810 010 at #Leicester on 8th December.

Started reading Rail Magazine issue 1053.

A #Squirrel in #Epsom in spring 2009 is the subject of my latest YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsuU...

810 010 at #Leicester on 8th December.

66 721 at Wellingborough on 8th January.

A view of the Cardington airship sheds near #Bedford grabbed on a murky 8th December from on board 222 006 ( I have to say the mucky windows on the train didn't help the picture quality either... )

What is it with #Snooker and 6-2 scores this week?!

730 037 at Northfield, #Birmingham, on 4th December.

The #sunset from Northfield, #Birmingham, on 4th December.

The #sunset from Northfield, #Birmingham, on 4th December with a large flock of seagulls.

730 005 at Gravelly Hill on 4th December.

Jan. 11, 1926: Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Ryan and their prize Pekingese dogs on the grounds of their bungalow house in Culver City, Calif.

Rigi Kulm - Schweiz - Switzerland #rigi #rigibahn #schweiz #switzerland Foto Markus Seitz standseilbahnen.ch

Editorial Assistant Woof is opting for comfort tonight. If she does this tomorrow, she’s doing the writing and subbing.

On closing US bases in Europe: It took around 5 years for Russian bases to be closed in Eastern Europe after the Soviet Union collapsed. Russian forces began to leave Hungary in June 1989, Czechoslovakia in February 1990, and Poland in April 1991. The last Russian toops left East Berlin in June 1994

Günstiges Fotostudio 🤣 #cartoon #lustig #perscheid

And who can blame them?! 💥 "The EU is reportedly demanding guarantees of UK compensation if a future government reneges on Starmer's Brexit 'reset' agreement. Nicknamed the 'Farage clause', it is seen as a means of ensuring the bloc is not left out of pocket should Reform win a general election."

UGB Zahnradbahn in Mühlehorn fährt wieder nach Reparatur Video --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Zi... #ugb #geländebahn #reparatur #vonrotz

Fahrt auf die Alpe Le Véla - Garaventa Monorack Foto Garaventa Video --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Evl...

Die alte Seilbahn von Stechelberg nach Mürren via Gimmelwald Talfahrt Gimmelwald - Stechelberg --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_2... #gimmelwald #stechelberg #mürren #seilbahn #cablecar #schweiz #switzerland

Jan. 11, 1926: A crier opens a session of the Court of Swainmote in Lyndhurst, England, a relic of feudal times that hears cases of offenses against forest law.

On January 11, 1927, Charlie Chaplin’s $16 million estate was frozen by court after second wife, Lita Grey, sued for divorce. The bitter, prolonged divorce ended a three-year marriage with a record settlement. They had two sons together.

#Dugald #Stewart #Monument #Calton #Hill #Edinburgh #Scotland

Unforgivable. Mixing basic passenger information with advertising to the confusion of the former. Brand prostitution. flic.kr/p/2rRd5mF

hahahah youtube.com/shorts/qIjqk...

Jan. 11, 1926: Married in New York: Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Evangeline Brewster Johnson, an heiress to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. He is 43, marrying for the second time; she is 28 and marrying for the first time.

Jupiter was at opposition (brightest) yesterday but will be very bright for the next couple of months. Look east each evening. Easy to spot. 🔭 🧪

Jan. 11, 1926: Mourners kneel before the casket of Italy's dowager Queen Margherita before her burial under the 2,000-year-old dome of the Pantheon in Rome.

Jupiter continues to move into position to create a fine triangle with Castor and Pollux. Next month will be a brilliant visual and photographic opportunity. 🔭 🧪

One of my favorites I haven't shared in a while: “The Time the Sun Winked at Me” - July 2024 #WxSky #EastCoastKin #photography

20 years ago this was the artists impression of a train, but which one?

Jan. 11, 1926: A crowd at Santa Fe Station in Los Angeles surrounds a train carrying the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson toward New York, from which she plans a voyage to the Holy Land. At right in first photo, holding flowers, is her daughter, Roberta Star Semple.

If you're wondering why the oil companies aren't really interested in doing Trump's bidding in Venezuela, answers like this 👇 are helpful. The same would probably be true with the very hard-to-get-to raw materials in Greenland. But of course, the orange idiot is too stupid to read that small print!

#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #Natural This Bald Eagle is eating it's prey, which appears to be octopus. 🫣Au naturale, Bon Appetit! The photo was taken in Lummi Island which is near Bellingham Bay in Washington State. #PNW #Birds #Nature #Eagles #Wildlife #WestCoastKin #BirdPhotography #Photography

Condivido tramonti per regalare un po' di bellezza a chi ne ha bisogno 🖤

Grisos, negres i blancs. Algunes illes fosques en un mar de neu blanca. Gairebé res més. Hivern. #Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Stunday #Scape #RuralScape #Bellpuig #Urgell #EastCoastKin

On this day in 2023 I captured Mars and the Pleiades. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

this will hold ya over... ⛈️🌈

Almost can't believe I felt the need to write this but... Is Trump about to attack Greenland? There has been a clear escalation in rhetoric in recent weeks. christinapagel.substack.com/p/is-trump-g...

Interesting iridescent clouds today.

They paved paradise & put up a parking lot. 1968 Dub City decides to build HQ 1969 Discover well-preserved remains of ancient Viking city of Dublin 1981 Annihilate Viking city to build ugly concrete HQ called ‘the bunkers’. 2026 Abandon ugly HQ

Jan. 11, 1926: “Willard Welsh of Boston has succeeded in making a pet of a fox. The animal, which has been named Reddy, has, contrary to belief, been gentle and ‘one to be trusted.’” (Los Angeles Daily News)

Since we had our first freeze here (a couple of months late), I decided to share a photo of Seamus cavorting in the last good snow fall we had (in 2021). He was 11 years old in this pic. He's 15 now & would probably gallump around in the snow a bit & then beg to go back inside. 🐾🐾

#Watercolor #Illustrations by Steeven Salvat Cloak Natural Specimens with Elaborate Metallic Motifs Link for more information and to see more of hos amazing #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/08/stee...

Clint Eastwood skateboarding through the streets of Rome in 1964.

Jan. 11, 1926: Guests at the Middleton Hunt Ball at Birdsall House, the Yorkshire estate of Lord Middleton.

Jan. 11, 1926: Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the maharajah of Baroda in India, celebrates his 50th year on the throne in a ceremony with his ministers and attendants.

Jan. 11, 1926: Lawyers for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, under a death sentence for a deadly 1920 robbery, take their appeal for a retrial to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. They argue prosecutors injected bias by presenting the radicals as politically “dangerous.”

If you have binoculars a nice observing challenge is to spot the cluster M41 just below Sirius. Has nice variety of colours to it. 🔭 🧪