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East Londoner in North Wales. Used to teach under 5s, now a stay-at-home Dad and EY Masters student. He/Him.
Some recent #Defaidodon encounters. I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to be in that field of crops.
Here's some in colour from the same day. I was a bit happier with how these came out.
I spent a day walking around Holyhead a month or so ago. Took these pics on #KodakPortra160 but I really didn't like the way the colours came out on most of them, so I've edited them a little and converted to B&W.
I live just over the road from Glanadda cemetery in Bangor. I read yesterday that there's a grave there belonging to John Thomas, a Nigerian sailor who died on the SS Apapa when it was torpedoed by a U-boat in 1917. The ship sank off Anglesey. It took me a couple of hours to find the grave. Here it is, next to Isaac Peppel's, a sailor from Sierra Leone who also died when the Apapa sunk. Thomas is a very Welsh name, of course, so there are several war graves marked Thomas in the cemetery.
I got a new camera a couple of weeks ago, after selling all my film gear. It's a compact but it has IBIS, and I've really enjoyed messing about with slower shutter speeds. I took these today at Swallow Falls and Pont-y-pair in Betws-y-coed, all taken at 1 second. #photography #Snowdonia
One of my favourite things to do in London was to follow #HiddenRivers like the Fleet, the Hackney Brook, and the Moselle. When we moved to Bangor, the guy we bought our house from told us about the river Adda, which flows underground through the middle of the town. I've walked almost all of it, I think, and there aren't many spots where you can see or hear it. Today I noticed this waterfall on Caernarfon Road that must flow into it.
#Defaidodon One of our (me and my toddler) favourite things to do is go looking for sheep. She is a big fan and will watch them in wonder, making "baa" noises. Lately the sheep near us seem to have been moved to inaccessible fields or somewhere else, so it's getting harder to find good sheep content. Here's some from back in September.
I learned that Bangor has feral peacocks today. Was given a bit of warning by my wife, so I didn't just stumble across them. They're beautiful, but it seems like nobody wants to claim ownership of them. Surely they must have escaped or been released by someone, but they apparently just wander around town now.