Richard Webb

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Knackered ex orienteer and map collector- now on a bike much of the time. Hill bagger. East Lothian. Unfortunately due to some authoritarian overreach from our neighbours and overlords and over enthusiastic compliance, I am unable to easily access DMs.

Album cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. A sort of semi cubist drawing of the band, black outlines and filled with pastel colours.
Dusk in El Calafate, Patagonia. A big Argentina flag flies in a strong wind outside a new hotel. The foreground is arid scrub with the vast Lago Argentino, a pale blue in the background with low hills beyond.
A narrow tarred road towards a vanishing point on the left of the picture. To the right is an area of long grass with flowering meadowsweet (pale yellow). There is an overhead telephone line against a blue sky with scattered clouds
Tintin pulls on a coat on the run, accompanied by Snowy.
SR toothpaste commercial still. Tube in a block of ice (plastic). First advert on commercial television in England. 1955 (SR probably means Sr, Strontium. They would have not mentioned that ingredient as the element was a household name associated with nuclear fallout)
A 2m tall thin standing stone in a grass setting. There is fire damage in the foreground. A grassy moorland hill is behind the stone which is in ope moorland itself.
A red spiky giant, pointy head and ears stands in a red galleon standing on grass with yellow clouds and explosions in the backround. Torquemada, from Nemesis the Warlock a 2000AD story /graphic novel.
A crowd on a street celebrating. Mostly wearing light blue and white striped shirts (distinct from the National team's recent kits) A child in the foreground is banging a drum.
A flat sandy field with thin grass and lots of small yellow flowers. Overall impression is that the field is yellow. Hills in the background.
A steep street with low houses that are painted - one white and blue another grey green. Cars are parked facing downhill. The blue and White House has a bike above the door. Utility cables above the street.
A building with a red and white sign Stòr a' Chlachain / Clachan Stores, some rust stains and a fading red telephone box. Sunshine.
5 colour orienteering map of Soudley, Forest of Dean, England. Used Letratone for the runnability screens.
Sandy beach with dunes on the left and rocks ahead. The sand is a pale yellow. The background, across a sea loch is mountainous with various hills between Loch Torridon and Gairloch on display against a pale blue sky.
350ml bottle of Bucky (Buckfast Tonic Wine)
Coastal scenery. The foreground is grazing land with scattered rocks ad trees. Beyond there are white sandy beaches and rocky islands. Blue sky
A woodland glade with long grass. A path runs into the picture on the left side and there are trees of all ages. Deeply green under a cloudy sky. Willow warblers, chiffchaffs and chaffinches could be heard.
An abstract pattern made of swirls of dark sand on a background of white shell sand on a Hebridean beach,
A board walk with orange brown balustrades. Other board walks leave , elevated over a salt marsh. Trees on the right and beached boats on the left(on the green marsh). Buildings in the background with snow capped mountains. Blue sky with scattered clouds. There is a dog walking towards the camera.
Glaciated valley with cloud covered mountains in the background. Blue sky. The flat valley floor is purple with lupins.
View from the sea of a town behind a beach. There is a small steep hill behind the town.
Oak forest with scattered trees. Ferns in the foreground with a large patch of bluebells (the hyacinth variety) in the background.
Woodland with dense vegetation, ferns and trailing vines.
White sandy beach with smooth sands except for a hummocky narrow area with numerous holes and bumps where water had removed sand as the tide ebbed. Cloudy bright sky and a line of dunes in the distance.
A wet white sand beach reflects the clouds in an otherwise blue sky. There is land in the distance with a low hill. Surf coming in from the right.
Woodland path amongst early Summer vegetation. Most trees are beech with bright light green leaves. Path goes to a vanishing point. Foreground is patchy grass with last years leaves.
Terry Jones as "The Bishop" in the Monty Python sketch sending up the ITC adventure series of the 1960s.
A mature Scots pine against a peach sunset sky. The sky is graduated from a more saturated colour near the horizon, getting paler further up. The ground is gently sloping up to the right of the image and there is a variety of other trees in the distance.
Square format - deep blue sea beyond a pale yellow sandy beach. A couple sit on the edge of a steepening in the beach. In the distance there is a ridge of peaks, on an island. The sky is blue with a few clouds over the island hills.
A road runs into the picture to the left. It is flanked by flowering gorse and the foreground is also made up of gorse flowers. Beyond the gorse there are birch trees, just coming into leaf. There are two rocky peaks in the background, the nearest one is quite sharp. Blue sky with clouds, everything sunlit.
Football shirt - white with black spots. Yellow bulls head badge (not a triangle unfortunately) and Sun Valley logo shirt sponsor.
Hill country with moorland hills in the background and a green field with grazing sheep in the foreground. There is a small group of mature conifers in the middle distance either side of a burn descending into the background. There are steep slopes on either side. Blue sky with small clouds. Square format.
Teletubbies in a green flowery field under a blue sky with the baby faced sun.
Green fields behind a simple wire fence. On a shoreline in the distance there is a single white cottage while a rough sea merges into a rainy sky with no visible horizon
Earthrise - the Earth above the moon's limb taken by William Anders on Apollo 8 in 1968. From a contemporary newspaper cutting
Windows mist up Neither James Lovell nor Bill Anders showed much interest in their meal of bacon squares, cinnamon toast, peaches and grapefruit juice. Speaking for the three calm men who would spend Christmas circling the Moon 10 times, Boreman said: "we don't have too much appetite" The astronauts are wearing comfortable cloth flight overalls similar to the siren suit worn by Winston Churchil. Two of the spaceship's windows developed"moderate haze" on the outside another was "almost opaque" but two others were clear.....
Hill country with a wetland valley central and a grassy hill in the background under a textured sky. Whins with some flowers in the foreground.
Newspaper cutting - headline "Christmas around the Moon". Diagram of the Apollo 8 flight plan. This was a more complex mission than Artemis II and involved getting in and out of lunar orbit. December 1968
Tintin’s red and white rocket in a Paris bookshop window
Suburban back gardens with falling snow
Nothofagus forest in early Summer with snow capped mountains in the background. Old, seasoned dead wood in the foreground. Below Cerro Fitzroy/Chalten, Argentina
A brambly railway cutting. A tattered and shredded cheap Union flag lies attached to an aluminium clothes prop pole, barely recognisable
Downland scarp in Wiltshire with Salisbury Plain on the horizon. The steep slope is marked by lines which are horizontal maintaining equal height. There are no visible lines on the flat farmland below. Some chalk is exposed as white blobs. Sunny.
An old drawn five colour map extract with course. Rather a lot of green forest. Steep.
A very green image. Big grass fields in low sunlight ad on rolling hills. A drystone dyke runs up the right of the image casting a shadow and describing the relief. Shadowy hillsides in the background, no horizon. Sheep graze the land left of the dyke.
Two young girls and a teddy with a dolls tea service. Blue out and cups. There is also a cake.
A green image of steep chalk slopes above arable farmland which is flat. There are parallel lines where soil has slumped and sheep walked with the odd bit of exposed chalk. A low blue line of hills is in the background.
A very red image of a street with a mountainous background - snow covered peaks around 1000-1200m above the town. The cloudy sky is lit red by a setting sun and the red light highlights two big buildings across the street, both metal clad and painted red. The further one is a more orangy Hereford cow red, the other scarlet. There is a young tree and street sign on the right. The double arrow signifying a two way street.
Scribed orienteering map of an area of open dunes and slow sycamore woodland on sandy soils. A lot of green woodland with clearings and most of the dunes are rough open. A big golf course (yellow) lies to the south and the north is bounded by the Firth of Forth.
Artificial insemination of a cow. One arm in the rectum and the straw being applied vaginally. Cow looks like a beef breed.
A small 1:15,000 orienteering map by Harveys A mostly runnable woodland surrounded by farmland and rough grazing. Some of the outer open area was used in this event. My progress around a M21L course is drawn on the map.
A pair of copies of a 1:10000 five coloured scribed orienteering map. It is of two woods on a valley side divided by arable land. Very runnable. Attractively presented in the style popularised by the Harvey's at the time.
Five colour orienteering map of a very runnable forest. There is a road running through it and both halves are white with a ride pattern. Scale 1:10000
Sunlit woodland with bramble understorey. Looking towards a mature oak, Quercus rubor, surrounded by younger trees. There is a bluish hill in the background.
Tractor tracks in cereal field. Crop low and green just after Winter. The tracks are white with chalk. A down land hill is in the background with an obelisk monument near its summit. Low light shows reentrants an spurs on its slopes. Blue sky
Woodland with widely spaced trees and bluebell ground cover. Already some flowers are out. The Sun is setting behind a low wooded ridge
Green fields in the foreground under a blue sky with some wispy clouds. Looking into a small valley with steep sides covered in whins. A kidney shaped blue pool occupies much of the floor, it will diminish and disappear in the coming Spring. In the distance on the right is an electricity pylon. A Lammermuir meltwater channel, East Lothian.
Painting by Monet of a flock of turkeys. Musee d’Orsay Paris
Scottish woodland in sunshine. A fallen Scots Pine, still alive and growing on the left of the shot, lies across a boulder. More pines in the background. Taken on the top of a small craggy hill in Perthshire at the onset of Spring.