jonstump

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Cycling round Wiltshire and feeding the ducks (and playing records and building little aeroplanes).

A view from the top of Beacon Hill, with mist filling the valley
It's a long-tailed tit!
A bat, filmed in slow motion, flying over the garden.
A large metal sculpture with stylised XTC engraved in the front
Four (4!) bluetits perching on, drinking from and splashing around in the hanging bird bath. I made it myself, did I mention that?
A large bird of prey sitting on a gloved hand, in front of a stonework wall.
Left side view of the completed Airfix 1/76 ambulance on a cork base with a black background.
... despite pledging there years ago he would not do so when he eventually stood down.
A B1 bomber flying low over the garden, on its way to Fairford.
Alan Parker Urban Warrior. My favourite AP bit: I went to the dole office and they said 'What are your skills?' I said 'I can speak the truth, that is all any of us can do' She said 'Well no Alan, some of us can type as well'.
Always been a big fan of Eric Ravilious. Here's his "Commander of a Submarine looking through a periscope".
A 7" sleeve of Bird House In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants
Care and Maintenance of the 200HP DH Gipsy Six Aero Engine, propped up on a bookshelf.
A text message from Thames Water asking us to save water.
Michael Palin as Molotov in The Death of Stalin
Wearing my Belgium pyjamas in lieu of watching another 1am kickoff.
Starmer on the phone
Front quarter view of a little blue two-seater Austin car parked in the shade of some trees. There's a small windshield on the driver's side.
The rear of a twin-engined aircraft, with Kemble's KM marker on the left of the shot. Suddenly, a Mustang.
A Phantom formerly of Boscombe Down, the colours of which have almost entirely been sanded off in the process of restoration.
A folding garden chair. One of the uprights has come loose from the base.
A very sunny Salisbury Cathedral. Volunteers from the RSPB are (wisely) in the shade of a tree with a couple of spotting scopes showing visitors the peregrines. One young one has slid down the pitched roof in the centre of the picture and is in the gutter being fed by the adults. Another young one is on a ledge just above the top of the pitch and is screaming to be fed. It is not being fed.
The Canada Goose reckons that sandwich is plenty big enough to share.
A model pigeon loft. A dark and white pigeon is highlighted.
A low side view of a model of a first world war mobile pigeon loft. There are some pigeons perched on the roof.
A black cat fast asleep on her back on my lap. Yes, that's a Cowboy Capybara throw, what's your point?
Lit up (honest; it's 4pm in June) CIRCUS letters
A skylark over the Ridgeway
The very hungry caterpillar
Lick e lix salmon "yoghurty treats" for cats
Live lightning map showing strikes in and around Swindon.
My base for the pigeon loft (suspiciously similar in size to an AOL install cd) before covering it with static grass.
A side view of a Type B bus as used in the First World War, and sometimes converted into mobile pigeon lofts.
Poster for the Swindon Arts Fringe Festival 2026 15/06/26 - 28/06/26 (in the old Argos building in town)
A Rolls Royce jet engine on a storage rack alongside some other aero engines
A polystyrene ceiling tile covered in pva glue, static grass and polyfilla
A poster celebrating Gloster's win at the 1929 Kings Cup, photo taken at the Jet Age Museum, Gloucester
One of Duxford's remaining hangars, which are Grade II listed now they're one down, the filming of The Battle of Britain featuring that nice Mr Warwick having dispensed with one of them.
A mallard with faded colouring
A Canada Goose gosling (a Canada Gosling?) stumbling about the place
The Thoroughbred Racing Pigeon by J. Kilpatrick (1947)
Le Mans 24hr on the telly, with live timings on the laptop.
Rainfall radar screenshot. It is raining on the M6.
A framed photo of myself that time in the late 90s I took my copy of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds to Horsell Common.
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds
Standing in the sand pit at Horsell Common, holding my copy of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
The Jazz Rhythms of Gene Krupa, playing on a turntable.
Tiny, painted pigeons in a uht milk pot
An almost complete 1/72 mobile #pigeon loft sits on a cork base. Two pigeons sit wonkily (and temporarily) on the front.
A Northampton Sound Recording 7", marked 'Private Recording' Send For Me is handwritten on the label.
A goldfinch having a drink from a hanging, wrought iron bird bath.
Cut up teabags alongside templates for the pigeon loft panels.
The Merlin app suggesting that there's a Dunnock singing on the garden. It's bird of he day!
A black cat, asleep on my lap, with her chin resting on the desk.
A squirrel has climbed around an anti-squirrel dome on a bird feeder and is munching on the bird seed.
An out-of-focus black cat eats a frozen salmon lollipop. Somehow I still have ten fingers.
Bugs Bunny in the desert