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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 1d

See also the Starch Goods section here (scroll down quite a way) Not that useful but a bit of info on making them

www.glias.org.uk/journals/8-b...

Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society

The Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society is a registered charity founded in 1968 dedicated to exploring, recording and explaining the industrial sites of London

www.glias.org.uk

Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 1d

Found this (I tried to use bing as you'd struck out on Google! 😃)

www.verymeaty.com/fresh-meat/c...

Why Are Shrimps And Bananas Together? (Fully Explained)

Shrimps and bananas - two foods that you wouldn't normally associate with each other.

www.verymeaty.com

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 1d

Should anyone be interested, here's the view from it whilst rotating. Taken last year and filmed at 16x speed...

youtu.be/pbx3MbiPWGA?...

London from the BT Tower

YouTube video by Richard May

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 2d

Did he at least have a curly wig? If he was going method he'd have to have been agent Grendel

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 2d

And he still claims to know nothing about marillion?

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 2d

Sheffield Cathedral. An interesting combination of medieval parish church and 1960s additions

Inside Sheffield Cathedral. Looking east down the medieval nave from next to the modern don't

The exterior of the cathedral from the SW showing the mix of medieval and modern

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 2d

Birmingham from the top of the BT offices in Snow Hill

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 4d

I left my original psp (along with a bottle of gin) on a coach somewhere in the middle of Turkey after a waking up blurry from a 12 hour drive. Had to buy a replacement in duty free later

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 4d

I'd best not look for that on the work laptop but definitely will look it up when I get home. Thanks for the heads up. FEVER!!!!!

Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 4d

Ace isn't it. I know what I'm doing when I get home tomorrow night

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 4d

I still love the PSP and dig it out from time to time (in fact regretting that I didn't stick it in the bag today as I'm working away with an overnight stop and lots of trains). LocoRoco and Patapon are two truly unknown classics. Did you ever play them? I sense they might have been up your street

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 4d

I am new to you this year but are you telling me this story is just some old shit?

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 4d

Morning! Up and out at sparrowfart today with the boy before heading to get a train to Sheffield. The clouds were playing silly games at 5am when they thought nobody was watching
#clouds #moon #beforesunrise #blackandwhite

An oval shaped cloud (I just missed getting the phone out of my pocket when it was being almost perfectly circular) flanked by trees and a fenceline

The same cloud a minute or two later further down the path. Just one small tree on the horizon. The cloud has now become a triangle

A third photo of the same cloud formation with the same tree as the second photo but again, taken from further along the railway path. The cloud is now, to my mind at least, in the shape of Australia

Final of four photos. Back In an embankment on the railway path with the cloud again flanked by bushes and a fence. This time the formation has changed to two imperfect circles joined together

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 6d

A meeting of minds
#dog #hedgehog

Henry the Springador comes nose to nose with one of the garden hedgehogs

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 7d

Mind you, for the TV show (not watched it yet) I'll wager they film it in Kent/Sussex. Far too likely that Mr Coogan would risk a driving ban if he was travelling around the M25 to film

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 7d

Yep this. There's a bit in one of the first episodes of from the oasthouse that says it's a modern replica

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 7d

This is a great album. Give it a whirl paying what you like, and then go back and pay a bit more coz it's worth it.

Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend @penfriendrocks.bsky.social · 8d

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House Of Stories, by Penfriend

11 track album

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 7d

After some good cards and stuff? Give my old mate Amelia a look and make her birthday

Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 8d

As it’s my birthday, you’ll all share my art and links cos it’s the LAW, right? An attention whore’s dream come true!

Cards n nonsense
Dippyfishcards.etsy.com

Proper art
Artofnote.sumupstore.com

Kofi (misc and donations)
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/go...

Pls buy my things #art #artist #bsnm #birthday

Art of note birds drawn on my late mother’s music scores and things

Silly greetings cards cos I am not THAT serious an artist…

Painted Robin miniature on a rock. Gilded with gold leaf. Available in artofnote.sumupstore.com

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 7d

Watching you watching me. #Deer #NorthPennines

A family of three deer are standing at the edge of some trees. They are all staring straight at me

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 8d

Big hugs gorgeous.

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 9d

From the top I followed the wagonways back to parkhead station and then down the Stanhope and Tyne Railway line

#auden #weardale #sdr200 #wagonway

An old railway carriage, some bikes, and a sculpture of a horse pulling a wagon at Parkhead Station

Crawleyside tunnel. It's a steep drop down Crawleyside bank

Old Stockton and Darlington Railway marker above the tunnel

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 9d

W. H. Auden, 1940

Photos from a mountain bike ride on the wagonways of Weardale.

Bolts Law Engine House was the highest point of standard gauge railway in the UK. The engine pulled wagons up from the quarries and mines of Rookhope

Another view of the engine house with my mountain bike in front. Sadly the engine wasn't there to pull me up

Me on the mountain bike at the top of Bolts Law

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 9d

The derelict lead smelting mill
Flued to the chimney up the hill
That smokes no answer any more
But points a landmark on Bolts Law
The finger of all questions. There
In Rookhope I was first aware
Of self & notself death & dread
There I dropped pebbles listened heard
The reservoir of darkness stirred

The most remote National Cycle Way signpost?

Looking up the old railway line of Bolts Law Incline

View down to Rookhope and beyond from Bolts Law

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Rich May @richmay.co.uk · 13d

Happy 200th birthday to Locomotion No 1 and the Stockton and Darlington Railway #sdr200