Friday 14th March 2014, 3.30pm (day 932)
The signboard puts me in mind that these two are Withnail and I on their 40-year reunion trip, returning to where they demanded cake, and fine wine, the finest wines available to humanity.
Being 42
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Category Archives: Stranger
Charge!
Saturday 22nd February 2014, 3.10pm (day 912)
Joe and I went to York today, which is certainly the most interesting place easily reachable from my house (we have a direct train), and ranks up with Edinburgh and Oxford as one of Britain’s best and most attractive (but also busiest) cities. Today there was some kind of medievalist festival on, and these guys were going through their paces for the cameraman and director to the right. I would like there to be better light on this shot but I think it captures their movement pretty well.
Outside Selfridges, Manchester
Wednesday 12th February 2014, 4.15pm (day 902)
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.
Toddling, St. George’s Square
Sunday 8th December 2013, 11.40am (day 836)
Offered up purely for the cute vote….
Contact Theatre café
Thursday 21st November 2013, 12.45pm (day 819)
A second day beset by more Russians than is considered the usual amount; and two awful train journeys, particularly the one going home. This oasis stands reasonbly close to my office and I’m surprised it’s never featured on the blog before day 819, to be honest.
And no, I couldn’t say exactly what he’s doing. Occam’s Razor suggests ‘eating’, but what, I don’t know.
Thursday night in Moscow
Thursday 24th October 2013, 11.25pm (day 791)
Another technically dubious picture of Russians letting it all hang out…. They do like a party, these guys.
Midwich Cuckoos visit Hebden Bridge
Sunday 6th October 2013, 4.50pm (day 773)
Well, they look like it from this angle anyway. If you don’t get the “Midwich Cuckoos” reference — Google it…
First day of teaching…
Monday 23rd September 2013, 10.00am (day 760)
…so not everyone is yet completely sure where they should be going for their 10:00 lecture. The girl with the umbrella was intently studying the campus map this morning.
Edgar Davids makes a substitution
Saturday 7th September 2013, 4.15pm (day 744)
With no top- or second-level football matches on in England today because of the international games, fans were encouraged to go and support their local lower-division teams through an initiative known as ‘Non-League Day’ — whether this added much to the crowd at my local non-league team, Halifax Town, I cannot tell but it did get Joe & I down there. They enjoyed a 2-1 win over Barnet FC.
Interest was added for the neutrals by the appearance on the touchline of Barnet’s manager, Edgar Davids, who played 74 times for the Netherlands, mostly in his trademark glasses; having graced World Cup Finals he now plies his trade in the fifth tier of English football, which I find amazing really, as if Wayne Rooney were to end his career coaching in the Dutch third division. But here he is, giving advice with his assistant; Barnet were 2-0 down at this point and on their way to a first defeat of the season.
Old Quadrangle, University of Manchester
Tuesday 27th August 2013, 12.15pm (day 733)
There is continued good weather, and flowers seemingly everywhere, a vast improvement over last summer. I seem to have started noticing flowers more since I began taking the photography more seriously. They are good subjects, individually or en masse. The other models here aren’t bad either.
Being 42 