First day thread

[mickthemaverick]

Yes with use of the dark arts I am 100% that it is LED:

Own work

[myglaren]

It's the light arts you need for that one Mick.

[NewcastleFalcon]

contributions welcome, pictures, music, calendar pics, philosophy, anecdotes anything goes...
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for example...

calendars turned over for the new month

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

May1st2021...Decent coating of ice

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

This is about the best you are going to get from me today, very busy day on the sofa: F1 Practice 3, Crystal Palace v Manchester City, F1 Qualifying, Chelsea v Fulham, all interspersed with world championship snooker and then the evening session at the Crucible to complete my day, so here it is:

Own creationj from Neil;s base

[myglaren]

Scottish Colin

[NewcastleFalcon]

the border collie

sunshine and showers

May 1st hyacinth on waste ground

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Did May fly by? I know it started off with a bit of proper ice on the BB Micra Screen.

It must have done its June 1st today. Sun busting out all over, and a hour faffing about outside cutting the grass etc has had me "catching the sun" and coming in a little red-faced.

Must be approaching poppies in the fields season if the Countryfile Calendar has got it right. Got a few welsh ones in bloom now, but not quite in their profusion as yet.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

June 1st 2021 Welsh Poppies

June 1st 2021 Welsh Poppy

June 1st 2021 Welsh poppies

[myglaren]

I've planted thousands but there are only a handful out yet.

[NewcastleFalcon]

your blank canvas for some first day pics
taken today

My snap of the shutter this morning

July 1st sunlight through the leaf canopy

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

First day of the month..can you capture it with an original photo?

Here's the October photo on our labrador calendar

Craster Northumberland

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

First day Brick. October 1st 2021.

Not the finest example, but a new find for me.
NCB Wallsend

NCB Wallsend, probably one of 5 or 6 different named bricks from the same site.

In 1908, the Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Company established a brickworks at Rising Sun Colliery, mainly to supply common bricks for the company’s own collieries. The bricks were fired in a 16-chamber Hoffman kiln, each chamber capable of holding 10,500 bricks.

Regards Neil

PS Next time I'm down in Amble I'll have to investigate this discovered just today.

....the brickmakers at Birtley sometimes used "to put their boot in it". This is in a wall in Amble along the side of a footpath next to the old railway line the remains of the former signal box. In the same wall is a named brick T Blythe and Sons Birtley Station 1894 Brick and Tile Wks. Radcliffe Brickworks in Amble were less than half a mile away, but they built the signal box with Birtley bricks!

[NewcastleFalcon]

What are the conkers like at 55% North on October 1st 2021....in the UK,

exactly like this...

Regards Neil

[bobins]

A field, 7.30 the other morning.

Morning field - own work