Mundane Thread Photographic Edition

[Sits]

[jameswba]

[Sits]

On an 8yo IPhone SE, Sits! Which is being swapped for a 13 mini hand me down from Mrs Slacks this weekend, who’s bought herself the latest version, as it happens.There’s some blurring on both shots, but I quite like the effect on a nighttime shot.

I’ll keep trying…

[slackster]

On an 8yo IPhone SE, Sits! Which is being swapped for a 13 mini hand me down from Mrs Slacks this weekend, who’s bought herself the latest version, as it happens.There’s some blurring on both shots, but I quite like the effect on a nighttime shot.

[Sits]

slackster those are great. Are they with a phone or a “proper” camera? When I’ve tried taking moonlight photos with my iPhone it exposes too long and blurs, uses the flash or just looks dark.

[slackster]

Full moon tonight. Lovely silvery sheen about.

[jameswba]

The only thing I really recall of my 1 trip to Brno was the Ossuary with all the skulls. It was 30 years ago, mind, and just a brief overnight stay.

Before the villa opened to the public, that was the city's most famous attraction.

A fun fact about the city is Swedish forces saying they'd call off their siege if they hadn't captured it by midday on May 3rd 1645. The bellringers in the cathedral rang twelve times when it was still only 11 o'clock, and the siege was duly aborted.

[slackster]

The only thing I really recall of my 1 trip to Brno was the Ossuary with all the skulls. It was 30 years ago, mind, and just a brief overnight stay.

[jameswba]

And the view over the villa garden to Brno landmarks.

[jameswba]

[jameswba]

Achieved a long-held ambition today by doing the tour of Brno's iconic modernist masterpiece, the Tugendhat Villa. The interior is what really makes it, but you can only take pics with a €12 photo-pass. We experienced the onyx wall in the main room briefly lighting up as the sun came out, which was quite magical.

[slackster]

Down at the Dale peninsula earlier, where the direct Coast Path can only accessed at low tide (there’s a 4 mile diversion when the water’s up). It’s quite a sheltered estuary spot favoured by dinghy sailors, sea canoeists and wading birds You can just about see the Valero Oil Refinery on the far side of Milford Haven.

[Third rate Leszno]

Another 4-6 feet of sand dunes lost to the sea during the recent spring tides. This time the sea was lively enough to smash a lot of the concrete surround off the outfall pipe. The giant timber (spaniel included for scale) has been there since last year, not sure what it came from but it's studded with rusty bolts throughout.

[Cal Alamein]

Saturday we went to White Sands National Park for the first time. Very trippy and fun.

Weather was perfect, in the 50's (F!) and little to no wind.



You can hike for miles and miles if you like, but we bought sleds and trekked to find the best hills. We got a good workout climbing in the soft sand in order to get to the top of each hills. Of the five of us sledding, Ms. Cal was the speed champ.



On the way back we stopped to visit the world's largest pistachio.



Between Carrizozo and Bingham are some malpais, lava rock thrown up a long time ago.

[Capybara]

[elguapo4]

Paul's day just got better

[Patrick Thistle]

A ghost sign I saw on the weekend

There was another shop here for 15 years or so but when that.closed the sign got taken down... and this has emerged

[ursus arctos]

slacksterThis lot is claiming to be the lineal descendents of the 1944 RCP (which dissolved as such in 1949) rather than anything to do with Furedi's mob.

[slackster]

Along with their Lenin-a-hundred-years-dead launch of The Communist as their rebranded rag (lots of workers hammer and sickles seems to be the theme), they intend to shapeshift into the Revolutionary Communist Party in May. I wonder if Frank Furedi and his, er, interestingly now-Libertarian crew have a copyright on the name?

I take your point about Starmer’s Labour putting Socialist Appeal on their proscribed list of Marxist Irritants a while back. The rather tardy response to form an ‘exciting’ new Party for all those tens of students just itching for a dialectic chat with the proletariat whilst forlornly trying to flog a paper makes me think this is a delayed Smashy & Nicey response to being sacked off…after much theoretical thought and editorial committee meetings, no doubt.

[apologies to all for the digression from Mundane Photos - maybe we need a Trot-and-Tankie-Sects-Watch thread. Their antics are always fun as long as you’re not stuck in a meeting with them parroting the line]

[Felicity, I guess so]

Socialist Appeal haven't decided against entrism, they've been banned/expelled from Labour

[Sits]

[slackster]

That’s the Socialist Appeal* rag, right? They’ve certainly upped their sticker game.

[*for those unacquainted or baffled by the various Trot sectlets, SA were Ted Grant’s rump grouping after Peter Taffe & Co decided to take an ‘open turn’ once Militant Tendency had their moment in the sun, which meant turning away from entryism and forming the laughably acronymed SPEW - Socialist Party of England & Wales. As SA have now also decided against entryism maybe they should get the gang back together again. The Trots family tree with split after split is a mind-boggling but hilarious thing]

[Patrick Thistle]

Saw this political sticker today.

[Sits]

Love that dark sky behind sunlit greenery.

[slackster]

After a grey, drizzly morning, the sky cleared this afternoon and went a weird, almost violet, colour.