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Yeah, neither of us would have done what Joel did. Fuck that for a laugh.
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Joanna's prize task explanations are the stuff of legend.
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Random travel archive photo. This was late 2019 and a visit to Petra, Jordan, and the most breathtaking place we've visited. The site is far more than just the Treasury that most people are familiar with. Our trip included an 800-step climb up to the Monastery, pictured here.
#Photography #Travel #Jordan #Petra #Monastery #Landscape #TravelThursday
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Blimey! That lightning was bloody close by. Dark, raining, cold, thunder and lightning. It's proper Ming the Merciless weather here.
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I only really associate thunder with warm conditions so it's quite weird to have it be cold enough for hailstones outside while rumbles roll overhead too.
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For #ThrowbackThursday it's back to this day in 2010 when we watched our very first Rugby League match in person. This was at Wakefield where we'd actually gone up to see Bradford play but ending up liking the city and people and area so much that we changed team allegiances afterwards, and this despite Wakey getting soundly beaten.
#Photography #TBT #Rugby #RugbyLeague #SuperLeague #Wakefield #Yorkshire #Sports
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Lanzarote from the sea in 2021 for #MeerMittwoch this week. We should be heading back there later this year.
#Photography #Travel #SeaWednesday #Lanzarote #CanaryIslands #Sunset #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Cruise
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#FotoVorschlag - Objekte, die mit "F" beginnen
Photo theme - Objects beginning with "F"
From Lima this is one of the fountains at the Magic Water Circuit. We've visited this park at night twice now, once in 2019 and again a few months ago, and it's a lovely and popular evening event in the city.
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#FotoVorschlag - Karo, kariert
Photo theme - Checks, chequered
This is the Achilleion Palace on Corfu. Looking far older, it actually dates to the late nineteenth century and was influenced by Greek mythology, built on the orders of Empress Elisabeth of Austria to commemorate the death of her only son Crown Prince Rudolf in an apparent joint suicide incident with his mistress.
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52-12. Very satisfactory.
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#FotoVorschlag - Der Weg ist das Ziel
Photo theme - The journey is the reward
We are not hiking people. We are cruise people. We thought that a hike when visiting Geiranger in Norway back in 2013 wouldn't be too tough but we were very wrong and struggled to keep up with the group we were with. However, the views over the fjord were breathtaking and we're glad we did it.
#Photography #Travel #Cruise #Norway #Geiranger #Fjord #Geirangerfjord #Hike #Landscape #LandscapePhotography
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Catching up with today's episode of #Pointless and a decoy answer in one round was "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies."
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Ah, not to be. Good close game, though.
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Lovely to see Chris Kamara there. Big connections with Wakefield but he's a living legend here in Portsmouth too.
#RugbyLeague #ChallengeCup #Wakefield #WakefieldTrinity #ChrisKamara #Portsmouth #Pompey
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We have pies (steak and gravy). We have pints (local beers in our new Guatemalan craft ale glasses). We have Wakey on the TV (currently winning).
#RugbyLeague #ChallengeCup #Wakefield #WakefieldTrinity #Alcohol #Beer #CraftAle #CraftBeer
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Ridiculous, ridiculous run chase from Lucknow, all thanks to Mukul. Sensational bloody sport, winning it on the last ball.
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Hung around in central Lima until after dark so we could go and see the Magic Water Circuit fountain show. We'd seen this before but lost video footage so it was a chance to see it again and record some of it. Incredibly popular show with the locals, the park was absolutely rammed with families.
Tomorrow's firm plan is to visit the Larco museum and we'll play it by ear after that.
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Phew. Struggled to score, struggled to kick, and fair play to Hull for a lot of annoying goal line defensive plays that mostly kept us out. Tough match, but a win's a win for Wakey.
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For #MeerMittwoch here's Fort de l’Ouest on the western end of one of the breakwaters protecting the harbour of Cherbourg, France.
#Photography #Travel #SeaWednesday #Fort #Fortress #Castle #Sea #Cherbourg #France #Harbour
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Popped to a nearby town for the first time in years and managed to spend some gift cards we've collected from birthdays as a result of some relatives who insist on giving them. Always nice to come home with new books.
I like Adrian Tchaikovsky so that was an easy purchase. To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars sounded like my sort of book and it was deliciously thick. The Great When sounded fabulous too.
#Photography #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi #SFF #AdrianTchaikovsky #AlanMoore #ChristopherPaolini
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For the #ToysAndGames theme for #JukeboxFridayNight here's South Park educating us about the dreidel.
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Yesterday we were in Barbados, docked in Bridgetown, and we took a tour with a local company inland to visit Harrison's Caves, formed from sea sediment build-up over millions of years then forced upwards and eroded by rain. Some cathedral-like spaces inside but we weren't expecting caves 50 metres underground to be so warm: a constant 26°C.
#Travel #Photography #Barbados #Cruise #Caves #Cavern #Geology #HarrisonsCaves
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Back from an evening spent with @mathzy and his wife, and a lot of fun playing Camel Up with a fair bit of chat, reminiscing, and drinking to accompany it all. Always lovely to have one of these boardgame evenings.
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Nearby Hayling Island from over a decade ago for #MeerMittwoch this week, when we'd likely have taken a drive over there for a walk along the shoreline to get some gentle exercise and bracing sea air.
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A combination #SchiffsSamstag and #FotoVorschlag today with its theme of "Schifffahrt" or shipping or ship-related.
Our view in 2013 from a tender boat departing Crown Princess (left) with P&O Adonia in the background at Geiranger, Norway. We went on a hike up behind a waterfall on this day.
#Photography #Travel #ShipSaturday #Cruise #Norway #Geiranger #Fjord #SchiffSamstag #TravelPhotography
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Don't ask me why, but I needed to check the lyrics for the classic British kids TV programme Wizbit earlier today and that led me to this short-lived blog from some guy who was making a fancy dress costume in 2010.
One for Brits of a certain age. My age.
#Wizbit #BritishTV #KidsTV #British #HaHaThisAWay #HaHaThatAWay #Craft #Costume #PaulDaniels #FancyDress
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Now, listen to me. Listen to me. The Ipcress File has just started on BBC2.
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For #MeerMittwoch here's a classic tourist photo from #Mykonos when we visited in 2016. If you go to Mykonos then you have to take this photo and one of the nearby windmills or they confiscate your camera equipment. This is Little Venice.
#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Greece #LittleVenice #SeaWednesday
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Another apartment block shot for #FensterFreitag because I like these sorts of photos where there are little details of everyday life everywhere. This was taken in Southsea, the southern part of our home city of Portsmouth back in 2014 on a warm, bright, May day.
#Photography #UrbanPhotography #WindowFriday #Windows #ApartmentBlock #Portsmouth #Southsea
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The Ipcress File is on BBC2 right now. There's nothing about this movie I don't absolutely love. Cinematography, actors, music, atmosphere: all sublime.
#TheIpcressFile #IpcressFile #HarryPalmer #MichaelCaine #Movies
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I don't know why, but I just had an earworm for The Witch by The Rattles and I needed to put it on YouTube to satisfy my brain's desire for it. I can't really blame my brain; it is an absolutely cracking tune, even if the accompanying video looks more like a 1970s British Public Information Film warning about the danger of hippies in woodland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDQirjDw3A
#Music #MusicVideo #TheRattles #Rattles #TheWitch #PIF #PublicInformationFilm #EarWorm
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Weekend, late-night drinking, picking weird tunes on #YouTube and we're revisiting some old #LipSyncBattle favourites which makes for a good excuse to share the Joseph Gordon-Levitt version of Rhythm Nation. Just so good.
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For #MeerMittwoch and taken about a year ago, here's some search and rescue training taking place by the Coastguard helicopter off the beach at nearby Hayling Island. In the distance you can see the Isle of Wight.
#SeaWednesday #Helicopter #Coastguard #HaylingIsland #IsleOfWight #Rescue
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Just because I saw this shared elsewhere and yes, I've seen it before, and you've possibly seen it before too, but why wouldn't you take five minutes to watch the truly unbelievable levels of dancing skills of the Nicholas Brothers with the great musical accompaniment from Cab Calloway and his band any time you get a chance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8
#Dance #Music #JumpinJive #CabCalloway #NicholasBrothers #Jazz #YouTube
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Okay, so there's a #JukeboxFridayNight tag and I've just watched a couple of videos I haven't seen in years. Here's a submission from me, and it's the 1989 release by #EPMD "So Wat Cha Sayin'". Those first four albums of theirs were just wonderful.