We are HERE at PRIDE IN THE PARK for the weekend, come on down to meet the team, name a Blahaj, and see what’s on for Trans Pride Southampton on the 29th June.
Monochrome real photographic postcard of "Druid Circle (?) near Winchester", though actually shows a 20th century folly near Bramdean in Hampshire, created as a monument to a horse. Publisher or photographer not stated, not numbered. Postally used in 1913. #Follies#Hampshire#Bramdean#Postcards#StandingStoneSunday
'Department for Transport figures show 118.1 miles of roads in Hampshire had improvement work done in the year to March 2023 – down from 207.8 miles five years ago. The maintenance could include strengthening, resurfacing and preservation of roads.'
A relic from the cold war. In 1964 an English traitor spy named Guy Burgess died mostly from the effects of alcohol, in Moscow, Russia where he had fled before being unmasked. The ashes of Guy Burgess are in his father's grave shown in this image. The villagers demanded that his name should not appear on the stone. West Meon, Hampshire, England. January 2024. #coldwar#traitor#westmeon#hampshire#england#guyburgess
Portrait of May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton (English artist, lived 1830–1896). May (aged 15) is painted life-size, dressed in dark colours apart from the bright red sash. The fallen tree represents mortality. Hampshire countryside.
Come for a walk with me. This is a time lapse video from yesterday's walk through the New Forest. You can tell when I stopped to flip over a beetle that was upside down and being attacked by ants, when I had to dodge around some fallen trees that were blocking the path and when I had to slow down as the ground was quite boggy (but covered with sphagnum moss). https://gopro.com/v/1ZRrE5k3gdyoQ #Walking#NewForest#Hampshire
Meet my new friends. Ponies, donkeys and cows are permitted to graze freely across the New Forest in Hampshire in England. They’re a friendly lot but cars don’t impress them. #Hampshire#NewForest#Ponies#dwprovincialbritain
For #FensterFreitag this is a window from the 13th century Netley Abbey not too far away from us here in Hampshire. Netley was a Cistercian abbey and it is one of the best preserved examples of its type in the south of England.
Luxuriant growth in a ditch bordering a path through woodland on #SouthamptonCommon, a large area of woodland and grassland north of the city. Orchids are growing amongst taller plants including umbellifers & dock.
June 3rd 2023
Perfect walking weather yesterday in the #NewForest: sunny but not too hot, ~20 C & cool under the trees. Cotton grass & marsh orchids growing in the boggy areas, deer running through the woods, cuckoos calling in the distance, many dragonflies hawking over Eyeworth Pond. Streams & bogs looking dry already