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

Holocaust Memorial Day

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.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas on Tyne

Merry Xmas

Tynemouth Beach this morning


Santa's little helpers in Grey Street a few days ago


you all know what this is

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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Coats






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Princes Street; near Hanover Square , London, Sunday.

Appearances.........





can be deceptive:




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members of the Shree Muktajeevan Pipe Band (Indian Scottish Pipers) taken at the Festival of India in London, Regent Street, Sunday afternoon

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Kew Gardens

some pictures from a visit to Kew this morning








sculpture: 'wounded angel' by Emily Young

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