Category Archives: Daily Post

Feb 19 2014
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Cherry blossom (definitively)

Wednesday 19th February 2014, 11.50am (day 909)

Cherry blossom, 19/2/14

Now I said back in December that I thought I had seen very, very early blossom on the University of Manchester campus, but it turned out to be a winter flowering cherry. However, this, definitively, is traditional, spring cherry blossom in flower on 19th February; they are in the courtyard within my office building on the campus. Well, I said it’d been a very mild winter — unlike in North America where the Great Lakes are almost fully frozen, and very unlike last year here.

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Feb 18 2014
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

What you ask for is a shadow

Tuesday 18th February 2014, 9.15am (day 908)

Sundial, 18/2/14

A day spent almost entirely working at home, not unpleasant weather but flat light, so a dearth of subjects. This sundial (despite having no sunlight to activate it) caught my eye while briefly in town in the morning, however. It can be seen on the main road through the valley, with the date of 1835 meaning this must be one of the town’s oldest buildings (there was very little here before that time, and the arrival of canal and railway). I like the ready reckoner so you can work out how inaccurate it is today — and also the Latin inscription at the top. Want to know what it means? Translation above.

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Feb 17 2014
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Daily Post, Interior

Boxes of microfilm

Monday 17th February 2014, 1.55pm (day 907)

Microfilm, 17/2/14

I took my students around the library today, hoping to look at it with active and fresh eyes, at least, that was the plan. I’m trying to do the same with this photograph. Not one of them admitted to having used microfilm before as an information medium — and it’s a good 10 years since I did, and then only once or twice.

Incidentally it’s a year to the day since I arrived in New Zealand.

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Feb 16 2014
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Daily Post, Landscape

Riverside path

Sunday 16th February 2014, 2.20pm (day 906)

Riverside path, 16/2/14

Beautiful day today, one of those February days in which spring can be felt in the air for the first time. Oh, I know it won’t last. But it was good to be outside today, even if this path was damned muddy.

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Feb 15 2014
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Joe shakes hands with himself

Saturday 15th February 2014, 2.20pm (day 905)

Joe in mirror, 15/2/14

As seen in the National Media Museum, Bradford, today, A concave mirror and some easy-enough positioning for the cameraman. I like the playing-card effect on this one. Technically it is also a self-portrait.

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Feb 14 2014
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Daily Post, Interior

Waiting room at the clinic

Friday 14th February 2014, 9.55am (day 904)

Waiting room, 14/2/14

Had to do my 10 minutes in this place today, to get processed through the system in a certain way. But it needs doing, and it’s something to photograph. I remain around home, Hebden Bridge, for a considerably stable period, relative to my usual movements.

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Feb 13 2014
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Unexpected visitor

Thursday 13th February 2014, 10.00am (day 903)

Ladybird, 13/2/14

How on earth we get a ladybird in our house in February, I have no idea. Despite the mildness of the winter (and it has been very mild, with barely a frost yet), the only logical explanation is it’s been inside with us all winter. It was a bit sluggish, but alive.

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Feb 12 2014
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Outside Selfridges, Manchester

Wednesday 12th February 2014, 4.15pm (day 902)

Outside Selfridges, 12/2/14

I will only add that tonight is a foul night, a real stinker. I hope this guy, and the thousands like him, end up somewhere warm, safe and dry.

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Feb 11 2014
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Hebden Bridge

The Hebden Water

Tuesday 11th February 2014, 4.05pm (day 901)

Hebden Water, 11/2/14

The Earth orbits the Sun with a tilt to its axis and every day of each year the light falls on us all in different ways. Today at 4pm was one of those points where it shines straight down the channel of the Hebden Water as it runs below the retaining wall of Keighley Road. Nice to be in the right place at the right time to see it.

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Feb 10 2014
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Learning Commons building

Monday 10th February 2013, 3.55pm (day 900)

Learning Commons, 10/2/14

To mark day 900 of the blog let’s return to this common theme — Well-Lit Moments on the Manchester University Campus. And as it is a round number day, I’ve got round to updating the Best of the Rest and Stats pages, if you are interested (though I admit I do these mainly for myself…).

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