Tim Manwaring

@timmanwaring.bsky.social

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Social account. Mainly photos and hope. Garden Centre Receptionist of the Year 1996. Driver Trainer, Forest of Bowland.

A workshop at a council depot.sign above the open door says "KJ's Sandwich Cafe", but the more official looking sign on the door says "Street Lighting Workshop". There is a give way sign laying on its side in the window,next to a "Pay at machine across road" parking sign. A large red sign on the wall requests that we "do not leave any rubbish or spent lamps in or out side workshop" under which someone has ironically placed an old fashioned black bin, with the number 4 stencilled on it. Red brick, sky scowling.
An open poppy flower. I think it may be 'Patty's Plum'. It looks almost grey, like a goth flower, but there are hints of purple also.
Image comparing the size of a 2013 Chevrolet Spark to a Ford Explorer.
Close up of the centre of a peony flower. Yellow centre, white petals with a hint of pink blush.
Wide angle close up view of a pink foxglove with a bee just heading into one of the flowers. Sweet pea stands strung up behind, with a backdrop of cherry tree.
A photo of the David Hockney faxed artwork "Tennis" - a black and white abstract piece made up of 140+ individual sheets of A4 paper, which I think was faxed from the US to Salts Mill, Saltaire in Yorkshire.
View from a shady tree lined path, over a barbed wire fence to fields and a barn beyond. Blue sky, white clouds.
Large caterpillar web bundling leaves and flower stems at the end of a branch. Presumably fall web-worm, but it seems rather early for that....
Woodland edge, bright lime leaves in sun,with pines behind. Blue skies with whispy white cloud.
Large cherry tree, laden with white blossom. Raised beds in front, hill and sky beyond. Sunny day.
One of the poodles. A black (ish) one, with clipped ears, and grass around his mouth, looking rather pissed off (though this is an anthropomorphisation, as he really wasn't - he's a big, thick, former show boy). Strangely, the more poodle-esque one (smaller, fluffier, with big ears, tail and ankle poms) will at first try to lick you to death and piss on your shoes, but if angered will let you know in no uncertain terms that she will, without hesitation, rip your face off if you do "that" again.
Flowchart, titled: How to tell if a toy is for boys or girls: a guide. The top circle has the question "Do you operate this toy with your genitalia?", the yes line leads to "This toy is not for children.", the no line leads to "This toy is for either girls or boys.".
Photo of a plate with a toasted sandwich cut diagonally, with the four quarters of a pickled egg arranged above it. The outside of the egg is bright pink, fading back to white nearer the yolk.
A pair of dodgy b&w Photos, one of a street, one of a house. The negatives have some damage to the lower edge. The film border says 'Hypersensitive Panchromatic' which was the original designation for Ilford's HP film range. This was HP4.
A square grey pot, with the hollow stems of some kind of perennial I potted up from bare roots last autumn. A weed is growing through it. The white plastic label was written with a Sharpie, but has degraded to the point where it's just a load of dots, leading to the head gardener asking 'why did you label these in fucking Braille?'.
Colour photo of fields covered in morning dew. A post and wire fenceline crosses the foreground. Winter trees line the unseen small river at the bottom of the valley. Haze softens the fields and the hill beyond. The sun is rendered as a fuzzy white orb on the left, just above the horizon. A clear sky fades from blue to a Farrow & Ball grey; an idiosyncrasy of the phone camera. Clouds swipe lines, like a child's chalk marks on paper.
Photo of the back garden and hill beyond, just before sunrise. Garden is in shade, ponds reflecting the pale sky, and the trees are still in their winter attire. A light mist hangs over the valley beyond, casting the hill in pastel, with a pale golden outline. Thin pale orange clouds above peter out to a clear dilute blue.
Image from the cartoon version of animal farm, where Boxer is taken away by the glue wagon.
Scene from the Crimson Permanent Assurance short by Monty Python,where the pirate underwriters make a member of the board, bound with ticker tape, walk the plank.
Photo of the garden, pre-dawn, with an owl in it. Row of scraggy pot plants, decking, lawn and trees, with the hill behind. Sky broods.
Vehicle tracks lead to a gate between to stands of trees. The sun is in a blue sky with just a few whisps of cloud. Lens flare provides a stripe of pink at the top left, a green aperture blob bottom right, with a small rainbow stripe and green dot just above.
View across wintery fields, a post and wire fence cross the grassy field in the foreground, dry stone walls and treelines behind. Beyond, the hill is topped with snow, sky is cloudy and threatens more snow.
The official UK roadworks sign. Red triangle, with a chap seemingly shovelling a pile of dirt. Text reads: "This sign, indicating road works or an obstruction in the carriageway ahead, may be used for any type of works, ranging from large construction schemes to minor maintenance."
The old meme of a verification test showing a grid over a photo of a snowy forest, with the words 'Select all images with Finnish snipers'. All of the squares have been selected, despite no snipers being visible.
3 cupcakes sitting on their red silicone muffin tray. Vanilla icing applied very messily and sprinkles.
View from my bedroom window at 22:15 tonight. Trees with snow on the hills beyond. Looks like a dull day, but it's actually moonlight, which has tricked my phone into a warm daytime colour palette rather than a cold blue.
A photo of an old stone bridge; the kind which populate the b-roads of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Taken from the riverbank on the shady side, with low golden sun hitting the arches underneath. Winter trees behind and still water reflecting beneath.
A photo of a cold, wet gate, with churned up tracks leading away into the distance, small trees either side.
Early morning fields, track beside a fence leads to a stand if trees and a gate. Hazy hill beyond, with the sun trying to break through the clouds.
Field with sheep, with the wall curving around the copse of deciduous trees. A couple of trees on the horizon, with blue sky above and just a couple of thin clouds.
Fields, fences, dry stone walls, winter trees and a few sheep. The hill beyond, outlined with the orange sunrise.
Back garden. Lawn is frosty, pond icy, trees bare. Hill beyond looks wintry, with a pinky orangey glow from sunrise through clouds beyond. Blue sky above.
The entryway to a tractor ford curves around a fence and tree from the field into the river. The exit is downstream, to allow the tractor to cross partially with the flow. Green November fields, late autumn trees and an ominous sky above.
Black and white photo of the Roa Island a custom house, with a child on the rocky foreshore.
Autumnal treeline with spruce centre, flanked by bright bronzy orangey leafed trees (poss beech, maybe sycamore). Green field in front of a dry stone wall which surrounds the copse. Novemberish sky above.
Gif of the old Aldi advert where the grumpy old lady explains that her husband likes both the expensive tea, and the cheap own brand tea, and then goes on to say: 'I don't like tea, I like gin...'.
Vehicle tracks lead to a gate in a line of nature trees. Foreground grass is green, with a fence line alongside the track. Sky is blue, with the occasional little fluffy cloud.
The top of the Revolution roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Big One in the background, autumnal trees between concession stands in the foreground. A chap on a ladder paints a wall.
View over a field with a fence line across it to autumnal wooded areas toward the bottom of the valley. Mist clinging around the middle distance and a hint of hill in the cloud beyond. Grey sky.
View over the mossy dry stone wall at the end of the garden. Looking through the cherry tree branches across the valley to grass, trees, mist. Cloud breaks above to a hint of blue.
The fermentation lock on a demijohn of cider which is full of krausen after a slightly exuberant beginning.
A question from the Oak National Academy's year 9 Computing syllabus: 'Where is data most commonly stored and accessed, making it accessible from anywhere in the world?' in the answer box 'servers' has been written, but it has been marked 'Incorrect' with correct answers suggested as: 'online, the cloud, cloud'.
View down over Bowland moorland (mainly bracken) to a gap in the fells where there's just a hint of sun in the landscape, below a leaden sky.
Three laden, vertical, branches of bright red, wet, Hawthorn berries. Path through the copse behind is out of focus.
The moon, slightly obscured by clouds, above a beach, curving around the bay with trees on the hillside silhouetted.
Grey. Small horizontal strip of slightly darker grey at the bottom of the picture might be sea. Who knows?
Mildly pissed off looking black(ish) poodle, with grass around its mush.
View of a beach and inlet, through wildflowers. Rocky outcrops, with sand beyond, and a curving bay. Trees outline the hills and the silhouettes of the island across the sound lie beneath white clouds in a blue sky.
A fascinatingly tightly layered rock, eroded and folded to create a topography reminiscent of that New Order album cover.
A very atmospheric, if green, photo of the sea, with a boat and the hills of Aran beyond.
Loads of bees on the purple flower of a cardoon.
A pan full of plums, with a spoon, ready to be turned into jam.
A long, rocky track leads down the side of the fell. Heather moorland, with patches of bracken. A white dot is where we left the pickup truck, just short of a ford across a stream. Beyond the hills, the sky is bleak.
View of the river, flowers drift pinkly along the bank. Trees pose, a la Constable's landscapes, and the sun oozes through the clouds and pools across the water. At least it's neither sunset, nor a long exposure of misty water...
Some very large Chantenay carrots I left in the ground for far too long before pulling them. With one of my size 9s in the picture for scale.
A smoky lavender (?) coloured poppy, with orange dahlias behind.
A solitary bee (maybe a buff tailed bumblebee?) on a dahlia flower. The flower is a single (open) type, which is a vivid orange at the centre, fading to a nearly as vivid yellow. Greenery and a touch of blue sky in the out of focus areas behind. Phone pic, cropped square, but un-faffed - the light did me a lot of favours.
A billboard on the side of a building, devoid of its usual poster. In the centre of the large billboard in bold, but small in comparison to it's overall size, is the single word 'SIGN'.
Medieval style arrows with white fletching, gilded nicks and gold wire whipping.