Hedgehogs:)
Our dog Tosca had a close encounter with one recently.
She sniffed at it.
I don't think she will do it again.

I LOVE hedgehogs!! They're very noisy eaters, or the ones our friends used to have visit their garden when they lived near Epping Forest, were anyway.

I'm rubbish at taking photos so am not likely to contribute any to the thread, but I'm really enjoying everyone else's :)

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oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :)

A few shots from the last couple of days
First around the Lion Salt Works










Finally one in at Aston Marina earlier this evening

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Yesterday as it had been a sunny afternoon I decided to got up to the Fort Victoria to see the sunset.

It was quite spectacular, and I think I might use one of the pics as my screen wallpaper



As you can see the sunset has moved quite a few degrees SW since the ones I took a month ago. It is also and hour and 15 minutes earlier!!

I returned home and just happened to glance at the ship map and saw the something very interesting was due to pass soon.

So putting on a thicker coat (it is very chilly up at the fort), I went back up.

There in the fading light was the biggest ship I personally have ever seen.



The 84,000 ton passenger ship MV Arcadia en route to Cadiz in southern Spain.

Totally dwarfing the IOW ferry passing astern.

I was worried that the fading light might make taking a good pic difficult, but this little camera never ceases to amaze



I have to admit when you see one of these ships close up like this it is an amazing sight.

I kept taking pictures .



I think this is my favourite as the Arcadia really does sail into the sunset.



I stood there watching for a good while not wanting to break the moment.

Those ship pictures are nice. I've never been on a big boat like that.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Bernie, what lovely photos!!!

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Nice photos from several of you. Thanks for posting.

Hedgehogs have become popular here as pets. I don't think that's a good thing.

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~Sue~

Never seem to sleep well when the clocks change and this morning woke up with a fuzzy head. So after breakfast I to a walk to Cantley Park to clear my head and took these photos of trees showing their autumnally colours.


This tree has come to the end of its life but still makes an interesting picture

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A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing.

If that dead tree were here in the US, I suspect someone would take a chainsaw
and carve it into something interesting.

Here's a link to show some chainsaw wood carving photos, if
you're interested.

It's amazing what those people can create.

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~Sue~

If that dead tree were here in the US, I suspect someone would take a chainsaw
and carve it into something interesting.


It's amazing what those people can create.

Yes. I took this picture in front of a house around the corner from me. Unfortunately, termites liked it too much.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

That dead tree still performs a vital function as it is home to various creepy crawlies which in turn are food to various birds, thus helping to keep up the biodiversity. This is a lesson learnt after eruption of St. Helens back in the 80s where they found an area recovered much more quickly if the fallen trees were left in place, rather than cleared and new trees planted. In UK in a lot of public areas dead and fallen trees are made safe but left were they are or moved near by.

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A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing.

Yes. I took this picture in front of a house around the corner from me. Unfortunately, termites liked it too much.

Wow! The next time we have to take out a tree, I'm going to have to find somebody who can turn the stump into a raccoon for me.

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Heads up or should I say ears up.
Love it.

I just had to go home and fetch my camera when this boat passed me on the canal yesterday:



The company name reads "British India [And] Orient Navigation Company" - shame I didn't catch him on the return trip.

I chatted a bit with the skipper, and explained why I was staring at his boat so intently (and got his permission to photograph it). Apparently it's a made-up name, but based on the very real British-India Steam Navigation Company, or BIship - his father used to work for them.

The location - as Uli corrently spotted for my earlier picture of the Kennet - is the upper approach to Bingley Five Rise Locks. Apparently he's staying for a week at the local boatyard, so I'll see if I can get a more square-on photo without falling off the retaining wall into the cowfield below.

Very nice Richard.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Very nice Richard.

+1:)

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Nicely turned out boat Richard.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I'll see if I can get a more square-on photo without falling off the retaining wall into the cowfield below

It would make an interesting shot either way but having fallen in a cowfield myself :/ I understand your reluctance

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oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :)

Nicely turned out boat Richard.

Yes, I thought so. It has the standard narrow-boat tiller and control position at the stern, but what looks like a fully-functional (and fully enclosed) wheelhouse in the bow - if you look carefully, or at the original, you can just see the skip resting his right elbow on the arc of the wheel. That must be a nice way to watch the world pass by.

Weather and installer issues conspired against me going down to get more piccies over the weekend, but I'll try again sometime in the week.

Whilst on my daily walk round Yarmouth, now very quiet off season, I did not expect to see this.



Now those of you across the pond will no doubt recognise the ubiquitous Ford Crown Victoria, that for over ten years until 2011, was THE police car of choice.

As it happens that is what this one was as it had the "Police Interceptor" badge on the back



And judging from the number plate, which I have hidden for privacy reasons, was registered here in 2008.

Wonder why someone would go to all that trouble and cost to bring one to the Isle of Wight.

Last one I saw was somewhere slightly different in 2012



Not of course forgetting it's other job as NYC Cab, last one of the "homegrown" cabs, now replaced by mostly Nissans.



PS all the pictures are mine.