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Tolkien Shelfie. Modest collection of books, homemade bookends, and my interpretation of Rivendell. #Tolkien #Shelfie

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Liberated 80 years ago today. The words of survivor, Marian Turski “Auschwitz did not suddenly fall from the sky”. #Auschwitz #Auschwitz80 #AuschwitzMemorial

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“The beacons are lit” #StormÉowyn #Tolkien #Éowyn

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“🎶 I’ll add a few new paintings to my gallery 🎶” 🎨🖌️🦎 #art #artist #tangled #disney

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9 years today. 😢 The Starman. 🌟👨‍🎤 #Bowie #Artist #art

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Reading Tolkien to cats. Because, why not. Mistletoe indifferent. #cat #BlackCat #Tolkien

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The painting of Margaret Thatcher has been moved to the kitchen which is a problem as my milk keeps disappearing... www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Provence 2024 🇫🇷. Really enjoy using these accordion sketchbooks that lend themselves to travel sketching. #sketching #TravelSketching #Travel #Provence #sketchbook #France #Lavender #Banon

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“Lavender Horizon” Oil on canvas, 50 x 20. From our recent trip to Provence. First time I have worked on a canvas this size or painted with a knife for a while 😬, possibly finishined, , , possibly not?🤔🎨 #lavender #oilpainting #Provence #Art

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I help. 🐈‍⬛🙄🎨 #cats #CatsWithJobs #art #workinprogress #BlackCat #Lavender

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RIP Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson 😢. Fortunate to see The Selecter perform live a couple of years ago, still bouncing round the stage full of energy. A sad loss to the 2 Tone scene. 🎹 #Ska #TwoTone #TheSelecter #Hendrickson #Gaps #Music

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80 years ago today, Oradour-sur-Glane. A name that sends a chill along the spine. Over 640 inhabitants massacred by The SS in retaliation for increased resistance activities following the D-Day landing less than a week earlier. #OTD #WW2 #Oradour #OradourSurGlane

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Yesterday commemorated the 80th anniversary of the many involved in D-Day landings, today marks the 70th anniversary of the tragic death of Alan Turing. Alan’s work at Bletchley Park almost certainly shortened the war and saved unmeasurable number of lives. #Turing #AlanTuring

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Utah, “Bloody” Omaha, Gold, Pegasus. From our visit in 2018 (with apologies to Juno and Sword for not yet visiting). #DDay #DdayRemembrance #DDay80 #Normandy #WW2 #Utah #Omaha #Gold #Pegasus

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Any man who can hitch the length and breath of the galaxy, struggle against terrible odds, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. Happy Towel Day, Hoopy Froods! 🤖 #TowelDay #DouglasAdams

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Enjoying the recycled solar lights in the garden. #gardentime #garden #solar #Recycled #CharityShop #GardenIdeas

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To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobble streets silent and the hunched, courters ‘ and rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloe black,,,. Happy Dylan Day / Dydd Dylan hapus. #DylanThomas #DylanDay

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Most of the potting up done (mainly Cannas and annuals left to do), now to start arranging it🤔. #garden #gardening

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On the Nature Table today: Sitting by the pond this morning we had the please of watching this newly emerged Broad-Bodied Chaser dragonfly take a first tentative flight from an aquatic life into the spring sunshine. #Dragonfly #Spring #Pond

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“In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row.” From the highlands of Scotland to “Flanders Fields” John McCrae penned his most famous poem on this day 1915. #OTD #WW1 #FlandersFields #Flanders

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10 minute walk from home and have added White Stork to my local patch list before breakfast ✔️, have had worse starts to the day 🤷‍♂️. #birding #birdphotography #BirdingNorfolk #Norfolk #Bird #Stork #Scarning #LocalPatch #birdwatching

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Anzac Day. 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 #ANZAC #AnzacDay #AnzacDay2024 #anzacs #WW1 #TheSomme #Flanders #LestWeForget

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Happy birthday Mall-Bard 🥳. #Shakespeare #OTD #Bard #birthdayboy #Duck

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#OTD 1915 The Second Battle Of Ypres began. The first mass use of poison gas by the Germans. Over 2,000 Canadians were killed within the first 2 days. The Brooding soldier looks out over landscape 🇨🇦🍁. #WW1 #Canada #Ypres

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On this day 1917. The Battle Of Vimy Ridge. The magnificent Vimy Memorial, one of the most striking to be found anywhere along the western front. #OTD #WW1 #OTD #vimy #VimyRidgeDay

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Where The Artist Stood. Born #OTD , Vincent Van Gogh A selection of photos from a few years back spent wandering the street of Arles, the Provence countryside, and finally (as Vincent did) the small town of Auvers north of Paris. #VanGogh #Vincent #Arles #art #artist 🌻✨ 1/4

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“Horizon, Titchwell” 20cm x 20cm, oil on stretched canvas, usual palette of magenta, cyan, and primary yellow. Usually use boards, but nice to ‘extend’ the painting round the corner a bit.😉🎨 #art #artistsontwitter #oilpainting #Painting #Titchwell @rspbengland.bsky.social

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Put the Gazania seed in yesterday morning, already germinating! 😳🌱 #garden #Gardeningtips #GardenersWorld #Seed

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Latest pen and brush holder. Happy Ides of March everybody 😃🔪🗡️ #IdesOfMarch #Painting #oilpainting

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New project on the easel, 🤔 Today I will be painting mainly in Windows XP.😳🎨 #art #oil_paintings #WindowsXP #painting #sky #WIP

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Celebrating 200 years of The RNLI, remembering the arrival of 13-44 last September and seeing the name of my late father included amongst many other supporters. 🧡💙🛟 #RNLI #RNLI200

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Painting? , , , whatever, , , you carry on, , , I’ll just settle down here and have a kip. 🐈‍⬛🙄🎨 #artist #Cat #Caturday

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#dyddgŵyldewi #SaintDavidsDay #38thWelsh #WW1 #Somme

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#OTD 1916, the first shots in the Battle Of Verdun were fired, the bloodshed of the Verdun “meat grinder” would continue until almost the end of the year, claiming over 700,000 casualties. #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #BattleOfVerdun From our visit last summer.

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A trio of French scenes. “Sunflowers in Cathar Country” “Pyrenean River” “Abbaye de Sénanque” 5” x 7”, oil on canvas board, finished with pallet wood frames. #art #artist #France #Provence #OilPainting

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When you’re busy in the workshop making picture frames and somebody comes to tell you they are hungry!🙄 #Cat #Caturday #TabbyCats #CatsAreFamily #CatWorldDomination 🐈

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Latest charity shop finds that will be finding a home in the garden. Iguana and a giant snail! (Hoping it won’t act as some sort of Gastropod idol attracting all the neighbourhood snails to the garden 😬).🦎🐌

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#GroundhogDay #GroundhogDay2024 🦫

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Bowie-thon 2024 (actually started listening a couple of days ago, so already at ‘Scary Monsters”). #BowieForever #Bowie #DavidBowie

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😬 I’ve finally broken the taboo, I now own a tube of ‘black’ paint! 😳 What fresh hell am I about to unleash! 😱 #paint #painting #oilpainting

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Welcome to the Year of the Moribund Aardvark.

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Happy Christmas to all. “Watching the flames” Oil on canvas board, 5” x 7”. Pallet wood frame. Model : Lenny 🐈‍⬛ #Christmas #Caturday #Cat #BlackCat #Art #painting

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“Elgol Beach” Oil on canvas board Diameter 15cm Frame from pallet wood. I have discovered circular canvases 😁, from our trip to Skye. #Elgol #Skye #paintingoftheday #Painting #Art

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We have travelled from afar and bring gifts. Gold, frankincense, myrrh, , , an apple 🍎. #Nativity #Disney #Christmas #Christmas2023

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After all, it is the season of “Joy” 😉, so may I present our Disney Christmas tree. #Disney #Disney100 #Christmas #Christmas2023 #ChristmasTree

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