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Hampton Court on a lovely, summer day
The weather was wonderful and a visit to Hampton Court Palace, as ever, was a joy. Here are the pictures taken in the Palace and its gardens.
And here are the River Thames ones
And here is the playing-around-with-Photoshop one
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Evening in the park
Conkers!
Pretty flowers
More pretty flowers
That’s London, 12 miles away!
A tree
Another tree
Playing with a tree -
Box Hill, Surrey
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Why the Mexico / USA wall has to be transparent
“When they throw large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them — they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over. As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall.”
Donald Trump, July 2017 -
Chloe & Iris
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To the park, then finish a very fine book
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The biggest, strangest batteries
What if you need a battery? A really big one — big enough to run a city? This article from the New York Times shows some interesting ways for storing energy. There are some nice graphics as well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/energy-environment/biggest-batteries.html
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The artist’s residence
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View from our holiday apartment
Our Scarborough holiday apartment was on a corner and had large floor-to-ceiling windows looking out in two directions. Although there wasn’t much of a view, the light flooded in, and it took a couple of night’s sleep to adjust to such brightness at 4 in the morning! Here are some images looking out through the windows.
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Misty Filey
Filey is a small and pleasant seaside resort on the North Yorkshire coast. On this visit it was misty, and the amazing Filey Brigg was invisible (picture on right).
We were puzzled as to why the Punch and Judy man was setting up his theatre on such a dreadful day (picture on left). He was surely the epitome of optimism!
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