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Aug 08 2024
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Daily Post, Interior

Cinema foyer (homage to Martin Parr)

Thursday 8th August 2024, 11.20am (day 4,732)

Cinema foyer with parr photo, 8/8/24

In the mid-1970s the esteemed, and very good, photographer Martin Parr (see this page) moved to Hebden Bridge aged 23 and started capturing scenes from local life. These were published as the exhibition and photo-book The Nonconformists. The picture seen here, of the policeman walking in front of the cinema snack bar, was taken in exactly the same spot that this print now hangs, nearly 50 years later. It doesn’t really look a great deal different, on the whole.

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Aug 08 2024
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Daily Post, Transport

Late bus home

Wednesday 7th August 2024, 10.55pm (day 4,731)

Late night bus, 7/8/24

OK, maybe just before 11pm isn’t ‘late’ to some of you but I am not a night owl; this is the latest shot in five and a half years, in fact (allowing for a couple taken past midnight that lose the award on a technicality). It isn’t great quality but it is the only one I captured today that might have artistic pretensions.

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Aug 06 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

More garden produce (very green)

Tuesday 6th August 2024, 4.35pm (day 4,730)

The garden doesn’t produce vast amounts of food — believe me, self-sufficiency in vegetables is something we are a long way from achieving (though for a few weeks each summer we manage better with fresh fruit). But when edible products do emerge, they get used. We haven’t had fresh peas and beans for years.

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Aug 06 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Daisy Hill station

Monday 5th August 2024, 7.10pm (day 4,729)

Daisy Hill station, 5/8/24

There are some days when I really can’t think of any caption or explanation for posting a photo beyond the fact that I just quite like it. Daisy Hill is a place (in the Wigan-Bolton hinterland) with a cute rustic name, but its railway station doesn’t follow this lead — at least, not while some renovations are going on.

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Aug 04 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Passing by

Sunday 4th August 2024, 5.00pm (day 4,728)

These things are not necessarily unusual sights in Hebden Bridge, but perhaps their juxtaposition is rare.

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Aug 04 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

The Top of Yorkshire

Saturday 3rd August 2024, 10.35am (day 4,727)

Ruin on Mickle Fell, 3/8/24

By British standards, Yorkshire has always been a big county. Chopped around with a bit since 1974, nevertheless, in terms of its historic boundaries it was the largest in the country. And Mickle Fell, at 2,585 feet/788m above sea level, was its highest point. Truly, therefore, between about 10.30 and 11.00 am, I was Top Yorkshireman — geographically, at least.

Of course, since 1974 this territory was allocated to County Durham instead — but let’s gloss over that little detail. If you want to find out more about my walk today, please do have a look at my other blog.

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Aug 04 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Hebden Bridge

Attics get an airing

Friday 2nd August 2024, 11.15am (day 4,726)

Open skylights, 2/8/24

The sun is still shining. A few attics need airing, skylights need opening. Ours too — this photo was taken by sticking my head out of the roof.

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Aug 02 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Working, but not inside

Thursday 1st August 2024, 2.20pm (day 4,725)

Macbook outside, 1/8/24

The weather is warm and pleasant at the moment, and very unconducive to staying indoors, even if I did have to work. So, I didn’t. Stay indoors, that is. The other thing comes with the territory, for a bit longer in my life at least.

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Aug 01 2024
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Daily Post, Interior, Urban scene

Entrance to Granary Wharf

Wednesday 31st July 2024, 6.40pm (day 4,724)

Granary Wharf entrane, 31/7/24

And so ends July 2024, another month that has felt extended over quite a long time — at the start of it we were still in the Isle of Wight, and that was surely ages ago. But apparently not. Anyway, the month ends with an evening in Leeds. No particular significance attaches to the chosen picture — I just like the colours. Which is, of course, probably the reason that the designers of Granary Wharf’s visual elements did this with the lights.

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Jul 31 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

A tomato makes an effort

Tuesday 30th July 2024, 9.20am (day 4,723)

Ripening tomato, 30/7/24

So, at least a few of the tomato flowers (as pictured on May 23rd) have made an effort: although don’t imagine that this fruit is very big, nor that there are very many of them. This agriculture lark is not straightforward…

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