'Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries', Dagenham (2020) by Doreen Fletcher
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Morning from Kyiv.
I came to let you know
that I might be absent for a day
or so.
Not feeling well.
Slow.
Low energy.
Some virus.
Son was very sick these days.

Vintage portrait of a young man with a neat hairstyle, wearing a formal suit and tie.

26 February 1907 | An Italian Jew, Giaccomo Antigoli, was born in Rome.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. He did not survive.

Painting of a harbour with long flat buildings and two small figure by a stretch of blue sea leading to grey blue mountains and all under a grey sky

Reykjavík Harbor, 1981 by Icelandic painter Louisa Matthiasdottir #womensart

Photograph featuring a group of six or more standing horses by a gate in snow, a dappled grey horse in the centre foreground looks directly outwards, behind tbe group the landscape is hilly and tbe grey blue sky has small white clouds

Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, Icelandic Horses (2008) #womensart

Embroidery featuring a sitting fox facing forwards and looking up to the left with bushy tail on the ground to the right, all on a cream background

Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart

Landscape format. A view of the River Thames from its north bank, looking across to Gravesend. On the stretch known as Gravesend Reach, a dredger, City Of London, is carrying building material up river. To the lower part of the image the wash of the ship makes small wavelets on the shore, while the ship itself is in near silhouette in the centre of the image. The town of Gravesend is a lighter grey, across the river. Shot in mist, giving the whole image a soft, dark haze. Nikon D7000 and Tamron 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.0-5.6

River Thames: City Of London. Taken on 6 December 2016. More info in Alt Text. 📷 #photography #photograph #photo #CityOfLondon #dredger #GravesendReach #wash #grey #monochrome #mist #haze #NikonD7000

Putin’s lifelong dream was to somehow separate the US from NATO. But how to break up a strong alliance that stood for 80 years and continued to expand? There really was only one way to do it, he figured it out a decade ago, and played the long game. Now his guy will do it.

Painting with thousands of tiny leaf or petal shapes in light purple which swirl across the entire canvas

'Bush Medicine leaves' by Australian Indigenous artist Gloria Petyarre, born in 1942 in Utopia, Northern Territory #womensart

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

25 February 1920 | A Polish woman, Stanisława Gress, was born in Mikołajew. An office worker.

In #Auschwitz from 11 July 1942.
No. 8548
In 1944 she was transferred to KL Flossenbürg and liberated there.

Yes. But - Profit must be protected. Welfare for Capital.

English painter Jenny Wheatley’ Love the colour of this one

Landscape format. A photo taken on the north bank of the River Thames, below East Tilbury Marshes. On the left of the image, at the bottom, a bridge linking moored barges to the river bank: used for trucks to carry earth dug from London's Crossrail project, which is being spread over a now disused landfill site. To the right is a figure, in silhouette with his back to the camera, perhaps looking at a mobile phone. He is standing on rough ground. Again on the left, and also in silhouette, large mechanical structures, the coal excavators at Tilbury B power station. The power station and excavators have since been demolished and removed. The photo is shot into backlit mist and dust, leaving strange patterns in the air around the lone figure. The picture is monochrome greys. Shot on 13 September 2013 using a Nikon D7000 and Tamron 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 lens.

Tane 0n 13 September 2014. River Thames: East Tilbury Marshes. More info in Alt Text. 📷 #photography #photograph #photo #silhouette #bridge #coalscoop #excavator #bucketwheel #mist #dust #NikonD7000

A Viz letter reading as folows - a-hem - I wonder if any of your readers can help me remember the title of a film I saw as a child. I don't recall much of the plot, but it was mostly about men in stetson hats riding horses and shooting at each other. It was set in the past, I think, possibly in America. Can anyone help? Mathew Shepherd, Derby

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Too true to be funny, but …

Good morning! This week's theme is London Churches.
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'Ludgate, Evening' (1887) by John O'Connor

(Private collection)

I’ve always had the fear that Ukraine would end up like the Spanish Civil War, with the forces of democracy overwhelmed by fascistic alliances. It’s still in the balance. Trump’s support for Putin is like Mussolini and Hitler’s for Franco. But at least this time France and the UK are not neutral

Pilot vessel
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
#kodak tmy 100
#Rodinal
@chromacamera.bsky.social Six:9
#harbour
#workingharbour
#workingboat
#pilotboat
#Wales
#walk

For Edmund

Black and white portrait of a man with slicked-back hair and wearing a dark suit with a tie.

23 February 1941 | A Pole, Edmund Wojciechowski, perished in Auschwitz. A lawyer, a son of the President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski.

He was arrested in connection with the refusal to expel Jewish lawyers from the Warsaw Bar.

In #Auschwitz from 15 August 1940.
No. 2297

Closeup of monkey’s sad face and top of ambulance

A delicate smudgy drawing of an nhs ambulance in the foreground and a looming pale pink monkey and the moon in the background, delicate pencil lines and smudges

Ambulance with giant sad pink monkey

Landscape format. A view of the south bank of the River Thames. The grass bank slants slowly upward from left to right; at the top of the bank and to the right of the image, a gray pony is grazing. Above the pony and filling the rest of the image, puffy clouds are massing. Beyond Gravesend, Kent, where the river defences end, the river bank is largely grassland, raised slightly before the foreshore, with lower marshland immediately inland. There was a herd (?) of semi-wild ponies, often numbering 30 -40, which roamed and grazed along several miles of the river. I passed them often; they weren't much interested in me so I'd say they were no risk...I don't know why they were there, although, as it's not unusual to place grazing animals on grassy places where people roam/hike/wander (they keep the grass short) I suppose that's why. I always enjoyed seeing and hearing them.

River Thames: pony grazing the river bank. Taken on 6 August 2014. More info in Alt Text. 📷 #photography #photograph #photo #pony #semi-wild #grass #cloud #RiverThames #Thames #river #bank #NikonD7000

Seltene parteipolitische Nachricht aus dem Hause Holzmann*:

Wählt grün 😊

*stolzes Mitglied der schottischen Grünen Partei 💚

I’ve said it once before, but it bears repeating now…

Primal. Wild. Essential. A rain shower passing over the Harris hills this evening.

Landscape format. Taken on 10 September 2013. A car, parked at the corner of Albion Parade, Gravesend, Kent. Albion Parade is a street of run down workshops in Gravesend, close to the River Thames. Behind the car is a stucco wall, to uts left the same, but with a doorway, then a window, boarded over. The window has a cartoon figure with a roll-up cigarette in its mouth, pethaps a spliff...the car is parked on an area with square paving and tufts of grass. The car itself is a Russian Gaz 21 Volga, a medium size saloon, quite attractive to my eyes but in need of some renovation, like the place it is parked. I don't know what the car was doing there or what happened to it: I didn't see it again. I hope it was someone's project and it has been restored to its full glory. The River Thames, which Gravesend is 'upon' is the longest river entirely in England, as the Volga is the longest river in Russia. Taken using a Nikon D7000 with a 18.0-105.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens.

Gravesend, Kent: Gaz 21 Volga. Taken on 10 September 2013. More info in Alt Text. 📷 #photography #photograph #photo #Gravesend #AlbionParade #Kent #Gaz #Gaz21Volga #car #NikonD7000