ipernity: StoneRoad2013

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Updated on: 02 Dec 2024.

Photo updates (edited - 5th December 2024) ... - 2 weeks ago

And, RIGHT on the nose, for a change - 192,000 visits at 13:00 [GMT] on 5th December 2024. Please Keep Safe - to everyone being subjected to natural environmental, health hazards and man-made warfare ! NOTE : GMT returned on 27th October 2024, with Samhain, bonfires and winter to follow ... Hopefully BST, and sunshine with dry & warmer weather cometh on Sunday, 30th March 2025 to Sunday 26th October 2025. Sadly we've lost Ben de-Dog, he crossed the bridge on Tuesday 4th June 2024, after collapsing following his morning constitutional around our garden. All of us are devastated - and that includes Beauty [our tripod cat]. However, we are now owned by a Collie, "Bella" came from a local working dogs rescue, She came to us as very shy & timid with a few problems. Bella has already learnt her new name, and has begun remembering her obedience skills. The start of metereological summer is 1st June 2024 ! Much better weather here in the last few days, with greater amounts of sunshine, much less cloud / rain, and therefore warmer temperatures. I am sure the local sheep and farmers appreciate the improvement, my garden certainly seems to do so - and I've needed to do several grass cutting sessions. NOTE : Now on BST from 02:00 on 31st March 2024 - so hopefully some sunshine and dry weather cometh ... GMT returns on 27th October 2024, with Samhain, bonfires and winter to follow ... Many Thanks for visiting ! as I really do appreciate all the various interactions with my images, especially the comments & favourites. I'm hoping to be more interactive with other people's images etc in 2024, as well as deal with most of my own image backlog in the next few months. Obviously, the newest albums have the least number of views - currently they are on page 12 of most viewed albums. I have been keeping up with my uploads, with various visits to places of interest featuring quite strongly but the vast majority are still "Private" as I have been busy in the garden and with a range of administration & other activities ... I have caught up with the last of the backdated items in the Cobid-19 album. Also, I am still working away with more of the various backdated images, and I have found some more "missing" images ... this has meant creating more new albums, for those that didn't fit into the existing albums; as well as adding titles, captions and keywords to the actual images. Final stage is unlocking them and adding some to groups. Mostly, I have "tagged" the albums I am working on with *New*,*updated*,*WiP* and *done* as needed, these will stay for a week or three, depending on the status. For my ease of access, I sometimes add the albums I am currently working with into my favourites, so the contents of the "favourite" banner on my album home page may get changed periodically. Currently, SRR have hree vehicles as two new jobs for 2022, their *NEW* albums appeared recently. Backdated coverage is for :- NSR23, MSR62 & 63, plus two ex-Corris vehicles now on the Talyllyn. Also, various "holiday snaps" and visits to places of interest & gala type events. I still have several hundred images to process, and a further backlog of images to upload ... Please stay safe and healthy - keep indoors or follow social distancing rules if you must make an essential trip outside. Wash hands or sanitise them frequently. Cover face - Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when required, please, for not only your own protection but also for others. Make Space ; Stay at least the minimum distances apart (for me, in the UK that is 2m) Ventilation - make sure there is plenty of fresh air That means there have been an average of 1,000 interactions with my photostream each month, so very many thanks to all the visitors and for all the comments and yellow stars. Apologies, all this has been delayed as I have been concentrating on my garden rebuilding project and writing tender documentation. Although I have been doing a lot more of my administration work at home since March 2020. Luckily, I have avoided catching the plague, so far.

Album Tags ... [18 November 2024]
- 18 Nov 2024

Having realised that I have a lot of uploaded images still to process - they are mostly already added to albums, but without Captions, Keywords and Titles - I decided to try playing catch-up. This will take some time ! To help me, I decided to "tag" the multitude of albums. So, I'm doing that at the moment. {New} = what it says on the tin, some may appear as "spin-offs" from larger albums. {OK} = up to date ie work already completed {WIP} = albums with images due to be processed {Updated}…
Bereaved - In memorium
- 06 Sep 2024

In the wee small hours of 7th January 2019, my wonderful father died. May his katra Rest In Peace. ~~~~ Birthday memories ... 23rd March 2024 - where have the past five years gone ? they went past in what seems to have been a brief flash, on waking this morning I didn't feel quite as bereft as I usually do at this time of year. Sleep well Patro, I miss you ! e2aa - Somewhat similar to what happened last year, four years seems to have passed in a brief flash and this morning I felt the loss very keenly. E2A - This morning I awoke to feelings that the last three years seem like yesterday, not that I slept particularly well. [This is a very personal sense of loss and I am not decrying all the suffering and deaths from the pandemic, quite the opposite] I typed my first version of this before dawn on 7th Jan 2022, deleted it and tried again. My Late Mother would have reached her century on 29th September 2024, and she died on 8th July 1982, after a long struggle with having a defective heart valve. It would have been his 103rd birthday on 23rd March 2022 (1919 to 2019) and I doubt he would have managed to get to 104 [23rd March 2023] ... I miss them both, so very much. It's my birthday on 6th September, and despite everything that always brings the sense of loss back. Father's Day in the UK on 18th June 2023. Always a sad day, I miss the opportunity to send himself some bad esperanto in an humourous card. ~~~~ this links to an image www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/47955110 in my photos entitled "CAS - esperantist" (which was in the Ipernity Frontpage and What's Hot group on 3rd March 2019)

{OK} atm - Anti Trump {GOP} Memes, album created on 08 Nov 2024

Some of these date back at least as far as 2016 and are quite creative in their level of derision. {split from main meme album 9Nov2024} Not all are memes, some are images of "carnival floats" or protest banners. Also includes items about the reproductive rights issue, in which the states have significantly regressed into a less civilised position. Not my image / meme : fair use, comment & public education Point to Note : to some of the inhabitants of Great Britain, a trump is a loud episode of…

{updated}WSL - Wooden Slate Waggons, album created on 07 Nov 2024

Production of replica wooden slate waggons - initially in conjunction with the Talyllyn Railway, includes several scanned images obtained during research on the various designs. It seems almost every quarry, railway and tramway had their own versions, although some of the variations are quite minor.

{OK} STR[H] - Hickins', album created on 31 Oct 2024

The "Crossing Cafe" at the Alston terminus of the South Tynedale Railway, was operated by Dug & Kim Hickin from c2022 until their retirement at the end of October 2024. [from November 2024 there will be new operators] www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/24053855.new-leaseholders-sought-alston-cafe-couple-plans-retirement

GALAS, Visits and Other Special Events, a set of 97 albums

{w!p} - 111[CuCu] - places in Cumbria twb[23] - Collingwood Monument

{updated} - 111[ncle] : places in Newcastle agp - Long Tunnel aka T4 [7 of 7]

{OK} agp - Aberglaslyn Pass ANT / TiG - Reaper and Whitewing

{OK} ant - Anstruther - Scottish Fisheries Museum ape - tracks to the trenches

{OK} ape - Apedale Gala bal - ALM 598

{wip} bal - Bala Lake Railway more...

{OK} GE2024 - UK's 2024 General Election, album created on 30 May 2024

Prime Minister R.Sunak called the UK's General Election for Thursday 4th July 2024. Result was a Labour landslide ... Lab = 412, Con = 121, LibDems = 72, others = 45 [11 parties]. [First seat to declare was counted in Sunderland, Labour holding Houghton & Sunderland South, and Inverness, Skye & West Ross-shire was the last seat to declare, with The LibDems gaining from the SNP. After the main count, and a recount on Friday, there was a second recount underway on Saturday, after discrepancies bet…

{updated} aav - Alston Arches Viaduct, album created on 01 Jul 2023

Railway bridge over the River South Tyne on the outskirts of Haltwhistle. Designed by GB Bruce, built in stone from a local quarry [just outside the nearby village of Fourstones] and completed in March 1851. Originally carried the branch line to Alston, the route of which is severed by the A69 just south of the end of the viaduct. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alston_Arches_Viaduct Some images to add ... Went for my first walk over then top of the arches on 28th October 2024 ! During which I disco…

{OK} shw - Summer Heat Waves, album created on 05 Oct 2022

For Great Britain, the summer of 2022 weather was exceptional - a significant lack of rainfall and at least three periods of extreme heat, with conditions severe enough for the "Met Office" to issue warnings and hosepipe bans to be enacted. [22] refers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_Kingdom_heat_waves The summer of 2023 also had some significantly hot weather [23] refers ... So, a safe way to cool off is in a suitably life-guarded swimming pool ... yet there has been a net loss in England /…