Peter Platt

Raindrop on a hazel catkin
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCloseUp

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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The Freedom Pass Could Be Scaled Back Plans to scale-back the Freedom Pass face criticism.

No more free Tube? Older Londoners could lose entitlement, as changes to the Freedom Pass are mooted

First walk of 2026 🥶 Happy New Year to you all!
#walking #2026 #NewYearsDay

And after a wait the driver announces the bus is terminating and you all have to get off and scramble to get a place on the one behind (happens quite often in Sutton 🫤)

Sounds like a good plan!

An oystercatcher, Sheena

Abandoned and unloved
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUforUnloved

For #ThickTrunkTuesday I offer this lovely London Plane tree in Ravensbury Park, South London

"Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home"
#fungi #insects 🍄‍🟫🐞
#woodland #forest #photography #walking

The Bridge
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision

For #ThickTrunkTuesday I offer this magnificent Tulip Tree in NT Stourhead Garden
#photography

Comes close second to The Sweeney, imho 🎶

Fly-by
#Seaside #Birds

Hayling Island bus replacement service to the mainland from Warners Sinah Warren
#Photography #HaylingIsland #Seaside #SinahWarren

Fair point, although we tend to use Instagram and/or WhatsApp for that. I know they're also Meta, but they're less AI and advertising heavy.

Have a lovely #FlowersOnFriday
#BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed #Gardening

Quite honestly, Meta, in particular Facebook, is no longer fit for purpose. It's outlived it's usefulness.

Friday is skircle day
skircle.me @skircle.bsky.social

From the archives. My daughter and doggy in September this year - Lady's Tower, Fife, Scotland
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows

Snowdrops in November? South London suburban garden 🌱
#gardening

At the time it seemed like a good idea, but for someone who doesn't do socials all that much, having two accounts was a bit of a faff 🙂

Running to enter the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows

(If this picture looks familiar, then it probably is, I posted it a couple of days ago on my other "photography only" account. I since changed my mind about having two accounts, one specifically for photography, so the other one was deleted)

Good morning Mr Moon 🌝

😄

Skipped #parkrun this morning, so went for a shorter #walk instead. Royal Marsden September Challenge walk 8 with 40km now complete 😀

Nonsuch #parkrun this morning, Jeffing for the first half, then #walking with a friend for the second half. Royal Marsden September Challenge walk 4, about 20 km completed in week 1. Another good turn out, just under 1000 took part.
#RoyalMarsden #CancerCharity

I'll give this one a miss, thank you.

Nonsuch parkrun and 5K Your Way. We also remembered David Gullen, a Nonsuch 5K Your Way ambassador, recently lost to prostate cancer. David always finished his run with arms outstretched and "flew" into the finish line. Just over 1000 attendees.
#parkrun #5KYourWay #5KYW #MoveAgainstCancer #Nonsuch

Wise words...