Category Archives: Daily Post

Dec 20 2025
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Back of my head, x3

Friday 19th December 2025, 3.30pm (day 5,230)

Triplicate selfie, 19/12/25

Spent the first few hours of my Xmas break having an extended lie-in, then spent the next few wandering around Bradford, a place I have come to quite like down the years. This complicated selfie was taken in the National Media Museum (which lately has become the ‘National Science and Media Museum’ so it can continue to squeeze funding out of our reluctant state apparatus): a kind of ‘digital hall of mirrors’ installation. As you can see, despite my advancing years, my body still refuses to shed much hair.

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Dec 19 2025
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Daily Post, Friend, Portrait

Putting up the poster

Thursday 18th December 2025, 4.30pm (day 5,229)

Poster day, 18/12/25

Time for the annual ‘student poster day’ where my charges are tasked with demonstrating what they might have learned over the last few weeks. Some even manage to do this: but I suppose they all try. This is happening nearly a week later than last year, and, definitively, marked my last professional engagement of 2025. As far as the University of Manchester are concerned I now do not exist until 5th January. Let there be celebrations, etc.

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Dec 18 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

Christmas hat (abstract)

Wednesday 17th December 2025, 12.55pm (day 5,228)

Bah humbug hat, 17/12/25

The hat with the Scroogey message has been hanging around the house for years, having been acquired from I-Don’t-Remember-Where. Here it is added to a pile of gear C was intending to wear to the first in a run of her Christmas parties. Her excuse could be that it’s the only suitable headgear in the house, but that, in itself, says a lot about why it still sees use.

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Dec 17 2025
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Daily Post, Transport

Freight passing through

Tuesday 16th December 2025, 5.50pm (day 5,227)

Freight does still make an occasional appearance on the line, usually long trains of wagons marked with ‘Drax’, meaning they are heading to or (in this case) from the power station. Not that you can tell any of this from this extended blur, but I challenge anyone to get a sharp picture of something moving at at least 30mph in the dark. Drax (it’s amazing what you can learn from Wikipedia pages on a Wednesday morning) burns wood imported from the US and Canada, which these trains then ship across the country from Liverpool, with Hebden en route — so we often see these, at all times of day and night.

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Dec 16 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Birds, mist and the ‘Eiffel Tower’

Monday 15th December 2025, 1.10pm (day 5,226)

Eiffel Tower and birds, 15/12/25

2025 is ending with a very Hebden-bound period of time, but I can’t say I mind. The weather is not conducive to any walking plans (then again, in December it rarely is) and I’m just getting on with the reading. Our ‘Eiffel Tower’ is called thus because it marks the end of the row of houses known as Eiffel Buildings; it might not be as imposing as the one in Paris but it’s still a cute building. The birds and mist add the necessary atmospherics.

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Dec 15 2025
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The barista is packing up

Sunday 14th December 2025, 5.20pm (day 5,225)

Buzzi barasta, 14/12/25

This one’s all about the lines for me. It’s not about much else, and as I post this on Monday morning no pithy or witty commentary comes to mind, so let’s just post it….

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Dec 14 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Brighouse bus station

Saturday 13th December 2025, 1.45pm (day 5,224)

Bus station and clouds, 13/12/25

Scene, today, of one of those ‘ghost buses’ — it appears on all the information boards, Google Maps tells us that it is merrily trundling in our direction, on schedule — but no bus appears and we get to sit around another half hour or so for the next one. I realise this is not an injustice akin to, say, slavery, or Trumpism, but nevertheless. At least the forced sojourn did leave some time for photography.

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Dec 13 2025
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Friday market

Friday 12th December 2025, 3.15pm (day 5,223)

Market stall, 12/12/25

One day in the future, possibly not that far away, I may need to make a choice of walking stick, but at least I now know where on the Friday market they are to be found. I like the various lines on this one but it’s not the most exciting shot, I know — then again it’s not been the most exciting week.

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Dec 12 2025
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Daily Post, Landscape

Sunset, way too early

Thursday 11th December 2025, 3.40pm (day 5,222)

Manchester sunset, 11/12/25

God, look at the time. If this looks like it is taken over some misty marshland somewhere, it’s an illusion — instead it was captured from the 3rd floor of the Ellen Wilkinson Building, as I made my leisurely way to my 4pm class, which doesn’t even manage to start before sunset at this time of year. And still ten days to go until the solstice.

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Dec 11 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Hard at work, in the wrong place

Wednesday 10th December 2025, 9.55am (day 5,221)

Spider at work, 10/12/25

This spider was not a big one, but its web was expansive enough, and as you can see, it’s still hard at work with the building. What marvellous creatures these are: there are many species which build some kind of dwelling, of course, but can’t manage it purely with goo extruded out from their bodies.

However, you can see that it’s working on the outside of a rather grubby window (the kitchen one, as it happens). By the evening, evidence (like, a bill on the doormat) then suggested our window cleaner had been round on one of his seasonal visits and all this was nowhere to be seen. I bet the spider was substantially pissed off, I know I would have been.

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