44871 on a Special to Gloucester breasting the climb from Froxfield to Bedwyn. Still the rest of Savernake to go...

Another cultural joy that Brexit has denied us...

'Bluebell woods look better without the sun.' Discuss.
Write on one side of the paper only.

We welcome new writer Stanley Root whose analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out.

westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/broke…

Nice walk yesterday recce'ing the route round Waden Hill which I'm taking some Avebury NT volunteers on this Tues pm. Much less of a quagmire than I expected. Repeating it with 'real people' on 25th April if you are interested😊.

Hellifield, 12th February 1983, last run (I think) of the Midland Compound 1000 before it became a museum piece. Little brother drove me up from Shropshire and we stayed with my Aunt in Carnforth. Rescued these pics with the Nikon scanner and Photoshop...

Surely one of the sacred places on God's Earth...Mark Walters

'Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit' (Virgil)
Perhaps one day even these things it will be a pleasure to recall...

Llwyn Bryn Dinas, Llangedwyn, from the other side of the Tanat Valley. (From a nearby field on a clear day you can also see Pistyll Rhaeadr) #hillfortswednesday

ah, 'mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?' Or in this case 'les trains'...(can't do the correct accent on 'ou')

A couple for steam men (and women), and Platform Enders at Reading on a late summer evening in 1982 (Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her))

Not pin sharp so can't read the number. The Up Westbury passing Froxfield, 15th Dec 1991...

The super dooper Nikon slide scanner still works with the old laptop. Yay! Crofton Curve, 1987. Only 10,000 to do. Nice job for the winter. Oh, hang on...

Let Thames go bankrupt and have the government buy it back for a £1… THIS IS simply the worst example of corporate greed EVER… it’s our environment they are ruining… 😤

Brexit in one tweet
#ToriesOut623 #SunakOut513 #GeneralElectionNow #Sunackered #UnitedAgainstTheTories #Starmer4PM #ToriesDestroyingOurCountry

Linda on Jeremy Vine
'The NHS gets enough money'

Beds per 1000 population:
Germany 8
France 5
UK 2.2

UK hospital beds
In 1988: 299,000
In 2020: 141,000
Despite the population rising.

Don't believe the absurd lies that the NHS has enough funding or enough beds.
#nhs

The Conservatives are still making ludicrous claims about ‘40 new hospitals’.

This is despite the former Health Secretary admitting that would not be the case.

Why do they think it’s ok to continually tell lies to the British population?

Grab-shots of kites on Ham Hill Nature Reserve yesterday Nicola Chester Downsized, 200ASA, bridge camera (SONY RX10) so won't stand much enlarging!