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Chris Dale

@chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social

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Solicitor who promoted eDiscovery/eDisclosure in England and Wales and elsewhere. Now retired to my photographs of places, birds, and the dog. In Oxford.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 10h

Still flowering on the allotments

A pink rose of multi-layered folds with green leaves underneath it.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 10h

Still flowering on the allotments

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 20h

Radio programme just now about the intermediaries who (with Google's help) interpose themselves between you and a holiday or hotel booking, but who are hard to contact when you get scammed or something else goes wrong.

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 20h

See also: what it costs to put a plate of good quality food on a restaurant table - all the parties from farmer to waiter, the costs of materials, labour, transport etc, and the standing costs of any business.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 22h

Edith Cavell’s repatriated cross. This is in St Mary’s church Swardeston, and is believed to be from TIR Nationale shooting range where she was hastily buried after being executed. There is another repatriated cross which is in the Royal London Hospital and Archive, presented to them in 2000.

A fragment of the cross, the upright of the cross in an oak case behind glass.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

A cynical eye in one so young.

The head and beak of a young swan. It is grey, with a grey beak and a black triangle between beak and eye.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Even that didn't entice him just now. Grrr

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Medi. I think the noise is part of the attraction for the sort of people who set these off at 11:00pm. He has just refused to go out for this evening's walk, which is a problem.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Their working environment is perhaps not conducive to levity

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn morning on Port Meadow. The stone marks the boundary of Wolvercote Common and Parish. The concrete building is a relic of the First World War aerodrome. The autumnal trees lie along the River Thames.

A boundary stone and a concrete relic of an old aerodrome which once occupied this part of Port Meadow, Oxford.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Heron surveys the world and is unimpressed

The head and body of a heron looking cross. Its body is grey, with white lower breast and throat. The beak is yellow underneath and black and grey above. Its eye has a yellow ring round a black centre.

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Stephen Gower @sjgower.bsky.social · 1d

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

A street map of Oxford.

Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme.

Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)."

A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley."

Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

As with others who have addressed a related question, he would want to know if they are African or European swallows.

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Colic yes. They don't (necessarily) need a special diet, just a balanced one. If you ask these twerps if they'd want random strangers slipping food to their healthy dog, they'd be appalled.

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Rotting apples thrown down on the meadow, presumably as a "treat" for horses. Don't do this.

Rotting apples of red and green on the edge of a large green field. There are trees beyond the field.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Heron surveys the world and is unimpressed

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 2d

Out with the dog for his late night wee. Fusillade of fireworks close by. Dog runs for home. Just ban private fireworks.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 2d

Migration charts for swallows and house martins. Amazing journeys.

Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the map for the swallow. Each dot represents a bird, and each line links the places where they were found.

A map of Europe and Africa, with multicoloured dots, and connecting lines leading roughly north to south.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Late afternoon down at the Bailey bridge

Late afternoon sun behind a metal bridge and a river. There is a dark cottage across the river whose reflection is seen in the water.,

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

The computer mouse was invented by a dog to enable you to scroll with one hand while stroking the dog with the other.

The head of a black dog with a hand stroking under his chin.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

@annadillon.bsky.social Thanks for the ref to Hugh Clout's book, which I did not know about. Not in the local library, but I might just buy it - there is a chapter on reconstruction in Peter Liddle's "Passchendaele" which got me interested enough to want to know more.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Late afternoon down at the Bailey bridge

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Catching the light while hoping to catch some fish

A white gull with orange beak flies by, with trees in the background

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4d

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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