Having To Take Pot Luck With A Pot Plant

Today's image is a continuation of my just outside our back door series but this time not caused by photographic laziness but due to the fact that I've put my back out again. For the last three or four days I've been doing a run followed by half an hour of gardening each morning with my dear old ageing vertebrae seemingly straining to cope with that fairly modest workload and subsequently letting me know it yesterday by coming out on strike.
When I woke up this morning I thought it felt a little bit better so, stupidly as it turns out, I still decided it was a good idea to attempt my usual morning run - you can guess the rest!
On the basis that there were not going to be any photographic safaris today I had to look for some inspiration much closer at hand which was thankfully provided by just looking outside our back door where a potted geranium was casting some lovely early morning shadows against a garden parasol leaning against an outside wall. I wanted to go for something a bit different so I decided to concentrate on the shadows of the flowers and throw the blooms themselves out of focus. The result was always going to be a bit of pot luck but I quite like it!
Luckily my back did unfurl slightly as the day wore on and I still 'somehow' managed to still get out for a pint with my brother at lunchtime! :-)

I thought it was time for another TV recommendation. On this occasion it's another series by the documentary film-maker Adam Curtis - who has become known for his sweeping, collage-based documentaries including The Power of Nightmares and Hypernormalisation, that explore sociocultural and political developments that get under the skin of our times - called Shifty on BBC iPlayer.
It's theme is Britain losing industry, community and empire and his take on what he considers to be it struggling to come to terms with the individualistic complexities that replaced those certainties using his signature style of a mix of deep dives into archive footage and uncanny juxtapositions which can be quite startling and head spinning. Not exactly the most cheering of subjects and It certainly won't be to everyone's taste - which I kind of  think is the point -  with one critic describing it as coming across more as an abstract impressionistic art installation but I guarantee you won't see anything remotely like it all year!