Silver Birch

Silver birch leaves, Redland, Bristol, December 2025

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Leaf fall random form

silver-laced serrated edge

autumn’s winter creep

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by Scooj

Colder

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Chilly sleet showers

warn us of winter to come

dreaming of summer

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by Scooj

Good to be alive

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One of those mornings

stillness and cloudless blue skies

spring is in the air

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by Scooj

6669. Stapleton Road

Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025
Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025

I love the way that street and graffiti artists are so quick to find new hoardings, a job, in fairness, made much easier when they are adjacent to an existing known spot. So it is with these hoardings near the M32 Spot. Nice One has painted another of his stunning landscape pieces on this virgin board and it looks fantastic.

Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025
Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025

The winter scene features a rural landscape with bare trees and a church tower, all covered in snow. It is a pretty scene and one that is rarely seen in street art. Nice one is an interesting character who combines a subversive edge with a fine art and design style, and he is producing some of the best artwork in Bristol at the moment (in my opinion). A wonderful piece.

6664. River Avon (75)

Werm, River Avon, Bristol, January 2025
Werm, River Avon, Bristol, January 2025

This is a neat and tidy piece of Winter writing from Werm painted in his symmetrical theme design. What is particularly attractive about this piece is that the proportions work really well, and it is really tight.

Werm, River Avon, Bristol, January 2025
Werm, River Avon, Bristol, January 2025

Orange and green are common colour combinations in graffiti writing and are colours that work extremely well together. It looks like Werm too his time with this piece, as all the lines are nice and straight, the fills accurate and the highlights very nicely placed. First-class writing from Werm.

Fog

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The familiar

becomes unfamiliar

until the fog lifts

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by Scooj

Comical

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On a frosted bank

a seagull is worm charming

webbed feet marking time

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by Scooj

Not quite ready for inspection

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VIP visit

hosting Christmas for mother

way too much housework

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by Scooj

Christmas party

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Team get together

London the preferred venue

another train trip

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by Scooj

Recent experiences on the rail network have not been good, but I am ten minutes into my journey from Bristol to London and all seems well.

Alert

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Red weather warning

shrieking mobile devices

one helluva shock

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by Scooj

  • At some point I must have signed up to weather alerts (although it looks like this might have been a central government pushed alert), and while I was just finishing up my work, all my mobile devices went nuts with a very loud alarm – I didn’t know that level of volume was even possible. It seems we might be in for a very windy night.