Apr 18 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Sport, Stranger

People dressed as chickens

Saturday 18th April 2026, 3.20pm (day 5,350)

Ashington chicken fans, 18/4/26

Why the fans of Ashington FC turned up at today’s game (at Brighouse) dressed as chickens is a story I was told, but in some ways it is far too tragic to relate here: let us just say that it was to do with a practical joke from the past that may have gone wrong. Beyond this you do not want to know, trust me. Connection corner: this is the second time Ashington FC have made it onto tbe blog and, as the visiting team on both occasions, they were just as successful as last time — this is also the second time that, at Brighouse, there has been a picture of a grown man dressed as a chicken. What this says about me, Brighouse Town, and non-league football generally, I know not.

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Apr 18 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Family Member

This year’s pea house

Friday 17th April 2026, 12.20pm (day 5,349)

Pea frame, 17/4/26

This year’s peas and beans are getting a relatively hi-tech home, none of this cheap cane-based arrangement this year. The frame is up, I help Clare sort out the netting, while she practices putting her feet at right angles for a minute or two.

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Apr 17 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Ambient sculpture

Thursday 16th April 2026, 3.35pm (day 5,348)

Red stuff site, 16/4/26

Is it a flower? A back-scratcher for use in some gargantuan shower? The severed limb of a creature with a fetish for chain-link jewellry? (I think that’s it for my free-association work.)

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Apr 16 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Tea bar at Thackley

Wednesday 15th April 2026, 8.20pm (day 5,347)

Thackley tea bar, 15/4/26

Half-time, time for refreshments for players and fans alike. The match we are watching is to have a great last five minutes, but all that is in the future at this point.

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Apr 15 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

On the Old Bridge

Tuesday 14th April 2026, 9.25am (day 5,346)

Old bridge, 14/4/26

I cnanot think of anything deep to say about this one, except that it represents a day spent at home not doing much. This is a variable time of year; in mid-April in some other years I have been in Ljubljana, Melbourne and Windhoek, but this year all the spring travelling is already done.

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Apr 14 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

All quiet in the Ellen Wilkinson

Monday 13th April 2026, 10.30am (day 5,345)

Ellen Wilkinson commons, 13/4/26

I can’t really complain about the lack of activity on campus today — I was putting in my first appearance there in 19 days so have no leg to stand on. In the Ellen Wilkinson building’s ‘learning commons’ there may have been someone skulking at the back but they do not appear on the shot. On the left, the mural is of the building’s eponym: Britain’s first female Minister of Education and someone of the general kind of good reputation and worthy history that means they have buildings named after them. She died in 1947 aged 55, so is another person I have outlived.

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Apr 13 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

You can’t see me

Sunday 12th April 2026, 12.30pm (day 5,344)

Jackdaw in blossom, 12/4/26

“You can’t see me. I’m not really here.” Well, the black is a kind of anti-camouflage when put against the bright colours of spring and all that. Anyway Hebden has a great many jackdaws and wherever you look there’s a good chance of seeing at least one.

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Apr 12 2026
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Daily Post, Sport

Play-off semi-final

Saturday 11th April 2026, 4.35pm (day 5,343)

Beverley Town crowd, 11/4/26

Some leagues get themselves wrapped up early, like the Northern Counties East League, which has already reached its play-offs. These are fans of Beverley Town, the home team. There are about 10 minutes to go on the clock at this point (though what they don’t yet know is that the ref is going to keep things going for about 20) and the 1-0 lead is going to be retained, don’t worry folks — although if you ask me most of them are looking at their phones at this point.

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Apr 11 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Fungus on the barstool

Friday 10th April 2026, 5.15pm (day 5,342)

Fungus barstool, 10/4/26

After a run of travelling, today marks the start of a period to be spent mostly at home, and ended where many Fridays do, namely the pub. There I noticed that the old logs used, now and again, as bar stools have a rather encrusted look about them which was a worthy subject for illustration. In fact there are a number of regulars of the Railway who affect this kind of thing, with me probably among them, these days.

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Apr 10 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Swindon mural

Thursday 9th April 2026, 10.20am (day 5,341)

Swindon mural, 9/4/26

More use of other people’s art, but Swindon, where I stayed after yesterday’s walk, seems to have quite a lot of it and much of it is pretty good. Better than covering these hoardings with advertising anyway. I have noticed in Manchester that there is a mural which is simultaneously an advert, however: corporate public art in other words…. Let us hope this trend is generally resisted.

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