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Great to be here! 🌎🌍🌏
Thinking geographically 🌐 GIS, trivia and other important things... #GeographyTeacher and author; RGS C Geog, BBC Weather Watcher; landscape art and photography; #EruditePedagogy; #EduSky; Music, poetry esp with links to place
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Today on the World of Music we return to Köln on the 51st anniversary of the recording of the Keith Jarrett classic and @mildthing99.bsky.social explores the music of Bowie worldlymusic.blogspot.com
World of Music
Musical and geographical offerings from GeoBlogs: a 365 blog project for 2026.
worldlymusic.blogspot.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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"And three trees on the low sky...
...And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory." T. S. Eliot
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January 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM
High pressure still in charge; another very cold night on the way
-5°C or lower #SurreyHills
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January 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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*A rose between two thorns*
#WaningGibbous 98% 🌕 rising over south London in between the Crystal Palace and Croydon transmitters, seen from #SurreyHills
#WolfMoon #OldMoon #IceMoon #SnowMoon #Supermoon
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January 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
*A rose between two thorns*
#WaningGibbous 98% 🌕 rising over south London in between the Crystal Palace and Croydon transmitters, seen from #SurreyHills
#WolfMoon #OldMoon #IceMoon #SnowMoon #Supermoon
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@stormhour.com
@metoffice.gov.uk @thephotohour.bsky.social #getoutside
January 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
"And three trees on the low sky...
...And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory." T. S. Eliot
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
@thephotohour.bsky.social
@thephotohour.bsky.social
@metoffice.gov.uk #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
January 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM
🔊'Get Back - The Places'🔊
2nd January 1969: Day 1 of the Get Back/Let It Be sessions
Where are the places linked to The Beatles' classic song 'Get Back'? #GetBackTheBeatles #Psychogeography
Story Map created using
@esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISStoryMaps
Link to story map: arcg.is/18WvnP1
January 2, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Retreat of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, Iceland
🙏@copernicuseu.bsky.social
Sentinel-2 imagery -Breiðamerkurjökull Georef with #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISOnline and imported to #3DScene
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@subfossilguy.bsky.social @edhawkins.org
arcg.is/1PKif54
December 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
'Merry Christmas...and God bless all of you on the good Earth'

#Apollo8 Christmas Eve 1968 message, over SELENE (Kaguya) 'Earthrise' footage, similar to the view seen by Borman, Lovell + Anders
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Details + HQ video here: vimeo.com/187472403?re...
December 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A beautiful sunset over The Bristol Channel seen from #BarryIsland with Foreland Point lighthouse guiding the shipping at dusk
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December 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
*The only way is up*
🌄 The earliest sunset of 2025 has been and gone #SurreyHills
The sun will set later every day now until around 25th June!
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December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A magnificent early cloudscape c1900: #Cumulus prob over Yapton, W Sussex by Sidney Fletcher.
Possible Léonard Misonne influence?
🙏@FacesInTheLight #242
Restored+colourised using @GeminiApp
#Swipe @www_re_photos
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December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Golden Gate Strait c1900
3 decades before the bridge!
Unmistakeable outline of Angel Island; Possibly Sausolito ferry; Helmet Rock + Lands End
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AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Original 🙏@FacesInTheLight #258
#Swipe @www_re_photos
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Place du Marché,
Saint-Valery-en-Caux c1900 Seine-Maritime, @Normandy, France #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Original from @FacesInTheLight
#Swipe created in @www_re_photos #rephotography
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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L'église du Sacré-Cœur (Church of the Sacred Heart) Place d'Allier, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France @fneaura.bsky.social #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Vg for car + street details, but hallucinates with perspective!
Original: Unknown Photgrapher@FacesInTheLight
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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🎶🔊🎄Step Into Christmas🎄🔊🎶
Y7 students used #GIS to map Christmas placenames
🙏 @natlibscot.bsky.social maps GB1900 Gazeteer > 'Christmas' > CSV > @esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISOnline
2D incl @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social #Firefly symbols+ pop-ups, then #3DScene > 3D trees stars+baubles #HowIUsedGISToday
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🎶🔊🎄Step Into Christmas🎄🔊🎶
Y7 students used #GIS to map Christmas placenames
🙏 @natlibscot.bsky.social maps GB1900 Gazeteer > 'Christmas' > CSV > @esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISOnline
2D incl @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social #Firefly symbols+ pop-ups, then #3DScene > 3D trees stars+baubles #HowIUsedGISToday
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
L'église du Sacré-Cœur (Church of the Sacred Heart) Place d'Allier, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France @fneaura.bsky.social #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Vg for car + street details, but hallucinates with perspective!
Original: Unknown Photgrapher@FacesInTheLight
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
⬇️ International Space Station ⬇️
@Space_Station #ISS threading a west to east path between the #WaxingGibbous Moon 76% and #Saturn at 16.39 over the #SurreyHills #Timelapse
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November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM