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Keith

@k31thw.bsky.social
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Old chap. mostly here to post photos but might occasionally stray into politics (apologies, I just can't help myself!). I'm a long term Pentax SLR/dSLR user and currently have a couple of K3s. One with a 70-200mm and the other with a 17-50mm

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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's #Saturday and here's a tribute act I saw in #Venice #photography #SaturdayNightFever #JohnTravolta #Pentax
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And another warm (i.e. hot) day so have something cool ##ForestFriday #photography #Pentax #Chilterns #snow #trees
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Taken in the Lake District, this scene feels very primaeval to me. #FridayForest #photography #Pentax #trees #ferns
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm not very goos at photographing insects but this pic of a beautiful #demoiselle looked OK. As it's #InsectThursday I might as well post it here #photography
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales. This is now the law. 🧵 on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people... 1/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters
Image of a masked protester

#ProtectVulnerableProtesters
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Browser crashed so 2nd attempt. This #WindowsOnWednesday was taken with a #Pentax K-5 back in 2012. We were staying in an apartment in #Venice that overlooked a canal along which #Gondolas would pass, sometimes with singing #Gondoliers. These windows were in the door fronting the canal
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#water as #abstractart #photography
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Ooh, it's been a while since I was last here. Glad to see it's still working.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The influence of Lisa Ritchie on national infection control continues to risk Clinically Vulnerable lives. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social she MUST go! #Flu #SackRitchie
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I'm biased as I was designated as being clinically vulnerable and my wife as clinically extremely vulnerable. Nothing has really changed with our "underlying conditions" over the last five years. We still mask, we pay for our Covid jabs, we still effectively shield.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
💔 Clinically Vulnerable Families, including children, are still being left behind. We're fighting for clean air, vaccines, antivirals, legal recognition etc. - but we can’t keep going without your help! Every £ supports our work. Please donate if you can🙏 & share if you can't. Thank you!
Clinically Vulnerable People at Risk

#KeepCovidBoosers

SAVE LIVES

Images: person behind a cracked shield, Clinically Vulnerable Families logo
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What Johnson meant - All children must be in school even if it puts themselves or any vulnerable family members at risk of a deadly disease.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
As the Children's module comes to a close, @adamwagner1.bsky.social KC will be sharing our closing statement. Boris Johnson said that "ALL children MUST be in school" and implemented strict fines and prosecutions for non-attendance. Human rights to #educationANDlives put in conflict.
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
As a vulnerable 73 year old, married to a 70 year old extremely vulnerable person it does feel as if the government thinks I'm expendable. Luckily, I can (just) about afford private vaccinations at £95 each.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"Ministers are under pressure to U-turn on the decision to limit access to the Covid vaccine over fears it is creating a two-tier healthcare system as demand for private jabs soars." 1/ @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
NHS under pressure to expand Covid jab rollout after hidden benefits revealed

Research suggests that mRNA Covid jabs could improve cancer outcomes

It is understood that some 13 million people who were eligible for a booster in autumn 2024 can no longer get the jab for free via the NHS (Photo: Kirsty O'Connor/PA)

Alannah Francis

Senior Reporter

October 26, 2025 12:00 pm (Updated 12:34 pm)
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The MILLIONS of people who were denied vaccines are suddenly realising. @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social this was a terrible idea. Not only will the NHS struggle this autumn / winter, but people will suffer and die unnecessarily. It isn't too late for a U-turn!
Community Pharmacy England

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Pharmacy teams have reported major issues to us over the last two days related to large numbers of patients booking COVID-19 vaccinations via the National Booking System (NBS) who are not eligible for the vaccine this winter.

We are working with NHS England to try to address this unacceptable situation and to get more NHS communications issued to help people understand whether they are eligible for the vaccine.

In the meantime, we have created three posters that pharmacy teams can use to help explain about vaccine eligibility this winter:
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Gosh - I've not posted here for 4 months!!! This #photo made me think of an old film called On Golden Pond. Except that's the #Mediterranean rather than a pond. The photo was taken early on a November morning from the balcony of our hotel room in #Torremolinos. #photography #boat #fishing
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This #selfie amused me. Taken during a wet week in #Devon #photography #reflection #humour
Reflection of the photographer on a wet table with two rain drops roughly where the eyes wold be
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Why Do Covid Conscious People Still Try To Stay Well And Healthy Despite All The Evidence That Their Actions Work?
A man and his child
Headline:
Why Do Covid Conscious People Still Try To Stay Well And Healthy Despite All The Evidence That Their Actions Work?
Story by Scorch Nerfelt and Darnelle Booger

Picture from Unsplash
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
All the fun of the fair - taken ten years ago. #photography #Dreamland #Margate #funfair #Pentax
The derelict big dipper at Dreamland, Margate in 2014A close up of the derelict big dipper at Dreamland, Margate in 2014
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A few years ago we had a wet week in north Devon. I guess us photographers make the best of what we have available. #photography #rain #water #Devon #Pentax
Water on a table
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I'm normally absolutely crap at this sort of photo. However, for once, it came out OK #photography #nature #ukwildlife #beautiful #demoiselle #pentax
a beautiful demoiselle
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Anyone else occasionally feel a little #lens envy? #photography #telephoto #Pentax
Professional photographers at Arsenal's stadium. Each with a large and expensive telephoto lens attached to their camera
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Sometimes a bucket and spade just won't do. #photography #Bournemouth #beach #sand #tractor
Tractor on Bournemouth beach
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Maybe a sunny pic is due. #photography #sun #arty #silhouette
A plant in silhouette against an almost setting sun
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Time for something furry #photography #Pentax #MonkeyWorld #gibbon #nature
A gibbon at Monkey World, Dorset
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Shared by @kananaskinyeti.bsky.social on Twitter: "You can’t pretend to be an expert of the thing you are desperately trying to pretend doesn’t exist. You can’t lecture people about topics you refuse to look into. You aren’t past the thing you can’t bring yourself to face..."
You can’t pretend to be an expert of the thing you are desperately trying to pretend doesn’t exist. You can’t lecture people about topics you refuse to look into. You aren’t past the thing you can’t bring yourself to face. You can’t reflect on Covid if its still fucking people up.
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Crikey! It's coming up to ten tears since we stayed in the left hand, downstairs apartment overlooking #Windermere. Happily the lake wasn't an open sewer back then! #photography #lake #district #pentax #k3
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The "joys" (AKA lack of quality) of affordable digital photography in 2001. My poor #Olympus 2MP camera wasn't really up to the job. FWIW I think the best dSLR at the time was 4MP. It was also a week before Christmas Day and was bloody freezing! #photography #Paris #Eiffel #night
A night time view of the Eiffel Tower from Arc de Triomphe.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks? #healthpolicy 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...
bmj.com
The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings
The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just one of the magical things about #Venice is that some canals have been filled in to make them streets. If you get a chance to visit, these street names start Rio Tera. And some have additional clues such as on Rio Tera Antonio Foscarini - bricked-up arches! #Photography #RioTera
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A typical tourist photo of the #London #Eye #photography #Pentax #Arty
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I wonder whether this qualifies as #street #photography. I was wandering around #London taking photos of things, not people and as I was about to cross the #Thames from Bankside over the #Millennium #Bridge, I looked up and thought: "Yep! That's worth photographing"
The silhouette of a photographer as seen through mesh flooring on te Millennium Bridge, London
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Keep looking up. The #sun and the #Radcliffe #Camera in #Oxford #photography #Pentax #cloud #silhouette
The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford silhouetted against the sun, which had a thin cloud covering
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Trump royal visit idea... The royal he meets is Prince Andrew. It would give him a role. The pair could reminisce about their friend, Epstein. They could go for a pizza.
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is not really a political post but ... ... apparently the orange convicted felon and self-confessed sexual predator has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States. Two words spring to mind - "BIGLY" & "COVFEFE" Assume he'll be taking classes.
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I had a childish giggle when I looked through the viewfinder but I liked the shot for what it was. #photography #water #TrafalgarSquare #London #fountain #Pentax
Close up photo of one of the jets in the Trafalgar Square fountains
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Two of my favourite photos from #Venice. It's obvious that everyday activities have to be different but that never stopped me from being amazed/surprised at what I saw. #photography #canal #shop #piano #boat
Vegetables & fruit being sold from a boat in Venice.A piano being transported by boat in Venice
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Well, why not. They have something to talk about, after all Charles' great uncle was also a Nazi supporter. And although Charles isn't a billionaire yet, he's hardly short of a bob or two. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
King Charles invites Donald Trump for unprecedented second state visit to UK
In letter hand-delivered to Trump by Keir Starmer, Charles suggests he and Trump could meet in Scotland to plan visit
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A handy piece of art in the Lake District #photography #wood #wooden #sculpture #art #hand #LakeDistrict
Wooden sculpture of hands in the Lake District
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Time for another photo from the "I think it looks interesting but I doubt any other bugger will!" department. #photography #rusty #machinery #Padarn #slate #quarry #artyfarty #Pentax #derelict
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This 3yr anniversary that won't be in the news! When the UK government rolled out the "Living with Covid" policy it simply scrapped protections and shifted to personal responsibility. For most, it meant "back to normal." For Clinically Vulnerable people, life became harder. 1/🧵
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Here's a sentence that I doubt I've ever used before - I'm going to do what God tells me. And done!
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The older I get, the more I empathise with this poor chap #photography #MannekenPis #Brussels #Belgium #fountain #sculpture
Manneken Pis a fountain sculpture of a little boy having a pee.
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I think the picture says it all #photography #RAF #Benson #RedArrows #aeroplane #plane
Eight jet planes, members of the RAF Red Arrows, flying in formation
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Keith @k31thw.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I wonder whether there is a connection between these {insert your own (h)armless joke here}. One seen proudly on display in #Oslo back in 2004, the other looking somewhat forlorn alongside a #canal in #Venice in 2013. #photography #sculpture #hand
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