Sep 24 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Todmorden station, early (too goddamn early)

Wednesday 23rd September 2026, 7.30am (day 5,508)

At Tod, early, 23/9/26

I talked to a fellow commuter, someone I have been seeing at the station now and again for twenty years, on the journey home today. He observed that the one good thing to come out of lockdowns (2020, 2021, you were there too I’m sure) was that they made both employers and employees realise that working-from-home was feasible. Of course this doesn’t apply to every job but it does to many, like his: and mine too, though I was doing plenty of WFH even before this.

But on the other hand sometimes one just has to be there at 9am and lump it. Today was one of those days. And when that happens everyone on the train looks like this. At least it wasn’t standing room only.

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Sep 23 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Fungus village

Tuesday 22nd September 2026, 12.45pm (day 5,507)

One suspects that, like pigeons, rats and algae, fungus are (collectively) species that ultimately benefit from dealing with the wastes of humanity. There may be more than we suspect of these little colonies, awaiting the moment to launch the takeover.

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Sep 22 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Bear, rescued

Monday 21st September 2026, 5.00pm (day 5,506)

Skip rescue bear, 21/9/26

The place of rescue — a skip, it seems, destined for landfill. The rescuer: Dex, that’s him behind sporting the P hat. The ultimate fate of this bear? No idea. It will probably never be seen again. The red-eye effect makes me wonder if, in fact, this is some heavily-disguised surveillance camera.

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Sep 21 2026
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Daily Post, Landscape

Stoodley Pike, once more

Sunday 20th September 2026, 12.30pm (day 5,505)

Stoodley Pike, 20/9/26

It’s a stock local shot, from a stock local walk, but all the same, there are worse things to do on the last Sunday of the summer than to trundle out in the direction of Stoodley Pike. Not that I actually climbed up to the monument itself today, but it doesn’t photograph any better there than it does from below.

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Sep 20 2026
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Daily Post, Sport

Up the (Bradford Park) Avenue

Saturday 19th September 2026, 3.50pm (day 5,504)

Up the Avenue, 19/9/26

The camera I used today, and will be using for at least a little while, is so old it virtually counts as an antique, this is kind of an experimental archaeology, the deliberate use of outmoded techniques and equipment so we can learn about how our ancestors did it. Well, maybe not quite that old (after all, I still have an old Kodak Brownie kicking around somewhere) but it’s certainly a step back. But it still works, and that’s a major bonus right now.

As for the photo: I did come to officially support the home team today, Bradford Park Avenue. mainly because (for various petty and tribal reasons) I don’t like the away team. Lancaster City — and it is pleasing to report a 1-0 victory for them in the FA Cup. Up the Avenue indeed. Before World War One they were in the top league of England, though not at their present stadium.

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Sep 19 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

The emergency reserve

Friday 18th September 2026, 2.55pm (day 5,503)

Backup cameras, 18/9/26

With the current main camera definitely out of action unless and until I can source a replacement battery, it was time to dig around in the deepest corners of the house for a possible replacement — and old pieces of kit, twenty, twenty-five years old maybe, kept turning up. Whether any of these, and their respective batteries, actually work or not remains to be established, though the silver one to the right is looking like the best bet. I am going to buy a new one (and I mean a new one, not second-hand again) but that will have to wait until payday.

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Sep 17 2026
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Daily Post, Landscape, Hebden Bridge

The rain sweeps through

Thursday 17th September 2026, 4.25pm (day 5,502)

Back hone. And here was the weather: a dozen of these seemed to sweep through the valley today. What the hell, I had to go back to work.

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Sep 17 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

King’s Cross: the breakfast crowd

Wednesday 16th September 2026, 9.05am (day 5,501)

King's Cross, again, 16/9/26

The roof is immediately recognisable for, yet again, I am at King’s Cross station for the final leg of a journey home. Still, as railway stations go, it’s decent enough, and infinitely better than Euston, down the road. That really is it for the holidays however. Quite a number of fellow passengers on the 10.30 train were obviously international students making their way north.

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Sep 15 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

The Back to Work feeling

Tuesday 15th September 2026, 8.55am (day 5,500)

Facepalm statuette, 15/9/26

Well, that’s the end of my trilogy of summer holidays (Tromsø, Bristol, Luxembourg): nicely indulgent but it’s back to work tomorrow. These little statuettes were a feature of our apartment and seem to sum up the feelings, though I accept that it is unreasonable to complain, as such.

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Sep 15 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Composition with seats and van

Monday 14th September 2026, 1.10pm (day 5,499)

Still life, yellow seats, 14/9/26

As seen on one side of the Eglise St. Jean-de-Grund, from atop one of Luxembourg’s dizzying verticals; specifically, the Rocher du Bock.

No further comment on the image itself, but I must note that something happened today which has been threatened before but never quite happened over the previous 5,499 days of this blog. Namely that I had a total camera breakdown thanks to a completely dead battery — which I could not replace today because it’s basically too old and the shop I tried did not stock it. It will therefore be out of action at least until I get home, although the kit needed replacing anyway (the camera I am presently using was always just stop-gap equipment). It’s just as well that phones take pictures these days, otherwise the blog would have ended today — and expect at least the next couple to be taken with my Google Pixel 6, itself getting a little knackered these days. Hi-tech photography this is not.

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