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Jul 15 2025
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St Swithin’s Day

Tuesday 15th July 2025, 12.45pm (day 5,073)

Rainy canal, 15/7/25

15th July is the feast day of St Swithin, and according to the legend, if it rains on St Swithin’s Bridge in Winchester on this day it will rain for another 40 days. Apparently there is a certain basis for this: this is about the time of year when the jet-stream kind of settles in and decides where it is going to sit for the rest of the summer: over Britain (we get wet) or to the north of it (we stay dry)? I don’t know what the weather was like in Winchester today but in Hebden it was chucking it down, the wettest day for months, let alone weeks. If the legend is true let me be the first to come out with that old chestnut, “That’s the summer over.”

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Jul 14 2025
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On the old railway line

Sunday 13th July 2025, 12.10pm (day 5,081)

Old railway line, 13/7/25

Originally I was heading for the Scottish Highlands again today, but a general sense that it was not the right time was confirmed by a dubious weather forecast — not for today, which remained a pleasant day, but for tomorrow, Monday, a forecast of wet weather which I already know as I post this seems to have come to pass. So I made the right decision, stayed in Dundee, and went out on a walk anyway, which included this agreeable stretch of woodland growing along what, a century or more ago, was one of Scotland’s first railway lines. Like many such spots it now exercises legs rather than engines, but is none the worse for it.

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Jul 13 2025
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Pleasureland…

Saturday 12th July 2025, 2.40pm (day 5,070)

Arbroath Pleasureland, 11/7/25

Great Britain is the only place which tries to do seaside resorts at around 57ºN, and in a location which, as it proved today, is prone to being covered in sea mist (here they call it haar) when the whole rest of the country bathes in sunshine. But Arbroath perseveres. Get a ticket for Arbroath FC — part of one stand of it is in the background, with visiting St Mirren fans — and you can get £12.50 worth of credit at Pleasureland for just £10. Or so we were told.

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Jul 07 2025
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Yesterday, tomorrow, today

Monday 7th July 2025, 9.10am (day 5,065)

Well, the header of this blog still does declare “Life, One Day at a Time”. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. I can live with that.

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Jul 06 2025
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Caught in the rain

Sunday 6th July 2025, 3.10pm (day 5,064)

Chimneys in rain, 6/7/25

Taken while sheltering under the tree on our allotment. Showers like this came in every half an hour or so for most of the day. Nothing else happened, but that’s the way it was planned.

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Jul 03 2025
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Working on the roof

Wednesday 2nd July 2025, 2.30pm (day 5,060)

Attending to the roof does seem to be his primary task, going on the strip of felt that is either not yet attached to the front, or is partway through being removed. It’s a fairly low-power way to house oneself, I imagine — and maybe in a few years time, once AI eats 95% of all electricity generated, anywhere, many more of us will be having to engage with it. (Note: not one pixel nor letter of this or any other of my blogs has been generated by AI, nor ever will be.)

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Jun 30 2025
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Window cleaning

Monday 30th June 2025, 9.10am (day 5,058)

Window cleaning, 30/6/25

Number N+1 in the occasional series on here, Blokes Who Make Their Living A Long Way Up In The Air. In fact you can’t even see the occupant of this cradle, it’s more of an abstract. I couldn’t work in such a way, or location.

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Jun 16 2025
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The washing’s out

Monday 16th June 2025, 3.25pm (day 5,044)

Washing on Eiffel Street, 16/6/25

I have had a lot of travelling recently but I have already embarked on a sustained period — four weeks, anyway — of Being At Home. Hence… a view from home. There may be more of these coming up.

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Jun 04 2025
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Monsoon moment, Todmorden

Tuesday 3rd June 2025, 4.35pm (day 5,031)

Todmorden monsoon, 3/6/25

April and most of May were very dry but the last few days, though not entirely wet (Saturday was a pleasant day, for instance), have generally exhibited the characteristics of the North European Monsoon which we are all in denial about but is a regular Weather Phenomenon round here in early June. Here, it is seen in action at Todmorden, on my way home from a stint in Manchester. Pictures like this don’t always work but I’ll give this one a go, as it is the road which is in focus, rather than the raindrops on the train window.

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May 25 2025
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Holiday weekend in Leeds

Saturday 24th May 2025, 1.15pm (day 5,021)

Leeds street sweeping, 24/5/25

Actually, Leeds city centre was phenomenally busy this afternoon. It seems that, by law, one is only allowed to visit there on a Saturday if one is a member of a sten or hag party. But this shot seems to catch the one deserted street, even at henstag rush hour, as with the opening shots of 28 Days Later.

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