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Justin

County Fermanagh, previously Peak District.

Like hiking, classical music, art, wildlife, gardening.

Don't like bananas.

He/him. Trans ally. 🏳️‍⚧️

Used to blog at: http://www.occasionallylost.com/
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Szymanowski: Three Songs to Poems by Jan Kasprowicz, Op. 5

Anna Malewicz Madej, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra (Katowice), Karol Stryja

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A screenshot of a Naxos album cover for a disc of Songs with Orchestra by Szymanowski.
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Today's Mavis pic...

No words needed.

♥️🐾
A German Shepherd's face, resting on my leg and gazing into my eyes.
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Coming to you live as the sun goes down at Lanyon Quoit, on the Penwith moors #standingstonesunday
The spectacular Lanyon Quoit, a Neolithic dolmen in Cornwall, has three support stones and a large capstone. Seen here as the sun goes down on a winters afternoon.
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The Calf House portal tomb.

Cavan Burren Park, a couple of weeks ago.

#AncientSiteSunday #CavanBurren #GeoPark #UNESCO #Scape #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A portal tomb with a strikingly large capstone leaning at an angle. There are some sections of stone and mortar walling added to the structure. It sits on grassland with trees in the background. A hand holding an information board, which reads: Calf House Portal Tomb This is a very enigmatic monument and although archaeologists agree on its classification, there is some disagreement on how it may have originally looked. Did the tomb face north-west, north-east or south-west? Most archaeologists believe the latter and suggest that the massive capstone sloped backward from the 2 metre high portal (entry) stones and rested on one or more back stones. There is a difficulty with this interpretation as outward-facing or transverse portal stones are not common in Ireland but do occur in other countries. The tomb was modified and used as an animal shelter in the late 19th and early 20th century. Most archaeologists agree that the stone and lime mortar walling was added during this conversion, whilst others suggest that it was part of the original monument. Evidence from excavated portal tombs suggests that tombs like this were built during the early Neolithic period around 3,500 to 4,000 BC
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols

John Barrow, Gavin Williams, London String Orchestra, Guildford Cathedral Choir, Barry Rose

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#Advent
A screenshot of an EMI album cover for a disc of Vaughan Williams' Hodie and his Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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This evening's viewing...

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Moniuszko: Halka

Soloists, Opera Nova Bydgoszcz, Piotr Wajrak

#NowWatching #ClassicalMusic
A television screen, showing the menu for a DVD of Moniuszko's opera "Halka".
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with English Voices and the Dmitri Ensemble, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

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A screenshot of an album cover for an Albion Records disc of vocal and choral music by Vaughan Williams.
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Goodbye for now, Saturday...

👋😎🌄

#Sunset #Fermanagh
The sun, setting on the far side of a field. The field itself is dark and trees on the other side of it are silhouetted against the sky.
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#UnJourUnePhoto
#Photovember2025
#photography

29/11. Petit bonheur

Larrau- Col d'Erroymendi (Pyrénées Atlantiques)
Des chevaux au loin sur l’herbe très verte du col, avec les haurs sommets des Pyrénées au fond de l’image. Des vached au loin sur l’herbe très verte du col, avec les haurs sommets des Pyrénées au fond de l’image. Un autre troupeau de vaches en contrebas sur l’herbe très verte du col, avec les haurs sommets des Pyrénées au fond de l’image. Un cgeval curieux vient me voir...
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Introduce yourself with five suggestions for lists of five items introducing yourself.
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The Docker's Rest, Belfast, unveiled 2019. A collaboration between local artists, Terry Bradley and Friz.

📷 November, 2022.

#StreetArtSaturday #StreetArt #MuralMonday #EastCoastKin #Belfast #UrbanPhotography #UrbanArt
A mural on a wall showing stylised images of male dockworkers in early twentieth century clothing and caps. The central figure is holding a pint glass of Guinness.
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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My home city, Manchester, in November 2021, seen from just outside the village we lived in at the time. Winter Hill, aptly enough,
in the background.

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Hope everyone has a great weekend...

😎👍

#PeakDistrict #Manchester #Scape #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Photography
In the foreground: snow covered hills, made up of fields, walls, and clumps of bare trees. Behind these, down on a plain, the skyline of a city. In the background, a line of large hills across the horizon. Their lower slopes are dark but the tops are dusted with snow. The sky above is grey.
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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'Ere, where d'ya think you're going?

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#SheepOfTheDay #OnThisDay in 2021.
A grumpy looking sheep standing just inside the entrance to a snow covered field on a hillside. It is staring at the photographer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Blog Post: Three Choice String Sextets (Brahms, Dvorak, Lawes)
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Three Choice String Sextets
In a recent piece about Linda Catlin Smith's 6th String Quartet, I briefly mentioned the viol consorts of William Lawes. Lawes also crops u...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Today's Mavis pic...

No help with the crossword this afternoon! 🙄

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A German Shepherd's head resting on my outstretched legs on a sofa. She is fast asleep.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

James
Rufus Wainwright
Neutral Milk Hotel
Linda Ronstadt
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Dar Williams
Arlo Guthrie
Indigo Girls
Henry Rollins
Runrig
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Blur
Suede
Tindersticks
My Morning Jacket
The Divine Comedy
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18d
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here:
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Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing outward, against a dark background.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Volans: String Quartet No. 1, "White Man Sleeps"

The Duke Quartet

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A screenshot of a Black Box album cover for a disc of string quartets by Kevin Volans performed by The Duke Quartet.
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Have a #painting. "Knocknarea III" came out of my annual visits to County Sligo where I get to visit the iconic mountain. This is a view from the south as you wend along the coast - which I recommend you do, ideally on a bicycle. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
Wide landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Coastal scene on a sunny day with pure pale blue sky. A series of fields with a bright blue bay coming in from the left in the bottom half of the painting in a sharp triangular wedge with the point at the right edge. In the foreground the near side of the bay are slivers of horizontal fields, a green one across the bottom edge with odd long yellow blades of grass, followed by an orange one behind it with strokes of soft green throughout to indicate it's a crop of some length, and on the right it has up to a couple dozen bales of hay in circular black plastic with light creating an arcing light blue highlight on each one. There is a dark green and red hedgerow on the far side of that field with a particularly large bush to the left of centre, and behind it are a couple of lime green and olive green fields with a line of bushes on the right close to the water's edge. On the far side of the bay is a beach of grey pebbles with a line of dark wine seaweed along the centre of most of it. Behind the shore the land slopes up gently with about a dozen horizontal fields of yellow-green and bright green, and about half way up them is a cluster of houses on the left and a line of a few houses with farm and outbuildings extending into the centre of the painting. They are suggestive more than exact, in greys and whites with roofs of dark blue and purple. At the top of the slope on the right is a field with rows of yellow and green coming down towards the viewer. Behind that sloping landmass is the main piece of the painting, the isolated humpbacked mountain of Knocknarea, with it steep grey stone side facing the viewer, the green of a mass of trees at the left end, bright green of fields with the pink of heather, on its lower slopes, a pale maroon streak along its top of heather, and the bump on its very top that is Queen Maeve's cairn. On either side of Knocknarea in the distance are blue mountains. Signed bottom left, Liam Daly
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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One of the better sunrises I've seen. Clayton Michigan, 09 Nov 2020.
One of the better sunrises I've seen. Clayton Michigan, 09 Nov 2020.
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Ancient dry-stone walls and field barns are defining features of the Dales landscape - shaped over thousands of years by people and nature. This view is from the edge of Grass Woods (Grassington) looking in the direction of Conistone.

📸 Ken Readshaw | #YorkshireDales
A scenic rural landscape featuring gently sloping hills divided by multiple dry stone walls forming irregular, terraced fields. The foreground and midground display lush green grass, while the upper hills transition into muted brown tones with patches of exposed rock. Two small, traditional stone barns with pitched roofs are scattered among the fields, blending into the natural setting. Several leafless trees stand along the terraces, and a few white sheep graze on the grass. The sky above is overcast, casting soft, diffused light across the scene, creating a calm and pastoral atmosphere.
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Gate, Sligo, on this day in 2023.

#Thursgate #Sligo #ThrowbackThursday #OnThisDay #EastCoastKin #Photography
A rusty double gate at the entrance of a field. It hangs between a stone wall on the right and a stone shed on the left. There are bare trees and blue sky in the background.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Today's Mavis pic...

Mavis is a big fan of 'Mayor of Kingstown'

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A German Shepherd on a couch with her front paws resting on my outstretched legs. She is looking at a television in the background with Jeremy Renner on the screen.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Thinking back to the amazing weather last week #Lakedistrict #Latrigg
Walking in the snow in the Lakes
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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#NowPlaying #ClassicalMusic

Holst: The Cloud Messenger

Della Jones, London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Hickox

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A screenshot of an album cover for a two disc Chandos set of vocal and choral music by Gustav Holst.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM