Alasdair Hind

Likes maps and other stuff | works with interesting maps and data at Esri UK | has opinions and they are all my own

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

In our house junior cricket takes over in the summer, but tonight instead of the arcane intricacies of scoring, I get a theatrical viewing experience...

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Passing the Fourth Plinth for a moment of art inspired reflection...

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Don't remember ever seeing the gorse as gorsey as this. Hopefully the local insect life is getting its fill...

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

@billplumtree @LakesStiles clag I know - where's ewe? So go on - what's swank?

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Spring snow on the Borders hills this morning... some zooming in may be required to actually see it.

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

@billplumtree So first you photographed all the sheep in Cumbria. Then when you'd run out you did stiles. And now it's old bricks? Bracken stalks after that 😜

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Had to scrape the frozen condensation off the inside of the window for todays shoogly bus photo. Bit parky...

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Attempt two wasn't much better

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Shoogly bus and reflections in the window... you might have to take my word that a beautiful bright moon was disappearing behind the cloud.

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Mist hung over frosty grass on The Meadows this morning. All was sunnshine by lunchtime.

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

@John_M_Nelson We went the other way and I now spend my time wishing the kettle would just switch off instead of whistling at me 😆

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Been a while since the last game and snacks night in our house. Youngest did a valiant job of evading the detectives on his tail. A map was involved 🤓

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Sunny morning, bright and early(ish) and it’s a shoogly bus day. Chance to enjoy the view and get a shadow selfie…

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

@natlibscotmaps And now I need to find out about the suspension bridge on the Tweed in 1832… turns out the Union Bridge was a record breaker in its day.

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Doh, wrong queue… the lower temperatures are making my brain run slower.

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Suddenly the mornings are chilly and autumnal feeling. Right on queue the first skein of geese honked over the house heading south (ish)

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

@marinemaps Good luck!

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

@billplumtree Better? Sure I left some hills around here someplace…

[Alasdair Hind @dvinchik]

Travelling back from Manchester. All that Victorian industrial architecture in blocks reminded me of Glasgow… but flatter… and made of bricks... Having maps as decoration in the station wins bonus points.