Mark Watkinson

@nobigfish.bsky.social

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Pro freedom of movement, anti-Brexit 🇪🇺. Rallying against the unjust #LoanChargeScandal ⚖️. Music 🎶, travel 🧳, laughter 🤣, food 🥨 & drink 🍻. I also like street art . Be nice. DM's = block for suspected bots

Google satellite map showing proposed location of quarry within 300m of new housing estate. The satellite image does not show full estate as more houses have been built and a community centre is being built close to proposed quarry site.
Cover of the Album 'Rainbow Rising' by heavy rock band Rainbow. Shows cliffs with figure standing on left and fairy tale castle on the right. In the middle, rising out of clouds is a giant fist clenching a rainbow.
Father Jack, from the sitcom 'Father Ted' shouting "Feck off!"
Cover of the novel 'Stasi Wolf' by 'David Young' with a picture of train tracks in the snow and city high rise apartments in the distance.
Picture of Donald Trump with text 'The Gulf of knowledge' on his face between his ears.
Google maps showing Reading a town in England
Sun coming through pine trees and reflecting on a partially frozen lake, Sandsee, in the Black Forest, Germany.
Hair ice, that looks like thin strands of white hair, on dead twigs on a leafy forest floor.
Cartoon of scrooge in bed with Bob Marley standing next to the bed with a spliff saying "Ey, mon! Lighten up! Eet's Christmas!" With text under the cartoon 'On Christmas Eve, Scrooge was visited by Marley's ghost...'
Trump seated with Musk standing talking to him in Notre Dame.
Cover of paperback book 'Neutral buoyancy' by Tim Ecott. Cover shows a photo of a scuba diver underwater with bubbles rising to the surface. Light is filtering down from the water's surface in shafts of blue, the water goes to purple the deeper it gets.
Cover of paperback book 'The Van' by Roddy Doyle. Cover has an illustration of a burger van which is red at the bottom and white at the top. The van has sign writing ' Bimbo's Burgers' and 'Today's chips today'. The van is parked in water which is halfway up the wheels, probably on a beach, the sky is orange and yellow depicting a sunset.
Cover of paperback book 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens. Cover shows illustration of a woman in victoriana dress standing on the near shore of a lake. There is a fence with a gate next to the lake and trees further round the shore on the left. The picture is mainly shades of black and white giving a cold evening or morning impression.
Cover of 'Another Country' paperback book by James Baldwin. Cover is a photo of a saxophonist playing behind a microphone with an ashtray in the foreground from which smoke is rising.
Cover of the book 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac showing an illustration of a man leaning against the back of a 50's American Car, parked at the side of long straight road going into mountains in distance. The man is dressed in an open red checked shirt over a white t-shirt, jeans with turn ups and brown suede boots. He looks thoughtful & is opening a can of drink/beer.
Penguin book cover for 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' by Laurie Lee, showing a man, barefoot, walking towards a Spanish hill town in the sun.
DVD box for the film 'The Getaway' staring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw with an 18 age rating.
Alm (Traditional Austrian farm/Restaurant/Hostel building) with mountains in background, Leutasch Austria.
Sea and pier at Brighton beach, UK. Grey, cloudy sky and large crashing waves.
Störtebeker curved beer glass which is meant to mirror shape of a ships sail. Photo taken in Stralsund, Germany.
Sunset over a coastal bay in Rhodes, Greece
Street art sticker of Trump with green hair, yellow trousers and pink shirt and ridiculous stuck on grinning mouth.
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Front cover of paperback novel 'The White House Mess' by Christopher Buckley. Cover illustration of distorted White House by Ralph Steadman with American Eagle clinging to flag pole flying the stars and stripes.
Rainbow over the sea at Sellin in Rugen, Germany's largest island.