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Aug 05 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Building, ever more

Friday 4th August 2023, 9.05am (day 4,362)

Another building site, 4/8/23

There seems some kind of irresistible compulsion to construct more and more tall buildings in Manchester city centre, pretty much regardless of other considerations. There were a number of blocks built around one end of Canal Street and finished just before all that lockdown rubbish kicked off in 2020, which still appear to be mostly empty; certainly none of the commercial spaces on the ground floor has ever been occupied. And yet the city has plenty of homeless people and families who I’m sure would be able to make good use of such accommodation. In the meantime, let’s just build some more: it keeps certain political interests happy, doesn’t it.

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Aug 03 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The unwanted chair

Wednesday 2nd August 2023, 12.10pm (day 4,360)

Office chair outside, 2/8/23

Campus is hardly the most exciting, nor populated, place at this time of year — somehow this object symbolises this. Or maybe it’s begun its summer migration, and got beached on the shingle. A boring shot I know, but this was a day in which all the photos I took seemed to be crap. If the sun would shine, it might help.

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Aug 02 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Parking place

Tuesday 1st August 2023, 3.30pm (day 4,359)

Van above river, 1/8/23

Hebden Bridge has its share of risky parking spaces — there’s the ‘Wing Mirror Two Inches From That 40-Tonne Truck Descending At Speed’ variety and more than a few ‘Garage Perched Precariously On Thin Pile Of Bricks (Above Terrifying Drop)’. But this is a new variety. I assume Storplan have good insurance.

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Jul 31 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

King’s Cross, as usual

Monday 31st July 2023, 9.55am (day 4,358)

King's Cross, 31/7/23

Almost every one of my trips to London ends here. Now and again I might leave in a different direction, but mostly it’s on one of the half-hourly Leeds services: we all watch the departures board over there, to see if this will be one of those times where LNER give us all more than about eight minutes’ notice. (Today, they did.)

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Jul 31 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

My lunch: the final stages

Sunday 30th July 2023, 12.50pm (day 4,357)

Lunch at Eagle, 30/7/23

A tasty pasta dish, being prepared by the good chefs of the Eagle pub on Farringdon Road, London. She’s allowed one bit of pasta to escape, but I’ll let that pass.

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Jul 29 2023
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Bromley-by-Bow

Saturday 29th July 2023, 11.40am (day 4,356)

Bromley-by-Bow, 29/7/23

After 19 different places in 23 days, London becomes the first location to make it on two days in a row since the beginning of July. This was actually the first photo I took today. While intending that my wanderings around parts of the East End of London would lead to some good photo opportunities — cobbled streets, urchins picking whelks out from mudbanks on the Thames, that kind of thing — most of it looks like this these days.

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Jul 29 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Running in Mayesbrook Park

Friday 28th July 2023, 7.20pm (day 4,355)

Mayesbrook Park runner, 28/7/23

He was running, mostly. A few minutes after I took this one he passed me on another lap. When I was running — this is a while ago now — I would never have thought of doing so on a Friday evening, but each to their own.

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Jul 28 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

Back to work (Victoria station)

Thursday 27th July 2023, 8.55am (day 4,354)

Victoria stairway

Back at work in Manchester for the first time since the 3rd. This is usually my first proper sight of the city on any given morning.

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Jul 27 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

Evening movie

Wednesday 26th July 2023, 10.05pm (day 4,353)

Anatomy of a Murder, 26/7/23

A few shots of cinema (or TV, or laptop) screens have featured on here down the years. I suppose it’s a bit of a cheat, but I returned to work today, spent all day at home (work+home, it’s the 21st century way), and there wasn’t much else to look at. Anyway, I quite like this one, the focus seems effective, though of course that’s the work of the cinematographer rather than me — hence the point about cheating.

The movie is Anatomy of a Murder, pretty good, maybe 20 minutes too long though.

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Jul 26 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The Calder at Wakefield

Tuesday 25th July 2023, 3.05pm (day 4,352)

Calder and Hepworth, 25/7/23

The River Calder is the one that runs through Hebden Bridge, and I found out today it’s actually rather longer than I have been thinking it is for the last 20 years or so. I knew it debouched into the Aire but I thought this happened not far past Brighouse: in fact it’s about twenty miles further on than that, in Castleford. Here in Wakefield the Calder (not the Aire) is a wide beast, and navigable by barges, at least if those orange things weren’t in the way. (In the background, the Hepworth Art Gallery. It was news to me that there was an art gallery in Wakefield, too.)

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