{"id":87389,"date":"2025-11-08T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=87389"},"modified":"2025-11-08T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:51:04","slug":"limiting-horizons-to-expand-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/11\/08\/limiting-horizons-to-expand-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Limiting horizons to expand them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Anglian skies are amazing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5587-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5587-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5587-534x300.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5587-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5587-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5587-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5587-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is looking towards Blakeney Point, where the seal colony is. I have not been to see them on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>This chap made himself more readily available, and there is nothing wrong with a black-headed gull, even though many rarer birds have been seen today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-550x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-550x733.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5597-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I have been reflecting on a comment\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/11\/06\/mmt-v-fascism\/comment-page-1\/#comment-1052116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Slade<\/a> made here\u00a0<\/span>a day or two ago. We had quite a long discussion about that over tea out this afternoon (tea, not cakes). Holidays are for asking about the meaning of things.<\/p>\n<p>They're also about not moving the car. We suspect that this break will follow the pattern of many we take. We arrive, park the car, and then walk wherever we want to go. This is not about limiting our horizons, but expanding them. There is so much to see here that the need to drive disappears. If we went further, we would miss what is on our doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it's time for a dusk walk. Roosting is beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Anglian skies are amazing: That is looking towards Blakeney Point, where the seal colony is. I have not been to see them on this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/11\/08\/limiting-horizons-to-expand-them\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87392,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87389\/revisions\/87392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}