Nov 18 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

The old mine, above Blaenavon

Friday 17th November 2023, 2.50pm (day 4,467)

Old mine, 17/11/23

Sometimes you just stumble across places. This old, ruined mine sits above Blaenavon in the south Wales valleys; I found it while bagging my latest County Top. I would argue it was not only the most interesting but also the most attractive thing about the day. There have been points of time in the past where something like a quarter of the iron and steel production of the entire world was based around south Wales. Believable as that stat is, this is what’s left.

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Nov 17 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

My portion of the meeting

Thursday 16th November 2023, 12.20pm (day 4,466)

Meeting flipchart, 16/11/23

Look, it’s got my name on it (on the pink bit), my handwriting and everything. The ideas were those of everyone around the table however, and things are not yet finished, either. I can occasionally still be motivated to think about things that matter to my employer — and thus my students — rather than me personally.

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Nov 16 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Pub study

Wednesday 15th November 2023, 1.50pm (day 4,465)

Pub study, 16/11/23

Multiple meanings in the title of today’s post, for I was, indeed, studying while in the White Swan this afternoon — as was this gentleman. That’s my excuse, anyway.

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Nov 15 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

By the Mancunian Way

Tuesday 14th November 2023, 4.50pm (day 4,464)

Flyover and car, 14/11/23

One of those where I was trying to get the shot before the traffic resumed and didn’t manage it — but in the end, didn’t care. This is a spot regularly passed on my walk to and from work, and occasionally photographed in the past. I’ve had plenty of chances to feature it as this is the 800th shot on here to be located in Manchester. As I, technically, work here full-time, you might have thought there’d be more, but even before 2020 I certainly never came to work here five days a week. Two is more like it — an arrangement I’ve always found suitable.

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Nov 14 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Urban squirrel

Monday 13th November 2023, 11.20am (day 4,463)

Bike shed squirrel, 13/11/23

I guess if you are the kind of incredible natural acrobat that a squirrel is, it’s easy enough to adapt to features in the urban environment — like this fence next to one of the bike sheds on campus. It looks almost as if I have used a flash to catch this shot but it’s actually a brief flash of wan November sunlight. (In fact there are almost no shots taken with a flash on this blog, as I never use it: maybe, literally, two or three out of all 4,463.)

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Nov 13 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

They’re outta here

Sunday 12th November 2023, 1.30pm (day 4,463)

Many geese, 12/11/23

This is certainly one of the bigger flocks of geese I have seen. I reckon there are upwards of 250 visible on this photo and I didn’t even get the head. How do they co-ordinate this? Who makes the decision to go at a particular time and place? What if one of them heads off and no one follows, does it get annoyed or feel like a bit of an idiot? So many things we do not know about the animal mind.

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Nov 12 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

Collingham station at dusk

Saturday 11th November 2023, 5.15pm (day 4,461)

Collingham station, 11/11/23

Collingham, in rural Nottinghamshire, becomes the 445th different named place to be featured on here: so I maintain the record of, more or less, one new place every ten days on average. This illustrates my urge to explore, if nothing else. Pictured, the start of my journey home: two and three-quarter hours later I was back in Hebden Bridge.

Should I have cropped the bits to the left? The fence annoys me a little: but on the other hand I couldn’t lose it without losing the hint of red light, which I like.

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Nov 10 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

Morning on the tops

Friday 10th November 2023, 8.20am (day 4,460)

Long Causeway mist view, 10/11/23

Today didn’t quite work out as planned, but nor am I complaining. A glorious morning. The sheep seem quite contented about it, too.

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Nov 09 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

This winter’s fire

Thursday 9th November 2023, 5.20pm (day 4,459)

New fire, 9/11/23

The fire in the pub has been lit some two or three weeks earlier than last year. This is a good thing.

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Nov 09 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Group portrait (mallards)

Wednesday 8th November 2023, 10.15am (day 4,458)

Duck portrait, 8/11/23

On another dull day, in all respects, the waterfowl of Hebden Bridge once again save things photographically. As I’ve said on here before, I do like mallards, they seem quite an agreeable species. The duck to the far right definitely looks smug about something.

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