I earned their trust by feeding them! π
Posts by Robert Knight
Two geese and eight gosling on the grass in a park, with trees in the background. There is a life ring in the distance, as this is next to a river.
Goslings!
Edwardian racing cars racing each other on a Goodwood circuit. Behind is a red 28 litre Fiat, and in the foreground and pulling ahead is a light green car driven by Vijay Mallya.
Jenson Button in the Brawn BGP001 at Goodwood circuit.
A red and white Vauxhall Vectra touring car being driven by John Cleland, and a green and gold Peugeot 406 touring being driven by Steve Soper on the main straight.
An excellent day at the Goodwood 83rd Members Meeting was had. What a variety of different cars from over 100 years of motor racing.
A worn black/green Alfa 75 in a grass car park, with body damage. Front view
A worn black/green Alfa 75 in a grass car park, with body damage. Front view
A worn black/green Alfa 75 in a grass car park, with body damage. Rear view
I found Jeremy Clarkson's old Alfa Romeo 75 from the Top Gear Alfa Romeo challenge in the car park at Goodwood.
A Brawn BGP001 Formula 1 car being pushed through the paddock
A yellow and blue Renault Laguna touring cars in a garage in the paddock.
I'm at the Goodwood Members Meeting today, and I had a chance to see two cars driven by two of my favourite drivers.
The Brawn BGP001 driven by Jenson Button to the 2009 F1 Drivers' Championship, and the Renault Laguna driven by Alain Menu to the 1997 British Touring Car Championship.
Me next to the Whiteley Parkrun sign.
Doing a spot of Parkrun tourism on the south coast this morning!
The problem is, this sort of behaviour is exactly what many of his supporters like about him.
The problem is, this sort of behaviour is exactly with appeals to a lot of his supporters.
A green heritage DMU, with a wreath above one of the buffers, at Broadway Station on a sunny morning.
Looking out of the back of a heritage DMU as it crosses Stanway Viaduct.
A steam locomotive at Toddington, with a green heritage DMU in the neighbouring platform.
A steam locomotive at Cheltenham Racecourse station. There are trees lining the railway on either side.
Today has been a good mix of heritage diesel and steam traction on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.
I had lunch at the team room at Winchcombe station, then I switched over to the steam train in the afternoon.
A British Railways green single car diesel unit at a 2 platform heritage station.
Inside a heritage diesel train, with blue 3+2 seats. Looking towards the front of the train, the driver and guard can be seen as the train drives past a green field.
I'm visiting the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway today, my train this morning is this late-1950s diesel railcar.
A zoomed in photo from above of a little moorhen chick in some grass on a river bank.
Two moorhen chicks in the grass on a river bank.
I found some Moorhen chicks down at Castle Mill Stream.
Lack of parking spaces in certain key locations is likely causing some of these bikes and scooters to be carelessly abandoned.
The answer is - yes!
Cherry picker guy was the one arrested and banned from Oxfordshire. So this lot just use ladders.
It's looking promising!
Then you'll be interested in this...
youtu.be/K-sEPv60nOI?...
It's absurd how big cars have become. A lot of it isn't even necessary, it's just extravagance.
I'm optimistic, however, that we're seeing the start of a small car revival.
There is plenty of Morris Dancing in Oxford for your lunchtime entertainment this Saturday.
They've got a good grift going, which is why they're reluctant to give it up.
Two ducks, one male and one female, on a pavement in the centre of Woodstock. A green and blue 'electro' double decker bus is parked to the left.
Woodstock royalty.
Unfortunately, the cease and desist letter from the council doesn't seem to have landed with them.
But then, what else could we expect from a group of people who have previously shown total disregard for the law of multiple occasions?
A tiny little Class 139 train at Stourbridge Town Station.
One of the perks of visiting Stourbridge is travelling on the tiny little train.
Jen has already got her Camp Hill video out, go and have a look!
I make a brief appearance, as I have a HIDEOUS disease and am therefore even less visually appealing than usual.
A grey National Express West Midlands bus arriving at a bus station with automated screen doors.
The exterior of the Merry Hill centre, with the bus station outside and a grey single decker bus at one of the stops.
Time for a bus trip to Merry Hill shopping centre.
A West Midlands Railway Class 196 on the platform to the left, and a West Midlands Railway Class 730 at the platform over to the right. In-between them are the abandoned platforms 2 and 3.
I rode the train down to King's Norton, just to say I've now ridden the entire Camp Hill Line on the new service.
I have been over the Camp Hill Line before, as some long distance services use it as an alternative to going via Fiveways.
Moseley Village station sign, with St Mary's church in the background.
Now with a railway station!
It looks so tacky, as well as meaning behind them being very sinister.
On the bright side, I went to delightful flag-free Moseley this morning. What a joy!
Pineapple Road station, which has two platforms.
Kings Heath station, which has two platforms.
Moseley Village station, which has two platforms. There is a tunnel at the far end.
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Three brand new stations in the West Midlands that opened this morning, reopening to the Camp Hill line to regular local trains for the first time since 1941.
A West Midlands Railway train at Birmingham New Street in the under cover section of the platform. There platform indicator advertises the 07:27 to Kings Norton, calling at Moseley Village, Kings Heath and Pineapple Road
New stations time! π
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. Iβm not crying youβre crying π₯Ήππ§ͺ πΈ: NASA