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Excerpt from East Kilbride as I move on to pastures new.
Very close to my (soon to be) former home in Scotland there was a glut of hammer and sickle graffiti tags around the area promoting a local communist youth group. It looked nasty and, well, the tags had been there for months right up until Russia invaded Ukraine. The tags were very quickly covered up then with these dark squares. The image this made really caught my eye for a square frame composition. While I am not moving from town to country I am moving from town to smaller town by the beach. Still within striking distance of Glasgow though, have no fear there!
Right... off to pack up the PC, monitor and disassemble my desk.
Enjoy!
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An excerpt from East Kilbride Village that I found looked so magical when speckled with light rain. One of two side by side dog statues (*though at time of photographing one had been stolen and was missing) that guard the one-way exit from The Village in East Kilbride, Scotland.
A sculpture by artist Shona Kinloch who is based in East Kilbride. Searching information online reveals two possible titles for this sculpture as "Twa' Dugs" or "Whistlin'" and while I'm ashamed that I don't know the actual name I can gladly say that I love the statue and it's location.
East Kilbride has been a great place to live for 11 years. Just on the edge of the old village centre and so close to every amenity you could need and just 1/2 hour from Glasgow. I'll be moving to pastures new on Monday and may be offline a short while from this coming weekend. Enjoy!
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Urban landscape shot from East Kilbride, Scotland.
I live nearby and in May 2021 there was a very loud 'boom' and my windows and doors rattled violently. Archie the cat was very distressed and it wasn't immediately apparent what had happened.
There had been a gas explosion in this flat in the village centre. The roof had caved in, the walls were bulging and the windows had been blown out to where I am standing in this shot. It was a massive blast but, thankfully, there were only minor injuries for the owner of the flat. The rest of the block had escaped unharmed.
Now, almost a year later, work is about to start to rebuild and restore the flats to their former state. Having been empty all of this time, and still filled with people's belongings, I imagine there will be some damp clean-up required in all of the homes too.
I took this shot as I wandered around East Kilbride making some 'memory' photographs before I move home next month.
My heating engineer 'gas man' said that gas explosions were very rare and the following week I read about several happening in the UK. Be sure to get your heating systems checked at least once a year by a properly accredited engineer. Take care my Flickr friends.
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Captured on a state sanctioned 'exercise walk' during the first Covid lockdown in April 2020. A waterslide pokes out of the side of the Dollan Aqua Centre (Formerly: Dollan Baths) in East Kilbride, Scotland.
The Dollan Aqua Centre, now Category A Listed, opened in 1968 as the first 50 metre swimming pool in Scotland - though sadly it falls just short of the Olympic standard.
Such a shame that we continue on the downward spiral of the pandemic with over 300 people dying from Covid each day. That is with Covid listed as a primary or contributory cause of death on the death certificate. The 3rd biggest killer currently in the UK and yet those deaths are absent from the news. The equivalent of a major airliner falling out of the sky each and every day. Simple protective measures could avoid such a scale of death but, alas, populism and libertarianism classes those protections as 'restrictions'. Heaven help us when a more deadly pandemic comes along!
Stay safe my Flickr friends as I continue to document some memories from East Kilbride before I move on to new pastures. :)
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A series of images captured in and around East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. My home for the past 11 years and I'll be sharing and making some photographic "excerpt" memories before I move on to new turf in the coming months.
This shot captured in September 2021. Enjoy!
Inspired by, but absolutely not attempting to copy, the wonderful "Vignettes of Cork" series by Pat Kelleher here on Flickr.
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