Wednesday 15th January 2014, 8.55am (day 874)
A regular Wednesday event in town. If you want to buy a guitar in Hebden before 9am on a Wednesday morning in January, this is the place to do it, clearly.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Category Archives: Hebden Bridge
Thursday 2nd January 2014, 12 noon (day 861)
I’m still off work, still not much going on so only everyday scenes to work with, and I know that even then this isn’t a great photo. However, it does document the devastation wreaked on the hedge that runs between our garden (allotment) and the path next to it. It needed doing but still…
My garden (minus hedge)
Nutclough, New Year’s Day
Wednesday 1st January 2014, 3.55pm (day 860)
Another year, still here. But that’s a good thing.
Hebden Water and Hebden Bridge Town Hall
Friday 27th December 2013, 12.55pm (day 855)
Back home for the rest of the year. This photo has the same subject matter as the one posted a year ago today; the Hebden Water, which joins the River Calder just below this point. The building is the new extension to our Town Hall, opened in 2012.
The shortest day
Saturday 21st December 2013, 2.10pm (day 849)
Thanks to the valley wall to the south of the town, Hebden Bridge gets an earlier sunset each day than the planet’s axial tilt otherwise decrees; and today is the earliest of all.
The River Calder, near Hebden Bridge station
Tuesday 10th December 2013, 8.40am (day 838)
Another beautiful morning in a long run of good weather (proving the idiotic newspapers wrong with their predictions of a dire early winter). The bridge carries Mayroyd Lane over the river Calder, near the railway station. Another oft-passed scene, but it has managed not to appear thus far on the blog.
Toddling, St. George’s Square
Sunday 8th December 2013, 11.40am (day 836)
Offered up purely for the cute vote….
The Muscovy duck finds a space for the night
Friday 6th December 2013, 7.05pm (day 834)
This Muscovy duck now lives permanently by the canal in the centre of town, opposite the Railway pub. (The wood beneath it on this photo is the gate of the dry dock.) It has been here for nearly two years now, and this is its third appearance on the blog, making it the first animal to definitively appear on here three times (as many times as my mother-in-law, I note…). According to Avian Web, the species is native to South America but is spreading through North America. It is certainly not native to the UK, or even Europe. Either it got blown a long way from home or — more likely — it is an escaped pet. It seems to have found for itself an amenable spot to retire to, either way.
A very windy day
Thursday 5th December 2013, 8.40am (day 833)
Wind is the hardest form of weather to capture on camera: this is my best effort at encapsulating what was, really, a very windy day, at least between dawn and about 2pm. The bins couldn’t hack it, they’re all down for the duration.
Nutclough Mill
Wednesday 4th December 2013, 11.00am (day 832)
Neither of the last two days’ photos have much claim to be in focus, so I hope this one is better. The Mill extension continues to rise, and at some point, hey, we might even get the turf roof they’ve promised. Or perhaps they’ve forgotten. I mean, it’s so in character as it stands at the moment.
Being 42 