@mootParadox

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Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:44:59

Just in time... happy Christmas to me!! 🤣

Mastodon plushie toy with matching coffee mug.
PlushtodonmugstodonMastodon
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:33:32

In case you need "silent feet" to be even more of a challenge!! 🤣

Rock climbing shoes with small Christmas bells tied to the laces. Indoor climbing wall in the background.
Climbingrockclimbing
Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:00:20

Unusual choice of Christmas decor... it might have been a mistake to invite this pair into the house!! 🤣

Elves from the shelf... in a tree. One elf appears to have tied her companion to the star at the top of a Christmas tree. Both remain cheerful.
ElfOnTheShelfChristmas
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:48:21

I'd forgotten about this sunrise photo from last week. Found it after taking a photo of a laptop! (This is more interesting than the laptop.) 📷

Very red, cloudy sunrise, trees in silhouette.
PhotographysunrisecloudsNorthumberland
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:53:52

Scaling the North Face of the advent calendar. (Graded: severe, 4a)

Elf on a shelf character scrambling up a wooden advent calendar house. His companion is already seated on the chimney.
ElfOnTheShelfChristmas
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:49:04

Hmm- those rascals!! 🤣 Mrs Elf grinding Mr Elf... actually, perhaps let me rephrase that!! 🤔

Elf on the shelf puppet being fed into a coffee grinder... by an elf on the shelf puppet.
ElfOnTheShelfChristmas
Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:44:30

I don't want to overdo it, but I'm thinking maybe at least a couple more baubles for my Winter Solstice tree?! 🤔🌲

Christmas tree, with lights but only 2 baubles.
Christmaschristmastree
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:33:57

Fence on Hadrian's Wall, designed to deter barbaric invaders from walking along the wall?

The path does take you along the top of the wall for several hundred metres here, but either end of the designated section is blocked - presumably to protect more fragile sections of the wall. 📷

A section of fence, catching the low sun, blocks the path along the top of Hadrian's Wall. Countryside and light cloudy sky.
PhotographyNorthumberlandhousesteadsHadriansWall
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:08:55

Another shot from yesterday afternoon, west of Housesteads along the wall. (Wall depicted here is not Hadrian's... other walls are available!) 📷

Sunlit dry-stone wall enclosing trees, and a view across countryside. Light clouds in blue skies.
PhotographyNorthumberland
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:30:04

Not far from Housesteads, I stopped for a cup of tea on my way back to the car. The sky got more interesting, but this one caught the window reflections... ☕📷

Trees and a building silhouetted against a clear sky around sunset. Sunlight catching the windows.
PhotographyNorthumberlandSunset
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:01:02

The mistake might be to believe that most "Newspapers" are telling less of a pack of lies about every other topic they discuss. 🙄

Met Office FACT CHECK Our forecast says: It’s unsettled this week with a mixture of wind, rain and some sunny spells too. Temperatures will be around average with any snow likely confined to high ground in the north, as is normal for the time of year. 2 December 2025 The News Headline: UK weather maps turn purple as Britain hit by
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:48:01

From a walk through the dene behind Halton Castle this afternoon... just managed to get back to the car before the rain! 😅☔

Lush green moss on a fallen tree.
MosstodonPhotographyNorthumberlandMoss
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:05:51

I've watched two Irish films so far this week. They couldn't be more different... but both of them were excellent. 🎥 🍿

Oddity
rogerebert.com/reviews/oddity-

That They May Face The Rising Sun
rogerebert.com/reviews/that-th

Cover of movie:
moviemoviesfilms
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:40:23

Am I unique in my hatred of shirt labels? Someone creates a t-shirt and presumably thinks to themselves: "Yeah, nice shirt, but you know what would make it even better? A stiff plastic label to gouge our customers in the back of the neck... all day long. They're going to *love* that!" 🙄 (It is a good shirt though!!)

T-shirt label, reads: last exit to nowhere.
lastexittonowhereTShirtLabelannoyance
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:31:10

The notifications appeared to be impossible to mute, popping up on a 60 minute cycle. Uninstalled and switched to Bitdefender... so far, so good. 🤞

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:26:14

Same view as the last post, but taken on a 'real' camera. It's obviously better, although the mobile phone wasn't bad. 📷🤔

Emergency tide shelter, wooden platform on stilts, with Holy Island in the background. The shelter is mirrored in a pool.
holyislandlindisfarneNorthumberlandPhotographysonya7c2viltrox20mm
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:26:45

Back on the Pilgrim's Way... the last convenient Wednesday tide pattern for a while. I checked, of course!! 😂

mootparadox.com/webapp/pilgrim/

Emergency tide shelter, wooden platform on stilts, with Holy Island in the background. The shelter is mirrored in a pool.
holyislandlindisfarneNorthumberlandpilgrimhiking
Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:29:38

"Enjoy the quiet..." while we plaster the FOURTH of these obnoxious notifications all across your screen!! 🙄

Silent mode is turned on... notification from Avast Anti-virus.
Avastannoyances
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:59:07

I started to feel like I'd downplayed the foreground too much in the original monochrome conversion. I liked the dark moodiness of it, but now I wished the barn was a little more prominent... 📷🤔

Moody black and white scene, a broken down barn in remote countryside.
Photographymonochromeblackandwhiteteesdale
Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:43:16

Derelict barn (or possibly an old mine building?) in Teesdale this afternoon. 📷

Moody black and white scene, a broken down barn in remote countryside.
Photographymonochromeblackandwhiteteesdale
Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:19:05

Can I still call this 'SilentSunday' if there's a slight buzz and my GPS watch throws a wobbly? 😂📷

Monochrome image of an electricity pylon, in silhouette, against a cloudy sky.
SilentSundaypylonmonochromeblackandwhite
Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:57:02

View towards Aydon Castle, from below Halton Castle. A very nice walk... until my car battery gave up and I had to call a breakdown truck! 😲 I've now got an emergency boost pack, and jumper leads!! 🤣

View across open countryside, with autumnal trees at the edge of a field. There's a castle (just) visible in the distance.
PhotographyNorthumberlandhikingautumn
Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:33:08

Housesteads Fort, seen along the path from the cafe. The pay/display car park is covered by an annual National Park pass, and even if you didn't have an English Heritage card, you can still walk around the outside of the fort onto the Hadrian's Wall path. 📷

View of a hilltop fort in open countryside, under dramatic skies.
PhotographyNorthumberlandHadriansWallhousesteads
Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:58:16

Still browsing through some autumnal shots! This one was earlier in October (16th) not far from Heavenfield. And with a Sony 40mm f2 prime, plain UV filter. 📷

Tree, catching the sun before a moody sky.
PhotographyNorthumberlandHadriansWallHeavenfield
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:02:48

Also from Housesteads towards Sewingshields yesterday, but earlier in the day, and exposed for the sky. 📷

Large white cloud in a blue sky. Image has been exposed for the cloud, and the ground is almost dark.
PhotographyNorthumberlandHadriansWallcloudssky
Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:23:57

View from Housesteads towards Sewingshields this afternoon. Another shot with my 20mm Viltrox, this time with a 1/8 black mist filter... it's quite subtle. 📷 (Is "analoguiness" an actual word? Because I was feeling that it adds a touch of that.)

Open country landscape, mixed cloudy skies. Dark and shadowy foreground, but sunlight is catching the middle-distance, illuminating grass and trees.
PhotographyNorthumberlandHadriansWallhousesteads
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:10:42

This is along Hadrian's Wall path, close to Down Hill, Halton. 📷

Side view of stacked logs from a forestry operation.
PhotographyNorthumberlandHadriansWallhikinglogs
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:26:31

From a walk near Halton Castle yesterday. I was trying an old Viltrox prime lens on my Sony A7cII. Lacks a bit of sharpness, and a little rough at the edges... but I'm quite liking the effect. 🤔📷 (20mm f2.8)

Golden autumn leaves on a forest path.
PhotographyautumnNorthumberlandleaves
Sat, 11 Oct 2025 19:05:55

Halton Castle, Northumberland, this afternoon. A private residence, although you do get a nice view of the exterior from the adjacent church... or from this small pond! 😎

Reflection of a castle (fortified manor house) reflected in a small pond.
ReflectionsNorthumberlandHaltonCastleCastlePhotography
Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:28:03

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