre is Orions belt and above is Betelgeuse and below Rigel? and just into the cloud at the top may be Castor and Pollux – Gemini?
Best I can offer for the above two is Hydra on the left edge?
It looks like Cassiopeia – the cluster towards top left by the cloud? and that bottom light is starlike but badly out of focus.
Orions belt centre and Aldebaran upper right?
is it possible these stars to centre and left are andromeda?
The sunset which made me look skywards to start with, had some isolated whispery shower clouds.
For the proper stargazers – All images taken in northern england at 19:25 in the evening on 7th March 2023 – you can tell I am no astronomer.
The Wargaming Erratic 