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#WordOfTheDay - thing I learned today

A Gull is "A deliberately engineered shimmy in a watercourse to overcome unstable soil conditions
and/or repair a bank collapse"

From https://www.fensbiosphere.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/glossary-of-fenland-land-drainage-terms-2013-v2-draft.pdf

#Fenland #Drainage #Lincolnshire #word #definition #meaning #Language

A screen grab from the document mentioned showing the sort of bent riverbank mentioned

I just stumbled upon this

https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue67/10/

The Viking Link is an electrical feeder from offshore wind to the national system; there is always rescue archaeology before building projects.

#archaeology #history #Lincolnshire #Fenland #Roman #AngloSaxon #Bicker

Screengrab of the embedded video, showing the discoveries in various colours

#Fenland BusFest at #Whittlesey cancelled but #Ramsey classic vehicle show goes ahead
https://www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/fenland-busfest-at-whittlesey-cancelled-but-ramsey-classic-vehicle-show-goes-ahead/24488/ via CambsNewsOnline

http://easternbusgroup.co.uk/busfest.html

Big cloudy sky in the fens today

#fenland #feniverse #landscape

Fenland landscape photograph where two thirds is taken up by the sky which is blue but mostly full of fluffy white and grey skies

And as a bonus, here's today's murmuration, in clearer skies :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrEzSRHVEY

#Nature #BirdPhotography #Fenland #Norfolk

Truly shocking figures show how #bus travel in #Fenland has been decimated - CambsNews.co.uk – https://www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/truly-shocking-figures-show-how-bus-travel-in-fenland-has-been-decimated/18354/

I bought a stack of old local postcards. Cambridge (town not gown) and some from the Fens. Amongst them was a brilliant Fabulous Fenland card showing off a local onion farm.

Anyway, on the back was the URL for the publisher who turned out to be this genius art gallery in a caravan which produces art that celebrates "overlooked and occasionally bizarre aspects of everyday life".

https://thecaravangallery.photography/gallery/

#postcard #Fenland #Caravan #art

#Fenland #PlanningApplication #FYR220844O #Wisbech off Stow Road. Cambridgeshire CoCo still asking good questions. #KLWNBUG should make similar objections. This could be a useful new route to/from the Smeeth but this development will also turn the #A47 Broadend Road crossroads into a roundabout which could be good or bad #space4cycling

Plan of the new estate showing N-S and E-W cycleways in blue

The Flood 60th anniversary edition

#fenland #thefens #fensonfilm

https://youtu.be/Jp0ruANUdK0?si=NZ8NPBKOfE5TuHQH

The flat of the fens, an alien landscape for us hill-dwellers.

#fens #fenland #drain

A large channel of water stretches away from the camera through a flat landscape, lined by grassy banks and trees.

One of mine.

A wonderful Roadside tree in the Cambridgeshire Fens

"A magnificent Sycamore"
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Bob Harvey - https://geograph.org.uk/p/7514686
https://geograph.org.uk/p/7514708

"always look up" - two views into the crown, looking vertically
https://geograph.org.uk/p/7514716
https://geograph.org.uk/p/7515263

#Photography #Cambridgeshire #Tree #Sycamore #Summer #Nature #Fenland #TheFens #England #RoadsideTree

@ant_pruitt @leo

A clear blue sky behind a tall tree emerging from a high hedgerow.

Hedge and tree are bright with the vivid green of early summer. The tree has two main trunks and many branches, and is more than 15 metres tall, but only spreads about half of that.

The trunk of the tree in the first picture, showing the luxuriant growth of hedgerow plants around it and the wrinkled bark of a tree a couple of centuries old.

The trunk, before it splits at aroun 4 metres up, is shown mid frame, with blue sky behind it and a wash of greenery to the left and right. At the tom the lower branches and twigs are lively with both leaves and fruiting bodies, the famed winged seeds of the sycamore are forming already

Looking up the trunk of the tree in the first image from ground level The trunk and branches fill the image, dappled with sunlight coming from the leavy canopy.

A wider view of the whole canopy, filled with spreading limbs and dividing branches The extraordinary ability of a tree to fill the whole skyward view and catch as much light as possible is revealled.

It's Celebrate The Fens Day!
https://fascinatingfens.com/celebrate-the-fens-day/ #Fenland #Fens #Wetlands #EastAnglia

#til die Engländer haben sich die Niederlande nach Hause geholt

#Fenland #TheMarsh #Wikifund

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens

A bit of #fun. My attempt to #map #historic #dialect terms for the #stickleback. Which is your #favourite? What #names are #local to you? When did you last see/catch one? They used of congregate in their millions in #Fenland #ditches and #dykes. #Farmers even used #fresh sticklebacks as #manure, spread straight on to their #fields. I hope you like the #scale. Enjoy! #Fish #Language #Biodiversity #Crisis #River #Stream #Pollution #UK #England #Wales #Scotland #NorthernIreland #Ireland #IsleOfMan

A simple map of the British Isles in light green. On it, in black text, old names for the stickleback in their approximate geographical location. Certain locations in ordinary text; uncertain at 45 degree angle. Title 'Dialectal terms for the Stickleback'. Image of stickleback top left. Map scale based on average length of a stickleback!

#Fenland #Fens #Wetlands #EastAnglia

Life and Landscape on the #NorfolkBroads
Peter Henry Emerson, photographer

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104KSE

Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886 Platinum print,
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA

"Initially published as a limited-edition photogravure, this photograph of a man and a woman in a rowboat subsequently appeared in Peter Henry Emerson's first book, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. Emerson preferred book or album presentation so that text could accompany the image. He advocated naturalism in photography, which meant that he believed photographs should represent nature as truthfully as possible without manipulation by the photographer. Emerson's writings indicated his passion for photography. He declared: "...we must first see the picture in nature and be struck by its beauty so that we cannot rest until we have secured it on our plate...

He derived his subject matter from rural life in the marshy, coastal region of East Anglia, northeast of London. The book features images of laborers, and this peaceful scene is no exception: as the man rows, the woman gathers flowers to use as bait for fishing. Water-lilies were placed in a large bow net, like the one behind the oarsman in this image. The bow net was then sunk to trap tench, a fish common to these waters. Emerson sought a moment of tender beauty as the woman reaches into the water to collect a blossom."

Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936), photographer Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886 Platinum print, 19.8 × 29.2 cm (7 13/16 × 11 1/2 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XO.1268.10

Half term so the girls and I headed north across the Fens and along a drove (sat nav madness) to Fens Falconry where we spent a very lovely evening learning about their owls and watching them fly.

#HalfTerm #DayTrips #FenLand #FensFalconry

A photo of an owl landing on a gauntlet worn by a young girl.

Another wet day in the fenlands of Lincolnshire.

Trinity Bridge in Crowland is a 14th century triangular bridge that was built to cross the confluence of the River Nene and the Welland.

I have yet to discover where the water went after the two rivers joined 🤷‍♀️

#lincolnshire #crowland #fenland #14thcentury #trinitybridge #river #welland #nene #localhistory #bridges #river #welland #nene

#lincolnshire #fens #fenland #waterland #aiart #ai #DALLE2 #dalle my childhood in Sutton Bridge

@typejunky another lovely essay. Thanks. So beautifully written and evocative. My family also migrated from Yorkshire (from the village Harpham- still my surname) to the fens. To grow potatoes and keep pigs. My father had to leave school aged 11 to tend them. Here’s a memory of my #fenland. #aiart

@lhgmk2 here, borrow my #bugey view. #fenland girl in #france

#Fenland

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