Autumn Dream – Langton, North Yorkshire, originally uploaded by Thomas Tolkien.
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Masca, Tenerife – the most beautiful place on Earth
Masca, Tenerife – the most beautiful place on Earth, originally uploaded by Thomas Tolkien.
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It really is.
Dane’s Dyke, Bridlington by Thomas Tolkien
Dane’s Dyke, Bridlington by Thomas Tolkien, originally uploaded by Thomas Tolkien.
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An iPhone photo from earlier this year. Love this beach.
Dane’s Dyke, near Bridlington
Dane’s Dyke, near Bridlington, originally uploaded by Thomas Tolkien.
Time to leave the country
There is a deep seated discrimination and segregation in this Western society where one minority group of people, young and old, is deprived of basic human rights in a way which is both flagrant yet generally and willingly accepted by the passive majority.
This minority section of society does not have the right to free speech or to discuss religious beliefs, is not allowed to use profanity in public, is not provided legal protection against false allegations, is prohibited from being open about their sexuality and sexual practices, is restrained from using social networking and dating websites, cannot write or talk about the people they know and interact with in public, is expected to maintain far higher standards of decency and morality than the majority, is expected to hide instances of mental illness and anguish for fear of victimisation, is not allowed to have spontaneous fun, can be physically attacked with no prospect of protection from the law, can be threatened with death and ignored by the police, can be prevented from witnessing the birth of their own children, is not allowed to get drunk and can never admit having smoked pot, whether they inhaled or not; can be wrongly and hopelessly accused of murder simply because their place in society marks them out as a target and absolutely cannot reveal the truth to the majority populous.
Have we reached the Kristallnacht point? Are we all going to have to leave suddenly? Or will everyone blithely carry on in a fog of moral decrepitude?
But of course, that’s all too negative. Everything is going to get better. It’s in the wind.
Orange Hibiscus Glowing
Orange Hibiscus Glowing, originally uploaded by Thomas Tolkien.
The pot plant in full bloom. Now fully settled on a different window ledge, there are four more buds waiting to burst into a feast of floral fecundity. Can the record of four stamens on one flower be beaten?
