We were only one day in #Belfast on our epic adventure in 2024. But, we packed a bunch in on that day! It was relatively warm, DRY & SUNNY! Unfortunately, I didn't found out any more info on my Great-grandma Rachel but we met some kind folks & saw some beautiful and historical sights.
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A large stone has been carved with letters/numbers indicating the distance from London to this location in Southampton England.
#BlueskyArtShow
#Stone
A very old mile marker seen in a Southampton roadside park.
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#England
August 2024
A black and white photo of a pair of formal shoes. Worn on the Queen Mary 2 in December 2023 and August 2024
A pair of muddy, black, Wellies that I bought at the Mole Country Store in December 2023. I wore them almost every day during that historic rainy year, of 2024, in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition
Formal vs Informal
My 2 favorite pairs of footwear from #joactroolOT
A little boy and a man having a stare-off on a colorful rug. On American Mother's Day, near Windsor England, May 11, 2024.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJuxtaposition
Baby boy vs Man boy 😍
#Lyngo and our little #English cousin, Romeo.
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A little white dog, wearing his Queen Mary 2 coat, is held by the Kennel Master. His girl Human is wearing the KM's iconic hat. Picture day August 19, 2024.
#Nat aboard the #QM2
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A man is taking a selfie in the old pub "The Swan" With the ubiquitous sign reminding patrons to "mind their heads" behind him.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIforInterior
#MarchHappinessChallenge
Another #Pub #interior,
another #MindYourHead sign,
another #happy #selfie 🥰
#joactroolOT
#Travel
A man's reflection, as well as those of the stained glass windows of Salisbury Cathedral, is caption as he takes a photo of the display case holding the Magna Carta.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInterior
#Lyngo took a selfie as he learned about the
#MagnaCarta when we visited #SalisburyCathedral on 7 March 2024. The magnificent windows of this place of #history are reflected in the glass of the interactive display.
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A man is gazing at the skyline of Manhattan from Brooklyn. He's wearing a jeans jacket that has a musical and dice motif. The words are the title of a song by the band Cheap Trick "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
My sis-in-law embroidered the title of this most excellent song on a jeans jacket for her little brother.
#Lyngo requested it as well as a bunch of dice as that had been his profession.
🎼🎲
Here he is wearing it on the Brooklyn Promenade.
#joactroolOT
November 2023.
Steve, the Publican, is on the left. I don't recall his mate's name.
The exterior of the Fleur de Lys. Can you tell the Americans car? If you guessed that it's the one that is PULLED in, not BACKED in, with the weird number plate, you'd be correct! 😁
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March 26, 2024.
#RedWed
A memory from #Wales ❣️
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The canopies of 4 tall trees taken from below.
A placard gives a description of the path that ramblers can take along the Tall Trees Trail.
A woman wearing a purple coat stands at the bottom of a giant Redwood tree located in the Blackwater Arboretum in The New Forest of England.
A man and a little white dog are walking along a water logged path in Blackwater Arboretum.
Heading back to our happy place, #TheNewForest, to combine #TallTreeTuesday with this week's #AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIforInterior
On March 2, 2024 we explored the #interior of this beautiful place. It was a rare dry, and sunny, day!
#joactroolOT 🐾👢🥾
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This is a Naval Mine of the type used in the second world war in defence of our coasts and as an offensive weapon in enemy waters: It is made available to THE SHIPWRECKED MARINERS SOCIETY by the Admiralty for use as a collecting box. It is placed here by the kind permission of the Local Authority. YUR restrant
Welcome to Carrickfergus Castle Crammed with over 900 years of history, Carrickfergus Castle has guarded the approach to Belfast Lough since 1177. Besieged in turn by the Scots, Irish, English and French, the castle saw action right up to World War II.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Round
Since #bombing is in the news today 😞
#Belfast #NI
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April 21, 2024
A photo of a woman and her little white dog, both wearing purple coats, are standing on The New Forest, Hampshire, England, on an overcast and chilly day.
....as did this photo ⬇️ 🤔
Neither #Nat nor I are either 😁
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Interesting metal people, with horns, greet visitors to this Iron Age site outside the market town of Lymington, Hampshire, England.
I chose the word "Horn" for today's
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekHforHorn
A collage of photos from a #joactroolOT ramble we took on 15 February 2024.
Translation HUMEX COLD PARACETAMOL / PSEUDOEPHEDRINE / CHLORPHÉNAMINE DAY & NIGHT 12 tablets + 4 capsules MEDICINE - not for children under 15 OVERDOSE = DANGER Do not take any other medicine containing paracetamol
One has to go into an actual pharmacy, in #France, to get medicine for even the common cold. It's one of the best ways to get to know the locals! #joactroolOT
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekHforH
HUMEX was as close to NyQuil that I could find in Calais on May 29, 2024.
It worked! 🤧
A collage of 6 photos taken, in August 2024, of a cricket match in Southampton England.
I will never understand this game despite having a real Cricketeer try to teach me!
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeeKGforGames
#Cricket
The best part of our epic adventure #joactroolOT?
The people we met all along the way! 💙🏏
#WaterWednesday
I am reaching back into the #joactroolOT archive a lot this morning.
This is another memory from February 18, 2024.
Another ramble on #TheNewForest.
It was oh so wet!
#Hampshire
#England
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGforGames
Another video of #Lyngo reading the #sports section of The Times. Who knew #Cricket could be so funny?!? 🤣
From the #joactroolOT archive.
18 February 2024.
🏏🇬🇧
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGforGames
I have shared this before but it's one of my favorite moments from our epic adventure that I call #joactroolOT. #Lyngo is reading an article, in The Times, about cricket 🏏. NOT rugby 🏉.
Oh, the things we learned about #games in the #UK.
February 2024.
Our time "over there" #joactroolOT was a magical time and this gift from him is truly one of the best he's given to me.
I hope you all have a memory like this, too, from a loved one on #ValentinesDay 💕
SO COZY!
As I was going through my #joactroolOT archive to find a thick trunk tree, I found one of my favorite videos of #Lyngo carrying #Nat over an especially wet spot on one of our rambles during the rainy season of 2024. 😁
#DogsOfBluesky
The trunk of a large tree has an unusual shape at it's bottom. Anyone know why it looks like this? 🤔
I'm gonna need #TheRestOfTheStory, Scott 😁
Here's one from Merry
Old England taken on 2 February 2024.
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A woman is posing in front of the gift shop at the Belhaven Brewery after purchasing a stocking cap and bottles & cans of Belhaven Black. It's even better than Guinness!
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekEforEponymous
I think this works 🤔
Belhaven merch was purchased at the Belhaven Brewery in May 2024.
#Scotland
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A placque for the Gilpin Wildflower Garden contains information on the flowers seen in this church yard. Tiny Snowdrops can be seen blooming amongst the grave stones.
A screenshot shows how long this walker had before reaching their destination. St John the Baptist, Boldre. A beautiful old church in the New Forest in the county of Hampshire in England.
Even on a chilly, rainy day snowdrops are the loveliest of things. We found some on a ramble to this church back on February 5, 2024.
I can't believe it's been 2 years since we were over there. How I wish we could have stayed.😥
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2 books called titled "Cooking Afloat" and "Somerville's War"
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekBforBooks
Our host's for the first 3 months of #joactroolOT were both published authors.
Fiona wrote a #book about her adventures as the #cook on a #sailboat.
Andrew wrote a novel about #WW2 in the #NewForest of #England.
We miss them and all the folks we met over there.
A woman is leaning on a wooden fence gazing at the sun setting over the Bay of Biscayne. Mimizan, France June 2024
#BlueSkyArtShow
#One
One with the #sun I was on this summer's evening in Mimizan #France
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A stone statue appears to be peering over an ancient stone wall. A corrugated construction fence is in the background.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekAForAbstract
An old stone statue appears to be looking down from an even older stone wall in a construction area.
Seen somewhere "over there
#joactroolOT
August 2024.
One of the things we learn about during #joactroolOT
was the differences in buying "drug store" remedies and toiletries.
We did okay in the #UK. Yes, things that we are accustomed to here were different there. But, we didn't mind finding suitable, sometimes better, replacements. #France?
I won't bore you with the videos I took of our cabin, our departure, the sights of lower Manhattan etc.
I'll close with this video.
Nat wasn't sure about this new place.
I hated leaving him that night. But, he survived. We all did.
We're so very #grateful for that opportunity 🚢💙
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A photo of the bridge of the QM2 taken from a lower deck
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWindows
Looking up at the bridge of the #QM2
December 2023
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