Leicester graffiti
(Beaumont Leys, if you’re wondering.)
photography
I got a camera for Christmas!
I decided to use it to take pictures of the decorations. I think I still have a lot to learn, mind…
animal pics
Recently I saw an armadillo for the first time ever!
THRILLED to finally meet one. So I took some pics of him/her and the surrounding animals in the zoo.
Crikey, it’s a croc. (Or possibly an alligator)
Very angry meerkat:
Less angry meerkat:
A vulture friend
PILES of terrapins!
And a whole buncha phone photos, not as HD as the ones taken with the professional camera but still good to have!
Toppled Statues
I found this incredibly striking image on Reddit yesterday. (Today the whole site is down, incidentally.) I think the photo belongs to the Toronto Star. I can’t stop looking at it, it’s stunning.
Not so long ago British folks also toppled one statue of a terrible man, whose name I shall not bother to mention. At the moment it’s in a Bristol museum, in much the same condition as it was when knocked off its pedestal:
And I love that. I think it’s the perfect way to display these statues: no longer towering over citizens and also covered in statements about what kind of person the subject was. Perfect! After all if a statue can be preserved for the sake of history, why shouldn’t the same apply to protests against that statue?
Nice things
There’s not many good things happening in the world right now so here’s a compilation of nice things, in case you’re doomscrolling through the internet as I so often do. Not so much intended to be escapism so much as… reassurance?
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