Jan 25 2013
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Interior

Mirror, Terminal 3, Heathrow

Thursday 24th January 2013, 4.35pm (day 518)

Mirror, T3, 24/1/13

Well, that’s it for me in the UK for a good while – I’m off, away from this cruddy weather, away from the ongoing obnoxiousness of the government who have still yet to actually win an election (thank you Mr Cameron for condemning us to another few years of economic uncertainty on your watch – and didn’t you come in claiming fiscal piety?), away from the cattle-truck commute in the morning…. whatever. And whatever awaits me on my sabbatical, I can at least say this – it’ll be WARM.

Back in the UK in early June, day 650 of the blog or thereabouts. Plenty to see and photograph in the meantime though, so stick around… I’ve moved, but the blogging will stay right here.

Tagged , , , ,
Jan 25 2013
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Urban scene

Brighton pebble house

Wednesday 23rd January 2012, 11.00am (day 517)

Brighton pebble house, 23/1/13

This house caught my eye as I came back from walking Clare to the station so she could head home. I think it shows two things about Brighton: 1) its multiculturalism: unless I’m mistaken, that’s a Boca Juniors flag in the top window (an Argentinian football team). 2) – the fact that this town is built on one of the largest piles of pebbles in the world, namely, the South coast of England.

Tagged , , , , ,
Jan 23 2013
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Interior

Last night out with the wife

Tuesday 22nd January 2013, 9.45pm (day 516)

Pelirocco table, 22/1/13

… well, for a couple of months anyway. We travelled down south together as the first stage in my journey to Australia: what with all the snow at the moment (of which I am bored taking photographs), giving myself a couple of days to get to the airport seemed the best move. This was taken on our table as we had our last drinks in the Pelirocco hotel, Brighton (you’ve seen it before): left-to-right; the bottom of a flower vase; the glass with tea-light candle in it; and my White Russian, yum yum.

Tagged , , , ,
Jan 21 2013
4 Comments
Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The Summer House

Monday 21st January 2013, 9.45am (day 515)

Summer house, 21/1/13

Today was my last full day in Hebden Bridge until early June. Tomorrow my journey to Australia starts – that is, as long as I can get out of the valley. Ah, what the hell. I have three days to get to the airport.

Tagged , , , , ,
Jan 20 2013
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

The completed tattoo

Sunday 20th January 2013, 7.05pm (day 514)

Completed tattoo, 20/1/13

Instead of more of that snow crap, here’s a more personal view on current events. Clare here helps me focus the definitive pic of the completed tattoo, first prefigured way back on 3rd September, and subsequently completed in five sessions, of an average of four hours each, of various degrees of pain (the most recent one, on Friday evening, being a shading session of exquisite agony).

Some people have said – ‘but you don’t get to see it!’. The thing is, I do. As much as I see my face incognito, at least. But I know what I look like, I don’t need to see it every day to remind me, and I think I look just fine.

Tagged , , , , ,
Jan 19 2013
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Gathering snowball material

Saturday 19th January 2013, 10.55am (day 513)

Gethering snow, 19/1/13

This is turning out to be a rather different weekend from last weekend… and it’ll be rather different next weekend as well. In the meantime, here is Joe out gathering material for a missile. Plenty of opportunities to take cliched snow shots of picturesque old Hebden Bridge today, but I was trying to avoid that.

Tagged , , , ,
Jan 18 2013
1 Comment
Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The playground

Friday 18th January 2013, 9.35am (day 512)

Snowy playground, 18/1/13

The defining factor at the moment is the weather, as any of your British friends will probably tell you, although it’s far from being a major fall of snow, at least, not round here. But I don’t care either way. I don’t have to go anywhere until Tuesday.

Tagged , , , , , ,
Jan 17 2013
1 Comment
Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Breaking the ice

Thursday 17th January 2013, 8.45am (day 511)

Breaking the ice, 17/1/13

Had intended to get a photo from Manchester today, encapsulating the fact that this was my last day there for at least 5 months – but here we are, this one was good so let’s run with it.

Nevertheless, have I mentioned that today was my last day in Manchester for at least 5 months? Thank you…

Tagged , , , , , , ,
Jan 16 2013
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Landscape

Back to winter…

Wednesday 16th January 2013, 4.40pm [Dutch time] (day 510)

Winter at Schiphol, 16/1/13

….if only for another 8 days in my case. Taken at Schiphol airport, from out of the plane window, towards the end of that interminable taxi to the outer runway.

Tagged , , , , , , ,
Jan 15 2013
1 Comment
Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Ethiopian coffee goddess

Tuesday 15th January 2013, 9.55pm (day 509)

Ethiopian coffee goddess, 15/1/13

Last evening in Nairobi. We were taken out to this Ethiopian restaurant where, at the end of the meal, I had my first sip of coffee in about 18 years – having definitively given it up in favour of tea back in about 1995. Still, looking at this photo one might understand why I was persuaded to partake once again, even if just in a small way.

Tagged , , , , ,
← Older posts
Newer posts →