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Aug 08 2024
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Cinema foyer (homage to Martin Parr)

Thursday 8th August 2024, 11.20am (day 4,732)

Cinema foyer with parr photo, 8/8/24

In the mid-1970s the esteemed, and very good, photographer Martin Parr (see this page) moved to Hebden Bridge aged 23 and started capturing scenes from local life. These were published as the exhibition and photo-book The Nonconformists. The picture seen here, of the policeman walking in front of the cinema snack bar, was taken in exactly the same spot that this print now hangs, nearly 50 years later. It doesn’t really look a great deal different, on the whole.

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Aug 01 2024
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Entrance to Granary Wharf

Wednesday 31st July 2024, 6.40pm (day 4,724)

Granary Wharf entrane, 31/7/24

And so ends July 2024, another month that has felt extended over quite a long time — at the start of it we were still in the Isle of Wight, and that was surely ages ago. But apparently not. Anyway, the month ends with an evening in Leeds. No particular significance attaches to the chosen picture — I just like the colours. Which is, of course, probably the reason that the designers of Granary Wharf’s visual elements did this with the lights.

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Jul 27 2024
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In the training ring

Friday 26th July 2024, 1.55pm (day 4,719)

Totopoly with Joe, 26/7/24

That faceless mass of hair over there is Joe, down on one of his occasional visits from Dundee. This being the case, an afternoon off work was called and more exciting pursuits engaged in. And Totopoly is a pretty good game, all in all — it keeps up the interest to the end. Number 9 won, by the way — and it was my horse.

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Jul 17 2024
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Leeds station, again

Tuesday 16th July 2024, 5.10pm (day 4,709)

Leeds station concourse, 16/9/24

Another railway station, the third in nine days, and two of them have both been here, Leeds: the second-busiest station in the country outside London, apparently (after Birmingham New Street, which has also been on here a couple of times). It spits us out at the start of the day and sucks us back in at the end. Not that I use this for my work commute any more, though I did, up until 2005. But I seem to end up here often enough regardless.

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Jul 14 2024
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Sunday morning, Lancaster station

Sunday 14th July, 10.45am (day 4,707)

Lancaster station scaffolding, 14/7/24

I should have returned home after yesterday’s walk, and that I didn’t was evidence of quite how dreadful the buses were in the Lake District yesterday; also that I am lucky I could stay with the in-laws in Morecambe, otherwise I might have been sleeping in Lancaster station overnight. Like everywhere else at the moment, it is a building work-in-progress. I like the blues on this shot.

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Jul 03 2024
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The Mary Rose

Wednesday 3rd July 2024, 11.15am (day 4,696)

Mary Rose, 3/7/24

The Mary Rose went down in the Solent during a battle in 1545 and then sat on the sea floor for 437 years until what remained of it was raised in 1982. I remember watching this event on TV in my teens and then not long after, on my only previous visit to Portsmouth, visiting a mouldering hulk that was hanging in a big shed being sprayed constantly with water to stop it drying out catastrophically. Four decades on and the Mary Rose‘s transition from the mud of the sea floor to hanging off a wall has been completed, and what we’re all rewarded with is one of the most interesting museums I’ve ever visited, for sure. The amount of stuff — not just weapons, but personal effects, foodstuffs, even the skeleton of the ship’s pet ratcatching dog — that came up with the wreck is astonishing. Not an easy thing to photograph with my mediocre equipment, but I gave it a shot.

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Jul 01 2024
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William Morris gallery

Friday 28th June 2024, 3.45pm (day 4,691)

William Morris gallery, 28/6/24

The Ideal Book? Good question. This afternoon’s visitors to the WIlliam Morris gallery in Walthamstow, London, get the chance to ponder this question. Morris himself gave a lot of care and attention in his later life to producing the ideal book. If you ask me it’s Shogun, but that’s just a personal and rather non-literary opinion.

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Jun 27 2024
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Awaiting the seminar

Wednesday 26th June 2024, 3.00pm (day 4,689)

Conference bric-a-brac, 26/6/24

Hauled myself over to campus, which has been a rare occurrence during this bout of study leave and, in some ways, today reminded me of why. But I guess it was not a complete waste of time. This shot of the preliminaries was perhaps the most interesting thing about the seminar I attended from 3pm, however. Things seem to be floating, and I like the blue.

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Jun 17 2024
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Royal Ontario Museum, half-open

Sunday 16th June 2024, 12.30pm (day 4,679)

Royal Ontario Museum, 16/.6/24

There’s certainly an eclectic mix of exhibits in the Royal Ontario Museum: your basic dinosaur fossils, a mocked-up bat cave, Chinoiserie, suits of armour, totem poles, the list goes on. It is interesting but would have been even better if half of it hadn’t been closed for renovation: we noted they still charged the full $23 entry fee though. The board on the left, one of those walling off a big chunk of the second floor while telling us about all the marvellous things we might see if only we would come back in a few months’ time, is included in recognition of this issue.

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Jun 12 2024
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In the Pho parlour

Tuesday 11th June 2024, 7.35pm (day 4,674)

Pho parlour, 11/6/24

Someone Else’s Art, I guess — but I like it, and the customer’s red hat sets the composition off nicely. I liked the pho, too.

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