As I mentioned, this is my imagination of Rivendell, a composite based on the description when I first read the books and a photo I took of the Lauterbrunnen valley during a visit, in the knowledge that it was the same scene that inspired Tolkien.
Tolkien Shelfie.
Modest collection of books, homemade bookends, and my interpretation of Rivendell.
#Tolkien #Shelfie
Liberated 80 years ago today.
The words of survivor, Marian Turski “Auschwitz did not suddenly fall from the sky”.
#Auschwitz #Auschwitz80 #AuschwitzMemorial
“The beacons are lit” #StormÉowyn #Tolkien #Éowyn
The painting of Margaret Thatcher has been moved to the kitchen which is a problem as my milk keeps disappearing...
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
Glenfinnan Viaduct, between Fort William and Mallaig.
Provence 2024 🇫🇷.
Really enjoy using these accordion sketchbooks that lend themselves to travel sketching.
#sketching #TravelSketching #Travel #Provence #sketchbook #France #Lavender #Banon
“Lavender Horizon”
Oil on canvas, 50 x 20.
From our recent trip to Provence.
First time I have worked on a canvas this size or painted with a knife for a while 😬, possibly finishined, , , possibly not?🤔🎨
#lavender #oilpainting #Provence #Art
I help. 🐈⬛🙄🎨
#cats #CatsWithJobs #art #workinprogress #BlackCat #Lavender
RIP Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson 😢.
Fortunate to see The Selecter perform live a couple of years ago, still bouncing round the stage full of energy. A sad loss to the 2 Tone scene. 🎹
#Ska #TwoTone #TheSelecter #Hendrickson #Gaps #Music
80 years ago today, Oradour-sur-Glane. A name that sends a chill along the spine. Over 640 inhabitants massacred by The SS in retaliation for increased resistance activities following the D-Day landing less than a week earlier.
#OTD #WW2 #Oradour #OradourSurGlane
Yesterday commemorated the 80th anniversary of the many involved in D-Day landings, today marks the 70th anniversary of the tragic death of Alan Turing. Alan’s work at Bletchley Park almost certainly shortened the war and saved unmeasurable number of lives. #Turing #AlanTuring
Utah, “Bloody” Omaha, Gold, Pegasus.
From our visit in 2018 (with apologies to Juno and Sword for not yet visiting).
#DDay #DdayRemembrance #DDay80 #Normandy #WW2 #Utah #Omaha #Gold #Pegasus
Any man who can hitch the length and breath of the galaxy, struggle against terrible odds, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Happy Towel Day, Hoopy Froods! 🤖
#TowelDay #DouglasAdams
Enjoying the recycled solar lights in the garden.
#gardentime #garden #solar #Recycled #CharityShop #GardenIdeas
To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobble streets silent and the hunched, courters ‘ and rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloe black,,,. Happy Dylan Day / Dydd Dylan hapus. #DylanThomas #DylanDay
Most of the potting up done (mainly Cannas and annuals left to do), now to start arranging it🤔.
#garden #gardening
On the Nature Table today:
Sitting by the pond this morning we had the please of watching this newly emerged Broad-Bodied Chaser dragonfly take a first tentative flight from an aquatic life into the spring sunshine.
#Dragonfly #Spring #Pond
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row.”
From the highlands of Scotland to “Flanders Fields”
John McCrae penned his most famous poem on this day 1915.
#OTD #WW1 #FlandersFields #Flanders
10 minute walk from home and have added White Stork to my local patch list before breakfast ✔️, have had worse starts to the day 🤷♂️.
#birding #birdphotography #BirdingNorfolk #Norfolk #Bird #Stork #Scarning #LocalPatch #birdwatching
Happy birthday Mall-Bard 🥳.
#Shakespeare #OTD #Bard #birthdayboy #Duck
#OTD 1915 The Second Battle Of Ypres began. The first mass use of poison gas by the Germans. Over 2,000 Canadians were killed within the first 2 days. The Brooding soldier looks out over landscape 🇨🇦🍁. #WW1 #Canada #Ypres
On this day 1917.
The Battle Of Vimy Ridge.
The magnificent Vimy Memorial, one of the most striking to be found anywhere along the western front.
#OTD #WW1 #OTD #vimy #VimyRidgeDay
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