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White cloud bubbling up from the bottom left hand corner, passed behind a phone cable. Above the cloud, the moon rests in the blue. Left of centre (at 3 minutes to 12) above the moon and off to the right (at 20 minutes past 12) sit a pair of cloud-white objects. They look like they could be moons of the moon, or UFO’s. However, raindrops on the window pane is their mundanity of reality.
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Just a bridge, or maybe a portal to the other side?
Shining railway lines disappear into the distance, through the tunnel of a simple bridge and off of the earth - spooky, eh?
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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That was an interesting trip, this afternoon.
A road sign points to the right, saying “Greenland 2”.
December 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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7 December 1929 | A Polish Jew, Gedale (Gdala) Hejblum, was born in Łuków. He emigrated to France.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune-la-Rolande on 5 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
A vintage black-and-white portrait of a young boy with neatly combed hair, wearing a dark coat and a light-colored tie.
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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'Fragments Vol.2' by @iainsarjeant.bsky.social has arrived from the printers! 🔥

A massive thank you to everyone who picked one up... your books will be with you very soon.

Still a handful of copies available for £19 each here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Tess - long since gone, yet every time I peel an orange I expect her to come ambling through looking for a segment.
#SundayPixBelovedCritters
A photo of a black Giant Schnauzer sitting pretty on a wicker rocking chair, in the woods up the hill. She is posed in profile wearing a red collar. The chair is front end on. The trees are mostly silver birch, shot in winter sun.
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Pop music
Dried-out poppy seed head
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Yesterday, I finished reading Western Lane by @chetnamaroo.bsky.social
Today has kicked off with Michiko Aoyama’s The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park.
If these are markers for contemporary literature, every book has to have a boy running in the mountains. No bad thing, given these two examples.
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Tender, humane, & it is read.
@chetnamaroo.bsky.social writes a beautiful, quiet story. @john-self.bsky.social is quoted, saying “It is a novel that says a lot without making lots of noise, that speaks volumes on family and grief without assuming that the reader needs everything to be spelled out.”
The cover of Chetna Maroo’s novel, Western Lane
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Shetlands getting frisky.
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
Laig Bay, Eigg
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I’m sharing a what3words address to help you find this specific location. Tap to see exactly where it is:

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This is the what3words address for a 3 metre square location near Burley, Idaho.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Fluffy Goose Bath
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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A photographer talks photography
Shadow of someone who uses their hands expressively whilst talking
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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A detail of a painting (most probably by Thomas Gainsborough, because it is in Gainsborough’s House museum in Sudbury, Suffolk - I usually take notes when I grab photos but I clearly didn’t this time). The museum and gallery is superb.
#SundayPixPctures
An oil painting of a young woman with tightly pulled back hair, carrying a hair clip of two, small, pink roses and foliage on the top of her head. The set of her face and look in her eyes shine with quiet self-assurance. She is wearing a pink, silk ribbon around her neck, a slightly deeper pink or maybe gold earring in her right ear. Her hair is mostly reddish, fading to a darker tone around her ear. The artist’s brush strokes and the texture of the canvas are visible in places. The subject’s face is lit from her right, with shadows to her left.
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Railroad tracks and the entrance gate of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. COntemporary photo of the Memorial site.
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Light & shade on brassicas
A field of brassicas, mottled with late afternoon sun & trees shadows.
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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What’s up, ducks?
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Yello Flag (Deluxe Edition)
Beech tree leaves, bright gold in the autumn sunshine
November 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Toad on a (rail) road.
A toad (I think - I am no amphibian expert, don’t you know) on some grass, on top of a long since abandoned railway line. The back/upper side of the toad has dark (nearly black) grey splotches on a lighter grey background. The curve of the eyeballs are just detectable, at the either side of its head. Similarly, the lightness of its underside & belly is just detectable, around the edges. The grass is a mix of fresh greens & faded yellows.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Library borrowing, mid January.
#SundayPixBooks
A book - Summer water by Sarah Moss
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Library borrowings, early March.
#SundayPixBooks
Three books - left to right: Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd; The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre, & Snow by John Banville
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Library borrowings, mid-March.
#SundayPixBooks
Three books - left to right: Mr Wilder & Me by Jonathon Coe; Waste of a Life by Simon Brett, & The Drowned by John Banville
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Library borrowings, early April.
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Three books - left to right: The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby; Shot with Crimson by Nicola Upson, & A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
November 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Three books borrowed from the library, late April.
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Three books - left to right: An Expert in Murder; Sorry for the Dead, & Dear Little Corpses all by Nicola Upson
November 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM