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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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Jul 24 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Dean Clough, Halifax

Monday 24th July 2023, 1.10pm (day 4,351)

Dean Clough, 24/7/23

This street has always looked something like this; although the content of the advertising boards has probably changed. I thought about making it monochrome but the red dress was too much of a temptation not to.

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Jul 23 2023
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Sunday afternoon movie (with Joe)

Sunday 23rd July 2023, 1.25pm (day 4,350)

Clare and Joe, Sunday, 23/7/23

Did I mention Joe was back here for a couple of weeks? Well, here he is. The blanket was not unreasonable considering the recent weather. Great encouragement to spend an afternoon in. The movie — Gimme Shelter.

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Jul 23 2023
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Busking in Bury

Saturday 22nd July 2023, 2.00pm (day 4,349)

Bury busking, 22/7/23

When the lady dropped off her coins, the busker immediately said he would play her a request: which she seemed quite happy about. I suppose this could be a shopping centre anywhere in Britain, but it happens to be Bury, to the north of Manchester.

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Jul 21 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger, Transport

Bus driver

Friday 21st July 2023, 2.20pm (day 4,348)

Bus driver in mirror, 21/7/23

Anyone prepared to do some detective work, based on the evidence of the road sign in the background, could perhaps work out where this was taken and maybe even the service on which we were travelling. But I’m sure for a summer Friday afternoon, this is too much to trouble with.

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Jul 21 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape, Transport

On Ullswater

Thursday 20th July 2023, 4.50pm (day 4,347)

Yacht on Ullswater, 20/7/23

There are many worse ways, and places, to spend a Thursday. Taken from the Howtown to Pooley Bridge ‘pleasure steamer’ service, following a good walk up Place Fell; soon to be duly recorded on the Wainwrights blog.

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Jul 20 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

Birchcliffe

Wednesday 19th July 2023, 1.05pm (day 4,346)

Birchcliffe, 19/7/23

Another day at home, musing on the existence of portals to other dimensions, as possibly manifesting on the Birchcliffe hillside, around the upper floor of 7 Chapel Street I reckon.

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Jul 18 2023
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Ribchester Helmet (replica and reflections)

Tuesday 18th July 2023, 2.50pm (day 4,345)

Ribchester Helmet, 18/7/23

In the late 18th century a teenager called John Walton found a great horde of Roman artefacts buried in the village of Ribchester. The most significant object therein was a ceremonial helmet, now displayed in the British Museum in London; what remains in the tiny museum in Ribchester, depicted here, is just a replica.

In which case: why not display it without the glass? If it could be touched, held, perhaps even worn, at least then we could get a sense of the materiality of the thing, experience it as a tangible object. I’m not saying it’s valueless in itself but stick it behind glass and something is lost.

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Jul 18 2023
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Stan has a smoke

Monday 17th July 2023, 4.25pm (day 4,344)

Stan, 17/7/23

After eleven different places in eleven days it’s time to spend some time at home again. I’m still not back to work though: that can wait another week or so. Stan generally agrees with this approach to life, I feel.

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