Category: Photography

Neglected Structures & Overgrown Places #10 — Drains & Gullies

Drain 01

Drain 02

Broken Gully

Can I say it? In the good old days, roads were swept regularly and drains kept clean of leaves and debris.

Nowadays, we are lucky in the UK if the borough or district councils do these two jobs more than one a year. It’s usually more a case of breakdown maintenance i.e. fixing things when the drains are so bunged up with leaves that the road floods and becomes impassable to vehicles.

In the context of general world chaos, this might seem no more than a tiny inconvenience, but I’ve decided to moan about a minor issue as there’s still a slight chance of having my voice heard.

Regarding international issues, I’m but a grain of sand and a voice crying in the wilderness. Who actually cares what I think?

Wordless Wednesday — Desensitisation Therapy for Miss Muffet

Garden Orb Spider Web

I know “Wordless Wednesday” should mean just that, but I couldn’t resist posting two short videos to go with the image above.

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Monday Morning #Haiku 34 — Autumn Steals Summer

Virginia Creeper & Ivy

Wind whooshes drizzle;
autumnal red says goodbye
to summer. Frosts soon.

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Thank you to those who voted and provided feedback to my poll last week. Those in favour of images and punctuated haiku won the vote, but this doesn’t rule out the occasional unpunctuated haiku in the future. You can see the full results of the Poll here

Neglected Structures & Overgrown Places #09 — Monster Behind Broken Glass

Monster Behind Broken Glass

This broken glass panel is at the bottom of a door. If anybody wants to know how to produce a work of art like this, read on.

  1. Don’t bother winching up your door and sorting out the hinges until the structure sags down so much that every time someone opens and closes the door it creaks loud enough to wake up the entire street.
  2. Let it deteriorate further, so the door starts sticking (a note of caution here: don’t pull at it too hard or it can suddenly fly open so you end up on your backside in the flowerbed).
  3. Leave the door swinging open, turn your back for a moment, and a southwesterly gale crashes it against a flower-pot repeatedly, weakening the glass.
  4. Door totally sticks when your son tries to open it, so he gives it a “little” push (kicking not required) with his size 14 shoes and hey presto …

As for how to trap a monster in the glass, that’s my secret.

Wordless Wednesday — As the Labrador Sleeps, Mr Fox Creeps!

Mr Fox Visiting

Some of you might have missed my video of this fox’s close encounter, as a cub, with a certain Labrador. You can watch the video and read the story surrounding it here.