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Early afternoon at @TrevoneBay #NoSnow |
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Soarer in the Snow February 2009 |
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Celebrating the snow... |
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Tiredness... |
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In the February snow at Angarrack Christmas Lights |
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This map shows travel time from London in 1881 |
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Zero-gravity hedgehogs |
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The new iPhone recognises your finger. #Security #Privacy #Fingerprint #rights #Mobile #Apple #Samsung |
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A spectacular aerial view of the expansive ruins of the #Roman military colony of Timgad (Batna), Algeria |
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Word(s) of the day: “scréachóg reilige” - ‘screecher of the cemetery’; Irish name for the barn owl. Also “cailleach-oidhche ghea |
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Word of the day: "clinkerbell" - icicle (Somerset; archaic). Other regional names for icicles include "aquabob" (Kent), "ickle" |
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November 2017 Weather |
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Language |
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Word of the day: “Eisvogel” - German for kingfisher, literally “ice-bird”; in Russian Зимородок, lit. “winter-born” |
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Marazion November 2017 |
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Angarrack Lane in October... |
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October 2017 Weather |
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Nature - at Hawthorn Time |
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Sample of women's suffrage petition presented #onthisday 1884 |
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A thousand acres of London's super-prime real estate is owned by 5 aristocratic families, the Crown & the Church |
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Abit o' ole Debm for ee m'dears. A few old words and phrases from my childhood |
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Stonehenge, C16th illustration by Lucas de Heere was for his guidebook to Britain |
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'Apricity’ the warmth of the sun on a chilly day |
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Amazing pumpkins for RNLI |
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27 October 2017 - This Winter Palace clock was stopped 100yrs ago when Bolsheviks seized power - started again |
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May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace |
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Word of the day: "lands" - when mountains appear as silouhettes |
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The #FREE #knitting pattern for the #EUbeanie + #pussyhat |
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A General Dictionary of Provincialisms |
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Trevone June |
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Cornish autumn sunset - Helston |
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Beautiful dry stone walling by stonemason and sculptor Johnny Clasper |
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Milky Way over Cornwall UK #nature |
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EU moves to restrict hormone-disrupting chemical found in plastics | Society | The Guardian |
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Word of the day: "chime" - collective noun for wrens; the wren is also known as "druid" (Welsh), "little king" (Dutch) & "jenny" |
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Tinners' seal, of the form on Edward I's 1305 charter to the tinners—Latin text reads 'The seal of the community of tinners of C |
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Archaeology: NERC EIDC #LiDAR of #Chysauster Iron Age/RB settlement (1st-3rd c AD) and its associated field system, West Penwith, #Cornwall |
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Laherne Convent Cross, formerly in Gwinear |
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Archaeology: NERC EIDC #LiDAR of Chun Castle (3rd c BC-1st c AD & 5th-6th c AD) & surrounding prehistoric landscape complex, West Penwith, Co |
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NERC EIDC #LiDAR of Chun Castle (3rd c BC-1st c AD & 5th-6th c AD) & surrounding prehistoric landscape complex, West Penwith, Co |
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Mud soldier in Trafalgar Square will slowly dissolve in the rain, marking #Passchendaele100 | @HistoricEngland |
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Torschlusspanik - options are narrowing, that the boat is leaving |
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Radioactive Chocolate Bar, c.1931. The German company claimed it made people younger @DrLindseyFitz |
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Earliest known, relatively realistic map of Britain in #AngloSaxon world #map, made c1025-50 & based on Roman model | @DrSueOost |
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Plough horse. Making progress but only 3 weeks left to finish! | @HarrietMead1 |
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John Soane Rose roundel, hand carved in Portland stone, & delivered to Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing | @TomStoneCarver |
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Burncoose - May Day 2017 |
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