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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This is the Cocking Column - at Cocking, a village on the South Downs upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

It's a big metal column with a ball on top. On a white plinth in a green field.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Did this wall create the idea of Scotland and England? Or was that already there? Or did it come later? Is it a brutal imposition on the landscape? An adornment to the crags of the Whin Sill? I let all that swim in and out of focus while I admired its survival and how damn steep it is.

A landscape view - Hadrian's Wall winds its way into this distance over moorclad hills and crags under a clouded sky

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Honesty in flower among the weeds. Not topical. Not topical at all.

A stem covered in brilliant pinky-purple four petalled flowers. In the background of the photograph, bramble and nettle leaves can be seen.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

History rhymes again! The wren was featured on the British farthing between 1937 and 1961

Close up of a bronze coloured coin with a milled edge featuring a wren facing to the left and bearing the legend 1951 Farthing

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I wish he had known that for the 50th Anniversary edition, the dragon and sun were in red as he originally intended. Even if they did put an annoying red banner bottom right, saying 50th Anniversary. And a horrid ISBN barcode on the back.

50th Anniversary cover of the Hobbit, with Tolkien's original artwork rather messed about as discussed in the post

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Right. It's jam night. Had these damsons in the freezer for a few months now and they need using.

A pan filled with pinky red stewed fruit, with a wooden spoon in it

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ursula Le Guin just moved me to tears again. Here's how:

The oldest argument against SF is both the shallowest and the profoundest: the assertion that SF, like all fantasy, is escapist. .... If it’s worth answering, the best answer is given by Tolkien, author, critic, and scholar. Yes, he said, fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Our local one is Venta Icenorum. The whole walled portion of the site is sheepwalk, and parts of the walls are pretty impressive upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Substantial sections of Roman flint and rubble wall rear up from the bank of grass and nettles created by their slow collapse. On the left, a mature oak tree is growing on the grass grown wall.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So, I just found all the manual focus settings on my mobiles camera. Feeling silly, but very pleased. Have some spindle berries #nature

Bright pink spindle berries against a leafy background on a sunny day.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Picked this pristine hardback up for a quid today. Greatly looking forward to it.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The ice here has thawed and refrozen into strange swirling lines that, as ever, start to look like faces to a willing human mind

Strange swirls and lines appear in the surface of a frozen puddle. A few orange leaves lie scattered across it.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This beauty won't be around much longer. The frost hasn't lifted all day here. #fungifriends

A large, pale, flat topped, lightly frilled fungus in short grass. Both the grass and the fungus are speckled with white frost

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Skyvers is great. So is my mug

A black mug with cyan text "I'm WRITING"

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

'What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battle-ground and theatre of infinite folly?' H.G.Wells The First Men in the Moon #moon #scifi

The moon shines in a circle of radiance over the silhouette of a house

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Well, this is a little beaut. No idea what the id might be. Growing in an alkaline meadow, UK. #fungi

An orange yellow flat topped fungus in short grass

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