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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 05/04/2026

Spring still lives Fuji X-E3. Fuji 18-50mm at 33m. F9. 1/30 sec #stilllife

Red pointed petal tulip in Delft bue and white horizontal vase

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 02/04/2026

Yellow field in golden hour light.

Yellow rape flowers in field with oak trees and evening golden hour sky

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 27/03/2026

Frost halo around the moon tonight.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 23/03/2026

A few yellow rape flowers dotted in the field. In a week or two this will be a full carpet of yellow.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 14/03/2026

Neighbours’ (one each side) star magnolia trees getting into their stride. A real treat each spring.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 14/03/2026

Robin wars heating up at the front. (Sound on)

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 14/03/2026

Frogspawn in the pond, after weeks of amphibian orgies.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 10/03/2026

New flower on new hellebore.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 03/03/2026

Big fish pulpits were a thing in counter reformation Poland and Czechia. Neither noted for their maritime history. Who knew? Via www.worldofinteriors.com/story/sea-pulp…

Pulpit in the form of a big, baroque fish, with open jaws where the priest would stand (pulpit at St Peter and Paul in Duszniki-Zdrój )

Pulpit in the form of a big, somewhat naive and indeed bemused looking fish, where the priest would speak through its jaws. (St Hedwig’s, Dobroszów )

Pulpit with big, and ornate, fish canopy, with its mouth forming the edge above where the priest would speak. (Our Lady, Mnichovice, Czechia )

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 27/02/2026

Grey, gusty and intermittently wet all day, then, just as we are about to run out of daylight, it does this. Bastard.

Blue sky with sunset lit cloud streamers coming from the horizon.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 26/02/2026

Oooh, I wonder who this was. (There are too many potential candidates to try individual searches. But as we report judgments, someone is quite keen that matters of public record don’t appear in searches…)

Google notifciation of removal of unspecified pages from search results, because someone has requested it under the Eurpopean ‘right to be forgotten’ provisions.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 22/02/2026

Light towards sunset over the field. (Includes actual sunlight).

Field with oak trees and bordered with woods, lit by setting sun

Field with oak tree and distant woods, in setting sunlight.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Or the dancing women and musicians (moved across in the ivory to be by the elephant, not in front of it).

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Or those processing, holding up the urns and trophies of victory on a support of staves.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Or the sculpture, observers and background architecture on the right side.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Now granted, the print/drawing is of very different proportions to the ivory. One might say the ivory has undergone a very theatrical squishage. But, there is nothing in the ivory that is not also in the Leclerc. A few examples - Alexander on his chariot and the front facing elephant.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2026

I did search for any further versions of this particular ivory - I could find none in any collections. To cut a long story short. I did find the source. Here it is - Alexander’s Entry into Babylon, a print by Sébastien Leclerc I (1637-1714) from 1704. s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/espresso-prod-…

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2026

As a small distraction from *waves hands about*, may I present a minor bit of art historical digging? I inherited an ivory* carved bas relief triptych of Alexander’s Entry into Babylon. Here it is. (*Yes, I know, but it is very old ivory)

Bas relief carving in ivory of Alexander’s entry into Babylon, in a hinged triptych.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 20/02/2026

New (second hand) toy - Fujinon F2 23mm prime lens (35mm full frame equivalent), now stuck on the front of the Fujifilm X-E3. Preliminary playing suggests it is a very nice piece of glass, but the total absence of daylight during the day prevents a proper go. This may take weeks…

Fuji X-E3 camera with Fujinon 23mm F2 lens attached. Old school looks…

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 18/02/2026

Well, this is not a surprise. I got google’s AI answer on the search page to go from this to this. The second version is actually legally accurate (by co-incidence). nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/07/artifi…

‘Evicting council tenants to house asylum seekers is a complex issue with legal and ethical considerations’

‘It is not legal to evict council tenants to house asymum seekers. Nearly Legal says this is horseshit of the highest order’.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 13/02/2026

Outside, it rains again. Inside, at least a bit of blooming.

Open white lily flower with yellow core, next to a sculpture of a horse.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 04/02/2026

OMG Four weeks after being transferred into the role, no training, no support, and telling the Judge this…

“MS. LE: I do. And I share the same concern with
you, Your Honor. I am not white, as you can see. And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too, so I share the same concern, and I took that concern to heart. But, again, fixing a system, a broken system, I”

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 04/02/2026

This is just awful. US Attorney has meltdown in Minnesota hearing on Govt non-compliance with court orders on releasing ICE detainees. The transcript shows a system melting down in the face of massive illegal acts & non-compliance with court orders by ICE drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2z7…

I did put in my resignation from the job too, but
they couldn't find a replacement. So I gave them a specific time and -- to get it done. If they don't, then by all mean, I'm going to walk out. And before I walk out, I was able to release another individual, a juvenile. That kind of like a step -- like a barrier. Like, Wait, Julie, stop. You need to go back and get more people out. That's why I'm still here. I am here just trying to make sure that the agency understand how important it is to comply with all the court orders, which they have not done in the past or
currently.

I am here as a bridge and a liaison between the
one that in jail, because if I walk out -- sometime I wish you would just hold me in contempt, Your Honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. I work days and night

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 02/02/2026

PM Law group firms shut unexpectedly (apparently news to the SRA, and not how a firm should shut down). Not sure that this ‘being due to regularity matters’ is reassuring… www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Handwritten notice - “Due to regularity matters the pm Group of Businesses carried out within this building can no longer trade.”

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 19/01/2026

I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 19/01/2026

There was a momentary sighting of the sun earlier, through drizzle. Then it vanished, never to be seen again.

Faint disc of the sun through grey clouds and mist of rain over a field and bare oak trees.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 14/01/2026

Frosty morning with sliver of moon.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 03/01/2026

Aargh. Just accidentally deleted the orginal post while trying to delete and re-do a follow up, which I also deleted. Anyway. Wolf Moon. (Better version) (Fujifilm X-E3, Fujinon 55-200mm at 200mm, f8, 1/500 sec at ISO 200.) #photography

Full 'Wolf' moon. Cropped photo showing craters and side lit mountains.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 02/01/2026

After I published, it started saying this. Which at least made me laugh. nearlylegal.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 31/12/2025

Moonlit path out of 2025. Happy new year all. (I'm not staying up. Another year is another year.)

Stone path leading to the horizon, lit by the moon under a clear night skey.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 27/12/2025

Self-portrait anticipating 2026... (Actually, playing with a newish f1.7 lens, 35 mm - 53 mm full frame equivalent).

Black and white, unsmiling self portrait, looking at camera.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 25/12/2025

Christmas lunch at the local pub. 5 courses if you count the amuse bouche and sorbet. The standouts were the pigeon breast starter and the venison main. Both perfectly cooked in what must have been a pressured sitting.

Venison loin, garlic potato fondant, celeriac, blackberry jus

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 23/12/2025

How I'm not turning up to the Bluesky Christmas Party. cdn.artphotolimited.com/images/5e43d...

Samuel Beckett looking like he would rather be anywhere else.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 22/12/2025

Cat poo and statutory nuisance - what appears to be a successful judicial review of a council putting cats' right to roam over addressing cat shit in the garden as prejudicial to health. *Stares back at neighbours cat in lawyer*

Cat staring at me with paws resting over the top of a fence.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 22/12/2025

A watercolour of a day out there.

Hazy sun through high swirling clouds over a field and skeletal trees.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 19/12/2025

It is about exactly this time of year that I start dreaming of sitting with a glass of wine under the portico of a Palladian villa in the May/June evening sunlight. Because I deserve that the be the case right now, dammit.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17/12/2025

Second, the waving away of hallucinations etc (something the Master of the Rolls also does) - this illusion that it is a mere temporary glitch, solvable in a year or two, is the result of ingesting a lot of Kool Aid. It is not going to happen.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17/12/2025

I just don't believe this article. First, the supposed explanation of the barrister's test makes no sense. (This may be the author's fault). What was fed to Grok? If it was the barrister's skeleton, then what was the AI improving? If just the facts, I don't believe it. spectator.com/article/ai-w...

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