Category Archives: Daily Post

Jul 27 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Poundfield Stores, Crowborough, Sussex

Friday 26th July 2013, 11.10am (day 701)

Poundfield Stores, 26/7/13

Once in a while you will get a photo on here that is posted not for artistic merit (though I don’t mind this shot in that regard, I think it captures the small and prosaic nature of this establishment), but just because it means something to me. This trip to Sussex has been undertaken partly because I wanted to go and have a nose around the places where I lived when I was a child, until 1988 when I left aged about 19, these being the town of Crowborough in Sussex and the nearby village of Rotherfield. I could bore you with how it all felt but there’s not a lot of point, you’ve never been there and it’s not, to tell the truth, the most exciting part of the world although it is a very pretty one.

The reason this photo is here is because of all the places I expected to have disappeared, this was the most unexpected survivor; my old neighbourhood store. Seeing this place and going in to buy sweets (and I did, well, a Bounty Bar anyway) really did make me feel like I was 10 years old again. It’s not called ‘Mace’ any more but long may it last.

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Jul 27 2013
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Joe at the hotel window

Thursday 25th July 2013, 10.00am (day 700)

Joe, hotel window, 25/7/13A good subject to mark this numerical milestone — day 700 of the blog, and in all those 700 pictures, Joe is the person who has appeared the most times. But I have no problem adding him again today; when I saw him looking out of our hotel room window in Brighton this morning, I had to take it.

Because it’s a round number, I’ll update the Best of the Rest page later and the Stats too, if I get around to it…

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Jul 27 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Brighton Beach

Wednesday 24th July 2013, 3.45pm (day 699)

 

Brighton beach, 24/7/13

Ah, the English seaside on a hot summer’s day. Sand? That’s for those continentals, of suspicious morality and lacking in backbone.

 

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Jul 23 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

Empty precinct, University of Manchester

Tuesday 23rd July 2013, 3.45pm (day 698)

Empty precinct, 23/7/13

Officially I’m still on sabbatical. So you didn’t see me. I wasn’t here today. Nor, really, is anybody else. This is of course the time of year we like the most.

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Jul 22 2013
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Canal contraption

Monday 22nd July 2013, 8.50am (day 697)

Canal contraption, 22/7/13

Too unusual not to use as today’s picture. I believe this contraption was put to use repairing the canal bank here in Hebden Bridge today.

By the way, am I the only one having ‘issues’ with WordPress – I mean, logging on, even making some blogs appear at all?

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Jul 21 2013
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Before the ‘Race for Life’, Halifax

Sunday 21st July 2013, 9.25am (day 696)

Race for Life, 21/7/13

Clare was one of approximately 1,600 women running this race today, the majority in the regulation pink, raising money to fight all kinds of cancer. I don’t normally do advertising on the blog but this time I feel obliged to mention that you can sponsor her (and by implication, the 1,599 other women running today, including the ones I have pictured) at http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/the-railway. Every little helps…

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Jul 20 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

Minions

Saturday 20th July 2013, 3.35pm (day 695)

Minions, 20/7/13

Closing credits, Despicable Me 2. It’s interesting how the digital photography sort of makes the 3-D come out even if we didn’t see this at a 3-D enabled cinema. Is it a good movie? Well… not as good as the first movie. But better than Man of Steel.

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Jul 19 2013
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

Sunny summer morning, Nutclough woods

Friday 19th July 2013, 8.55am (day 694)

Nutclough woods, 19/7/13

9th of the last 10 days spent in Hebden Bridge. When the weather is as beautiful as this however, it doesn’t matter. This is one of my neighbours: spiritualists may read in what they will to the captured aura here, but I do note the picture was taken right into the sun.

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Jul 19 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

Watching ‘The Wonder Boys’

Thursday 18th July 2013, 9.05pm (day 693)

The Wonder Boys, 18/7/13

There’s not a lot going on at the moment. It’s still sunny but I’m just sat at home writing, trying to finish my book. So I entertained myself in the evening by watching a film about a middle-aged male academic who is, er, trying to finish his book. I’d say life imitates art, but Michael Douglas’s character struggles with this task more than I am. And yes, that is my foot.

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Jul 17 2013
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Evening sun, outside the underdwellings

Wednesday 17th July 2013, 7.10pm (day 692)

Outside underdwellings, 17/7/13

The steep topography of Hebden Bridge means that many of the houses are built on top of other houses. Ours is an example: there is a whole two-storey cottage underneath our three floors, the entrance to it being behind the red box in this photo. This is the side of the terrace which catches the evening light, and the days remain beautiful and sunny here.

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