David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A real one which is still there at Carnforth. I think the coal was loaded from wagon to hopper and then hauled up to top of tower for delivery to tender. 110
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Charles is getting to the age when he may well be asked to name the PM. Not being able to remember will not necessarily be evidence of memory loss. 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 26/06/2026My closest match is Pope Leo XIV britmonkey.com/2020s-politi... 010
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The Feast of St Augustine of Canterbury and a reminder of how migrants in a small boat landed on the Kent Coast bringing a foreign Middle Eastern religion to the Angles from Rome. 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Looking for lamb for Easter Day. It’s all so expensive. This seems more like it! 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 17/03/2026They have potential in boating. Here are three monks bringing out a priest to bless passengers on the excursion boat to Mt Athos. 011
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 30/12/2025When I did History at Reading University in 1981 I did a course on Medieval church architecture with Brian Kemp who wrote a book on church monuments. Sure enough all this gets a mention. It was so long ago I only half remember it. 120
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 30/12/2025I meant the folds at the base of the shroud look a bit like the folds in something like this example: framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/... 120
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Love the Ad for The Observer in the middle of @theguardian.com app! A reminder to read it later. 020
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 19/09/2025A newly built rabbit hutch can be yours for just £920K in Godalming. How can anybody young afford to live here. 030
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Today is the Feast of St James. Here he is in a church in Tavira near Faro, wearing what looks like a pirate hat. Ora pro nobis! 020
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Reminded of the wooden temporary grave markers now in the cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral, like this one. Their fragility conveys the tragic waste of life in WWI. 010
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 19/07/2025It’s not yet 06.30 and I’m reading some great articles in @theguardian.com. One about a gangster granny and the other featuring people and their collection of sex toys. I now need coffee to stop me conflating the two. 100
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The beach at Tavira, Algarve looking like a Rothko painting. 020
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 26/05/2025The news is so depressing it’s best to stick to the Daily Star! 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I’m old enough to not quite like the original as an innovation from the lion and wheel variants but yes I agree. 020
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Interesting that the Loading Gauge isn’t the problem. The only UK double deck train wasn’t very successful because it was too cramped. 110
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Amesbury, one of Cooper’s “thugs”? Good juxtaposition from the BBC. 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Afissos 2015 when Grexit was feared and before Brexit was a thing! 110
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Good to see water meadows in #Godalming doing what they are meant to do, taking flood water from the River Wey. 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 03/01/2025-1C with brilliant sunshine, so a great morning to run up and down 101m of hills, wrapped up against the frost like an extra from a Scandi Noir, though I didn’t find any bodies. 021
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I see I’m about to join the 8%! I guess it keeps me young! 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Thought the Holy Father had taken up cricket when I saw this BBC headline! 010
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 01/12/2024The LT depot had a bus from my childhood which made feel old although the bus seemed old to me back then. 110
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Waited patiently for it to stop raining but in between leaving flat and reaching front porch it started again so I got soaked! 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 24/11/2024You’ve not been watching this by any chance? Rebecca Hall has not been right since. 010
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Here’s another one on the Grand Union Canal tow path near Rickmansworth. 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Just finished Alan Hollinghurst’s ’Our Evenings’. At first it seems a little disjointed but by the end comes the realisation that it is part of a skilful and deliberate literary recreation of a found and edited memoir. A poignant reflection on, memory, aging and loss. 010
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 10/10/2024A wild day ahead in Guildford. BBC playing safe with forecast unlike 1987. 000
David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 05/10/2024Enjoying Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ which has a new depth that comes with accumulated years, despite a deceased character being the same age as me. Each chapter has such an intensity that I have to pause before beginning the next. Recommend. 140