He has fallen asleep now. I hope it was near midnight: PIPE DREAM If I could choose the hour in which Death chooses me And the way in which It will make its arbitrary choice I can think of nothing better than To fall asleep near midnight... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nature's own destruction. Sept. 2025 #ThickTrunkTuesday. #woodland #beechtree #photography #ClassicMono #monochrome #PhotographersofBluesky #landscape #BlueSkyArt @bskyphotos.bsky.social

This morning's cloud inversion. #nature #scape #landscape #clouds #dawn #sunrise @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Canal de la Robine. Narbonne. Sept 2023. @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Lafcadio Hearn's Wife, Koizumi Setsu, is receiving growing attention as his creative partner. Here is a story she recounted in the American Register newspaper on Saturday, April 23, 1904. andibrooks997862739.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/k... #KizumiSetsu #KoizumiYakumo #LafcadioHearn #Japanesefolktales

The first example of an ad for the Pooles Eventograph, a type of projector to show moving footage. Dates from 9 Dec. 1896. This footage was variously described as 'film' 'living photographs' 'animated photographs' and 'cinematographe.' The review dates from 1904. Last mentions seen in 1906.

#MountainMonday and #BlueSkyMonday, and flying over the Urals in 2014. #photography #naturephotography #Siberia #Russia #ArtYear #EastCoastKin @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Have Labour, Lib Dem's and Greens got the message? Rattled in the US Senate; rattled by Ed Davey's comments;, now he's rattled by Starmer: Reform is unhappy with the PM's language. Farage "To call somebody in politics an enemy is language that is bordering on the inciteful.”

#3. The celebration of the railway's 200th anniversary has been somewhat muted. Perhaps the debacle of HS2 has put the dampeners on. Still the advertising for railways (and in particular British Rail) has, for many years, often been top notch. youtu.be/EsyyJaX0j3Y?...

#2. The celebration of the railway's 200th anniversary has been somewhat muted. Perhaps the debacle of HS2 has put the dampeners on. Still the advertising for railways (and in particular British Rail) has, for many years, often been top notch. youtu.be/UexudZ4aOUk?...

The celebration of the railway's 200th anniversary has been somewhat muted. Perhaps the debacle of HS2 has put the dampeners on. Still the advertising for railways (and in particular British Rail) has, for many years, often been top notch. youtu.be/6DNWSBsDgsM?...

A rather limp way of asking MPs to stop taking pot shots at his even limpier (sic) leadership.

My most popular piece this last week has been Understanding the ending of Evil Does Not Exist. grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/u...

A road near Uley. #BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad #photography #nightphotography #Moonlit #LightandDark #shadows #Light #landscape #rural #countryside #PhonePhotography @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Did you know that Penn Libraries received a donation of 1200+ early modern & modern illustrated Japanese books in recent years? 📖 The Tress Collection offers a wealth of rare Edo pubs! 🗾 Revisit this #NCCSpotlight by Julie Nelson Davis & Lynne Farrington for more! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

Clouds over Tokyo. August 2023. #Stunday

Breakthrough: The rise of women's rugby in Japan. www.japanhouselondon.uk/read-and-wat...

Today marks the celebration of 200 years since the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 27 September 1825. Railway travel had begun. In Japan it is the centennial of the Yamanote Line. grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/c...

Seto Ohashi Bridge. Japan. #TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Yokohama Chinatown 2025. #横浜中華街 #橫濱中華街 #theroad #BlueSkyArtShow @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Shinagawa, Tokyo. August 2025. #TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow @bskyphotos.bsky.social

You might get lost in the forest here - and never return. #ForestFriday #nature #landscape #scape #fable @botanical.bsky.social @bskyphotos.bsky.social

What is more British than going to the Royal Oak on a Friday night and ordering a pint of Uley Bitter and a bag of pork scratchings (and muttering f-off Nigel Farage)?

Some thoughts on Sonatine...Beat Takeshi's breakout international hit. grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/s...

Marugame. July 2025. #TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow #scape #cloud #Japan @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Woodland. Sept.2025. @bskyphotos.bsky.social @botanical.bsky.social

The James Bond watches. What was the first branded watch? midcenturybond.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/t...

Early morning yesterday, I was up before the dawn. #photography #landscape #scape #outdoors #clouds #sky #EastCoastKin #sunrise #PhotographersUnited #nature #ArtYear #photohour #BlueskyArt

The New God (1999) - a challenging documentary about the disaffected youth of 1990s Japan. AMAMIYA Karin the 'heroine' later became a leading political activists for the disadvantaged. In this 2017 interview she deftly takes down the deceit of then PM Abe. www.zoomjapan.info/2017/10/17/n...

Shafts of sunlight this morning.

1PostReviewds: WOMAN IN THE DUNES. A man is trapped with a woman in an inescapable pit. A psychological study based on a brilliant book and filmed equally well by Teshigahara Hiroshi. youtu.be/7kX4h_sEBiI

1PostReviewds: I watched Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle 劇場版「鬼滅の刃」無限城編 in Tokyo with subtitles. Overlong. Action punctuated by too much exposition and reflection but at times brilliant animation. Big screen needed. youtu.be/x7uLutVRBfI

1PostReviews. THE MARCHING BAND. French feel good film about two separated brothers who meet over life, death and music. Emmanuel Courcol's direction does not falter and despite some glossing over of awkward societal ills it delivers tears and laughs. youtu.be/bhfCXPYIKs8

1PostReviews: WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS. Set in Iceland directed by Runar Runarsson. College age students have to deal with the death of a friend and lover. Beautifully filmed, an emotionally demanding story, but can sometimes be overwrought. youtu.be/NdQypdtOIqY

The first night of independent television in the UK would soon be drawing to a close with the Epilogue. #itv70

Itsukushima Shrine's floating torii gate on Miyajima Island. #SetoInladSea #BlueSkyMonday ✨ #Photography #Landscape #Monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #sea #shrine @bskyphotos.bsky.social

The Thames and the City Of London from Charing Cross. #city #cityscape #monochrome #BlueSkyArt #clouds @bskyphotos.bsky.social

It's claimed that the BBC tried to spoil the launch of ITV #OTD by running a story in The Archers (one of the UK's most popular programmes) abt the death of Grace Archer. Other than the refute in the interview, the 15 minute Archers was broadcast at 6.45; ITV at 8.30pm. www.bbc.com/historyofthe...

Seventy years ago ITV was launched (or at least their forerunners) in London. This was the first commercial channel in the UK, and the first in Europe ie broadcast TV advertising. (The US were ahead.) The first evening's programme is below as well as the (competitive?) @BBC TV.

A garden roller. Sept 2025.

Forest. Sept 2025. #ForestFriday #scape #treescape #EastCoastKin #photography #nature #forest #PhotographersOfBlueSky

70 years of commercial TV in the UK, and seventy years of TV advertising. This 1999 Guinness commercial is still often said to be the best ever. youtu.be/b5CwOLYtq7U?...

#BlueSkyArtShow #angles and #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #photography #shadows #blackandwhite #monochrome @bskyphotos.bsky.social

The Seto Inland Sea from Tadotsu. #stunday #seascape #japan #瀬戸内海, #SetoNaikai #Setouchi #多度津町, @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Unfortunately spineless Japan, in hoc to the US, fails to take any action. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I noticed that a baseball game was taking place next door to the National Stadium where the @WorldAthletics 2025 was playing out, just as it was on the opening night of the Tokyo Olympics 1966. A story... grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/t...

Blow Up is a favourite film but what does it mean? - if there is any meaning at all. Perhaps it's all a game. Link in first comment.

Good morning! on #Stunday #sunrise #clouds @bskyphotos.bsky.social

The Seto Inland Sea from Tadotsu. #stunday #seascape #japan #瀬戸内海, #SetoNaikai #Setouchi #多度津町, @bskyphotos.bsky.social

#BlueSkyArtShow #angles and #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #photography #shadows #blackandwhite #monochrome @bskyphotos.bsky.social