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Mar 19 2024
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Woburn Sands

Saturday 16th March 2024, 11.05am (day 4,587)

Woburn Sands, 16/3/24

Among the activities booked in for this weekend in Milton Keynes was another County Top walk, which was a perfectly OK walk to do but turned out to be not all that exciting photographically. However, I quite like this one, if only for the way it seems to head back in stages through the landscape, starting with the allotments occupied by a mysterious single figure. This is the village of Woburn Sands, where I finished the walk: note that whatever it is named for, it’s not a beach — we are nowhere near the sea here.

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Mar 13 2024
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Mist in the valley

Tuesday 12th March 2024, 11.20am (day 4,583)

Amongst other things that 2024 has lacked (like, my teaching, a ceasefire), I do not yet recall one of those ‘first day of spring’ moments: the kind of day, in England anyway, where it suddenly warms up, the sun starts shining and everything goes, ‘Hello….’. If it has already happened, I missed it. And 12/3/24 wasn’t it either.

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Mar 12 2024
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Llandudno (the only sunny place in the UK?)

Monday 11th March 2024, 11.15am (day 4,582)

Llandudno, from air, 11/3/24

Having had the chance to survey reasonably large portions of Ulster, the Irish Sea, North Wales and bits of north-west England on my flight home — I would like to declare that at 11:15 this morning, Llandudno and the Great Orme, both definitely depicted here, constituted the only part of this whole slab of the world that could possibly be seeing any sunshine.

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Mar 12 2024
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Inishowen’s Match of the Day

Sunday 10th March 2024, 11.25am (day 4,581)

Sea Rovers FC, 10/3/24

“Top o’ the morning to you and welcome to Ireland’s Northernmost Football Ground for today’s big match in the Inishowen League; unbeaten visitors Glenceely Colts arrive unbeaten all season, with second in the table Sea Rovers needing to win to have any chance of catching them…. but they’ll fancy their chances I think, don’t you Conor….?”

And right they were to do so. Sea Rovers (in red) 4, Glenceely Colts 2. This actually is Ireland’s northernmost football ground, located a short distance from Malin Head, the country’s northernmost point.

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Mar 09 2024
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The road to Fanad Head

Friday 8th March 2024, 3.25pm (day 4,579)

Road to Fanad Head, 8/3/24

After a month at home — well, it seems like a long time to me — a long weekend away was mandated, and why not return to Donegal, which definitely entertained on our last visit here about 18 months ago. There are reasons for this. I never made it all the way to Fanad Head at the end of this road, but the views along the way were of ample quality.

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Feb 27 2024
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Skiddaw in cloud

Monday 26th February 2024, 12.30pm (day 4,568)

Skiddaw, 26/2/24

This shot was actually incidental to the walk I completed today — my penultimate Wainwright walk, unless there is some big change of plan between now and, say, the next month. Skiddaw was nowhere near where I was. But — it looks so good here. All macho and domineering, despite its sheen of snowy white. Would that we could all look so good at a few million years old.

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Feb 12 2024
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Hurst Road

Sunday 11th February 2024, 1.10pm (day 4,553)

Hurst Road, 11/2/24

The first shot taken in Hebden Bridge since 25th January. It’s nice to travel, but it is also nice to come home. Even if the weather while I was away was wintrier here than in Canada — this much is obvious.

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Feb 06 2024
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Looking west from the CN Tower

Monday 5th February 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,547)

CN Tower view, 5/2/24

Time to return to the CN Tower, still the tallest ‘free-standing structure’ outside Asia, and as I did successfully get up it this time, the highest I have ever been above ground in a building. The Skypod observation deck is still 330 feet further above the main deck, from where I took this picture, so this is about 1,130 feet, looking west along the shore of Lake Ontario, the distant towers are in the suburb of Mississauga I think. The CN is basically a glorified bar-café-restaurant, but it does have a damn good view. It’s the tallest thing around by such a margin that everything else just looks tiny.

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Jan 30 2024
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Base for the next 11 days

Monday 29th January 2024, 2.00pm (day 4,540)

Monochrome Toronto, 28/1/24

Unable to secure my preferred window seat I was reduced this afternoon to craning the camera past the head of my neighbour (with her permission I would add), kicking in a long zoom and hoping for the best. The colour balance was destroyed, but in black and white I just about get away with it. If you count my couple of hours of stopover in 2017, which nevertheless produced a shot similar to this — the blog’s third visit to Toronto.

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Jan 21 2024
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January afternoon

Friday 19th January 2024, 3.25pm (day 4,530)

January afternoon, 19/1/24

Sometimes days slip into the past so quickly: I post this on Sunday morning and couldn’t really tell you very much about what happened on Friday. I worked, basically. And it was cold, still. Although I know that some forty-three hours later, all the snow has gone.

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