📷 May Photoblogging

Day 1: Switch

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I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server.


Auntie Beeb says it’s true, and I believe Auntie:

Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon Musk


It’s time to stop embedding Tweets in news stories….

(And it’s nothing to do with Musk…)


The odds of anyone with a blue tick and a very substantial following actually, truly deleting their Twitter account should Twitter be Musked must be astronomically small. A habit like that is terribly hard to kick.


Nice new paint job on one of our local pubs.

The Ferry Inn, Shoreham-by-Sea.

“Because here’s the thing about comfort, ease, security - it can topple into insipid inertia in a nanosecond. And when that happens we are trapped.”

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚


Down on the river, SUP-style.


Being a persistent shit-poster on Twitter and rather thin-skinned about criticism strikes me as an extremely poor life choice.


Quayside ladder, high tide.

A ladder down from a quay on the Adur.

Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.


More images from the sunrise Easter service this morning.


Sunrise on Easter Sunday.

A church congregation meets on Shireham Beach to welcome Easter Sunday.

A tiny escape on Good Friday.


My feelings were ambivalent - social media and the internet have introduced me to many wonderful people - but I couldn’t help thinking that all this obsessive togetherness made solitude both more intimidating and more necessary.

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚


What’s SUP, Doc?

Two stand up paddleboarders on the Sussex sea.

New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - instructs the brain to produce the neurons needed to cope with stress and change. The foot-to-ground impact of walking sends pressure waves surging through the arteries, dramatically increasing blood to the brain.

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚


Such a beautiful morning.


Morning coffee by the sea.

A flask and enamel mug on a rock.

One way where I match the stereotype of the middle-aged Dad is my obsession with correct dishwasher loading.

Why yes, we do have a visitor. Why do you ask?

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