Thursday 21st December 2023, 3.50pm (day 4,501)
Wind is the hardest weather condition of all to capture adequately on camera — but it was very windy today. We will rebuild, however.
Windy
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Category Archives: Hebden Bridge
Market Street, round the back
Wednesday 20th December 2023, 4.20pm (day 4,500)
It’s a valid political opinion. Whether anyone pays attention is a different matter.
This has hardly been the most eventful December — not a single photo in the month so far has been taken further than 30 miles from home — but this will change soon enough. Today is also day 4,500 of the blog, a nice round number: I have done one of my periodic updates of the stats, a page which if nothing else, proves quite how anal I am.
Cheese
Sunday 10th December 2023, 1.25pm (day 4,490)
Now here’s the polar opposite to Monty Python’s Cheese Shop. If you don’t get the reference, just be comforted by the enormous variety here. Time to buy some Xmas presents — and maybe squirrel a few away on my own account.
Wire Man
Tuesday 5th December 2023, 3.00pm (day 4,485)
Wire Man — his official name, according to the ‘information sheet’ he dutifully carries — sits in one corner of the Albert pub in Hebden and has done so for some years now. He is quite an interesting creation, but he doesn’t do much. Visitors like him at first. Then they get annoyed that he is basically occupying two seats in a prime spot, particularly on busy weekends (and they’re all busy at present).
Another damn building site
Sunday 3rd December 2023, 2.00pm (day 4,483)
Until last week this seemed to be a perfectly functional car park — and Hebden Bridge town centre certainly needs such amenities. Christ knows what it’s going to turn into from this point. And yes, it’s still cold.
View from the house
Saturday 2nd December 2023, 11.15am (day 4,482)
Continuing a theme, but why not — this was definitely the nicest thing to be seen today, and it didn’t even require leaving the house.
Last of the sun
Friday 1st December 2023, 2.35pm (day 4,481)
Living in a valley you just have to get used to the sun disappearing early. This happens, in relative terms, all year of course, but in the winter it’s particularly noticeable. By 2.40pm it’ll have gone: and there’s 20 days left until the solstice yet.
First snow of the winter
Thursday 30th November 2023, 12.10am (day 4,480)
OK, it’s not much, but the first snow of the season fell on Hebden Bridge while I was out in Blackburn last night. It didn’t last, but here it is. A curiosity: one of the few pictures used to represent a day despite being taken before going to bed the night before; in fact in pure calendar terms this is the earliest ever shot in all the 4,480 days so far. Times on here are rounded to the nearest five minutes, but this does take the award from the previous holder, 27th September 2014, by one minute and twelve seconds: the exact timestamp on this shot is 00:08:03.
Birchcliffe Road
Friday 24th November 2023, 12.45pm (day 4,474)
A bright day, but cold. This was a shot where, contrary to almost all other occasions, I actually wanted a car to come past. The wire annoys, but only a little.
Bus stop
Wednesday 22nd November 2023, 4.50pm (day 4,472)
It is, of course, wholly dark by 4.50pm at this time of year. Scant weeks ago this guy would have been waiting for his bus home in balmy sunshine. But so it is for all of us.
Being 42 