Tree

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Beneath cooling leaves

we have time to chew the fat

tell me your stories

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by Scooj

Cruella

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With her Wallace grin

charmless home secretary

plays to gallery.

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by Scooj

  • I have never been a fan of Suella Braverman and her far right inflammatory racist rhetoric, but I caught a clip of a debate in the house yesterday in which she offered an insincere and inappropriately pitched ‘tribute’ to Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton and Hove, who will be standing down at the next election.

Suella Braverman seems to have a rather inflated impression of her own capabilities and wit, and came out with this toxic ‘tongue-in-cheek’ drivel, and was all the while appealing to her fellow Tories, smirking and grinning. Caroline Lucas has class, capability, competence and compassion that Braverman could never, ever achieve.

Braverman appears to be interested only in power, driven by hatred (an element of self-loathing I suspect too)

Lucas appears to be interested in justice (social, economic and environmental) and fairness, driven by compassion.

The two are polar opposites.

Bias

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Desire to be fair

confuses fairness with fact

false equivalence

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by Scooj

  • how the climate change debate was massively skewed in favour of fossil fuel interests, to our global demise.

Heracleum mantegazzianum

Giant Hogweed, River Frome, Bristol, June 2023
Giant Hogweed, River Frome, Bristol, June 2023

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Towering giant

phytotoxicity risk

plant best left alone

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by Scooj

Jay

Jay, River Frome, Bristol, June 2023
Jay, River Frome, Bristol, June 2023

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CHATTA CHATTA CHAK

lateral iridescence

a pause for a drink

Twin downfall

Felix Braun, Donald and Boris, Stokes Croft, Bristol, 23 May 2016
Felix Braun, Donald and Boris, Stokes Croft, Bristol, 23 May 2016

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Called out by their lies

a bad day for charlatans

chaos continues

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by Scooj

Play

Fox cub, River Frome, Bristol, June 2021
Fox cub, River Frome, Bristol, June 2021

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Enchanting moment

fox cubs frolic on the bank

innocent playtime

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by Scooj

  • Yesterday I was lucky enough to watch three, at least, fox cubs playing on the far bank of the urban River Frome. I was captivated by them, having first heard them rustling in the undergrowth. I watched on for about ten minutes, wishing that I could share the moment with other passer’s by, but there were none. I had to leave because the dog, bless him, was getting restless. He couldn’t see the fox cubs because the river is bounded by a 4ft high wall. My photographs were a bit fuzzy because I was on full zoom, this is one of the better ones.

Smurf


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Smurf lock, Bristol, May 2023
Smurf lock, Bristol, May 2023

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lost or discarded

where are you all coming from?

should be locked away

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by Scooj

  • With apologies for any earworms generated.

Fire

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Thick, dark smoke billows

and drifts slowly across town

the dread of a fire

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by Scooj

Clutch

Robin nest, Bristol, May 2023
Robin nest, Bristol, May 2023

In a garden sack

full of logs, beneath the deck

a clutch of five eggs

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by Scooj