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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 10h

You need some of those noise-cancelling wine glasses.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 12h

In my head there is never a break from this sort of rubbish. I assume it's the sand for my inner ostrich.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning from Marbury. My early-morning sky either the Moon and Jupiter close together.

A night sky with some cloud, but the Moon and Jupiter showing through

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 12h

You know when you're walking along having imaginary conversations in your head...

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I never really cared about the direction of change. Just that their minds were still flexible.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This used to be one of my favourite teaching exercises. At the start of one week I would ask whether it mattered if Antarctica was real or imaginary, and the students voted. I then gave the class, and asked the same question the following week. They voted again, often very differently! see alt text

Whiteboard tally showing results of two weeks' votes. Before the class about 25% of students thought it didn't matter whether Antarctica (or anything else) was real or imaginary. After the class the number changed to about 50%.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Sunday afternoon Haiku from the vault.

Beyond this, your heart.
Would that there were maps for that.
I hold your small hand.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"If you could only keep your favourite 10 photos...". I'd struggle getting it down to 10,000!

index showing that my computer's photo folder has more than 70,000 files in it.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At this time of year our early-morning walks stretch the definition of “morning”. Starry sky over a dark horizon. Looking south-ish from 53 degrees N about 5.30am. The constellation Orion and the star Sirius (I think!).

Starry sky over a dark horizon. The constellation Orion and the star Sirius (I think!) looking south-ish from 53 degrees N about 5.30am.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shieldbug Saturday. Rescued a lot of these this afternoon!

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was perspective and depth in the Village Hall “Art & Wellbeing” session today. I made an astonishing sculpture of a dog’s head!

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning from Marbury. I really should try to post a bit more consistently but keep finding myself preoccupied with stuff!

Blue sky with clouds over fields and the canal.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, I used to teach hydrology through the medium of dance.

A photo I took looking past my lecturer bench out into the class as they considered "exercise 1"

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Actually it wasn't as good as I remembered.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Continuing what will probably be a lifelong task of organising thousands and thousands of old photos, it was perhaps appropriate to stumble upon two "scraps" from my old and much derided "novel" "Scraps of Fabric".

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes... I have a better photo of that from years ago... I'll try to dig it out when I'm at the PC later.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A change from sunsets and countryside. A trip into Whitchurch to get the car’s tyres sorted.

A pile of discarded tyres and an outbuilding at the garage.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning from Marbury. In my early-morning #sky today: the #moon

The moon, photographed from my back garden this morning.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning from Marbury. For a change today we have a photo of the setting moon rather than the rising sun.

The setting full moon just before dawn reflected in the water of the Llangollen Canal, near to the Cheshire Shropshire border.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good evening, for a change, from Marbury, with a nice sunset.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This morning’s sky could almost have been courtesy of Mark Rothko.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good morning (somewhat belatedly in case anyone is paying attention) from Marbury. My early-morning #sky today.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ha ha here's an example of why I don't trust the tech to do automatic updates on my behalf!

A ludicrous "suggested update" to an online listing of one of my publications, where the updated version is a completely different paper, by somebody else!

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The “art and wellbeing” session in the village hall today included learning to do cartoony illustrations of dogs. Debbie did a brilliant cat but didn’t get a photo of it so here are some of my dogs!

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is scary, isn't it. And don't get me started on 1976 being 50 years!

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The same ice cap (Chimborazo) from a few different distances and angles.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1986 was a busy year, with trips to USA, Belgium, Ecuador, and twice to Greenland. The photo is Greenland. In April. I'm standing on a frozen lake. I used flags on sticks to mark survey points on the glacier, using the theodolite to plot in positions to record movement. Temperature here about -30C.

Silhouetted figure (me!) standing on a frozen lake surface in front of low sun, with a sun-dog showing in the sky on the right of the photo. My diary notes with interest that despite temperatures of -30C neither the paraffin fuel nor the jam had frozen yet.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a nice bit of flood plain there for you!

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

40 years ago. Summer 1986. Ecuador.

me posing in some of my tourist souvenir clothes!

Chimborazo volcano. The top of this mountain is the farthest point from the centre of the Earth

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning from… well, it’s actually not Marbury. A rare excursion off patch and over the border into Wales.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just now? Me? Making an apple crumble, as a kind neighbour gave us (lots of) apples. #foodsky #cooking

An apple crumble waiting to go into the oven… and a couple of apples just to look pretty. #foodsky #cooking

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Life today. Good morning from Marbury. And good luck.

A blurry view across a foggy rural landscape consisting of a huge ploughed field with a distant copse of trees and a foreground strip of green. If it wasn’t for the trees and if I’d held the camera straight I could have said it looked like a dull Rothko. But it doesn’t. It looks like the washing machine when you forget to take the cream eclaires snd trifle out of your pockets before you wash your trousers.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cooper the cat having a thoughtful little moment. He looks as though he’s remembering something. #catsky #cats We named him after Gary Cooper. The actor.

Black and white cat sitting in the middle of the room, thinking about something.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I get fine-grained black and white making a light slate grey... but that's probably just the colour the TV used to go when it was doing the same thing! But even when I try to ignore that, it's still gray.

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@GeoBlogs @geoblogs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eliot poetry? Check…. Mervyn Peake? Check…. Teach yourself language book? Czech….

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A Monday afternoon #shelfie. These are some of the books on the shelves closest to where I usually sit when I’m “doing nothing”. I think it’s important to spend enough time doing nothing.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We had male and female Tawney Owls calling before sunrise, then we, also, had a Greater Spotted Woodpecker, leading us back home down the lane in the early sunlight. #firstbirdofmyday

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A Sunday afternoon #shelfie from one of my living room book cases. #books #library #booksky

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Me? Right now? I’m mowing the Great West Lawn.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would think there will be lots of glacial stuff in your neck of the woods.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

40 years ago today I was setting up camp in Greenland for what turned out to be a very challenging expedition: lost luggage, stolen equipment, early bad weather... diary makes grim reading but it turned out OK. I don't think this photo is that day, but I think it's that trip, based on borrowed hat!

Me sitting on a box, next to a theodolite on a tripod, writing in a notebook. I'm sitting next to a river in front of a glacier. I'm wearing a borrowed hat as a lot of my own kit was lost en route to the site. I was lucky that I was in the habit of wearing (or keeping as hand luggage) the most essential kit eg boots and big coat! It's a Kern DKM-1 theodolite... I used that model a lot in Greenland and in Iceland.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here you go. Some non-English terms from Benn and Evans (“Glaciers and Glaciology”). Sichelbruche?

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also from the archive here’s what one of my undergraduate tutors, Pete Bull, wrote in the 1st edition of the Dictionary of Physical Geography. He seems to have an older source from 1988 but I haven’t chased that up.

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

…and just for completeness to complement the Sugden picture here’s him mentioning the term in the 1976 Sugden & John book.

Text mentioning “chattermarks” from “Glacirrs and Landscape”

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Realms of Gold @petergknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, very familiar... a well known feature in glacial geomorphology. Here's my own example from Greenland (striations in the foreground, chattermarks in the background top left. Dave Sugden for scale). Not sure about terminology in other languages.

Bedrock exposed by retreating glacier ice, showing evidence of subglacial erosion. Striations in the foreground, chattermarks in the background top left.

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