this too will pass

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Snowy day in the Ouseburn Valley

Saturday, April 05, 2008

an afternoon with the Royals

no, not those Royals

with the Reading fans today

Owen celebrates his goal in the 3-0 win

Tynemouth Long Sands. Friday evening

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Chinese students demonstrate "for peace" in Newcastle upon Tyne

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this afternoon, Grey's Monument

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Saturday, Tynemouth Long Sands

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taken Saturday morning: Dogs are banned from the beach from May through September

Lindisfarne, the Holy Island

some shots from a trip on Friday to Holy Island , Northumberland

structures:

a door:

a fire on the sand:

a boat:

an eye:

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

stormy weather, late afternoon

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"Land of singing waters and words from off the sea

God bring me to Northumberland the land where I would be. "

Wilfred Gibson. (1878-1962)

mad March days

Tynemouth today

a lone surfer

waves

DFDS ferry entering the Tyne

Friday, March 07, 2008

Tynemouth Priory & Castle

a windswept visit this morning ( click photos to enlarge)

"Pen Bal Crag"

tombstone

WW1 coastal defences

the Matriach wrapped up against the strong winds

A Night at the Opera

with the Matriarch to the Theatre Royal last night .... magic!

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Leap Year

PARIS—During the 100th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, 1989.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

some more leaping photos from Slate can be seen at:
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20080229/

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Northumberland Coast, Sunday

two views of Bamburgh Castle

and one of the castle on Holy Island

Saturday, February 02, 2008

West Jesmond this afternoon

at the old school, demolition work has begun

and in a nearby back lane an orderly row of dustbins:

Sunday, January 27, 2008

A sunny day on the Northumbrian Coast

a short coastal walk north of Boulmer today in unseasonably warm sunshine

patterns in the sand

A day to reflect on man's inhumanity to man. Over 11 million people died in the genocide carried out by Hitler's Third Reich including over 1.5 million children from across Europe who were murdered by the Nazi regime.

The Atlantic Slave Trade involved over 10,000,000 people being forced against their will into a life of slavery; 13% dying en route to the Americas and the Caribbean.

Rwanda 1994, almost one million people were killed in the space of just one hundred days.

Pol Pot's Cambodia 1975-1979. 1.7 million people killed, one-fifth of the country's population.

Stalin's Soviet Union. 2.7 million executed, 4.8 million die in the GULAG and labour colonies, 1.7 million deaths due to deportations .

Vietnam; nearly 2 million civilians in the north and the south were killed between 1954 and 1975.