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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Musée des Plans-Reliefs was as good as I expected. Also fairly astonishing display of early alpine cartography around the French-Savoie border. #OldMaps

A 1:600 scale 3-D model of Mont St Michel in the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, Les Invalides. The view captured shows the island from the South. The gothic choir of the monastic church is particularly apparent at top right of the model.

The model was made by a monk towards the end of the 18th century. It was donated to the king 10 years later, and became part of the Plans-Reliefs collection.

A detail from the Plan-Reliwf 3-D model of Toulon. The model shows Toulon immediately after the successful siege where Napoleon's artillery played an important role. The model was made on Napoleon's orders a few years later.

The detail shows part of the inner harbour, with a row of warehouses behind. Part of the town's fortifications can be seen behind.

The area around Grenoble, France on an early military map. The map was concerned with the border territory between France and Savoy. Territory to the West of the Rivers Drac and, after their confluence, Isère is not mapped.

The map is monochrome with hills and mountains shown with hachuring.

An 18th century map showing the Vauban era fortifications of Briançon in the French Alps. The map is coloured and hills denoted with hachuring.

Briançon lies at the foot of the strategic alpine pass of Montgenevre, and close to the, then disputed, border with Savoy.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Two books I won't be bringing to Paris for #SotM26: 2 volumes of "Guide du Patrimoine" AFAIK only five volumes of this series appeared. Although nicely produced and conceived the textual descriptions never achieved the detail, or precision, of Dehio or Pevsner […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Two books from the series "Guide du Patrimoine" published by Hachette in the 1990s. To the left "Paris" with a cover illustration of a detail from a painting "Napoleon visiting the staircases of the Louvre". On the right "Ile-de-France", with a classical style marble statue on the cover.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

When I talked aboit post boxes at #SotM 2019 in Heidelberg (media.ccc.de/v/sotm2019-2488-lightn…) I didnt have time to mention plaques on post boxes. I've just come across a charming example at Knockdrome, Jura in Scotland: a plaque […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A gold plaque attached to a red post box (lamp type) dedicated to a Starling which nested in the box for several years until she died in 2009.

Attribution: Ian Andrews on Geograph CC-BY-2.0

The red post box in context on a low peninsula seperated from the shore of Jura by a couple of fields of rougb grazing.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Just been handed a postcard with stills from that scene. Lovely touch.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Self-referential one-off: watching a film (Saturday Night Sunday Morning) in one of it's filming locations (Savoy Cinema)

An Art Devo cinema with "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" listed as showing.

A curved staircase with white walls and a red patterned carpet. These are the stairs which Albert Finney & Sally Ann Field descend in a scene from "Saturday Night Sunday Morning"

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Nice write-up of trying to re-introduce Nottingham Catchfly in its type locality at Nottingham Castle. I wasn't aware that the project is supported by Bromley House Library, a private library of which I happen to be a member. Photovoltaic of Nottingham Cathchfly […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

White pedalled flowers of Nottingham Catchfly near Puchberg-am-Schneeburg Lower Austria. The flowers have long protruding stamens, the calyx is a narrow hairy tube formed by the conjoined sepals and the petals are deeply divided and partially folded back (reflexed).

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

A gall I see rarely: Dasineura tympani on Field Maple. Reminiscent of D. fraxinea on Ash. A blister in the leaf which collapses and dries out after the causer exits. #GallsToLookFor @rogerhorton.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social @vc28nature.bsky.social Crossposted with @openvibe

Two vacated galls of Dasineura tympani on Field Maple Acer campestre. The galls are brown circles, 15-20 mm across, with a darker centre. Entire leaf.

Duke's Wood, Eakring, Notts (VC56). July 5th 2015.

Two vacated galls of Dasineura tympani on Field Maple Acer campestre. The galls are brown circles, 15-20 mm across, with a darker centre. Close-up.

Prior's Coppice Braunston, Rutland (VC55). July 27 2026.

Three vacated galls of Dasineura tympani on Field Maple Acer campestre. The galls are brown circles, 15-20 mm across, with a darker centre. Entire leaf

Prior's Coppice Braunston, Rutland (VC55). July 27 2026.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

@only_ohm Not true I'm afraid. Only true for1:250k checking. Here's Routeplanner & Landranger in the #OrdnanceSurvey app.

An Ordnance Survey map (Routeplanner, 1:625k, 10 miles to inch) showing Brighton labelled as a separate place from Hove.

An Ordnance Survey map (Landranger, 1:50k).showing Brighton labelled as a separate place from Hove.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Dunwich Heath (Suffolk) is on fire : www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78gnj1… Here's what it looked like mid-August 2017, viewed from Heath Barn at the South-east corner.

A view of Dunwich Heath from the upper floor of the National Trusts rangers' building.

A small strip of green vegetation gives way to purple Heather stretching to trees on the skyline. The sky is blue.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

@tomchadwin I saw him playing for Scunthorpe United against Notts County at the Old Showground in 1970 (HT to my brother who curates the match programmes).

Team sheet centrefold for a Fourth Division football match between Scunthorpe United and Notts County in 1970.

Kevin Keegan is listed as Scunthorpe's number 10.

The central team listing's are surrounded by small adverts.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Pleased to find I took a photo of a Red-tipped Clearwing (Synanthedon formicaeformis) on Majoram on 8th July. A chance finding, as were the other two clearwings (Red-belted & Six-belted) I've seen on this site. #VC56 #Moths #Nottingham

A moth with transparent wings and a predominantly black body visiting pale-pink flowers of Marjoram. The edges of the wings are black, with translucent panels of red at the wing tip and just inside the leading edge on the forefinger

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

@jon happened to me last month on the Pusterbahn at Toblach. Interrail had train at 09:40, train departed at 09:25. Fortunately I arrived early, but because the earliee time improved connections I had to replan the rest of the journey. TBF the timetable change […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A journey from Toblach/Dobbiaco to Franzenfeste/Fortezza shown in the Interrail app. Departure time from Toblach is shown as 09:40.

Actual current timetable on the Pusterbahn showing trains from Toblavh from 09:00 16th July. The first departure after 09:00 is at 09:25.

Data from Sudtirol Mobil.

The same timetable request in the Interrail app for trains from Toblach heading West after 09:00 on 16th July. The 09:25 train is missing.

A German language page from the Pusterbahn website announcing a new timetable with better connections from 14th June 2026.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@liotier.bsky.social I did them for an Xmas meal in 2024. Basically, the ingredients of a typical Christmas dinner stuffed in a pastry case. My nieces made the pastry: much better than mine. Also worked well with, shop-bought, gluten free pastry.

Six golden-brown empanadas on a white plate

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

If you have clumps of Tansy in the garden, or nearby, it's worth looking for Ozirhincus spp. (Cecid gall midges) ovipositing into newly opened florets. #GallsToFind

A female cecid gall midge of the genus Ozirhincus (either O. longicollis or O. hungaricus) ovipositing into a flotlret of Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare). The fly is long-legged, predominantly dark coloured with multi-segmented antennae. A prominent white pterostigma is visible on the wing A small head contrasts with a stocky thorax & abdomen. This habitus is typical for gall midges.

Ozirhincus causes galling of florets of Asteraceae. In Tansy galls can be picked out as florets protruding slightly above the rest. Each contains an orange cecid larva.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Sitting in the shade of an Oak tree on a blazing hot day high above Zürich on the Hõnngerberg. On a path through an old traditional meadow-orchard managed by the Hõngg Natural History Society (Höngg NVV). This is a special place for me as it was I was introduced […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A view across a sunny meadow-orchard with a footpath running left.to right in the foreground (the Ruggernweg). The meadow grasses and forbs are mainly yellow and dry. A range of fruit trees of different ages can be seen. Most showing the typical pruning pattern of the Swiss Mittelland: a leading shoot and four main branches growing upwards at around 45 degrees. Some of the trees are old, but most have been planted to rejuvenate the orchard in the past 40 years.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Wittgenstein was very badly behaved here.

The Primary school at Puchberg-am-Schneeburg, Niederösterreich. Wittgenstein worked as a teacher here, not necessarily in this building, after WWI. He brutally punished a young girl, and was lucky to leave safely.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Brief visit to the Augustinerkloster, Brno 🇨🇿. Holy ground for geneticists. No Sweet Peas in sight.

A statue of Gregor Medel in front of a green lawn, one of the interior spaces of the Augustinian Monastery at Brno /Brünn. Model carried out his famous experiments in the gardens and was later Abbott.

A quadrangle of 2-3 storey white-painted monastic buildings with red tile roofs. Lawns to the left.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Failed to do #BahnZeit in the station (platform was only announced at the last minute). So here is a #GISRUK-18 water bottle on RailJet245

A red metallic water bottle sits on a fold-down table in a railway carriage. Blurred vegetation is visible through the window to its left.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Gently pacing around here whilst Handel's Sarabande plays on repeat on my headphones.

The Neues Palais (right) and its ancillary buildings, the "Commons (left) at Potsdam seen from a viewpoint used in Kubrik's film " Barry Lyndon"

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Small Balsam Impatiens parviflora (Kleines Springkraut) in the Tiergarten close to the S-bahn station. A neophyte (introduced post-1500). More on how this inoffensive plant was seen as a villain by the Nazis, particularly Himmler and his circle. #Berlin #Flora

A small bilaterally symmetrical yellow flower against a background of green toothed leaves of the same plant: Small Balsam.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Hamburg S-bahn line 1 was out of action this afternoon. Unexpectedly having to come to terms with the bus system of a large city isn't easy. Not sure if I made the best choice, but it was the lowest risk. #OpenStreetMap certainly helped, but mainly by inspecting […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A journey from the Hamburg University Botanic Gardens to the Dammtor. Normally it is a straight line, but the blue line shows the bus and alternative S-bahn line actually taken.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

The ring leaders of the rebellion were brutally executed and their decaying corpses hoisted in metal cages outside one of the other churches in the city. AFAIK the cages are still there

Three metal cages suspended.from a medieval church tower (St Lambert, Münster). Originally they held the corpses of the leaders of the Minster Rebellion, including Jan of Leiden

Credit: from Wikimedia Commons

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Serendipity is a wonderful thing. Came across Kölner Weinwoche on the Neumarkt, Köln towards the end of a tiring church crawl. Seemed rude not to stop.

A glass of white wine and a wine menu on a white plastic tablecloth. In the background more tables with people around them.

A pedestrian alley surrounded by tables under large parasols with "Kölner Weinwoche" branding. Virtually every table has 6 or 7 people seated drinking wine.

In the background one or two booths selling wine can be seen.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

First open Bee Orchid flowers of the year😄🌷 I actually see more Bee Orchids as rosettes of leaves, from September to April, than at flowering time. Some just don't flowering, but a lot are mown killing the growth point of the flowering stem. This one was in an […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A Bee Orchid flower. The flower has four recognisable parts: a hood above, two lateral wings and the lip, at the lower part of the flower. The hood and wings are predominantly a pale pinkish-purple. The lip is mainly a deep rich burgundy colour pattered with paler yellowish rings. The throat of the flower leading down to the nectarines is the same colour.

A flowering Bee Orchid spike. A single flower in pale and dark purplish shades is out. Above it another flower is emerging.from its bud, with further unopened buds above. The stalk of the spike is green and appears slightly contorted, veering to the left low down and then in the opposite direction above the open flower.

The visible background vegetation are various grasses.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

The Fitzclarence Street chapel porcelain dish or plate.

A white porcelain shallow dish or plate. The dish has a blue patterned border. In the centre, asleep in blue the inscription reads : Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, Fitz Clarence Street, Liverpool 1864".

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Bit surprised to see both @maptiler.bsky.social & @opencage mentioned in this Financial Times graphic about our dependence ob US Twch in Europe bsky.app/profile/hetanshah.bsky.soc…

An extract from a large graphic shown in its entirety in the link from the main post.

In the centre is an image of a finger pointing at a map on a tablet device. On either side are two text panels.

The left hand panel, with a grey background, reads: 7 pm. You promised to meet friends for drinks at a new bar in a part of the city you don't know we'll. You look up the address. Google Maps is blocked.

The right hand panel reads: The fix. There are several European map services such as Switzerland's MapTiler and Germany's OpenCage that you can use.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Given past discussions about trail difficulty, it appears to be graded appropriately in #OpenStreetMap: www.openstreetmap.org/way/36705047#…

The white water rapids and waterfalls of Cauldron Snout in Upper Teesdale, just below Cow Green Reservoir. The Pennine Way runs close to the left bank (right side in photo) across rocks and close to the fast running water.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Last week my brother & sister walked part of the Pennine Way between Hawes and Dufton. We had an interesting conversation about how the path next to Cauldron Snout in Upper Teesdale is surprisingly difficult for a national trail. It's immediately next to […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Noticed in Oakham, a 'fake' blue plaque on the side of Oakham Tyres on Station Approach. Designed to look like an official blue plaque, but recording the mundane refurbishment of a completely indistinguished building, which is not much more than a shed. Would it […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A blue plaque in a style very close to those used for historical sites, mounted on a plain brick eall On a closer look this appears to be an advert for DPL Buildings as it includes their name & 'phone number in the circular text on the outside edge. The main text says "Oakham Tyres. Refurbished 2017"

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

At Barnack we went to see the Pasque Flowers. #WildFlowers

A big purple flower with a mass of contrasting bright yellow stamens in the centre. Grass behind.

Aa group of purple Pasque Flowers pointing to the left. A solitary flower, lower right, points at the camera revealing the many yellow stamens at its centre.

Several groups of purple Pasque Flowers growing on the side of one of the 'hills' looking down into a 'hole'. Barnack is a medieval stone quarry, the 'hills' are really grassed over mounds of quarry spoil.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

Went with my niece to Barnack Hills & Holes and Bedford Purlieus National Nature Reserves yesterday. When I got back realised that this was my first all day field trip since 2019. I last visited both reserves in 2017, but usually with a very knowledgeable local […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A tight spike of white flowers, with purple tips, protuding from the leaf litter of a woodland floor. Toothwort.

A green herb on the woodland floor. The four green leaves are arranged in a whorl, each leaf at right angles to the adjacent leaves. Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

I'm intrigued that the Pennine Way is mapped on #OpenStreetMap as recognisable sections (mainly a reasonable hike for a day) until Middleton in Teesdale. Then there's just one relation for the remaining 190 km to Kirk Yetholm (just under half of the total route) […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A map of Northern England (OpenStreetMap, showing the route of the Pennine Way (in orange) from Middleton in Teesdale to Kirk Yetholm.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Briefly joined the NWT #Nottingham group at Chilwell Dam Plantation, a fragment of ancient woodland on the edge of the city. Particularly pleased to be see Sanicle in it's only known location in the city. A number of other Spring flowers were out: the odd […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A tight cluster of tiny white flowers with green leaves behind. Elder Sambucus nigra

Petal-less flowers of Elm (Ulmus) with many stamens with black tips, green at base and red higher up. This is a cluster of several flowers on a bare brown twig.

A solitary white flower of Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa) with a number of yellow anthers just visible. The background is predominantly the characteristic green leaves of the plant

A rosette of green leaves on bare earth. This is Sanicle, a member of the Carrot family, but with leaves atypical of the group. An indicator species of ancient woodland (in UK defined as wooded continuously since 1600 - but probably since prehistoric times).

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Fed up about the NHS App continually nagging me to use Chrome. No thanks, I don't want to. I have a perfectly good browser app which suits me. Thought this sort of thing went out with Internet Explorer.

A pop which appears EVERY time I use the Android NHS app. Text reads:

"Chrome Recommended

Install the Chrome Web browser for the best NHS app experience. It let's you log in faster and more securely. Without it app may not work as intended."

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

Despite doing some long recces, I found my actual #NewYearPlantHunt tough going. Saw 66 species in flower (around 6 fairly marginal) and failed to get to 2 others (Ivy & Small Nettle) in the allotted 3 hours. Also missed Tansy seen a few days earlier. First […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Flowers of Winter Heliotrope (Daisy Family) with lots of green basal leaves.

Yellow daisy-like flowers of Narrow-leaved Ragwort.

Yellow 4-petalled flowers of False London Rocket (Mustard Family) : a non-native speciality of the Nottingham area. Possibly originally imported as a seed contaminant by the Boots factory.

Two yellow dandelion-like flowers poking out through the bare twigs of a shrub. Smooth Hawksbeardfrom the Daisy family.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

I'm seeing a lot of errors in English wikipedia info box links to Geohack. (First noticed when looking up an Xmas wine choice). #Wikipedia #GeoHack

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If you have reached this page by following a link

This URL is managed by the geohack tool, maintained by Dispenser, Kolossos, Magnus Manske.

Perhaps its files are on vacation, or the link you've followed doesn't actually lead somewhere useful?

You might want to look at the list of tools to find what you were looking for. If you're pretty sure this shouldn't be an error, you may wish to notify the tool's maintainers (they are listed above) about the error and how you ended up here.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Turns out the original obituary was rather light on fact checking!

Corrections to The Guardian's obituary of Sir Tom Stoppard as of 16th December 2025:

"This article was amended on 1, 2 and 15 December 2025. An earlier version said Stoppard’s four grandparents and various other relatives died in the death camp at Terezín. These relatives were transported to Terezín, which was a transit camp and ghetto rather than a death camp, but none died there: his paternal grandparents died at the Riga ghetto in Latvia and his maternal grandparents at Auschwitz. Also, Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem was first produced in 2015, not 2006; and Travesties was set in Zurich, not Trieste."

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

Just spotted an egregious error in #TheGuardian #Obituary of Tom Stoppard. They misplaced the setting of "Travesties" to Trieste. I've lived in Zürich, been on a literary tour of the city, and seen the play twice, so I'm confident about this being the correct […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

moon landings; and Travesties (1974), a collision of surrealism and Soviet realism enmeshed in a performance of The Importance of Being Earnest in Trieste in 1917, as unreliably recalled by a minor consular official engaged in a dispute with James Joyce over the cost of a pair of trousers.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Flabbergasted to see Hazel catkins open this early in December. It's only 13 years ago, but finding these flowers open on my first #NewYearPlantHunt on New Year's Day 2013 was quite hard. These particular plants have been flowering before Christmas in recent […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Yellow catkins in the bare branches of a tall Hazel with blue sky behind.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

Fascinating coda to my #FreeRange #Liverpool walk in the summer: Eldonian Village. I walked past the entrance and along one side of Eldonian Village and it looked a fairly innocuous piece of redevelopment. Turns out there's rather more to it […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

A pedestrian entrance to Eldonian Village, Liverpool. Short brick walls sitting on grassy areas carry the name of the neighbourhood . Beyond are one and two storey residential buildings in a more yellow brick.

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SK53 @sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Rather late in tgebday for #sotMEU2025, but I finally found my copy of "Buildings of Scitland : Dundee and Angus". So I'm doing a bit of retrospectivevarchitectural tourism before I go to sleep tonight. Even had I found it earlier it would have added too much weight to my bag.

Front cover of "Buildings of Scotland: Dundee and Angus". The main title is white lettering on black. Most of the cover is occupied by a colour photograph of Dundee Art Gallery and Museum, a Victorian Gothic building by G.G. Scott. Two storeys withnan ornate curved stair accessing a large porch onnthe firstnfloor. Pinnacles at the corners of the building. A steeply pitched gabled roof with a small fleche or spire in the centre.

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