Christina Maslen
@christinamaslen.bsky.social
Old Black Country wench. Alba-phile. Retired NHS health scientist. Corrie, knitting, reading & visiting interesting places with an AcePro https://youtube.com/@christinamandacodgerinahatMostly here for scenery, art & wildlife & a smattering health science
Memories of a short walk to the Pobull Fhinn standing circle, North Uist
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD - any bird name beginning with any of these letters. So here’s 2 Ds in 2D #birds #nature #wildlife
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
act.38degrees.org.uk
The Clach An Trushal, Lewis. The tallest standing stone in Scotland (2nd photo for scale). Approx 5.8 m in height with 2 m underground. And it’s found up an easily missed track beside someone’s home in Ballantrushal #StandingStoneSunday #LewisianGneiss
Ceann Hulavig - Callanish 4 - 1V - a small circle with big views , probably my favourite , if your visiting pay a visit , stunning evening light . c 2750 BCE Neolithic , only 5 stones remain but originally thought to have 13. Views over to the other main sites and Loch Roag
I mentioned a couple of days ago that there was a pod of Dolphins in the loch. Yesterday, they came back, and I managed to get some footage. The largest of them was huge. Best guess; 4 metres long.
Awwww - but what about the blue passports....... and.....ummmm..... taking back control....????
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2w ago'£30 billion lost’: Six major studies confirm Brexit’s HUGE toll on UK economy. "Both exports and imports will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU". Self-inflicted harm that needs to be reversed.
Love the textures and colours of the bark of this tree in Coates Wood, #Wakehurst #thicktrunktuesday
Beinn Eighe. Bottom to top: Lewiston Gneiss: 1.65 billion years old. Torridon Sandstone: +/- 1 billion years old. Cambrian Quartzite: A mere 550 million years old. Photo: This morning.
Late Summer Skies. 15°C. Horse Chestnut leaves turning. 🍂
Black pears - a symbol of #Worcesterhire (they were on my school crest) - these were growing at #DyrhamPark @nationaltrust.org.uk
Excuse the paint on my fingers! Am putting a mini-concertina book together of some of the doors I come across on my travels. Lots more to go
Court Hill/Furzewick Down, from The Ridgeway in Oxfordshire.
The shining sands of Seilebost, Isle of Harris. My brief stay (and first time) in Lewis was punctuated with many pit-stops like this, usually following a broad grin and exclamation of 'whoa!' #Scotland #IsleofHarris #OuterHebrides www.damianshields.com
Apparently it is #internationalowlawarenessday I was particularly aware of this owl as it headed straight for me. #owl #hawkconvervancy
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
The Angel of Mottisfont Created in 1946 by Boris Anrep the romantic partner of Mottisfont’s owner, Maud Russell. The face resembles hers. #angel #mottisfont #art #mosaic
Another from this morning. This time the Coire na Ba. The Isle of Skye in the distance. Telegraph (utility) poles for scale.
