Photo of the day

[Driftwood]

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Reindeer being taken for a walk on Portreath beach Cornwall!


Paul.

Is that Santa in his holiday gear with Rudolf

 

[jimmyc]

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An optical elusion where a ship in Cornish water's appears to be floating above the water!


Paul.

Are you blind or trying to trick us.
That's obviously one of them tanker planes they use for wildfires. It's just picked up water.

 

[Manstein]

Men of the walls....

 

[jimmyc]

I love dry stane dykes. There is a new wall about a mile from me next to a rugby club built in the style of a dry stone wall.
But due to HSE regs and the use of cement it looks like someone flung cement and river pebbles against a fence.
It looks like shit and when the frost gets inbetween the stone it's going to blow apart. Its been two years so far. Oh and did I say it looks shit.
I'm not a brickie but I've built better looking stone walls myself. I'm just not fast enough at it to make a living out if it.

 

[Driftwood]

I love dry stane dykes. There is a new wall about a mile from me next to a rugby club built in the style of a dry stone wall.
But due to HSE regs and the use of cement it looks like someone flung cement and river pebbles against a fence.
It looks like shit and when the frost gets inbetween the stone it's going to blow apart. Its been two years so far. Oh and did I say it looks shit.
I'm not a brickie but I've built better looking stone walls myself. I'm just not fast enough at it to make a living out if it.

It's an art drystane dyking and hard graft. It's truly amazing when you see the stane dykes running away up over the hillsides and to think that some were built well over a 100 years ago

 

[Manstein]

Another with Kenny and his mate doing repairs. Once picked up never put down seems to be the rule. The walls are circa 1840's before that all around was open grazing for cattle on the hoof heading to the cities further south. After that the new railway through Penrith carried most of the trade and the land was enclosed.

 

[Digimonkey]

Marrakesh - Leica and film - I.

 

[Paul L]

 

[Manstein]

Near Tebay.....