A silhouette of a man and a dog in the edge of the sea, on a beach which has sand on the right hand side, and then rocks to the left, curling round in the background into a large cliff sticking into the sea. My spouse calls the rocky bit at the very end of the peninsula “the saddle” because there is a dip between two rocky outcrops.
One man and his dog on #Lamorna beach.
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And another rather splendid story. I love that he’s made them useful, too. (I’m so boringly practical, gods!)
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Sometimes there are stories like this in the news, and it makes me happy:
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I was informed that an ovarian cyst I had, had moved from one ovary to the other; and however much I assured them that I was there when the ultrasound was done, and that it was my body, they believed what had been wrongly written down, over the logical truth. I hear you.
A sandy beach with a lone human walking across it. Behind him and to the top left of the photo are rocks and cliffs, rounding into the shore and sticking into the sea; to the top right, the sea comes in with little white waves. The sand is a pale gold, and there is a grey wall at the front of the picture, with a glimpse of “something” (could be a boat, could be bins…okay, it’s bins, but imagine it’s a boat, it’s more romantic) just over it on the left.
Thanks to @angelygogledd.bsky.social for this gorgeous picture of #StIves taken today. You can see from the light why artists love it; and it looks like a picture in itself.
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alas, the last part leads my comment to be even more true, even were there to be no truth at all in the proposition that PM was a predator. It can make people very sure, even if they’re wrong.
It doesn’t “lead people to wonder,” let’s be honest. That’s a very tactful way of putting it, but…
Picture of moorland in front and fields in the background. In the moorland is a standing stone, comprised of three upright stones with a slab across the top. It is tall enough that a short person can stand underneath upright but a larger one would have to bend their head. For some reason, it is surrounded by cows. I’m sure they’re a particular type but all I can tell you is that they’re a gingery brown colour.
#StandingStoneSunday? Have a picture of my favourite, #LanyonQuoit - or as my kid called it when he was tiny, “turtle rock” because he thought it looked like a turtle with one leg fallen off (This isn’t a great angle to show that).
I’ve only ever seen cows there once in my life.
Railings in front of the sea. In the distance, just before the horizon, there are a couple of blobs surrounded by white fuzziness. The blobs are fishing boats. The fuzziness is a whole mass of birds. But you’ll have to take my word for this. The sky is grey. The picture is a washout in more ways than one. We call these “rabbit pictures” in my household after some pictures my dad took, waiting for ages to take pictures apparently of empty scrubland, but which he insisted had rabbits all over it.
This is the same picture zoomed in on the boats and birds. There is a white wave breaking in the foreground. Further back, the boats look slightly more like boats and not just like blobs, but the birds still just look like white fuzziness. A bit like as if sea foam had accidentally come off the sea and was drifting slightly above it. As my grandmother used to say when she’d told most of a joke and forgotten the punchline, “Well, you should have been there. You’d have roared.”
Now, I realise everyone else who has posted #WorstBirdPic s have actually posted pretty decent photos. However…this is a mass of gulls mobbing fishing boats and I’m posting it because it was amazing irl, but my iPad camera just wasn’t good enough to show it, so it’s hilariously terrible as a photo!
That bird only has one leg*. Of course I, a disabled writer, am going to repost.
*no, I am aware it has another one, I just enjoy being silly.
He was. :) he was my inspiration and the reason I both was able to say firmly I wanted to be a writer from a young age, and to know that it was unlikely I could make a living from that alone. (He wrote non-fiction, though; we’re very different genres.)
Also, I suspect my uncle was a much more problematic uni lecturer in his time - the Head of English recognised my surname and said, “oh, are you related to x? He swore an awful lot…”
He was teaching a class on “Sympathy for the devil” in the USA at age 80 when he died…
He didn’t necessarily say “get drunk to write”, more “if you’ve been to the pub and come back and feel inspired, start writing; it’s worthwhile.”
My uni playwriting lecturer used to encourage us to write drunk, because he said it helped stop writers block. And he said it was easier then to edit something than it was to start from nothing, staring at a blank page.
When I got my first novel published, I let him know. He was fab.
Magic! Now you see them, now you don’t (or rather, the other way around).
A rainbow with its end touching the castle on St Michael’s Mount. To the left of the picture is a large lamppost and across the bottom is a metal railing in front of the sea and rocky shore around Penzance lido. But most of the photo is taken up with the sky and the rainbow that arcs through it.
Rainbow in the sky above #StMichael’sMount, taken from #Penzance. It is landing on the island, which needs the sign of hope after over 80 of the trees there were blown down in last month’s storm.
Beautiful!
(Also almost looks as if it hasn’t got wings, I love the angle!)
I’m always here for the positive news. 🤞🏻
Honestly, it’s beautiful. I stopped and just stared at it, rather than mindlessly scrolling,
This is gorgeous!
Seascape picture with misty looking land in the background, then sea with waves rolling in towards a beach which is not quite visible beneath a small drop. Above the drop is an area of grass and stones. The sky is grey with hints of cloud.
A #seascape today, for a peaceful scene. #Gwythian looking towards #StIves. #Cornwall #Cornishphotos #photography
Oops. Yes, battery is the issue with phone/ipad reading matter. If it runs out, suddenly your book has vanished..
That is…not encouraging.
The surface of Mars occupies most of the scene, the limb of the planet to the right (with space beyond). In the upper centre is the massive Olympus Mons. The small dark body is the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos.
Time to post this rather incredible photo again.
The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, with one of the Solar System's smallest moons, Phobos, crossing it.
Photographed from Mars orbit.
Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social CC BY
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It was amazing, just looking over and seeing that the rainbow was directly behind the lighthouse. We weren’t sure whether it would show up on the photo but it actually did really well!
Rainbow looking as though it is coming out of the little rock island on which Godrevy lighthouse stands. Waves are crashing to the left of the island, and there are white waves rolling in towards the shore on the right hand side of the photo.
Amazing view today when we went to #Gwythian. A rainbow over #Godrevy lighthouse. #Cornwall #CornishPhotos #photography #SeaPhotos #RainbowPhoto
I know it, but I’m not Scottish, so I’m not sure where that leaves us…
Cat curled up on bed; her back legs are in the foreground, and her head is a little way further back, with enormous ears and big green eyes. She has her front paws crossed across her chest.
It’s #Caturday and I have every reason to spam people with pictures of my gorgeous Zula, so I will take advantage of that. She was my soulmate cat, and I need people to agree that she is beautiful. #CatPhotos #cat #Photography
