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Sep 09 2026
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Daily Post, Landscape

On the Miners’ Track

Tuesday 8th September 2026, 1.05pm (day 5,493)

Down off Yr Wyddfa, 8/9/26

Begging the pardons of Kinder Scout and Broad Law, which both might feel they qualify, but it was time I went up a proper mountain, and Yr Wyddfa (a.k.a. Snowdon), the highest peak in Wales at 3,560 feet, is a big pointy beast and definitely counts. I will additionally note that Wales can offer alcoholic beverages at its highest point thanks to the summit cafe, though I stuck to tea. No summit views today though, thanks to cloud up high, so let’s choose this shot featuring the day’s walking companion — my sister Vicki making a second appearance in a fortnight, seen here on the way down.

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Sep 09 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

The Lloyds building, Halifax

Monday 7th September 2026, 9.30am (day 5,492)

Lloyds building, 7/8/26

This used to be the HQ of the Halifax, a building society that sold out to corporate capital a few years ago and is now owned by Lloyds. This office building dominates the town centre (of Halifax, in case you hadn’t grasped that point) and is a real 1970s architectural relic, a kind of mix between the Parallax View and Logan’s Run if you ask me. The reflected tree seems to be taking over, and no one actually seems to work there, particularly — people cannot be seen.

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Sep 07 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

The troops line up

Sunday 6th September 2026, 12.40pm (day 5,491)

Gulls by Ribble, 6/9/26

“Right you ‘orrible lot!”, cries the sergeant-major at the back. “This is the tidal limit of the Ribble right here and we will take no prisoners! Keep an eye out for that tidal bore which is due any minute now…. YOU! At the end! Wake up laddie!”

Hey, I’m sure gulls are as attuned to the hydrodynamics of their local area way more than any human. I had to look that stuff up on Wikipedia, but they knew it already — food is on its way upriver.

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Sep 06 2026
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Newly formed family

Saturday 5th September 2026, 1.50pm (day 5,490)

Down aisle with dog, 5/9/26

Congratulations to my cousin, Dave Hall, the good-looking chap on the right (but you knew that) whose marriage to Abby brings together a gaggle of existing offspring, including Padfoot the dog: he was dressed in his tux too (not very apparent here) but, no, was not up front for the whole ceremony. He came back down the aisle with them though, and was just as happy about the experience as everyone else.

In fact after this day I am starting to think that there haven’t been enough weddings depicted on this blog. Like all ceremonies and celebrations there are reasons we have developed the rituals and the whole day was certainly a good way of affirming a bonding of two things — families — that were not bonded before, and of publicly committing to it. I’m in.

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Sep 05 2026
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Diamond, dog

Friday 4th September 2026, 5.45pm (day 5,489)

Diamond, 4/9/26

Diamond is as much part of the Railway pack as anyone, whether human or canine. She’s getting old now, as you can tell, so is not out as often as she might be — something that will come to be the case for all of us, in time, I am sure.

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Sep 04 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Urban scene

On Grosvenor Street

Thursday 3rd September 2026, 3.35pm (day 5,488)

Grosvenor Street, 3/9/26

She looks mildly disapproving, I think. But is the look for the pedestrian, or the photographer? Another one of the blue-themed pictures that have appeared over the last few days.

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Sep 03 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

Seeking the pattern

Wednesday 2nd September 2026, 1.45pm (day 5,487)

Student spreadsheet, 2/9/26

There are still students writing their dissertations and still some needing to battle through their data. I try to help. AI might be quicker but it will always be worse at discerning meaning than people are because it doesn’t understand the context and never will. Trust me.

Either way, the last two photos indicate that it really is time to leave the house.

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Sep 02 2026
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Cool blue with moon

Tuesday 1st September 2026, 9.15am (day 5,486)

Clouds and moon, 1/9/26

My September 2026 definitely didn’t open with a bang, and the subject matter of this shot reflects that. But the cool blue, plus the generally laid-back clouds and the moon — and who doesn’t like the moon? — together they make for as good a representation of the day as I otherwise managed to achieve with the camera.

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Sep 01 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Gulls on the weir

Monday 31st August 2026, 11.05am (day 5,485)

Chester weir gulls, 31/8/26

Weirs are the creation of engineers, and this one, on the River Dee in Chester, is nearly a thousand years old, built by the Normans. On the downstream side, the tidal estuary begins. The main beneficiaries of this are those upstream who are thus defended from tidal flooding, and the local birdlife, who find in it a very convenient place to go fishing. The one at the top has just eaten, in fact, but is still hanging around for more.

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Aug 31 2026
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The Blue Pig’s blue pigs

Sunday 30th August 2026, 2.50pm (day 5,484)

Blue pigs, 30/8/26

It’s quite a while since I was last in the Blue Pig, a.k.a. Midgehole Working Man’s Club, which is partly because this is one of those drinking establishments that only opens by the grace of God, or more precisely one of a small group of volunteers. If you head up that way you just take your chances. If entry is achieved, though, one can investigate some of the many literal illustrations of the name that are collected inside: these are just three of a few dozen.

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