Friday 8th July 2016, 6.20pm (day 1,779)
And you thought our putative withdrawal from the EU was the major problem facing us at the moment.
Warning signs
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Colours and shapes
Thursday 7th July 2016, 8.35am (day 1,778)
Saw this shot coming this morning, so played for it — I think it’s worked out. I like the almost random mix of colour and shape. These are about all we have to play with at the moment, ‘cos there’s no goddamn light.
The red plaque, by the way, commemorates the 1872 visit of a Japanese delegation to Manchester, a visit from which they returned inspired to kick start their own industrial revolution.
Seat, Halifax town centre
Wednesday 6th July 2016, 3.25pm (day 1,777)
Let us at least try to bring some smiles into the world. Yes, I do know what these objects are…. do you?
In the park
Tuesday 5th July 2016, 5.30pm (day 1,776)
Perhaps this shot would have been better with either one group or the other, but I like the split-screen nature of it with both. A nice evening in Hebden Bridge, much more amenable weather than in Manchester for most of the day, which is where I was.
Corn Exchange, Manchester
Monday 4th July 2016, 8.35am (day 1,775)
A very warm and pleasant morning. It wasn’t going to last, though — not with those mares’ tails up there. And nor did it — by 5pm it was happily raining again in Manchester.
Ellie and Maggie
Sunday 3rd July 2016, 3.00pm (day 1,774)
Back in January 2015 Ellie (left, at that time aged 8 months) and Maggie (right) appeared on the blog in consecutive days; here they are together. Hard to credit that in the intervening 18 months Ellie has grown from a baby into a little girl with an entire functioning vocabulary. Time passes, we all change…
Brickadilly Station
Saturday 2nd July 2016, 1.05pm (day 1,773)
As made of Lego and pictured at “Bricktastic 2016” in Manchester, to which Joe and I accompanied Clare for our day out today — and this was very definitely her gig (for reasons that might be obvious if you have seen her own daily photo blog). She won the star prize in the raffle, too — a £170-worth Lego kit for a £2 ticket, not bad going. I like this photo of a Lego version of Manchester Piccadilly station thanks to the two guys in the background trying to get their own shot of it. I wonder if I was in the way.
Welcome back
Friday 1st July 2016, 5.25pm (day 1,772)
Gradually, the businesses damaged in the floods of 26th December are reopening. This is Calans, a small pub in the town centre that only opened in the first place about a month before the flood. Welcome back indeed, the beer inside is very fine (free advertising).
Garden visitor
Thursday 30th June 2016, 5.00pm (day 1,771)
This frog virtually demanded that I did its close-ups….
The summer continues…
Wednesday 29th June 2016, 4.10pm (day 1,770)
Adding insult to the profound sense of incompetence hanging over England at the moment, the weather conforms to all the worst stereotypes about an English summer.
Being 42 