Theme Day – Blank and White in Colour

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The City Daily Photo theme day for the start of March is ‘Black and White in Colour’.

We cycled to Radley Lakes on Sunday and walked round Thrupp Lake and the fishing lake alongside.
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There was not a lot of colour in the pictures taken across the lakes. Parts of Thrupp Lake appeared to have been colonised by black and white cormorants. The only colour came from unidentifiable orange blobs on their island.
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Two swans were on the fishing lake alongside. The only colour was their beaks.
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Looking directly into the sun across Thrupp Lake. The only colour was from a handkerchief of blue sky.

More pictures at City Daily Photo on the theme.

Behind Alison Clare

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Down the narrow alleyway behind the Alison Clare Hair Studio, at the top of the Vineyard, there was once a 1970’s commercial building.
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The building was last used commercially by a supplier of energy efficient boilers. It was also used, during the 2015 general election, as the HQ of the local Lib-Dems.
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The building stood alongside other commercial buildings until Penlon moved and the area behind became ‘Penlon Place’.

After redevelopment it could become ‘Lib-Dem Place’ if previous usage counts.

Taller Flag Pole Needed on County Hall Roof

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The flag pole has been taken down from the County Hall roof and will soon be replaced by a taller flag pole.
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Flags are flown every day of the year from that pole and some of them take a battering as they are blown against the stone finials that surround the tower. Mostly it is the Union Flag that is flown, but there are also the Abingdon Flag, St George’s Flag, Armed Forces Flag, and Commonwealth Flag. I remember the days when the EU Flag got flown on Europe Day once a year.

There is also a campaign to get a Rainbow Flag flown during Oxford Pride on Saturday 3rd June 2017.