Words, pictures and transdimensional waves

Speaking ill of the dead.

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:12:29 +0100

I’m sure some people will be shocked and even disgusted at the joy being shown at news of Margaret Thatcher’s death, at the lack of respect to our former prime minister. Even those at the top of the Tory party and the tory media, who will feign horror at the comments and posts celebrating her death cannot be insulated enough from the real world to be unaware of the hatred in which the woman was held by so many. I share in it, and do not feel guilty in the slightest. This is a woman who did an enormous amount of damage to this country, who provoked a war for political gain (and then went against expert military advice to send a ship, the HMS Sheffield, forward of the fleet and can be held directly responsible for its sinking and the deaths of those sailors and soldiers on board) and who, in being idolised by the political right in this country, has influenced political policy and rhetoric since - all of it harmful and divisive. While she has not been a part of public life for some years and her death actually changes nothing, I and many millions are glad to see the back of her.

However, it must be remembered that in her many years in office she probably did less harm to the UK - to the poor, to the working people, to everybody except the most wealthy - than Cameron, Gove et al have done in less than a single term of government. I know it is a forlorn hope that they will see the reactions of so many people, expressed in terms well argued or simply emotional, and fear at the reactions to their own demise. I try to believe that almost all politicians do, on some level, what they think is for the best, however wrongheaded and misguided, but I cannot look at the ruin that this government is making of our welfare state, at the divisions deliberately sown amongst those hardest hit by the changes while they line their own pockets and those of their rich friends, of the utter contempt they show to hardship and suffering and believe that they are anything short of evil.

Working late on Flickr.

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:00:00 +0100

Working late on Flickr.

Dusk across the fields on Flickr. Via Flickr: I had a hike out...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:29:00 +0100

Dusk across the fields on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
I had a hike out the other evening over Wadsley and Loxley Commons under a fabulous sky. It was simply otherworldly. I took a few shots around sunset and then hung around and experimented with taking some long exposure photos s night deepened. While many are too grainy, the quality of the light was amazing for a good hour after the sun set.

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Sun, 05 Aug 2012 01:51:23 +0100

mykindafairytalee: (via Enchanted forest cottage wallpaper...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:58:57 +0100

mykindafairytalee:

(via Enchanted forest cottage wallpaper #20756 - Open Walls)

"You fail only if you stop writing."

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:50:43 +0100

“You fail only if you stop writing.”

- Ray Bradbury (via becauseilovetowrite)

I think I just found the Ray Bradbury quote for a tattoo. And here I thought it was going to be something from his books.

(via gothiccharmschool)

Damn, I must be in so many people’s dreams…

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:59:48 +0100

Damn, I must be in so many people’s dreams…

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:59:00 +0100

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:59:41 +0100

Cricket Game, India

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:52:25 +0100

Cricket Game, India

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:52:41 +0100

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:51:16 +0100

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:49:43 +0100

live-2-learn: BNE

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:55:19 +0100

live-2-learn:

BNE

raaynee: hashtag-done: 3dition: k-eo: silverecstasyy: toxicc...

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:50:59 +0100

raaynee:

hashtag-done:

3dition:

k-eo:

silverecstasyy:

toxiccunts:

Best vid of the year.

omg

hahahahahahaha

eye am so done

oh

my

god

it’s not who you are underneath

it’s what you do that defines you

denise-puchol: metropolis

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:58:42 +0100

denise-puchol:

metropolis

mrdreadful: Rain makes me very happy.

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:40:00 +0100

mrdreadful:

Rain makes me very happy.

honey-rider: Kate Bush

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:57:00 +0100

honey-rider:

Kate Bush

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:54:46 +0100

abstractthoughts: My girlfriend recently got a cornea...

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:55:36 +0100

abstractthoughts:

My girlfriend recently got a cornea transplant. Here is a high res image of the stitches in her eye

Wow.