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Dan/Danj/Daniel

@danj72.bsky.social

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Maker of Lanolin, beer, pictures Reader Writer Runner Mainly #vss365 #photography #poem #moon Pictures and writing my own unless credited

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · Nov 19

#Sunrise over Pollington church
East #Yorkshire

March 1st 2017
#photography

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 13h

Lazy hazy waning gibbous

October 8th 2025

#Photography

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 14h

Happy birthday?

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 23h

A bare breeze flows through an April evening
Rippling the Dogs Mercury carpeting the woodland floor
A hare breaks and bolts across its surface
Slaloming #Ash saplings
Slowly lost amongst increasing upstanding density
Leaving a long green shiver to dissipate

#vss365

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 1d

The softest of bumps
When individuals meet
Culture #clash it's not

#Vss365 #Haiku

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 2d

Read and share in the journey along with the accumulating discomfort.
It's worth it 🙂

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3d

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unexpectedly lengthy) walk-in-progress over the past few days. It's much appreciated. The full thread (128 posts) is below.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 9d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 2d

We may look like we refuse to #associate with each other, but we all look for opportunity and threat
Appearances can be deceptive
You haven't worked that out just yet

#Vss365

Starlings

October 6th 2025

#Birds #Photography

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 2d

So bright tonight

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately I didn't have it with me earlier.

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 2d

Full beam
Harvest moon

October 6th 2025

#Photography

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 3d

I really enjoyed it. I first read your night walk from Donny to Goole. I know the landscape and could relate to where you were, likewise with this one. Your Ridgeway walk sounded epic too.

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 3d

Dad was a teacher

He left the game
Not on his watch
Not in his name
That teaching only led to numbers
A spelling score was not the same
As building people

My Dad was a teacher

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 3d

Dad was a teacher

Lost his way
Lost his spirit
On the day that
They decided that a score
In single subjects mattered more
Than how each pupil
Whirred and clicked
They only wanted boxes ticked

But Dad was a teacher

#3/4

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 3d

Dad was a teacher

Not every lesson in a class
Not one to let occasion pass
His trips away into the wild
On fell and moor
Gave each child
A sense of awe
Adventures
Never had before

Dad was a teacher

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 3d

#Worldteachersday
#Poem

Dad was a teacher
Loved his maths
Loved his kids
Loved the paths
Used weekly for cross country runs
Wasn't just
About the sums

Dad was a teacher

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 3d

Ghostly

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 4d

I've been thinking about your question each of the last few days and today I have reached this as my answer youtu.be/TfEoVxy7VDQ?...

Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life (Official Video)

YouTube video by ManicStPreachersVEVO

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🙂

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 4d

A hazy moon waxing behind the storms veil

October 4th 2025

#Photography

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 4d

The canal by Heck bridge at sunrise is March
I'm really enjoying sharing your walk and thoughts

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 4d

The wind and last light paint with an Oaks branches and leaves

October 4th 2025

#Stormhour #Photography

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 4d

Each lap
Digging out an unsustainable pace
Breathing becoming ragged
Legs increasingly leaden
And the #elastic
Holding them to the group stretches
Until it inevitably snaps
Whiplash
And now it's survival
It never really was racing

#Vss365

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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 4d

Silk button galls on a wind blown Oak leaf

October 4th 2025

#Photography

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks 🙂

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 5d

The Geminids rain
Down from the frostbitten sky
Racing to their end

#Dailyhaikuprompt frost

Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 5d

Nigel's publisher really didn't do much in the way of research before putting his autobiography "My Struggles" into print.
Thankfully as soon as the issue was raised it didn't take them long to make the decision to #Pulp the lot, saving us common people from its horrors.

#Vss365

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