Surely I’m not the only one to momentarily misread this historic graffiti and announce loudly to a friend, “Oh, I wonder why someone’s written sh*t 57 on this column?! How strange!”
Ooops 🤭🫣😱
Church of St. Helena and St. Mary, Bourn, Cambridgeshire.
A Gwynedd slate quarry Caban…a communal shelter & the intellectual& spiritual heart of quarry culture. Low buildings, complete with a fireplace.
Lime finishes made with slate aggregates were crucial to the comfort of these crude shelters in the exposed uplands of Eryri!
@james_raftery@AndyWoodturner Been using one for twenty years ! Being a woodworker it make sense. Has its ups and downs. But every bag of shopping is a nitrogen import.
Someone needs to invent a preferably organic sanitary product that van life folks can use to shit in when they’re staying over in rural park ups so they can take it away and dispose of in a sensible manner.
Much better than all the shit and bog roll behind rocks and trees.
@Sian_Parry In more ways than one. I remember as a communist youth getting caught short in the Preseli’s and having to use pages torn from my copy of Lenin’s “My Struggle” to complete the task. Capitalism beckoned.
Wheal Coates is a former tin and copper mine on the Cornish Coast, near St. Agnes. We can see that there is a lime coating (much eroded) that was lined out, to give a more uniform appearance 🤩
Right now, its very normal for a piece of land to change hands (sale or lease) and have the nature on it wiped out.
Trees and hedges removed, land reprofiled and drained, old grasslands sprayed off and reseeded.
Until that changes we'll continue to lose nature.