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I like using pic's from throughout the year of mainly outdoor stuff I've done. Current one is from outside the Hutchinson Bothy when I rode Ben Macdui a few months ago.

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Whatcha got?


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 11:33 am
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Mine is the little valley hidden behind the Burn O'Vat in Aberdeenshire:

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Posted : 16/12/2021 11:37 am
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Mine is from a Bikepacking trip around The Gower back in the summer when the sun still shone.

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Posted : 16/12/2021 11:42 am
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I have a daily changing wallpaper. Mostly pics I've dl'ed from the Yeti site, some great photos on there


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 11:44 am
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You :DW:


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 11:45 am
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You :DW:

Dutty Houns... 😂


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 11:49 am
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Mines a family shot out in Pila.
Been using it from the start of lock down. Keeps me focused on when we eventually can go back

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Posted : 16/12/2021 11:49 am
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I don't change mine very often! This was from May!...

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Posted : 16/12/2021 11:50 am
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Just out the back of my house, early morning, pre-work ride earlier in the year...


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:02 pm
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Mine is the little valley hidden behind the Burn O’Vat in Aberdeenshire:

There's some nice wee crags in there for a bit of rock climbing, I spent a great day there a couple of years ago. Really must get try and get back down again.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:11 pm
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Harry Stiles....


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:39 pm
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Taken while on a family walk a couple of months back.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:42 pm
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Clangers


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:48 pm
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Cap Formentor in Mallorca.
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Posted : 16/12/2021 12:48 pm
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Some crap my work forces me to have. Think it's supposed to be motivational....


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:49 pm
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A Hawker Demon coming round the bend at Old Warden


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:50 pm
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I have this on my other desktop
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Posted : 16/12/2021 12:52 pm
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[url= https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51750661458_142ae01094_k.jp g" target="_blank">https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51750661458_142ae01094_k.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://www.flickr.com/gp/85252658@N05/XSs3X8 ]2021-12-16_12-50-47[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/85252658@N05/ ]davetheblade[/url], on Flickr

Points for anyone that can tell me the location


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 12:53 pm
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Posted : 16/12/2021 1:30 pm
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Same as @thols2

Pretty sure I had mine first though.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 1:37 pm
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Points for anyone that can tell me the location

It's not Monk's road, Charlesworth is it...?


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 1:37 pm
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Pretty sure I had mine first though.

1998?


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 1:43 pm
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Dammit, I changed from carbon just after the millenium


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 1:46 pm
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It’s not Monk’s road, Charlesworth is it…?

You're right

it's not

Right county though, but a reasonable distance from there


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 1:59 pm
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This one from STW:
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Posted : 16/12/2021 2:20 pm
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windows

On work laptop. Only see it for a few seconds before 20 windows get opened up over the top of it over the course of a day then a few seconds as it shuts down on a night. Keeps it vauguely generic incase I end up screen sharing durng a Teams call. Can't be bothered explaining a personal background after someone glimpses it for a moment.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 2:27 pm
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Photo I took in Oct. Redcliffe bridge, Bristol.
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Posted : 16/12/2021 2:38 pm
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Corporate backdrop on screen one, picture of my old dog Ted on screen 2. Helps me differentiate between work stuff and personal stuff.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 3:02 pm
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The joys of being rear gunner. You get to take shots like this. From an epic summer Monday Night Pub Ride on Pendle Hill a few years back

[url= https://live.staticflickr.com/8766/28364423686_fb21e11234_k.jp g" target="_blank">https://live.staticflickr.com/8766/28364423686_fb21e11234_k.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/Kdt5XG ]Pendle Hill[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/14162682@N00/ ]bin lid[/url], on Flickr


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 3:10 pm
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I've got a Porsche 917 on one screen and an Audi S1 Quattro on the other. I also dont change them often and its been like that for some time.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 3:15 pm
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Keep trying to learn them

My laptop desktop has a rear quarter view of a Porsche 928 GTS.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 3:24 pm
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I've got a load of pics that mostly I've taken rotating but my 2 current favourites are on I took of the good lady and on of me at this years Ard Rock.

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Posted : 16/12/2021 3:25 pm
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This one - but I'm gonna have to swap it for the Clangers one up there instead.....

https://flic.kr/p/2mR4iiG


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 4:02 pm
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Posted : 16/12/2021 4:05 pm
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Works machine is a boring corporate one, but the swan above is on one of my devices and the rock tower below is on the other - both my own pictures


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 4:18 pm
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Usually some scenic photo of my own.

Currently this one.

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Posted : 16/12/2021 4:22 pm
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Same as @thols2 and @Haze but mines in widescreen:

Black


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 4:24 pm
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Very dull company logo, due to the zealots in IT!😡


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 4:24 pm
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This however, is my phone wallpaper. In case you don’t know it is the last known image of HMS Hood, taken as she steams into battle at full pelt against the Bismarck. Not long after she’d gone to the bottom taking all but 3 of her crew with her…

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Posted : 16/12/2021 4:30 pm
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Inspired by @gingerflash I've bought some colour to my desktop, taken just a couple of days before Mallorca went into lockdown...

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Posted : 16/12/2021 5:00 pm
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Windows is set to show me new ones every day or so and I've been training it to show me outdoor/landscape stuff. It's been stuck on something which I didn't bother to check but think was Dawn wall. It just changed to lady bower and the 'plug hole' (bell mouth slipway)


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 5:10 pm
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I've got the Bing Wallpaper app, so a new one every day. Today it's a rhino with some birds sitting on it. Not one of the best.


 
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Posted : 16/12/2021 5:48 pm
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reynholm ind screensaver


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 5:51 pm
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Whatever Biĺl Gates thinks i should be looking at...

Sort of a Soylent Green approach (some younger folks may have to google that)


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 5:53 pm
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Like the black ones above but mine's level 11 black


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 6:05 pm
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In case you don’t know it is the last known image of HMS Hood

I think this is probably a later one...

And this definitely is.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 7:52 pm
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Like the black ones above but mine’s level 11 black

The cover of Smell the Glove?

None more black

I’m assuming we’ve all done the thing to our colleagues where you get on their Mac, take a screenshot of the desktop then hide all their desktop folders and set the screenshot as their desktop.

Much hilarity to be had as they try to click on folders and files that won’t open.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 8:58 pm
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Reminder of our October trip to Zermatt on my retro Marin.

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Posted : 16/12/2021 9:05 pm
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Anything thats funny.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 10:11 pm
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Picture I took on a night ride earlier in the year.


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 10:40 pm
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@Johnners - OK I’ll bite 😀

The top photo is Bismarck firing. I’m not even sure it’s firing at Hood. Most captions have that photo as firing at Prince of Wales. The second photo is usually described as the smoke from Hood after it has exploded, so it’s already below the water at that point…. I suppose you could say strictly that IS the last photo. There have also been quite a few pictures taken of the wreck site too (not a lot left intact), so I’m saying my photo is the last one before it was destroyed!!


 
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Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.

https://flic.kr/p/6Jzfdi


 
Posted : 16/12/2021 11:24 pm
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@timbog160 - just teasing! Tbh I'm pretty unsure about the first pic, it's not the best of shots and I'm not expert enough to identify what it is though the BBC site it's from suggests Bismarck.
Whatever, your phone wallpaper is by far the nicest shot of the rather lovely Hood.


 
Posted : 17/12/2021 12:01 am

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