Photo of the day: 24/365 #putney

Teacher jokingly challenged a 10-year-old to 'find Duran Duran' while in the U.K. She did.

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I love The Half Moon in #Putney. Saw these guys last night. Absolutely awesome! #SmallFakers #SmallFaces #LiveMusic #TributeAct

Wharf and Embankment, Putney, London, 1903 - Gilbert Marlet Postcard

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Wharf and Embankment, Putney, London, 1903 - Gilbert Marlet Postcard

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#Putney #London #Postcards

@david

There is the rub. It was precisely the #postalballots which were undercounted massively in the case of #putney. Roughly half of them were not included in the result announced initially.

@david

I hope they do not have to work as long as their equivalents in the #uk do! Counting errors due to sheer exhaustion can be embarrassing at best - as was the case in #putney last July.

#Geograph Picture of the Day from #Putney 2024 #London #POTD #photography
#pillarboxtopper #ValentinesDay #postbox #knitting
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Valentine's pillar box topper
Appropriately enough this was photographed on Valentine's Day. It was in Hotham Road.

This is a recent tradition, based on the Yarnbombing tradition. Anonymous knitters decorate post boxes with topical themes.

#Beer fans anywhere near #Putney #LondonUK get yourselves to #GhostWhale if you can for the chance to win a free #VerdantBrewing t-shirt by binge drinking this lunchtime

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@ChrisMayLA6

That is certainly one interpretation of the decline in voter turnout in general elections in the #uk in 2024 relative to 2019. When I looked at changes in turnout in #putney between the two most recent general elections I found that the sharpest decline was indeed in the most deprived areas.

@gutenberg_org

He met Hardy in a house near where I live in #putney . There is a plaque commemorating this.

5/5 Autumn
We are back in Wandsworth Park for some more autumn leaves.

#putney #wandsworthpark
#photography #autumn #autumnleaves

I am not sure how far this has applied in #putney or even #wandsworth ! Certainly high deprivation areas tend both to vote left and to vote less - but the latter is not inevitable - a targeted get out the vote operation together with strong promotion of postal voting can offset this. Certainly in the May 2022 local elections turnout was sometimes higher in wards containing areas in the highest 30% of deprivation category than it was in neighbouring less deprived wards.

2/5 Autumn

Autumn leaves in Wandsworth Park - just by Putney Bridge on the banks of the Thames.
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#photography #autumn #autumnleaves
#putney #wandsworthpark

Met up with the old band-mates and had some food and watched some of those new younger bands that they have these days that haven't become jaded and sour and broken up yet.

In an old 60-year-running venue in south London: The Half Moon. Apparently it's fairly well known, but not by me. Never been there before. It's the very very opposite side of town and nearly 90 minutes journey away.

Missed most of Magerison, who had the coolest looking bass player of the night, but otherwise had the proper warm-up slot I think.

Bowen were symmetric and energetic and among their set played an old Blondie song, despite none of them being anything like old enough to know what it means to have a phone booth across the hall. They looked great with the two dark-haired guitarists flanking the blonde girl in the middle.

It felt like she was looking at me the whole time. Is it like those paintings that stare at you wherever you stand? Did I have a mark on my face? Was her mum standing behind me?

It was brilliant anyway and I love her now.

If you can figure out how to do that in your show for everyone in the audience then I'd recommend that as a technique.

We finished with "Moody", surely the most ungoogleable name for a band ever who should sack whoever named them. She did some good screaming and emoting, and the band had paid attention to choreography nicely, but in a way that my band would have just found embarrassing.

And indeed that did seem to put off my ex-guitarist who complained about them looking too flashy. 😆

I have not left the house for way too long, and it was good.

#london #halfMoon #putney #music #gig

The Green Man, Putney Heath, London, 1904 - Gilbert Marlet Postcard

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