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Roddy P

@butnoidea.co.uk
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 9h
I think this, taken from near Square? Pentagon is long even height ridge behind, Diamond a little higher than Triangle. Very even slope w consistent angle to West of those two.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Photo location difficult to get accurately, but direct line between #2 and summit puts us near #3. Noted broken down wall in foreground.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 19/09/2026
2 weeks after the end of summer. Please, just make it stop.
Supermarket aisle full of Christmas goods in mid September.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 24/08/2026
www.davidshrigley.com
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 30/07/2026
Line of wall is a big help.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 22/07/2026
Overlaid on OS map for a bit of context and scale...
Fire front and burnt area overlaid on OS map
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 09/07/2026
I think we're at cross purposes somewhere 🙃? Contours say it's doing this ⬇️ with the main river flowing towards the viewer. What happens in the far distance is bit of a mystery - looks like the flat area is actually a watershed.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 09/07/2026
Yes. Easy to get that wrong though: Your brain follows the little stream heading directly down from the viewpoint and automatically assumes all the water is flowing away from the viewer. The angle of the streams joining is a subtle feature. Easy to mistake it for this:
Original image with minor paint tweak to make the river seem to flow in the opposite direction
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 09/07/2026
If you haven't already, get in touch with Geoff Gwatkin who produces beautiful hand-drawn parish maps with field names from the 1840's tithe surveys. www.geoffgwatkinmaps.co.uk/index.php/Home
Example parish map of Ashperton showing field names
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 09/07/2026
River is flowing towards viewer. Marked summit is black star. Yellow arrow points to camera location on map.
Annotated photo showing countour map and arrows marking corresponding features
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 29/06/2026
Very handsome! although the lighting makes him look liike he's been swimming in the Reflecting Pool... Still missing our guy, who we said goodbye to last summer.
Handsome Romanian hound on a pink towel
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 25/06/2026
"Mon" = monument. Line of sight to penmaen-bach clips the easter corner of the enclosed non-CROW land.
Map showing lines of sight from monument to Allt Wen and penmaen bach
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 23/06/2026
That's up to 8 inches thick... Shome mishtake, shurely?
"The next step in the process is for the contractor to apply the American Flag Blue Rhino Pipeliner 5000 at approximately 100-200 millimeters thick across the surface of the Reflecting Pool. "
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 31/05/2026
Leaving for home after Montreux '83 in the #Quantel #MicroConsultants company #Cessna #Citation
Cessna Citation reg G-OMCL ("Go Micro Consultants Ltd") on the tarmac at Geneva.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 31/05/2026
@dexterstechlab.bsky.social Scanning some old negatives, found this from 1983ish: Working on the cel animation package for classic #Quantel #Paintbox at Turnpike Road. 8" floppies, #SonyWalkman, DEC #VT100, a dodgy haircut and a huge analog VTR on the cart.
Engineer devloping animation software for Quantel Paintbox, 1983. Assorted obsolete 1980's tech visible including 8" floppies, sony walkman
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 30/05/2026
Help! What's this bee? N Herefordshire today. iRecord/Google says white-tailed, but it's got two dark bands. Colours don't look right for a shrill carder? #bees #bumblebee @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @bumblebeehaviour.bsky.social
Unidentifed bumblebee feeding from chive flowerUnidentified bumblebee :(
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 03/04/2026
I was struggling to visualize the orientation - hope this helps. Africa on L with Cape Town at 12 O'clock. S America bottom right.
Google earth image showing same alignment as NASA Artemis photo
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 22/02/2026
On Hergest Ridge today, and very glad I wasn't any higher. Lovely, but very windy.
Trig point on Hergest ridge with pile of large rocks. Group of Monkey Puzzle trees in the distance.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 07/12/2024
Haven't been to Water-Break-it's-Neck for a while. Flowing well today. The boy's getting a bit old for long walks, so this fitted the bill nicely. #Cymru #waterfalls. Stay safe in #stormdarragh
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 02/12/2024
Love the Glyderau. 👍
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 24/11/2024
#nhs free health checks are wonderful, but beware any joshing about your diet etc is on your record for perpetuity😎 @nhsmillion.bsky.social
Medical notes re diet shows pork pies and cheese
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 19/11/2024
My first 'owned' one. Purchased by knocking on the door of the office in Cambridge!
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 19/11/2024
Technically not 'mine' but the first I ever coded for.
Elliott 903, 8K 18-bit words of core memory, paper tape I/O
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 15/11/2024
The mist is just, well, misty. But the spiders and dew have done a cracking job.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 15/11/2024
Why on earth does #RoyalMail system allow this: Accidentally posted an item using the wrong (previously used) QR code. Both old and new packages accepted, and delivered. Even the tracking shows it.
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 14/11/2024
#fungifriends Huge pile of wood-chippings from September now has amazing amount of fungal growth. white stuff everywhere!
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 14/11/2024
Tree geeks: What's going on here? #trees Willow by our local pond has branches that have weirdly melded together!
Close-up of tree with weird branching structureWillow tree by pond with strange branching structure
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 14/11/2024
"official pictures of its own top secret car."
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 14/11/2024
Great sunset last night, looking towards #bannaubrycheiniog. Photo would be much improved if I'd had tripod/torch/some vague level of competence or familiarity with the DSLR in question.
Rather blurry sunset behind Pen y Fan, from North Herefordshire
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Roddy P @butnoidea.co.uk · 11/11/2023
Plenty of Red Admirals still out at Hergest Croft today. In Mid-November... #climatechange #lepidoptera
Red Admiral butterfly among fallen autumn leaves
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