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People who have children won't need to read this . . . nor will people who are ill more than once a year . . . for they will already know what life looks like from ground level or from in the middle where their pillows are. But for everyone else . . . I recommend lieing on the ground sometimes and looking round. See what the dangers are. See what the colours are. See the structures . . . Sometimes the scene is boring; sometimes things which are, at first sight, without interest or repetitive turn out to be very interesting indeed - like these planks which are helping keep a bank up.

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There is absolutely no reason for putting this photograph here - except that I like it! It is of the newest lighthouse at Portland Bill in Dorset - it was opened in 1906 - which is still pretty old, depending on the way you look at it!

There are lots of pictures of this lighthouse on the internet and on . . . postcards and in books. Many of them are from precisely this angle - and many of them set against the background of a similarly blue sky. But it is such a colourful lighthouse and the skies are often this blue - and I was there yesterday. So, although it is a bit daft to add my own picture to all the others . . . I make no apology! (It may even be new to some readers!)

P.S. People often think the whole of Portland is called 'Portland Bill'. It isn't - it's called Portland. 'The Bill' is this southern end, where this lighthouse is and where the land has got so narrow there is sea on three sides. (And very rough the sea is too!)

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(My black and white photos aren't really up to scratch for MONOCHROME WEEKLY but one has to start somewhere!)

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Then I went to the beach and saw a beer can on a rock (teenagers party there in the evenings)and took its portrait.

I like the way the title 'My World Tuesday' is ambiguous because it reflects the way our inner and outer realities often overlap.

These wooden steps are at Castle Cove, Dorset in England. They link a sandy beach with a wooded cliff top. There used to be a path along the cliff but landslips have taken it away.

Whichever direction one walks on these steps - whether up or down - one feels one is setting off for somewhere exotic and exciting. However many times I go up them (or down) I feel as if I am entering a new world; a world of fiction and adventure. And this is despite the fact that nothing ever happens there. I walk up. I walk down. That's it. No change. No adventure. Just up and down-ness. But I always feel as if . . . .


Sometimes I wonder if the steps are getting a bit rickety - whether I might arrive one day only to find they have gone.

Just like life really.

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I took this photo in an old railway tunnel which is now part of a public path.

The image is blurred and double because I moved the camera by mistake. I have another photo with the same view but with a crisper image but I don't like that one anywhere near as much. The blur makes it more like a painting. Not only that but a shifting perspective is part of my everyday life so this photo fits well for 'My World Tuesday'.

The alcove in the wall is where railway workers would have found safety from passing trains. I like that thought; of there being nooks in one's life which are places of safety when the steam trains of life go hurtling by. (Sometimes, I can't help sounding like an Alan Bennet Sermon! ('Beyond the Fringe')



Lucy is having a break from her regular blog at present (until the autumn) but you can see more of her photos by clicking HERE.

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Clematis Armandii Leaves in the Evening After Rain

This ship seems, to me, to be a very big ship!



This photo was taken on 2nd August 2009, looking across Portland Harbour, in Dorset.