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Laine Thompson

@marlinhoister.bsky.social

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The sailor cannot see the North but knows the needle can. Full time carer for someone with LongCovid. Mostly photographs and thoughts connected to my immediate landscape in the ever decreasing circles of my life.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · Nov 16

Don't let me drown...

Tide rolling between a set of pier legs in the sunset. A tightrope strung between two of them. Three people. One balancing and attempting to walk the tightrope, the other two watching.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 6m

On a broken mosaic of earth -
a jumble of red brick, grey slab, white quartz -
the oystercatchers gather.

I didn’t think I’d see any this evening as the tide was so high, and yet here they were, amongst the industrial detritus below the banks.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞

Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀

From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a polychrome mosaic depicting Mediterranean marine life using earthy-coloured tesserae (mosaic tiles) against a black tessarae background. At the centre of the mosaic is a pale-coloured octopus composed of off-white and light brown tesserae with some of its writhing tentacles wrapped around the body of a lobster composed of light red, and pinky-brown tesserae. The octopus has an egg shaped body/head and it stares at the viewer with large eyes made of brown and pink circles with black centres.

The octopus and lobster are surrounded by various species of large and small Mediterranean fish and a mollusc, including an eel and a flat fish. On the left hand side of the scene there is a small kingfisher bird on top of a rock. Some of the fish appear to be watching the fight between the octopus and the lobster

This mosaic comes from the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. Now on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 12m

Money.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you. There’s always hope. And there are always bright moments - often sneaking in - to surprise. Just some days are more difficult than others. (As I’m sure you’ll understand.)💚

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes I feel I'm not where I'm supposed to be. No anchor and nothing to set me back on course. Unmoored, drifting, tempted to sink.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 3h

Sundown coming down too soon, ... I'll take a glass of memories and understand the blues. ♫

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 3h

👋 Hello Julia and Fiete 🙂
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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 5h

The butterfly,
asleep in the distances
of afternoon sunlight.
I lean back, looking for home.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 5h

Oh yes.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 7h

I confess to having absolutely no interest in it when I was growing up. Lol.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 7h

“Across the water” would be all the way to Norway. (Possibly Denmark depending on view). I think if you could connect a line from the pier it would stretch directly to Bergen. So can view along the coastline in both directions for quite some distance but not “across the water”.🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 8h

Fair bathers attacked by an octopus.
Sidetracked. Not quite sure how I ended up here.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 8h

Wade not want not …

or something.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 9h

The deep inky blue of night lingers, Venus defiant in a soft felt sky. A slow blooming of light bleeds onto the deep. Beneath it the arch, iron, black and cold, where three gulls are frozen in a silent council of white. Moonlight and long dark shadows. A silent truce before the sun takes possession.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 11h

Morning Elaine…🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 11h

Before, during and after…

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 11h

Morning lol🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning 🌅

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 13h

“One day the tide will go out and you won't be there to see it return.”

Beach Buoy @12bbytheseaside.bsky.social · 21h

The cat is out of the bag down on Seaton Sands, Hartlepool.
Read all about it. 🤔
sunnyseaton.blogspot.co.uk

Life's A Beach. The Driftwood Lectures...

sunnyseaton.blogspot.co.uk

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning lol.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 23h

Neither of them fill me with much enthusiasm. But then I really don’t recognise this party as a Labour Party.

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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 1d

Gold > $4,000 an ounce. Enjoy guarding your stashes, gold hoarders. I invested my pittance in trail shoes, tents, fly rods & going fishing. But I did carve a duck from a piece of driftwood & covered it in gold leaf. No golden eggs....so far..... #allwashedup

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

The oystercatchers roosting.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

… and it’s goodnight from them.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

It’s goodnight from me…

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