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Jul 26 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Street scene, Lisbon

Tuesday 26th July 2016, 5.05pm (day 1,797)

Lisbon street scene, 26/7/16

I said I was due a holiday, and so it began today: a 4.15am alarm call was the only downside. But here we are in Lisbon, Portugal — this blog’s 25th different country. Not a new one for me, I spent quite a lot of time here in 1990-91 when I had a Portuguese girlfriend for a little while (an experience I recommend if you get the chance…), but very little since. So it’s nice to revisit it. Today was just a settling in, but you’ll be seeing plenty more of it over the next few days, I guarantee it.

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Jul 25 2016
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Daily Post, Interior

Joe and sunglasses

Monday 25th July 2016, 12.40pm (day 1,796)

Joe and sunglasses, 25/7/16

Joe gets on for the second day in a row. Or part of him does — not just the upper half of his body, but one leg seems to have gone missing. He was hoping we would pick him up a pair of sunglasses for the imminent trip to places warmer and sunnier than here.

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Jul 24 2016
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Lord of the Rings marathon — the early stages

Sunday 24th July 2016, 10.50am (day 1,795)

LotR marathon, early stages, 24/7/16

Joe and I had an agreement that this Sunday was to involve the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy in one go, and so it came to pass. The holiday will involve a change of scene soon, I promise. But not today.

A photowhack — the only photo taken on a given day. We are here at the early scenes in Bag End, but I knew there was little point seeking further shots: they would all have been variations on this theme.

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Jul 23 2016
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Young pine cones

Saturday 23rd July 2016, 1.55pm (day 1,794)

Young pine cones, 23/7/16

I love the way these cones also look like flowers — even eggs? I guess all three are more-or-less the same thing.

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Jul 22 2016
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Ripples

Friday 22nd July 2016, 3.10pm (day 1,793)

Duck ripples, 22/7/16

An inaugural picture in a new series: “Animals illustrate physics”…

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Jul 21 2016
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Daily Post, Interior

Great Hall, Sackville Street building

Thursday 21st July 2016, 8.50am (day 1,792)

Great hall, 21/7/16

Last day in Manchester, for work purposes, until August 16th. Let’s note this annual moment in time — the threshold of my summer holiday — with a picture of a rather nice room on campus which, grandiose as it is, seems hardly ever to be used.

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Jul 21 2016
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Daily Post, Transport

Platform 2, Victoria station

Wednesday 20th July 2016, 2.35pm (day 1,791)

Platform 2, 20/7/16

Still hot — and still schlepping into Manchester most of the week on non-air-conditioned trains. The summer holiday approaches, but it’s not here yet.

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Jul 19 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Ice cream queue

Tuesday 19th July 2016, 2.50pm (day 1,790)

Ice cream queue, 19/7/16

I had a more artistic photo to potentially use today but if I wanted to epitomise the day then this was the one. The sun comes out, the thermometer rises, and a hundred members of Manchester staff and students queued up at the single ice cream van that had the nous to make an appearance on campus.

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Jul 18 2016
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Daily Post, Transport

Turn right

Monday 18th July 2016, 6.00pm (day 1,789)

Turn right, 18/7/16

No political message intended. Anyway it isn’t about ‘left’ versus ‘right’ any more, it’s progress v regress, peace v hate, war and death. Which side are you on, really?

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Jul 17 2016
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

The sun comes out

Sunday 17th July 2016, 5.50pm (day 1,788)

Chilling, 17/7/16

Sunday afternoon at the pub, one of the first pleasantly sunny and agreeable days in weeks. I mean, the world is still a bag of shit, but there’s music, tobacco, beer, sunshine.

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