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Sep 18 2023
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Bagheera and Kaa (first time)

Sunday 17th September 2023, 2.15pm (day 4,406)

Jungle Book, 17/9/23

OK, maybe you’ve see The Jungle Book like 38 times or whatever, but until this afternoon, I had never seen it all the way through. Bits of it — the songs, mainly — on Disney Time that we used to get on TV when it was a public holiday in the 1970s (“I’m the king of the swingers…. a jungle VIP”, that stuff) but never all the way through. And it might be a little archaic in its depictions of this or that but it is a pretty good movie, don’t you think? It’s certainly the only thing that happened to me today.

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Sep 17 2023
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In Ripon Cathedral

Saturday 16th September 2023, 12.20pm (day 4,405)

Ripon Cathedral, 16/9/23

Properly, the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, Ripon: a big church for a small place. There’s been a place of Christian worship on this site since 672, so 1,350 years. Quite a weight of history, and like most such buildings, you can feel it. This shot of the rood screen and organ pipes above is one where it helps to get the symmetry right, and I think I’ve managed that.

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Sep 13 2023
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Pebble, way too early

Tuesday 12th September 2023, 6.30pm (day 4,401)

Halloween pebble, 12/9/23

Christmas decorations appearing in early November, I have learned to live with. But Halloween ones appearing more than six weeks before the fact? Ah, goddamit. Society is crumbling. (This may, of course, not be a specific Halloween reference but let me grumble.)

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Sep 11 2023
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Waiting for the meeting

Monday 11th September 2023, 10.45am (day 4,400)

In Caffe Nero, 11/9/23

Time to kill before the 11:00 meeting in the city centre. Tea needed to be drunk. Monochrome needed to be used to disguise the fact that this shot is basically out of focus, but losing the colour means I can go for the rustic 1960s bistro effect. Which I’m sure is how Caffe Nero wants to be seen (note: other corporate coffee bar providers are available).

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Aug 14 2023
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Waiting for “Oppenheimer”

Sunday 13th August 2023, 7.20pm (day 4,371)

Cinema foyer legs, 13/8/23

Clare, on the right, has her membership card ready for action. The movie, as the title of the post indicates, was Oppenheimer: which is a decent movie, I’ll acknowledge that, but I’ve stopped thinking that any film needs to be three hours long. (Though these three hours were definitely better than the three hours of my life that Beau is Afraid is never giving back.)

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Aug 11 2023
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Bookworm

Thursday 10th August 2023, 1.45pm (day 4,368)

Bookworm, 10/8/23

The second picture of the inside of a book in four days, but I am doing a lot of reading at the moment. Anyway, this wasn’t a work book, as the text might indicate — in fact this is an old Doctor Who novel, which I have probably owned for about forty-five years. At some point, it has been merrily munched through, round and round and round again, by some minuscule thing with teeth, making this the first definitive case of bookworm I think I’ve ever seen. At least it didn’t spread, but I won’t be selling this volume on the second-hand market, I feel.

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Aug 08 2023
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Cancelled

Monday 7th August 2023, 1.50pm (day 4,365)

Library stamps, 7/8/23

I am occasionally still known to consult that nowadays esoteric and slightly old-fashioned source of information, the ‘book from the library’. This whole date-stamping and cancelling thing seems quite archaic now, doesn’t it? But in 2006 it was still all the rage.

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Jul 31 2023
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My lunch: the final stages

Sunday 30th July 2023, 12.50pm (day 4,357)

Lunch at Eagle, 30/7/23

A tasty pasta dish, being prepared by the good chefs of the Eagle pub on Farringdon Road, London. She’s allowed one bit of pasta to escape, but I’ll let that pass.

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Jul 28 2023
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Back to work (Victoria station)

Thursday 27th July 2023, 8.55am (day 4,354)

Victoria stairway

Back at work in Manchester for the first time since the 3rd. This is usually my first proper sight of the city on any given morning.

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Jul 27 2023
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Evening movie

Wednesday 26th July 2023, 10.05pm (day 4,353)

Anatomy of a Murder, 26/7/23

A few shots of cinema (or TV, or laptop) screens have featured on here down the years. I suppose it’s a bit of a cheat, but I returned to work today, spent all day at home (work+home, it’s the 21st century way), and there wasn’t much else to look at. Anyway, I quite like this one, the focus seems effective, though of course that’s the work of the cinematographer rather than me — hence the point about cheating.

The movie is Anatomy of a Murder, pretty good, maybe 20 minutes too long though.

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