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Patricia Stoughton
@patriciastoughton.bsky.social
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Mostly writing about the tidal Thames and concentrating on my blog: thetidalthames.com Occasionally writing about Brittany, France and Belgium, and their cultural links with the UK. Was writing for "hidden europe" magazine and others...
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 9h
Great that you could watch and capture a moment.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 9h
🙃
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 9h
Really parading itself. Wonderful!
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 13h
A sort of Rothko...
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 13h
Stunning.
I though I was photographing a first glimpse of the moon over a building but when it didn't rise I realised that it was a rather large satellite dish...
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 13h
Such a peaceful scene made special by the silhouette of the little boat.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 13h
High tide at Lambeth Bridge this afternoon.
Grey-green River Thames almost reaching the bottom of the pink-edged arches on Lambeth Bridge. Dark green plane tree leaves are hanging down over the water.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 14h
Autumn colour in a London garden square.
A Japanese maple in its blazing flame coloured autumn leaves. There is the roof of a little tiled garden hut and on the left, shiny, green camellia leaves.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 14h
"Flame tree"...
A Japanese maple in its blazing flame coloured autumn leaves. Around it are green leaved trees.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 14h
Flower stall, Sloane Square, Chelsea.
A bright flower stall with a yellow canopy at a corner of Sloane Square, Chelsea, London. A girl in blue jeans is walking past.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 22h
Morning I.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 1d
A Rothko inspired foreshore..
A river Thames foreshore with differently shaped sand lines, stones and pebbles, with a strip of water beyond.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 1d
For fans of the "Yellow Deck Chair":
Series 57, episode iv: 'The Invisible Man finds his deck chair on its side...'
The yellow deck chair on the blue and white Thames Marine Services' fixed barge is lying on its side.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 1d
Thames Marine Services' refuelling barge CONQUESTOR.
A blue and white refuelling barge with a yellow locker, passing a grey mooring barge, making its way upstream along the River Thames.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 1d
💕 He is adorable.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
They're lovely here at this time of year when the sun is lower and lights up the leaves.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you. And there's a lovely brown-sailed barge in the background.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
Like a painting...beautiful arrangement of light and colours.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
So far, so good, thanks.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
Not a cloud in the sky today. Storm Amy didn't bother us. It was only slightly breezier than normal. Hope you didn't suffer any damage.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
@iangrebe.bsky.social Hello Ian. Glad to have *caught* you. It's not so easy finding friends here. 👋
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
Riverside meditation...
A figure sitting on a bench beneath a sunlit plane tree with branches hanging over the River Thames. Beyond, you can make out a couple of Lambeth Bridge's arches.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
Sorry you've had a rough time and hope that you've now turned a corner for the better.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
Thames sightseeing boat MERCIA.
Her crew aboard, having been ferried across by workboat JOANNIE B, sightseeing boat MERCIA heads to Westminster Pier. In the background green plane trees and the red hearts of the National Covid Memorial Wall.
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Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social · 2d
Thames workboat JOANNIE B.
Busy River Thames workboat JOANNIE B heading back to her mooring having delivered crew to a sightseeing boat.
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