#writephoto #ceiling Careful! everything around you is in imminent jeopardy while you launch your gaze upwards while moving about if you remained in one place instead of navigating without a view, you would get a great look at the painting without the risk of breaking summat below
Category Archives: Museums
Poppies (on Remembrance Day)
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com bringing a spot of colour to the green lawn with a second task fulfilled a reminder of all those who’ve served in war and have passed or been killed keeping a promise made long ago – we shall remember all and keep a moments silence after the buglers call
Poppies return
#rememberance #poppies Poppies @ IWM North Something grand has fallen softly on the floor of the war museum numbers of red poppies fall down from a point in the sky you may ask – why ? to remember those on flanders field and other battles now revealed now tumbled down to museum floor and remembered …
Open once more
#Museums The exhibits are rising out on the floor – something is moving movement of visitors feet going round the space making a beeline for historic items and artwork out on display – just waiting to be seen reactions – muted behind a mask – but out on the museum floor – they’re just happy …
Grin and Bear it
Manchester Museum, 1st March 2021 It’s not easy being king of the dinos you’re buried under the land for what seems like ages and kept away from the sun so you take a bit of a nap all of a sudden, something with teeth like yours is uncovering you, in the cold and they’re using …
Squadron
A write club acrostic, written by inky. #Imperialwarmuseum #Airfix #Planes #Squadron #Military #Aircraft Sat atop a great height quite a few planes, old and new used to being in hangars, have found a home by the waters of a canal definitely a peacetime operation red arrows escorting a Spitfire veteran and other D-Day participants – …
Rex
Rex – Silhouette Salford (via Manchester Museum), 20th June 2020 King of the Dinosaurs! woken up by the sound of a wide brush, and now sitting proud in a grand hall towering over us all while human children look and read, what he liked, for a feed.
Engine
Salford, 6th April 2020 #fowc #engine Engine, outside the power hall at Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester Every mechanic knows – it’s Not the wheels , but the engine that Get’s a driver from A to B It’s truly – the heart of any transport Naval, bus, car or motor bike Exception – if …
History
#FOWC #History Heralds wrote tales down in books, while in caves, our ancestors painted the tales on walls some documenting the building of great monuments then others, telling tales of the horrors of war of course, the stories that remain are the ones in the books retold by scholars for minds of a different age, …
Achievement
#poetry #learning #expectation Salford 16th February A piece on school visits Three coaches rolled up in the car park One blue, one black, one green Passing auntie, the football and the shops Traffic jams were no fun Or Waiting for the man with the sign to Pass go from stop There were grumbles getting off …
The Inkwell 