Clifford...

Public transport in Clifford, this afternoon...

Tower house...

Licensed yesterday: Comlongon Castle Hotel, Clarencefield, Dumfries & Galloway (which includes a well-preserved 'tower house')...

 

 

Brigg...

A quiet corner of Brigg, south of the Humber, yesterday...

German words...

There’s a German word for everything. Lebenswelt is “that province of reality which the wide-awake and normal adult simply takes for granted as common sense”. Hamsterkauf, applicable to those who panic-buy everyday essentials during a widespread crisis, is inspired by hamsters stuffing their cheeks with as much food as possible. A German word, mitfreude, is the opposite of schadenfreude: sharing in - and being happy for - someone else’s success. It’s a little-known word (I hadn’t heard of it until today), which suggests that we don’t have much need for either the word… or the concept.

Licensed today: a VW van parked up in the Duddon Valley. Volkswagen, the 'people's car', was one of the führer's better ideas...

 

Democracy...

According to an Opinium poll, nearly half of all Americans (47%) say they are worried about the possibility of Donald Trump losing November's election but refusing to concede defeat. A cornerstone of democracy is the peaceful transition of one government to the next… and Trump, by fuelling these uncertainties, has already done serious damage to the democratic process.

Licensed today: the interior of Swarthmoor Quaker meeting house, on the outskirts of Ulverston... 

All previous sales have been with the seats occupied...

Brudenell Mosque...

Just after I took this shot - my old 'stamping grounds' around Hyde Park, Leeds - a guy said "If you take my picture, I'll smash your camera". What do they say... "Never go back"?...

 

BBC...

 The BBC in Hull...