Yipee! The days are getting longer.

 

Sunrise on 23rd December 2022.
Three minutes before the end of my morning cycle ride.

Sunlight in Port Sunlight

 

The sun shining through the leaves in an avenue in Port Sunlight. If you do not know about this model village built by Levers, the soap manufacturers, then visit this website  

 

 

And this was where they made the soap – the former Lever Brothers soap factory.

A new Canaletto?

 

No, it is the sun rising in Amsterdam on a Thursday morning.

Inside an Antonov

 

 

 Holiday photos.

This is the load space inside a Russian Antonov transport plane. 

 
We are on a package tour but, actually, we chose the ship option for our holiday.

 

 

 

 The aircraft is in the Speyer Technic Museum where we managed to time our visit to coincide with a Star Wars convention.

When we departed at 13.30, after a four hour visit, the entrance queue was still two hundred yards long.

 

 

 I think the museum must have made a profit today.

 

 

Ignored by Albert Schweitzer

 

The statue of Albert Schweitzer in Strasbourg taking absolutely no notice of the child playing in the water at the side of him. 

 

Perhaps he was gazing at the window in the school opposite.

 

Wot, no rubber?

 

I visted the Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany. Here I found a bicycle used during World War 2 when rubber was unobtainable in Germany. This was their solution. Apparently it functioned well on dirt roads but was a bit of a handful on cobbles.

Calm morning

 

Absolutely no wind this morning as I began my trip out to Bridge to sow some more hollyhock seeds onto the A2 from the overbridge at Higham Court.

 

 

 

The sun was rising but it was still dark under the trees.

 

 

 

 

By the time that I was returning home, the aeroplanes had started their trek across Kent to the Continent.

 

 

 

 

August Bank Holiday Sun-Day

 

The sun is just peeking through the clouds as I start my cycle ride.

The cows are back on the Minnis.

 

Hot misty morning.

  

 

 

17° centigrade at 05.45.

 

Sun burning off the mist.

Passport Portraits of Yesteryear no. 51

Continuing the series of passport portraits in my collection.
Peruse and wonder.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the world was introduced to a Russian word, pogrom, meaning, ‘to demolish violently or to cause havoc.’ It was applied in the 1880s to the anti Jewish riots which erupted after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
    Many of the Jews fled Russia and it was their influx into London and their concentration around the dock area which caused the British government to react to the contemporary public opinion and introduce the Aliens Act 1905 to control immigration.
    Emmanuel Cohen arrived in the UK from Russia with his family at the age of five in 1893. He grew up, moved to Birmingham, married a lady called Cordelia and set himself up as a baker. He was naturalised as a British citizen in 1925.

Evening sun in Ashbourne

 

I think it is going to rain.

No ball football?

That small sign says, 'No Ball Games'.
How do they cope with that?

High tide at Rutland Church

 

Sunrise 2 April.

 

 

It happened so quickly that by the time I had stopped my bicycle and prepared my camera the intitial golden fringes to the clouds had developed into this flare.

Freezing fog.

 

It may not look to be the case but that band of fog across the lane is very dense and cold at minus three degrees centigrade.

Solar Electricity?

 

Is this what they mean when they talk about solar power?

Dawn on the walnut tree.

 

 

 

 

Actually it is one of seven walnut trees which I have discovered on my cycle ride. Unfortunately, none of them has ever produced any edible harvest
but I will keep looking.

Is this the End of the World?

Well, I continued cycling and did not fall off the edge so, probably not.