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The Swedish air force traditional xmas tree flight.
Several regional air wings do low altitude flyovers every year at xmas time over a number of cities at different parts of the country.
The video below shows the F7 airwing based at Skaraborg.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbL...
Several regional air wings do low altitude flyovers every year at xmas time over a number of cities at different parts of the country.
The video below shows the F7 airwing based at Skaraborg.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbL...
Julgransflygning 2025 Göteborg (Christmas Tree Flight Formation over Gothenburg 2025)
YouTube video by Bigsoftpotato
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December 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The Swedish air force traditional xmas tree flight.
Several regional air wings do low altitude flyovers every year at xmas time over a number of cities at different parts of the country.
The video below shows the F7 airwing based at Skaraborg.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbL...
Several regional air wings do low altitude flyovers every year at xmas time over a number of cities at different parts of the country.
The video below shows the F7 airwing based at Skaraborg.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbL...
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Reposted by P.K. Munroe
At this time of year, I like to quote Araucaria's amazing anagram...
"O hark the herald angels sing the boy's descent, which lifted up the world", which produces "WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT/ALL SEATED IN THE GROUND"
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
"O hark the herald angels sing the boy's descent, which lifted up the world", which produces "WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT/ALL SEATED IN THE GROUND"
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Goodbye, Araucaria
Hugh Stephenson: For over 55 years John Graham's puzzles entertained (and educated and informed) generations of Guardian solvers
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
At this time of year, I like to quote Araucaria's amazing anagram...
"O hark the herald angels sing the boy's descent, which lifted up the world", which produces "WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT/ALL SEATED IN THE GROUND"
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
"O hark the herald angels sing the boy's descent, which lifted up the world", which produces "WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT/ALL SEATED IN THE GROUND"
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
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“Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush,
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush, –
Weave him a coffin of rush,
Dig him a grave where the soft mosses grow,
Raise him a tombstone of snow.”
Christina Rossetti (1848)
#photography #snowberry #Macro #PotD #poetry #Rossetti #berries #plant #nature
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush, –
Weave him a coffin of rush,
Dig him a grave where the soft mosses grow,
Raise him a tombstone of snow.”
Christina Rossetti (1848)
#photography #snowberry #Macro #PotD #poetry #Rossetti #berries #plant #nature
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush,
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush, –
Weave him a coffin of rush,
Dig him a grave where the soft mosses grow,
Raise him a tombstone of snow.”
Christina Rossetti (1848)
#photography #snowberry #Macro #PotD #poetry #Rossetti #berries #plant #nature
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush, –
Weave him a coffin of rush,
Dig him a grave where the soft mosses grow,
Raise him a tombstone of snow.”
Christina Rossetti (1848)
#photography #snowberry #Macro #PotD #poetry #Rossetti #berries #plant #nature
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Thin, begrimed, apprehensive man returns from exile & is met with variety of reactions from his Russian middle-class family ~ mother’s shocked incredulity, maid’s apprehension, young girl’s fearful uncertainty & boy’s excitement (Ilya Repin, Unexpected Return (1888)
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Thin, begrimed, apprehensive man returns from exile & is met with variety of reactions from his Russian middle-class family ~ mother’s shocked incredulity, maid’s apprehension, young girl’s fearful uncertainty & boy’s excitement (Ilya Repin, Unexpected Return (1888)
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Reposted by P.K. Munroe
Sir Henry Bendyshe and his first and only son, also Henry, by Thomas Stayner at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex. Sir Henry died in 1717 at the age of 43. His son had died a few months earlier.
#MonumentsMonday #MemorialsMonday
#MonumentsMonday #MemorialsMonday
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Sir Henry Bendyshe and his first and only son, also Henry, by Thomas Stayner at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex. Sir Henry died in 1717 at the age of 43. His son had died a few months earlier.
#MonumentsMonday #MemorialsMonday
#MonumentsMonday #MemorialsMonday
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More people should have a fire extinguisher at home. Especially if they have hobbies that might increase the risk of a fire. They start at about £20, and if you need one of the more expensive ones, they're only £70ish. Buy a bloody fire extinguisher.
December 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
More people should have a fire extinguisher at home. Especially if they have hobbies that might increase the risk of a fire. They start at about £20, and if you need one of the more expensive ones, they're only £70ish. Buy a bloody fire extinguisher.
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A Roman dagger from a waterlogged environment at #Vindolanda Roman fort in #Northumberland.
Every Roman soldier carried a dagger like this. The handle is missing - it may have been made of bone or wood.
Early AD 2nd C.
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
📸 my own.
Every Roman soldier carried a dagger like this. The handle is missing - it may have been made of bone or wood.
Early AD 2nd C.
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
📸 my own.
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A Roman dagger from a waterlogged environment at #Vindolanda Roman fort in #Northumberland.
Every Roman soldier carried a dagger like this. The handle is missing - it may have been made of bone or wood.
Early AD 2nd C.
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
📸 my own.
Every Roman soldier carried a dagger like this. The handle is missing - it may have been made of bone or wood.
Early AD 2nd C.
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
📸 my own.
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#StandingStoneSunday
Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC.
📸My own #History
Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC.
📸My own #History
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#StandingStoneSunday
Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC.
📸My own #History
Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC.
📸My own #History
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Got another lunar halo, this time with added Jupiter!
#nature #photography #astrophotography #moon #sky
#nature #photography #astrophotography #moon #sky
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Got another lunar halo, this time with added Jupiter!
#nature #photography #astrophotography #moon #sky
#nature #photography #astrophotography #moon #sky
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Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC
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John Whorf (American | 1903 - 1959). Connecticut Farm after the Snow (watercolor).
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
John Whorf (American | 1903 - 1959). Connecticut Farm after the Snow (watercolor).
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Reposted by P.K. Munroe
Reposted by P.K. Munroe
It is rare to find Hans Heysen's early work from when he was at Académie Julian and Colarossi’s Academy in Paris in the decade before WW1. This work, painted on a cold Parisian morning, is prosaically titled, 'From the Apartment Window, Paris, 1901.'
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It is rare to find Hans Heysen's early work from when he was at Académie Julian and Colarossi’s Academy in Paris in the decade before WW1. This work, painted on a cold Parisian morning, is prosaically titled, 'From the Apartment Window, Paris, 1901.'
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ARRIVED SAFE HAVING A REAL GOOD TIME HOTEL GOOD FOOD GOOD WHAT WITH THE FAGS & BEER CHEAP NO TAX ON RACING YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WEATHER VERY GOOD. BERT YOU WOULD BE IN YOUR GLORY WITH BEER SO CHEAP HOPE YOU ARE ALL KEEPING WELL. CHEERIO FOR NOW.
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
ARRIVED SAFE HAVING A REAL GOOD TIME HOTEL GOOD FOOD GOOD WHAT WITH THE FAGS & BEER CHEAP NO TAX ON RACING YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WEATHER VERY GOOD. BERT YOU WOULD BE IN YOUR GLORY WITH BEER SO CHEAP HOPE YOU ARE ALL KEEPING WELL. CHEERIO FOR NOW.
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‘tis the season…
Join me and David Burton/Phishtitz as we discuss flies, fly tying, testing, fishing and seasonality. That’s the plan, but we might go a bit off piste.
Dorset Chalk Stream Club, West Stafford Village Hall, Friday the 12th of December, 7.30pm.
And there’s a raffle!
Join me and David Burton/Phishtitz as we discuss flies, fly tying, testing, fishing and seasonality. That’s the plan, but we might go a bit off piste.
Dorset Chalk Stream Club, West Stafford Village Hall, Friday the 12th of December, 7.30pm.
And there’s a raffle!
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
‘tis the season…
Join me and David Burton/Phishtitz as we discuss flies, fly tying, testing, fishing and seasonality. That’s the plan, but we might go a bit off piste.
Dorset Chalk Stream Club, West Stafford Village Hall, Friday the 12th of December, 7.30pm.
And there’s a raffle!
Join me and David Burton/Phishtitz as we discuss flies, fly tying, testing, fishing and seasonality. That’s the plan, but we might go a bit off piste.
Dorset Chalk Stream Club, West Stafford Village Hall, Friday the 12th of December, 7.30pm.
And there’s a raffle!
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Will people start thinking before they vote please? Why are rich businessmen jumping from right wing politician to the next right wing politician? Clue: it’s not for the greater good or to promote prosperity for anyone else
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Will people start thinking before they vote please? Why are rich businessmen jumping from right wing politician to the next right wing politician? Clue: it’s not for the greater good or to promote prosperity for anyone else
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Larkin's poem 'Here' talks of Hull's 'barge-crowded water'. To give an idea of what that meant, here's Neil Holmes' view up the River Hull as recently as 1984, the year before Larkin's death. The lower photo is my shot of the same view in 2024, just 40 years later.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Larkin's poem 'Here' talks of Hull's 'barge-crowded water'. To give an idea of what that meant, here's Neil Holmes' view up the River Hull as recently as 1984, the year before Larkin's death. The lower photo is my shot of the same view in 2024, just 40 years later.
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Reposted by P.K. Munroe
