Apr 07 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Big beetle building

Tuesday 7th April 2026, 11.20am (day 5,339)

Big beetle building, 7/4/26

Surely the title of this post is self-explanatory. I love it. I just wish I could remember exactly where I took this picture: it is somewhere on either Howland St or New Cavendish St, somewhere very close to the BT Tower. But I cannot find it on Google Street View (last updated in that area in about 2021) which suggests it has only been there for a couple of years. Great effect, though: and presumably functional in some form or other. Going on the way all the pipes run into it I assume this is the air-con, or possibly the pillar of the structural integrity of the superframe, or something.

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Apr 07 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

Breakfast with good fortune

Monday 6th April 2026, 9.55am (day 5,338)

Breakfast room, 6/4/26

I don’t know, I spend the whole day — and a public holiday, no less — in one of the planet’s most significant cities and I feel like depicting at the end of it is breakfast. What this says about me, I no longer care. Actually I am quite happy with this picture: like many of the ones I like the best it is the one I intended to take when pressing the shutter. Over the road, the “Good Fortune Studio” stayed just like that throughout my 48 hours at this particular Travelodge, and that says something too.

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Apr 05 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Fallen bicycles

Sunday 5th April 2026, 2.20pm (day 5,337)

Fallen cycles, 5/4/26

The legacy of Storm Dave. We will rebuild.

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Apr 05 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

New arrival in Dewsbury?

Saturday 4th April 2026, 1.55pm (day 5,336)

New zebra, 4/4/26

So I’m trying to work this one out. Did someone simply not bother to overpaint, or remove, the entire sign? Or was the original commission a misunderstanding, and Kirklees County Council fully intended to warn drivers and others that around the corner they might encounter one or more specimens of Equus zebra? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Apr 04 2026
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Rochdale mural

Friday 3rd April 2026, 6.10pm (day 5,335)

Rochdale skeleton art, 3/4/26

I have no problem using other people’s art to pep up the blog and this is remarkably good. Apparently, with a pair of 3-D glasses on, it comes out even better. So effective is it that I resisted the temptation to post something from this afternoon’s football match, although Rochdale 2 Morecambe 4 was such an unexpected and pleasing result that the temptation was a strong one, I must admit.

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Apr 02 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Al fresco

Thursday 2nd April 2024, 12.40pm (day 5,334)

Outdoor seating, 2/4/26

Good to be home, and on a pleasant day. There are new places to sit. Or, some kind of artwork. If it wasn’t then, it is now.

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Apr 02 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Ghost plane (not ours)

Wednesday 1st April 2026, 9.55am (day 5,333)

Ghost plane, 1/4/26

A foggy morning, but fortunately not enough to delay us nor any of the others who were planning to leave Berlin this morning. Swissair’s service was in the gate next to ours: the BA flight was there too at this point, though unseen behind the ghost.

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Apr 01 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

Heads

Tuesday 31st March 2026, 12.55pm (day 5,332)

Neues Museum heads, 31/3/26

If I was more of an artist I would come up with some allegorical statement here, the heads appear as if they are flying — but really, they are trapped, objects displayed for the delectation of visitors to this museum, none of whom will care for more than a few fleeting moments, if at all. Then again if I were more of an artist I would dispense with these commentaries altogether; I did try it once, way back, but it never took. This is the Neues Museum in Berlin, by the way: our last full day here.

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Mar 31 2026
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Monday 30th March 2026, 5.15pm (day 5,331)

Berlin memorial, 30/3/26

This memorial consists of 2,711 stone slabs — officially ‘stelae’ — of varying height arrayed across an acre of ground near the Brandenburg Gate: more land formerly occupied by a part of the Berlin Wall, in fact. For more, see this page. That’s three pictures out of four that highlight a less favourable element of this country’s history but at least they seem to be prepared to remember in public.

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Mar 30 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

In the suburbs

Sunday 29th March 2026, 1.25pm (day 5,330)

Berlin suburbs, 29/3/26

A trip out to the suburbs today: definitely not the former Communist blocks, more like leafy Hampstead or Carshalton (if this were London). Streets named after composers, big gardens and garages, that kind of thing. One thing I like about Berlin is that it’s all quite laid back: it certainly doesn’t have the over-energised manicness of some capital cities. Perhaps this shot captures that.

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