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Pixies – Talent

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They are a major talent:

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Dragonfly at Wokefield Common

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Went to Wokefield Common today, tried to get a picture of a Broad-bodied Chaser but wasn’t successful as they were constantly on the move and too fast. So instead I took a few pictures of what I believe to be Common Darters.

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Garbage – Girls Talk feat. Brody Dalle

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Some nice noise to wake you up this morning, a nice Scotland and Australia collaboration (with some American help)

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The Bennie Railplane of Milngavie near Glasgow, Scotland

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The things you find when browsing the interweb on a Sunday morning. Via a post on vowe dot net about the Google Arts & Culture app I found the Google Arts & Culture site, where in turn I came across this picture of a Railplane trial line near Glasgow. I was intrigued.

A quick search helped me to find out this was the Bennie Railplane. It of course reminds a bit of the famous Wuppertal Schwebebahn. While sadly it wasn’t a success and almost nothing physical remains of it today there are at least three videos of it in action, first from the National Library of Scotland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Qamg3C188&ab_channel=NationalLibraryofScotland

Second a short video on British Pathé:

Third a longer documentary also on British Pathé:

A few links to further information:

Certainly a very interesting invention, must have looked very futuristic back in the 1930s. Well, it wasn’t meant to be.

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Rabbit on the watch

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For some reason the birds, butterflies and dragonflies weren’t very cooperative today, so I didn’t get any good pictures. The only nice pictures I managed to take were of a rabbit standing on its hind legs watching the human with the big camera:

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