Mother Time-Keeper, the Grim Reaper and the dawn Cockerel, along with numerous smaller paper lanterns signifying time and various other pagan symbols, some possibly commemorating individuals who have died recently, parade through the lanes of Brighton celebrating the end of the old astronomical year (the grim reaper) and the dawn of the new (the cockerel), on their way to being burnt in a communal bonfire on the beach.

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Sunday rowday on the Thames between Putney and Hammersmith. A squad of two rowing eights, the oarsmen wearing Oxford University kit. I prefer light blue but they're rowing in style and making good speed back to the boathouse on an ebbing tide.
Trying to represent in a photo that peculiar autumn pleasure of kicking through dry leaves. These leaves are from the London plane trees crowning the Thames embankment at Bishops Park since its opening in 1893.
And two cute vagabonds, grey squirrels looking cute and cadging for food.

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Wet day so photos indoors. You don’t get much more indoors than a box garage several floors underground.

Two pictures of Derwent Water between this week’s storms. The level of the water is high enough to submerge the wooden piers and, despite the ray of sunshine, there’s another shower driving across the water from the “Jaws of Borrowdale”. These are images in natural colour, ie as the image comes out of the camera, but the colour is subtle.