Thank you for your kind words. Going to Venice was an achievement for me and I do sit and scroll through my 800 pictures a lot!

Thanks @mariemichelle.bsky.social for the repost!

Many thanks. I’ve started to get some counselling and relaxation classes from the cancer charity attached to the hospital where he died. It’s made me feel better and that I can carry on. Thanks for your kind words x

Thank you!

I loved it. It’s a unique place and no pictures you see prepare you for the beauty everywhere. I expected to feel odd being alone in such a romantic place but I had a great time. Go! And explore streets and squares away from the main tourist places, ride the vaporetto, enjoy the magic!

Thanks really kind, thank you 💐

Me too. Been a few years since I was last there and it looks crazy busy now. But so beautiful still.

I thought that too, there’s so much beauty there, but I took a fair few howlers🤣

Thank you so much. Been a tough year but trying to get out there and take photos again. It’s helping!

Thanks for the repost @pavlou.bsky.social 🧡

A photo of the Basilica Maria della Salute from the Accademia Bridge in Venice. There’s boats on the dark blue Grand Canal, the sky is a peachy orange and the domes of the cathedral are white and grey against the sunset sky. The canal is lined with old palazzo’s, many now museums and hotels.

I think it’s been about 11 months since I posted anything here on BlueSky. My husband died suddenly just before Christmas. It’s been a tough year and I’m only just starting to interact with the world. Here’s Venice from late October’s solo trip🧡
#Venice #travel #photography #sunset #Italy

Because I don’t want or need your email address. Because I am not on BlueSky to gather DM’s or people’s personal email addresses. Why would I? Anyway, enough. You carry on trying to DM and email people. Good luck with that.

Absolutely not! My replies have been an attempt to help you see why you’re barking up the wrong tree expecting to use BlueSky as a personal messaging service. I have friends and family to email or even speak to properly, in the real world. I encourage you to do the same

You’d be very lucky to get someone’s personal email address! Why would anyone disclose that to someone they only know on a social media app??!

No, that’s true. I certainly have people I interact with on instagram from all over the world. But that’s grown from comments and conversation on posts, not from approaches via DM.

Maybe because they see and use Blue Sky for information, sharing their views or their photography, and don’t want anything other than interaction on their posts, not for friendships via DM. It’s not Tinder.

Just my view of course, but nothing leads to the block button faster than unsolicited DM’s. Especially when stated on a bio that DM’s are unwelcome. And to be honest you’re not really making friends when you message people who live thousands of miles away, you make friends out in the real world.

If you mean DM’s by not ‘responding to messages’, there’s many of us on here, especially women, who request no DM’s in their bio info. And don’t use BlueSky as a messaging service?

Thank you. It was quite a place to live and work for 20 years. I miss it sometimes!

Many thanks. I chickened out of driving that road and went home the long way round that day! But had to pull over to take a quick shot

A snow scene high up in the English Lake District national park. There is a single road leading through the Kirkstone Pass, down to Ambleside. There’s not much snow in the foreground, the moorland grass is visible, but higher up on the mountainside there’s enough snow to make driving tricky. In the distance the sun is peeking through the clouds and shining on Windermere.

My favourite drive home from work a few years ago. This road over the Kirkstone Pass towards Ambleside in the Lake District is called ‘The Struggle’. Aptly named. That’s Windermere in the distance
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWhite
#photography
#lakedistrict
#nationalpark
#cumbria
#snow

Here you go!

They were certainly eye-catching! Think the day I took this there was also a psychedelic Elvis on display.

Yes, it’s enough of a drive from Sheffield, I’d not relish the journey from Cornwall 😳

Many thanks!

Thank you! And yes, I still bear a massive grudge about Brexit. I want a separate passport that proclaims I didn’t vote for it 😂

You were very lucky. It’s one of my favourite cities 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mine too. Always visit when I have a Glasgow weekend! It’s a treasure trove of a place

In the main hall of Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow, Scotland hanging on near invisible strings from the ceiling, are 50 floating white heads. They are all bald men with a variety of facial expressions; angry, sad, happy, talking, laughing, smiling. They are on strings of different lengths so it looks like a cascade of emotions. |

The Floating Heads art installation at Kelvingrove, Glasgow. This one dug from the depths of my camera roll on my phone to try fulfill this week’s #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWhite

#photography
#art
#glasgow
#scotland
#museum
#mobile
#iphone

I’ve posted on her account asking her to credit it or take it down