#Guernsey

[lifestyleofluxe]

#lifestyle #luxury #Living room full of house plants in a greenhouse-like residence #Guernsey #Channe

[barricadescon]

Jean Baptiste Hugo announced as Guest of Honor at Barricades 2024

Barricades 2024 is pleased to announce Jean Baptiste Hugo as one of our Guests of Honor for this year's convention. Jean Baptiste Hugo is the great-great-grandson of Victor Hugo. He has extensively photographed Hugo's home in exile on Guernsey, a project about which he said this: “In 2014, I was about to start a series of photographs of Hauteville House, where Victor Hugo stayed in exile for 15 years. I had the intention, picturing in my mind the dark gothic rooms, to use the legendary black and white 400 Tri-X Kodak film, known for its grainy quality and its rich black tones. It just happened that around that same period I started looking into the extraordinary colour possibilities offered by digital photography, having considered it for years , I must admit, as very inferior to black and white film. The introduction I was given to digital colour photography inspired me enough to try and capture as faithfully as I could the colourful atmosphere of my ancestor’s folly on Guernsey and, I am glad I did, as it allowed me to engage in an exploration of colour and texture in a very creative way which I am still pursuing today through other photographic subjects.”

#mine #barricadescon #les miserables #les mis #Jean Baptiste Hugo #guest of honor #Barricades 2024 #Guernsey #Hauteville House

[zombilenium]

Witches Hat House !

A village in Guernsey County in Senecaville, Ohio, sits a creepy abandoned house that looks like a witch's hat.

It's one of the 10 Spookiest Houses in Ohio! ...

#art #photography #abandoned places #abandoned #abandoned house #urbexphotography #urbex #urbexsupreme #decay #witches #witchcraft #hat #witch hat #ohio #senecaville #guernsey

[vizreef]

Tektronix // Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes //  built on the Island of Guernsey (!!) 1960s

via

#vintage tech #oscilloscope #guernsey #60s aesthetic #baby blue

[fieldtomatoes]

"Gardens under glass: Greenhouses of Guernsey shelter some 1,100 acres of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ferns, most destined for shipment overseas. The island exports as many indoor tomatoes as Jersey does outdoor potatoes, but the local fruit earns several million dollars more than the rival root. To conserve space and provide maximum exposure to the sun, growers train tomato plants into overhead arbors."

National Geographic - May, 1971

#@ rob #nat geo scans #tomato posting #guernsey

[addicted-to-michiel]

Dawsey Adams 💙 My Sunday is now complete.

#addicted to michiel #michiel huisman #stanning michiel #perfection #he’s so hot i can’t even stand it #michiel huisman appreciation #michiel obsessed #swoon worthy #michiel huisman edit #michielicious #michielhuisman #dawsey adams #the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society #guernsey #period drama #comfort character #my comfort character

[wgm-beautiful-world]

The Little Chapel - GUERNSEY

#the little chapel #la pequeña capilla #guernsey #europe #europa

[ancestorsalive]

Edmund de la Mare making lobster pots in Le Couteur’s yard in 1935, Guernsey, Channel Islands.

Photo colourised by Rod Ferbrache.

#lobster pots #weaving #vintage photograph #guernsey #channel islands #1935 #Edmund de la Mare #Le Couteur's yard #Ancestors Alive! #What is Remembered Lives #Memory & Spirit of Place #past times

[pluralzalpha]

OK, what with the coronation coming up, I've seen quite a few posts about the UK, by people who don't quite understand the difference between the UK, Great Britain, England and so on.

Which is fair enough, because it is a bit complicated.

So here's some explanation.

The British Isles is a whole bunch of islands, but the main ones are those two big ones, Great Britain and Ireland.

Great Britain is divided into three countries: England, Scotland and Wales.

The island of Ireland is also divided. The northeastern six counties make up Northern Ireland, which is also sometimes referred to as Ulster, although the traditional province of Ulster is somewhat larger.

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make up the larger country of the United Kingdom, a sovereign state. The full name of the state is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but that's a bit of a mouthful, so generally it's the United Kingdom or the UK.

"Britain" can be used to mean either the island of Great Britain or the UK as a whole. Anyone from the UK is a British national (a Briton or Brit), although many Scots, Northern Irish, and some Welsh don't describe themselves as British because of their political position. There's a strong Scottish independence movement, and the situation in Ireland is complicated, to say the least.

It's very important to remember that England is not the same as Britain, Great Britain or the UK. It is merely part of it. A lot of people use England interchangeably with the broader terms, but this is wrong. Try going to Scotland and saying it's part of England and see how long it takes to get a smack in the face.

The rest of Ireland is an entirely separate country, a sovereign state in its own right. Its official name is simply Ireland, but it's often referred to by its official description, the Republic of Ireland (RoI) for clarity. It can also be called by its Irish name, Eire.

It's not unheard of for the Republic to be referred to as Southern Ireland, but this can cause a lot of offence, and in any case, it's by far the larger part of Ireland and actually reaches further north than Northern Ireland.

King Charles III has the title of King of the United Kingdom. The title King of England is archaic and hasn't actually been used for centuries. He is the sovereign of the UK and has nothing to do with RoI.

There are lots of smaller islands that are part of any of the five countries above, but there are also some more islands just to be confusing.

The Channel Islands aren't even in the map above, because they're closer to France, but they're often grouped in with the British Isles. The largest two, Jersey and Guernsey, are separate countries (Guernsey has some even smaller islands within its territory). They're what's left of the ancient Duchy of Normandy. There's also the Isle of Man, also called Mann, between Great Britain and Ireland.

These three are NOT part of the UK. They are Crown Dependencies, which means they essentially belong to the King, but have seperate governments. The UK has sovereignty over them though, and is responsible for their defence and representation internationally.

The UK and the Crown Dependencies are also legally known as the British Islands (not Isles, as this includes all of Ireland), but no one really uses this except in important international treaty stuff.

See? Perfectly straightforward...

#united kingdom #british isles #england #Scotland #wales #ireland #northern ireland #republic of ireland #guernsey #jersey #isle of man #great britain

[littlestampcollection]

#postage stamp #stamps #nature #animals #birds #1970s #1978 #Guernsey #channel islands #gannet #bird

[landschaftsmalerei]

Blick auf Guernsey, 1883 von Pierre Auguste Renoir (1883, oil on canvas)

#kunst #kunstwerk #art #artwork #pierre auguste renoir #landschaft #landscape #guernsey #blick #view #aussicht #küste #coast #natur #nature #meer #sea #wasser #water #ufer #shore #post impressionismus #post impressionism #baum #tree #grün #green #pflanzen #plants #flora

[the-cursed-wife]

Dawsey Adams ✨ the sweetest soul

"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" 2018

#michiel huisman #best actor #dawsey adams #the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society #guernsey #he so fine #heel mooi #man scruff #lawddd #beautiful man #all day #netflix #mike newell #my edit #filter magic #perioddrama

[pat2dee]

Phil Lynnot of Thin Lizzy in Guernsey,

July 1981

#thin lizzy #phil lynnot #phillip parris lynott #guernsey #1981

[postcard-from-the-past]

SS Alberta ferry serving between Jersey and Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

British vintage postcard, mailed in 1905 to London

#vintage #tarjeta #briefkaart #channel #postcard #photography #guernsey #jersey #1905 #postal #carte postale #sepia #ephemera #ss alberta #historic #british #ferry #ansichtskarte #london #postkarte #serving #islands #alberta #postkaart #channel islands #mailed #photo

[southpacifictravel]

St. Peter Port is built along a ridge above the harbour on Guernsey, Channel Islands. This deep safe anchorage has been a busy port since Roman times.

#StPeterPort #Guernsey #ChannelIslands

[hasellia]

Okay I found another one that looks pretty cool

it's Youngite

It's quartz so if know quartz you know the properties of this but like... look at it.... gongeous

Oooohhhh. Pretty glowyy! It looks like it's dripping glowstick juice!

I looked it up on Mindat and...

"Local name for agate or jasper coated by druzy quartz crystals".

A "local name" for an agate "coated by druzy", what are you a cop? Youngite is also a pretty apropriate name for a rock that looks so... Radical.

#youngite #quartz #SiO2 #gem #crystal #mineral #rock #guernsey #wyoming #usa #you could make some wicked D20s out of that