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Laine Thompson

@marlinhoister.bsky.social

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The sailor cannot see the North but knows the needle can. Full time carer for someone with LongCovid. Mostly photographs and thoughts connected to my immediate landscape in the ever decreasing circles of my life.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · Nov 16

Don't let me drown...

Tide rolling between a set of pier legs in the sunset. A tightrope strung between two of them. Three people. One balancing and attempting to walk the tightrope, the other two watching.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 47m

I discovered this little film about ten years ago. It still makes me smile.

On the hedgehog.
Lovely little animation about the hedgehog based on the Rochester bestiary.
vimeo.com/109377646

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1h

That’s a real compliment. Thank you. Blushes. ☺️

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday discovered the apple I’d left hanging on my small apple tree had completely disappeared. Not fallen. Not rolled anywhere. Just nowhere to be found. Had me pondering about it during my moonlit morning walk. Various thoughts including remembering my old room with its skylight and this poem.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 5h

Sandy shore.
No puppets. No string. No bare feet. Just sand and sea, the dog and me.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 5h

You didn’t meet the hob then? 😀

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 6h

Morning Elaine🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning. Yes spring tides these last few days. Lots of salty splashing as we walked the promenade. 🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 9h

🙂Out so early in the dark am missing the actual sunrise so I love these first two scenes. Have a good day.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 9h

Morning Chris. The weekend looms large. (Not that it changes anything here as each day seems to tumble into the next without distinction.) Enjoy.🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 9h

Enjoy your day to the full Julian. Even if you feel ‘sleepy in the afternoon’. Reflects the thoughts of many of us. 🙂

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning 🌅

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 21h

On a broken mosaic of earth -
a jumble of red brick, grey slab, white quartz -
the oystercatchers gather.

I didn’t think I’d see any this evening as the tide was so high, and yet here they were, amongst the industrial detritus below the banks.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d

Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞

Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀

From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a polychrome mosaic depicting Mediterranean marine life using earthy-coloured tesserae (mosaic tiles) against a black tessarae background. At the centre of the mosaic is a pale-coloured octopus composed of off-white and light brown tesserae with some of its writhing tentacles wrapped around the body of a lobster composed of light red, and pinky-brown tesserae. The octopus has an egg shaped body/head and it stares at the viewer with large eyes made of brown and pink circles with black centres.

The octopus and lobster are surrounded by various species of large and small Mediterranean fish and a mollusc, including an eel and a flat fish. On the left hand side of the scene there is a small kingfisher bird on top of a rock. Some of the fish appear to be watching the fight between the octopus and the lobster

This mosaic comes from the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. Now on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 21h

Money.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. There’s always hope. And there are always bright moments - often sneaking in - to surprise. Just some days are more difficult than others. (As I’m sure you’ll understand.)💚

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I feel I'm not where I'm supposed to be. No anchor and nothing to set me back on course. Unmoored, drifting, tempted to sink.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Sundown coming down too soon, ... I'll take a glass of memories and understand the blues. ♫

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

👋 Hello Julia and Fiete 🙂
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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

The butterfly,
asleep in the distances
of afternoon sunlight.
I lean back, looking for home.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

I confess to having absolutely no interest in it when I was growing up. Lol.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

“Across the water” would be all the way to Norway. (Possibly Denmark depending on view). I think if you could connect a line from the pier it would stretch directly to Bergen. So can view along the coastline in both directions for quite some distance but not “across the water”.🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Fair bathers attacked by an octopus.
Sidetracked. Not quite sure how I ended up here.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Wade not want not …

or something.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

The deep inky blue of night lingers, Venus defiant in a soft felt sky. A slow blooming of light bleeds onto the deep. Beneath it the arch, iron, black and cold, where three gulls are frozen in a silent council of white. Moonlight and long dark shadows. A silent truce before the sun takes possession.

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