Nov 15 2026
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Daily Post, Art and architecture

Mount Fuji makes a reappearance

Saturday 14th November 2026, 11.30am (day 5,560)

3D Fuji print, 14/11/26

As everyone who knows me properly knows, I am a sucker for maps. If they are maps of mountain areas, all the better. If they are Japanese maps of Mount Fuji, better still. If they are 19th-century Japanese maps, which can, still, be curled up into a three-dimensional scale model of Mount Fuji, including the depiction of ascent routes — well, tell me how this can be surpassed. I’m struggling.

I am quite happy to count this as Fuji-san’s second appearance on the blog, after bagging it from my Tokyo hotel room window on 25/3/2017. I will be back in Japan at some point before I die: that much is, if not certain, certainly the plan.

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Nov 14 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Bus stop gold

Friday 13th November 2026, 9.50am (day 5,559)

Bus stop gold, 13/11/26

No complaints at all about the light over the last few days, nor the weather more generally: it is chilly, but so what. I did make it into Manchester today — eventually — but the picture can come from my walk to the railway station. A scene regularly viewed but rarely quite as good-looking as it was this Friday 13th.

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Nov 13 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Clinging on

Thursday 12th November 2026, 1.10pm (day 5,558)

Defiant leaf, 12/11/26

“I don’t care that all the others have gone! You can’t make me do it! Winter… I DEFY YOU!”

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Nov 12 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Cool as cat

Wednesday 11th November 2026, 5.45pm (day 5,557)

Cat in pub, 11/11/26

Now there’s something that is not seen every day (which is as good a reason as any to use the photo on here: even if it could be a lot sharper). Dogs, yes, usually you cannot visit some pubs without tripping over any number of them. But not their feline friends. This one isn’t batting any of its eyelids though. Perhaps it was the one who initiated the visit to the Railway in the first place.

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Nov 11 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Leafblowing trance

Tuesday 10th November 2026, 11.30am (day 5,556)

Leafblower, 10/11/26

Leafblowers seem to me to be just another way to waste fuel and make a lot of noise. So you create a big pile of leaves, so what. Though I accept there is some value in just charging in and messing up them again, me being the sort of person who cannot resist kicking up piles of leaves at this time of year. And if you ask me, there’s a guy who’s not creatively engaging in the work. (Quite a lot of the audience in my lecture looked the same way too this afternoon, so I’m not knocking him particularly.)

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Nov 10 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Family Member

Seat numbers (one day early?)

Monday 9th November 2026, 10.40am (day 5,555)

Seat numbers selfie, 9/11/26

Fifteen years and about two and a half months and I hit day 5,555, so was looking for fives today. And, what ho, seat A55 was indeed mine for the duration of my latest train journey. Somehow it then seemed a shame that I didn’t hit this shot tomorrow — day 5,556… Anyway, I must like the ‘tache, that’s two selfies in a week. It’ll pass.

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Nov 09 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

November plumage

Sunday 8th November 2026, 11.55am (day 5,554)

Leaves and chimneys, 8/11/26

November is one of my least favourite months, at least when judged by what usually happens in it (which most years is a bunch of work, increasingly gloomy weather and no festival at the end to compensate). But for the first part of the month, at least the landscapes are colourful. A definite advantage of living in more deciduous parts of the planet.

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Nov 08 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Millom station

Saturday 7th November 2026, 4.35pm (day 5,553)

Millom station, 7/11/26

A rail-themed shot for the second day in a row, but never mind. I like this one, and for the same reason I usually like my photos: that this is pretty much exactly the shot I intended to capture when pressing the shutter. And my current, rather crappy camera is by no means guaranteed to get it sharp when the light is low. But all has worked here.

If you fancy visiting this place — expect to have a long journey, from just about anywhere. It was four hours until I reached home. Millom really is tucked in one of the most inaccessible corners of Britain and I can’t believe anyone just ‘passes through’. Look at a map — where could one possibly be passing through to — particularly in a car? It becomes the 549th different named place featured on the blog (see the stats).

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Nov 08 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

The 15:23 at Lancaster

Friday 6th November 2026, 3.25pm (day 5,552)

Train at Lancaster, 6/11/26

Would that all trains were like this on a Friday afternoon. But if they were I guess some wonk would close down the whole service for being ‘uneconomic’. For now one can still get a shuttle service from Lancaster to Morecambe, however. And be pretty much guaranteed somewhere to sit.

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Nov 06 2026
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Me, as my grandfather

Thursday 5th November 2026, 2.45pm (day 5,551)

Drew as Grandad, 5/11/26

Insofar as there can be such a thing as an incognito selfie, I think this is one. Note the moustache, my late Grandad Whitworth had one just like it, though he never let it grow as luxuriantly as this one is going to, I know full well how fast I can sprout. Yes, I am embarking on my second-ever Movember effort, and while I try not to self-advertise on here too much, here I feel it’s OK to point you to https://movember.com/m/drewwhitworth . I promise at least one more update before December 1st.

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