#pinkhill

[sugarymagica]

early morning boothill post,,, i had this on the back burner and cleaned it up a bit :P have a pinkhill ^_^

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[pinkhill]

Still working on filling my island, but I’m happy with my progress 💕

[priapusrkb]

Had a chance to meet my EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA HOMIE (PINK HILL &. TRENTON) former coworker - submariner BOAM Kevin Rolan. #trentonnc #easternnc #easternnorthcarolina #submariner #pinkhill #pinkhillnc https://www.instagram.com/p/BoM7GWyhmi7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1npfz0otry8zn

[antonybridge]

‘Malvern Love’ 20x24” oil on canvas. #malvernhills #malvern #landscapepainting #oilpainting #britishartist #englishlandscape #antonybridge #contemporarypainting #cheltenham #gloucester #art #artcollector #pinkhill (at Malvern Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXqJHFpOgA/?igshid=jc46hehj1ebj

[comic-youyouyouandme]

Red sky Pink hills @sandraknoss #redsky #pinkhills #procreate #digitalpainting #landscapepainting #ipadpro #appleart #digitalillustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B7UqJSeFHC7/?igshid=cg37270l9ju1

[theedinburghreporter]

Planning decision today for Pinkhill

Planning decision today for Pinkhill

We were reminded by local residents that the decision on the replacement for a three storey office building in Pinkhill is to be made by the planning committee today.  You can watch the planning meeting online by clicking here.

This has gone through a few hoops at the planning stage including a site visit last week by the members of the committee, and is on the agenda today with officers…

[zirigoza-blog-blog]

Reposting @memebackdrop: 🗻 #vhs #pink #flowers #artistlife #daisy #nature #mountain #reflection #lake #beautifulnaturephotography #pinkaesthetic #pinkaesthetics #pinkhill #tumblr #forest #animeforest #pinkforest #blossom #pinkblossom

[chilloutdoors]

OPINION POLL. A group of about 15 Redpolls (you can see where the name comes from) has been frequenting the silver birches around Pinkhill station at the foot of the hill. Given the time of year and the very pale markings of some individuals, there’s a possibility they belong to the more uncommon ‘Mealy’ subspecies. 6th April 2021

[mod-python]

yeah so i had the worst experience with a user on one of my contests [entry was rushed and clearly just a try at grabbing the prize on a slow-moving competition] who i then found out has an instagram full of traced art so like. just submitting a doc so people know abt it. not gonna namedrop in the ask but the id is there. docs google com /document/d/1jfgm-EM9sSHvEgyWNltjJA6VaYCSHoUgkqmAREdJ-2M/edit?usp=sharing

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[eclectictrek]

2013 Thames Path Day 4 / 14  Newbridge to Oxford

More Locks, but No Eloi

There really should be Eloi, wandering among the dreaming spires of Oxford…

But that’s getting ahead of myself, even though the destination for this day—and the achievement that it entailed, completing the Thames Path after 11 years—was very much on my mind throughout the day. Let’s rewind to Newbridge and the beginning of the day.

I had crossed the Thames over the “New Bridge” the night before, and I departed from in the morning from the riverside terrace of the Rose Revived at about 11, late even for me. Almost immediately the trail passes a punt rental, electric punts, from the sign, although that seems hardly sporting. The whole party can navigate while seated, avoiding the exciting possibilities of being left hanging from a pole like Gregory Peck in Arabesque? I had fantasies of renting a punt in Oxford and inviting some beautiful student to join me, since Sophia Loren probably wasn’t around. (I did convince my brother to accompany me the next summer, after hiking the first stretch of the South West Coast Path. I didn’t quite dump us both in the water.)

What really fascinated me was the addendum to the sign, proclaiming “Dogs £3”. Did dogs get a discount? Or maybe they would actually rent you a dog? Wow, what a thought! Dogs are ubiquitous on English trails, and I felt deprived at not having one with me. The oldest book I have found about hiking the SWCP was 500 Mile Walkies. The author had borrowed a dog he didn’t particularly like, just because a long English walk called out for the company of a dog.

Half an hour brought me to a lonely pedestrian bridge, Hart’s Weir Footbridge. The guidebook explains that this little bridge and many like it were built to preserve a right of way across the river, created by a long removed flash weir. Now it just connects fields and pastures, although soon some fancy houses appeared nestled among the weeping willows and tall trees on the far bank. And soon after that, less than an hour into the walk, I was at the first of the many (“more”) locks of the day, Northmoor Lock. See, “more” even in the name! Northmoor is as picturesque as any of them, with bountiful gardens if not the most exuberant of the river. Its chief distinction (at least at the time) was a rare remaining paddle-and-rymer weir, where the flow can be regulated by lifting out some of the paddles that restrict the current. Nowadays, all locks adjoin a weir (sometimes on a separately cut channel) that maintains the height of water above the lock; the weirs are almost always heavy concrete structures. Prior to the construction of the “pound lock” system, a flash weir combined these functions, restricting the flow to keep the water navigably high, then quickly opening to let the head of water flash out and carry the barge past. Travelling upstream, was a much slower job of winching past the open weir, after which it could be closed so the water would rise to the desired depth and sedate flow. No flash weirs remain, but this weir retains the old design, with more modern materials.

Another pastoral stretch then, through sheep pastures to the Ferryman pub. I was ready for lunch, but this was Sunday, and no food service! A bag or crisps and a heavy sweet snack bar tided me over, washed down with a pint of ale, of course. This was the site of the historic Bablock Hythe crossing, a Roman ford and then a ferry crossing for a thousand years. The current publican apparently operates a pedestrian ferry on occasion, but I had no need of that as the trail did not rely on it, turning away from the bank to a bridleway. After a mile it returned, to follow the riverbank again for a while, then cross at Pinkhill Weir and Lock. Then, before long, the graceful arches of Swinford Tollbridge where I detoured to the Talbot Inn and another pint.

Another lock Eynsham (yet more!) follows, and then Wytham Great Woods crowds down from its hill to adjoin the river for a stretch. When it pulls back to leave open pasture gain, a sign welcomes visitors to FAI Farm and describes the agriculture and the flood meadow management along one stretch. It also identifies Wytham Wood as “the birthplace of ecology” for Oxford’s long-term research there, as well as its fame “for concealing bodies in the Inspector Morse novels.”

Then King’s Lock, and a fanciful little dragon peeking out from a shrub with cascades of pale pink blossoms. I noticed that boaters were operating the locks themselves, cranking open (and shut) the water ports built into the massive lock gates, and pushing the massive beams that extended past the hinge of the lock to open and close the lock gates. The locks had been a central part of the Thames Path experience for most of the route, from the top of navigation at Lechlade until the tidal reaches of London. I really wanted to be part of the process on this last day of hiking, and offered to help the next boat passing through. The owner gladly accepted, but insisted that I carry through the whole process, not just pushing one side of the gate open for him to be able to motor into the lock while his companion pushed the other beam open. We closed it behind the boat, cranked closed the “window” that had allowed the water to equalize there, cranked open the windows on the far end to let the water in the gate drop down to the downstream level, then pushed the gate beams on that end to open the downstream end of the lock and let his boat out. And it turned out this was the last chance to have done that! There was one more lock a mile or so downriver (Godstow Lock), but like all the locks below Oxford, it was motorized rather than having these beautiful manual lever beams. Fred Christenson pointed out to me in an email as I was writing up this stretch of hiking.

That mile between King’s Lock and Godstow was the last really rural stretch of the path before Oxford. The trail ducked under the heaviest (and most modern) bridge yet, the A34, contrasting with an 1886 boundary marker of Oxford practically beneath it. Then the scant remains of Godstow Abbey, and Godstow Lock, and the trail was full of weekend walkers the rest of the way into the city. The land on this side of the river felt more like an urban park than farmland, although across the river cattle grazed on Port Meadow as they have since William the Conqueror gave t to Oxford as a free commons.

Oxford is full of literary connections, but particularly proud of Lewis Carrol. I noticed a side path to a pub named The Perch that traded on this connection with a note out front that Carrol gave the first reading of Through the Looking Glass here, and a giant teacup above the veranda roof. I took a selfie enjoying a pint, celebrating the end of the trail a bit ahead of time. Just past the Perch is a side path to the village of Binsey, with its own Alice connections including the “treacle well”.

Then the path crosses a footbridge, and shortly another, as side channels divert to join the Oxford Canal. The immediate riverside is still park-like partly due to the causeway and a small wetlands, but the city crowds closer. Another footbridge, and the trail runs behind the garden wall of a series of townhouses. Narrow boats crowd the near riverbank, and ahead I saw the blue and white Osney Bridge, familiar from my last visit to Oxford when I hiked the middle section of the river. Here was my turnoff, past the rail station and on to my hotel When I climbed up the short ramp to the street, my 11 year hike would be over.

With this sight ahead of me and on my mind, I said “Good day” to a fellow standing in one of the narrow boats. He greeted me back, and asked if I was Australian, I guess just from my choice of salutation. We chatted for a moment, and I told him that this was a bittersweet moment, finishing a project that I had undertaken mostly a day or two at a time, with a year or two in between, over more than a decade. Something I had been dubious of ever completing, back when I started it on a whim, but which had come to mean a great deal to me.

“A bit sad, yes,” he agreed. “But you’ll have such wonderful memories.”

[boobietrappedmom]

#geocaching #pinkhill #bluesprings #poppy

[pinkhill]

Shari decided it was time to move away from Pink Hill. I am incredibly sad to see her go as she was one of my original villagers, but I am excited for her next adventure 💖

[priapusrkb]

The Urban Pink Hillbilly representing up in New York #pinkhillier #pinkhill #pinkhillnc #pinkhills #duplincounty #lenoircounty #northcarolina #nc

[antonybridge]

Malvern Hills Vitality – 20×24″ Oil on Canvas – £895 – Get in touch for details #malvernhills #malvernpainting #lovetheview #pinklandscape #framedpainting #artforsale #contemporaryart #pinksky #pink #pinkinterior #pinkhill (at Malvern Hills District) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Sdg9jpfGg/?igshid=4qqelpsiqlcq

[casual-serendipitous-mess]

Ready for Bible School Round Two! #selfie #GodsArmy #VBS2014 #pinkhill #blessed ♥

[theedinburghreporter]

Jardine's call on developer to take up community engagement offer rebuffed

Jardine’s call on developer to take up community engagement offer rebuffed

Community engagement snubbed by developer.

Christine Jardine, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West, tells us today that she has had her offer to facilitate a meeting between community groups and developer Dandara snubbed.

The meeting was proposed after Dandara’s development at Pinkhill was rejected by Councilors.

There is universal opposition to the Pinkhill development, with community groups and…