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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 16: Oof!

Hockey is back. We went on a 4 hour round trip and lost 5-0. Here are the post-match teas.

White china plate filled with a huge slice of pizza, half a garlic bread baguette and a mound of baked beans.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 15: Red

Closeup of rear bike light. Four vertical red bulbs with brightest at the top.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 14: Statue

Stone plinth with statue of a man positioned horizontally, appearing to levitate with his elbow the only point resting on the plinth.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 13: Glowing

My first cheat of the challenge — today’s photos were taken by my wife. It was a no brainer given there’s a hot shop where she works.

Metal furnace with door partially open and person holding a rod in the glowing heat.Molten glass on the end of a rod being worked on a metal counter top.

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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 12: Panic

Found a nice quiet spot to spend my lunch break… then turned around and saw the vampire rabbit was watching me 😱

Decorative white and pink doorway with black vampire rabbit gargoyle perched above a circular window.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 11: Retrospect

I adore Lucy Rie’s creations and picked up this catalogue of her work on a recent visit to the Centre of Ceramic Art in York.

Double spread of an open book featuring two photographs of ceramic vases made by Lucy Rie.
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I have two questions about ITV’s rugby World Cup coverage…

  1. Why have they set it up to look like a political debate?
  2. Why are they making the pundits wear suit jackets in this heat?
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 10: Cycle

Round here Sundays are for housework.

Dashboard of a washing machine. 30 degree cycle selected. 2:25 on the digital timer.
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I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed watching England play rugby. All change tonight - a George Ford masterclass and finally playing like a team 🙌 🌹🏉

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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 9: Language

Cricket has its very own vocabulary.

England and Sri Lanka on the cricket field at Chester le Street. Scoreboard and stands in the background.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 8: Yonder

Church spire visible in the distance down a side street between two closeup buildings.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 7: Panorama

Messing about with panoramas during my lunch break for today’s photo. Managed to get 5 of Newcastle’s famous bridges in the shot (Millennium, Tyne, Swing, High Level and QE2)

Panorama of the river Tyne with landmarks of the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides.
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I’ve not forgotten about my holiday highlights series, so here’s #3…

Listening to my Dad read my nephews their bedtime story… it just so happened to be the abuelo tonto (silly grandad) chapter from Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth 😂

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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 6: Well

A good excuse to take a different route for today’s lunchtime dog walk

Stone well built into a mud bank under cover of trees. Carved inscription reads ‘Ye well of King John’.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 5: Forest

Rumpled duvet. The cover is light grey with green tropical leaf pattern.
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Green Sea, 2020 - ★★ (contains spoilers)

This review may contain spoilers.

Not entirely sure what to make of this film. It felt like it could be a wholesome story about friendship but there was an edge of something sinister throughout that I couldn’t let go of.

And at the end I’m left with one overriding thought: Why did she take the dog?

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Really enjoying seeing the variety in photos being posted for today’s challenge prompt 🤩

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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 4: Orange

Somewhere between green and red 🍅

Beefsteak tomatoes growing on a plant. In the foreground the tomato is orange, behind it there are three green tomatoes and one red.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 3: Precious 🥰

Woman gazes adoringly at dog.
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📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 2: Buildup

It’s two weeks today until the first match of the season.

Two crossed field hockey sticks resting on a blue bag at the side of the pitch.