Monthly Archives: February 2015

Feb 18 2015
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Daily Post, Friend, Portrait

Liz and her roulade

Wednesday 18th February 2015, 1.30pm (day 1,273)

Liz and roulade, 18/2/15

First day of a welcome five-day break from work. As a gift bought last year (months ago, in fact), Clare booked me on a baking course today run by the very impressive set up at Slattery’s in north Manchester (actually Bury). Got up very early, put in as hard a day’s work as I have in a long time, and came out of it with a lot of very nice cakes and ideas about how to repeat this production process. I tried to document it on camera as well without getting too much in the way or distracted from my own labours. Here Liz, one of my four fellow students, gets her roulade base out of the oven, to soon be filled with strawberries and cream. Yum.

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Feb 18 2015
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Cinema queue

Tuesday 17th February 2015, 8.00pm (day 1,272)

Cinema queue, 17/2/15

One of these days I will have a day when there is just nothing to photograph. Today came close, I have to say. But I suppose this one is OK. (We were going to see The Imitation Game by the way.)

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Feb 16 2015
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Aquatics Centre car park

Monday 16th February 2015, 3.45pm (day 1,271)

Car park, 16/2/15

A scene on the campus, often passed, never before photographed. Well, not by me anyway.

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Feb 15 2015
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Daily Post, Friend, Portrait

Steve and some shot glasses

Sunday 15th February 2015, 5.15pm (day 1,270)

Steve and shots, 15/2/15

He’ll probably shoot me for making this Photo of the Day but then again he did invite me to take it. Mr. Steve Grey enjoys his Sunday afternoon in the pub, as indeed we all did.

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Feb 14 2015
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Cow’s head

Saturday 14th February 2015, 12.20pm (day 1,269)

Cow's head, 14/2/15

As captured in Leeds’ Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, which is why I could get close enough to this beast, for long enough, to be able to get the shot. But semi-tame animals can still look good, if I had eyelashes like that I’d pull big style.

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Feb 14 2015
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

The tree outside Caroline’s house

Friday 13th February 2015, 10.20pm (day 1,268)

Caroline's tree, 13/2/15

Night out in Leeds to celebrate the birthday of our friend Caroline, will she let me tell you which number birthday it was? Ends in a zero, anyway. This tree sits outside her house, snapped it late on. I like the windows of the houses at the bottom which give it some added interest.

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Feb 12 2015
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Portrait, Stranger

Thursday market

Thursday 12th February 2015, 12.20pm (day 1,267)

Market stall, 12/2/15

What was in the boxes I do not know, but if they started out full then clearly she’s had a good day’s trading. Perhaps that’s what she’s texting about. But perhaps the stall just sells the boxes. It’s that kind of market.

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Feb 11 2015
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Daily Post, Sport

Women’s football team, 1917-18

Wednesday 11th February 2015, 11.15am (day 1,266)

Women's football team, 11/2/15

Visited the National Football Museum today, on a reconnaissance for a field trip I will be bringing my students on in a couple of weeks’ time. Yes, I get to take them to the Football Museum — and why not, it’s an interesting place, worth exploring. This exhibit, for example — showing a womens’ football team pictured during World War I, a time at which due to the regime’s need for labour women’s rights had quite a flowering. And then, as evidenced by the quote along the top of this image, they were then squashed over again (“The game of football is quite unsuitable for women and ought not to be encouraged” — from the Football Association, 1921). As goes football, so go many other areas of life.

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Feb 10 2015
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“For your safety and convenience…”

Tuesday 10th February 2015, 9.15am (day 1,265)

Ticket barriers, 10/2/15

“…we are installing automated ticket barriers at Manchester Victoria station. They’re not working yet, but when they are, we’re confident that all you regular station users will agree they will improve the ambience and flow of the early morning rush-hour no end. Hands up those of you who believe that. Anyone? Any takers?”

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Feb 10 2015
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Urban scene

James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester

Monday 9th February 2015, 9.00am (day 1,264)

Fraser and balloons, 9/2/15

James Fraser was Bishop of Manchester in the 1880s and like other prominent local men (always men) of that time is commemorated with this statue in Albert Square. Apparently he was pictured looking away from the Town Hall (behind) because he disliked it so much. Right now he can look at the Chinese lanterns that are dangling from the nearby trees in preparation for Chinese New Year in a couple of weeks. No festival celebrated too early.

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