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Rosamundi
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Velocipedestrienne, flâneuse, solivagant, bibliophile, needlesmith. #RosamundiWalks and #VignettesFromTheBikeLane. Swans. Cricket.
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It's hard work, being a leopard. #SundayPixBelovedCritters
the head of a leopard, snoozing with its eyes closed.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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baby elephant going about secret baby elephant business #SundayPixBelovedCritters
A baby elephant striding purposefully along.
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Two lilac-breasted rollers #SundayPixBelovedCritters
The lilac-breasted roller is about the size of a blackbird. it has an olive-green head, a lilac breast, and a turquoise stomach with turquoise wings edged in dark blue. it has long tail streamers in a very dark blue, almost back. there are two in this picture. One is perched on a tree stump, looking slightly to the left, towards the one that is flying out of shot, showing the turquoise underneath its wings and the dark blue outline.
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Here's a lion. #SundayPixBelovedCritters
A male lion lying in some long grass. A dark gold mane surrounds the paler gold of his face. One very fluffy ear is just visible. His mouth is slightly open, showing his bottom incisor teeth.
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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#SundayPixBelovedCritters One of these days, I'll do a #SundayPix without a swan in it. Today is not that day.
An adult mute swan floating on some water. The swan's wings are slightly raised, creating an arch above its back, and the neck is extended with the head and bill curving down. A mute swan cygnet, in its fluffy grey baby down, sitting on a plank of wood. You can see one bright black eye and its beak is tucked against its chest.
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Every blessing on the nice young man who gave me free insurance for my glasses.
A pair of rimless glasses on a piece of paper. One of the arms is not attached to the lens it should be attached to.
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Thank you for writing this post. I'm on my 6th book this month.
Photograph of my reading tracker, started on 31 October. I've read "Children of the Storm", "The Serpent on the Crown", and "Tom of the Golden Bird" by Elizabeth Peters, "A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear" by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "Pagans", by James Alistair Henry and I'm currently reading "On Repentance and Repair" by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg.
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Love and a swan, as always.
A mute swan on the water. Its wings are arched up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Sending you love and a calm and resting swan.
A mute swan, resting in the shade of some reeds. The swan is asleep, with its neck curving back and its beak tucked under a wing. The sunlight through the reeds is casting a pattern of light and shade over the swan's body.
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I get the OFS (Office for Fluffy Swans).
An adult mute swan, bending its head round to groom its belly. A fluffy grey mute swan cygnet floating on a lake.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Morning 😊
A fluffy grey mute swan cygnet floating on a lake.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack in Namibia.
Looking down from the mountain ridge towards the flat desert plain. A low wooden house is perched on the edge of the cliff. A dead tree, bleached white by the sun, in the red sand desert. A rocky path between two canyon walls, with a dead tree in the middle. A bull elephant heading across a plain of golden grass towards some low hills in the distance.
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack hidden away among a housing estate off a busy road, behind what used to be an industrial school and then a hospital, is a tiny park, with a lake.
A lake, fringed with reeds and with low rise red brick houses in the background. Family of four swans on the lake, two adults and two of this year's babies, fully grown but still with patches of baby grey plumage in among the white.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Right, I'm hosting #SundayPix this week and I know some people like advance warning of the theme. Your theme for this week is #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
The offbeat, the unusual, the exotic, or maybe just a little hidden corner of your own back garden. Everything is off the beaten track to someone.
A cheetah snoozing in the shade of a couple of scrubby acacia trees.
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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furry kitten boots, as requested. And a kitten in a bin.
The front paws and stripy tail of a tabby kitten. Extreme close up of a tabby kitten's face, with pale green eyes and a pink collar. tabby kitten licking its nose with a pink tongue, forelegs stretched out in front of it. tabby kitten peeping out of a brass waste bin.
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Dying at how Bluesky has cropped the pictures. #SundayPixPictures
the pictures from the post above. Bluesky has cropped them so the focus of both images is the exceedingly prominent breeches. Heads and feet have both been cropped out.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Doesn't even have to be the Thames having a tantrum. I wonder what condition the pipework is in?
Quote from the article; "Corridors in the palace’s sprawling basement that could once fit four people abreast are now so packed with gas lines, water pipes, electrical wiring and redundant infrastructure that workers can only walk down them single file. It has a misting system to mitigate the risk of fire." The words "water pipes" are highlighted in yellow.
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#SundayPixPictures after this photo was displayed at Kew Gardens, my grandma insisted I got it printed and framed.
Photograph in a black frame and white mount. The photo is of a mute swan's head and neck, the neck curving round in an almost perfect circle as it grooms itself.
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Morning. Wishing you a day as calm and peaceful as this swan.
A mute swan, resting on its nest in the shade of some reeds. The swan's neck is curved along the top of its back so it can tuck its beak under a wing. The one visible eye is closed, and the sunlight through the reeds is casting stripes of light and shade over the swan.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Oh, I've just been reminded of the time a former colleague blithely announced he was going to walk The Broomway one Saturday and I gaped at them a bit, and then started talking *extremely quickly* about how bad an idea it was.
They went to the cinema instead, I think.
screenshot from the Ordnance Survey, showing Foulness island on the left and Maplin Sands on the right. A line of green crosses with various paths back to shore runs parallel to the shore, from Wakering Stairs to Fisherman's Head. it is marked DANGER AREA in red and there's a box saying, in red, WARNING Public Rights of Way across Maplin Sands are dangerous. Seek local guidance.
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Ministry of Defence Shoeburyness. Marked on the maps with lots of danger triangles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_Sho...
An extract from the ordnance Survey, mostly showing mud and sand but with some land in the top left corner. The land and the mud and sand are marked with red danger triangles. Towards the centre top of the map is the line of green crosses marking The Broomway, starting at Wakering Stairs. That gets its own red capslock danger area, not shown on this extract.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Why? Just why? This ought to be illegal. 1 June to 31 October was right there as an option! *twitches*
Screenshot from my water bill, showing the billing period is from 1 June 2025 to 6 November 2025.
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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here, in fact. Only, you know, darker and with a fuckwit in a car.
T-junction with a bike lane running east-west and a pub on the corner.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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we're snail posting, post your snails.
A small snail with a pale cream shell with three dark brown stripes curving round, crawling up a long, narrow, reed-like leaf.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Absolutely nothing about my recent ordering history with Ocado should make them think I'd want a voucher for money off beer that's 4.3% ABV.
a voucher for money off Beavertown Neck Oil IPA, at 5.3%ABV.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM