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Easy Pieces on Easy Mountains in Order of Easiness no 2, Falakro
I know this isn’t a very helpful map. It shows the mountains which are visible from Pangaeo (see Easy Pieces on Easy Mountain Walks in order of easiness, No1, Pangaeo). I’ve written in Drama, a nice place to stay, between Falakro … Continue reading
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Tagged Falakro, haberlea
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a christmas special, bombing and babies
I have had to hunt for this image from a photograph I took in 2012 in a gallery in Siena. Years ago I copied/uploaded it from my computer onto Photobox and used prints from their site make christmas cards. Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in community politics, diary, Germany, history, politics, language
Tagged Bomber Harris, dresden, Germany
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moments in time
Here’s a photograph I took in 2019 on Mount Olympus, at about 1900 metres, at the end of May. (It’s disappointingly fuzzy here, an imperfectly recovered memory.) Snow still lay in a few hollows and gullies, but spring had arrived, and … Continue reading
Posted in mountains, flowers, landscapes, Uncategorized, walks
Tagged greece, Olympus, Torridon
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After the first frost in November
It’s as if the subjects of the garden have been subjected to a citizenship test, a freeze and thaw torture which has exposed the illegals. The plectranthus now are scarecrows, cobweb grey; their dead tissues flop, inert, unless stirred by … Continue reading
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Easy Pieces on Easy Mountain Walks in order of easiness, No1, Pangaeo
Pangaeo, 29th of May, 2019. It lies in south east Greece. The mountain is basically a long, quite narrow ridge from east to west, with several undistinguished summits and views south over the Aegean. Its name means all the Aegean, … Continue reading
Posted in diary, mountains, flowers, landscapes, walks
Tagged drama, engadine, greece, pangaeo, Switzerland
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Hand baked from locally sourced ingredients No 8
I’ve been told that going on about Thames Water is boring and I agree but what can I do – the other day I got up and opened the curtain and look: There they are again, making yet more improvements, … Continue reading
Posted in community politics, London, losing, mountains, flowers, landscapes, my life, war
Tagged manor road, Thames water
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a time for national reflection
Often as the Bakerloo line train from Oxford Circus to Waterloo stopped at Charing Cross I have looked out through the windows at the posters which line the platform in an impressive display advertising the National Gallery and the National … Continue reading
from a site called ‘scottish pollinators’
just came across this, which is fascinating. don’t forget to click on the link within it to see ‘buzz pollination’. though what I don’t understand is, if specialist pollination is needed to fertilise tomatoes, why don’t I see bees in … Continue reading
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rust, weeds, water
Whenever I try to get closer to my intended, far away subject, the cisterns, springs, water mills, rainstorms, fountains and floods of Greece, and their counterpart, drought and fire, Thames Water keep tripping me up. Just to get them out … Continue reading
Thoughts on coming eye to eye with a pigeon on its nest
Feral, that’s what they are. That means they’re ours, and yet not ours. Their ancestors, the rock doves, are still around, mostly on sea cliffs but also inland. Unlike true wild species of birds their colours cover a dazzling range, … Continue reading
like a little black book 