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Graham Jones
@oldmanrambling.bsky.social
Retired journalist from Liverpool, married for 57 years to Janet, now living in Surrey. Left-wing jazz fan and Humanist. No fascists, god botherers or anti-LGBTQ. No DMs. I won’t reply and may block. No requests for cash. Supports 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧️
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#InsectsOfBluesky
If you build it they will come. OK, I didn’t so much build this bee hotel as buy it from John Lewis and stuck it up on a post near our Sunflowers, Cosmos and other insect-friendly flowers and waited … Today my patience was rewarded.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The tragic Hong Kong fire is still burning, yet 3 construction company executives have been arrested. Here in the UK, 8 years on from Grenfell - zero arrests.
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#PalacesAndGardens #people
Another visit to Emmetts National Trust Garden in Kent but at the other end of the year as volunteer gardeners prepare a bed in the rose garden around the water feature on a cold but bright November day.
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
#insectThursday #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
#EastCoastKin
A Cardinal Beetle hangs from a grass seed head. I bet Sheena is doubting its credentials but it is a member of the Ambrosia beetle family - the kind that live in symbiosis with ambrosia fungus.
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The annual Spring pilgrimage to one of the local bluebell woods at Emmetts Gardens in Kent run by @nationaltrust.org.uk an English charity. There is also a lovely big tree for #NationalTreeWeek
#PalacesAndGardens #People #Spring #Bluebells #EnglishGardens
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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#HolidayRobin
Waiting for an otter to show, this Robin was displaying nearby.
It's one of my first "proper" images and demonstrated to my other "superb wildlife 'tographer" half, that I had finally learnt that the background is as important as the subject.🤣
#ukbirds
#birds
#EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday

Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Finally got around to setting up my new phone yesterday evening, an iPhone16 Plus. Took this whilst out with the dog on this frosty Shropshire morning, not a bad picture for the first one on this new device #thegardenjungle #Shropshire #Landscape #Sunrise
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It’s getting near that time of year. Plenty of Robins on my feed and now this. Holly berries. I think I’m going soft in my old age. It’ll be snow globes next.
#ColorADay #RedWed #Macro #PhotographersOfBluesky
#Photohour #EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It’s #NationalTreeWeek in the UK so I am posting a favourite tree each day. Today it is the tall Poplar that stands beside the town library and was partly in shade but the top was burnished copper/coloured by the sun against a blue sky. There’s a bonus tree, too.
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersUnited
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Getting to the end of the season now and there was another hard frost last night so this might be the last #RoseWednesday without dipping into the archive.
#BloomScrolling #photography #Icy
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I don’t really approve of slave labour and the conditions these poor little chaps have to work in are deplorable. Every year they hammer away in the window of the town sport shop before Christmas, in full view of the public. In short - outrageous.
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt
#EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.

How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?

They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today as set by @alan678.bsky.social is #OnTheEdge, any bird at the edge of a body of water. These chaps at Titchwell RSPB a few years back were certainly on the edge of the lake. I was after the Avocet but the neighbours were a bonus.
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels
Inside story. This is one of my first efforts with my new macro lens. I’ll get the hang of it eventually. Maybe. Can you see what it is yet?
*Answer in alt text.

#EastCoastKin #Macro #PhotographersOfBluesky
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Every time I spot a robin, I feel compelled, for random superstitious purposes, to say "Hello, Captain Underpants".

This is normally fine, but can prove somewhat embarrassing If I spot one out of the window, when on a busy bus! 👀🫣🤣
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I took so many pictures of my garden assistant yesterday that I shall be sharing them for some time but for today I shall limit it to one #HolidayRobin You’re welcome.
#Birds #EnglishGardening #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Good Morning from Vienna!

IM KAFFEEHAUS
Coffee House Reader
Café Museum
Operngasse corner Friedrichstrasse
Inner City, First District
Image © by Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography #Coffee
#Kaffeehaus #Cafe #ImKaffeehaus
#BlueBrew #SusanCushing @sdcushing.bsky.social
www.cafemuseum.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#Football
#Names
Reading the running commentary on tonight’s European football matches I was stopped short by this little gem. At first I thought I’d discovered a misprint or at least an attempt to lighten the mood with a reference to a puppet double act. But, no, Poku and Doku it is.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Morning #BlueSky ☕️ Taken yesterday a few minutes from where l live here in Ireland. Have a gorgeous day friends ☺️ #EastCoastKin #Ireland
#Photography #Nature #Trees #NaturePhotography #Rivers #PhotographyOfBlueSky #Autumn
#ThickTrunkTuesday #ColorADay #CyanTue #PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Clouds
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM