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Aug 18 2025
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Daily Post, Sport

Sunday football, Peel Park

Sunday 17th August 2025, 12.10pm (day 5,106)

Peel Park football, 17/8/25

With little better that was worth doing this morning I wandered over to Bradford where the local Sunday leagues were running their first round of fixtures for the season. Three games were taking place simultaneously on Peel Park and this shot is taken from a point kind of in the middle of each of them, but with this pitch slightly elevated, hence the low viewpoint. This was one of those pictures which is being used here because it was what was intended when the shutter was pressed: always a good thing.

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Jul 07 2025
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Yesterday, tomorrow, today

Monday 7th July 2025, 9.10am (day 5,065)

Well, the header of this blog still does declare “Life, One Day at a Time”. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. I can live with that.

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Feb 28 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Fire escape

Thursday 27th February 2025, 11.30am (day 4,935)

Thirteen and a half years, plus one day, into the life of this blog and it’s nice that I can still sometimes find new things to see that are literally just down the road from my house. This metal construction at the back of the gym has been depicted before from underneath — let’s see if I can find one… ah yes, here you go. But the shadows falling on it this morning — yes! the sun is shining — were rather pleasing.

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Feb 16 2025
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Daily Post, Sport

King George V playing fields, Bradford

Sunday 16th February 2025, 11.20am (day 4,924)

Bradford Sunday league, 16/2/25

Heading to Sunday morning football in Bradford was better than hanging around at home doing nothing. With this shot I guess I was just hoping the symmetries came out OK. On reflction I say that the imbalance of the black windows at the top, vis-a-vis the dranpipes below, is not my problem. Anyway, why should I be the one pointing out the imperfections?

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Jan 28 2025
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Daily Post, Landscape

High Knoll: Code?

Tuesday 28th January 2025, 2.25pm (day 4,905)

High Knoll Fort, 28/1/25

I have absolutely no idea, for certain, whether this will be my last full day on St Helena or not. I have given up speculating, for if I don’t leave tomorrow as currently scheduled, I might succumb to despair. I tried to avoid this emotion today by going on a walk up to High Knoll Fort — appearing for the third time on this visit. This view is taken from inside, looking down through the battlements to the island’s secondary school on Francis Plain. What the code means, I have absolutely no idea either. One Exits Now? That would be good.

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Dec 07 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Abingdon Street

Friday 6th December 2024, 9.15am (day 4,852)

This back street has long been a feature of my walk to campus in Manchester, and at this time of year, when the sun is shining, it is one of a number of streets on the route that channel the morning light in photogenic ways. The sun doesn’t necessarily shine much in early December in Manchester so it’s worth capturing the moments.

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Jul 19 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Advertisement?

Thursday 18th July 2024, 9.35am (day 4,711)

Zappa ad, 18/7/24

This sits on my usual walking route to campus so I know it hasn’t been up for long. I wonder how many other artists who have been dead for 30 years might still receive such tribute. Or perhaps it is a political message. Perhaps the reference is to hidden subliminal messages in Bobby Brown. Perhaps all those 12 key changes in every track will assist in unlocking the secrets of the tellurian currents. But I’m probably not going to start listening to Zappa — I did try, a couple of times, but it really didn’t work out.

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Mar 02 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The Crown lies empty

Friday 1st March 2024, 4.25pm (day 4,572)

Side of the Crown, 1/3/24

Several public houses premises in and around Hebden Bridge have lain empty for years. This is the old Crown Inn in the town centre: at my back as I took this photo was Marshall’s Bar; neither of them made it through 2020 and have remained closed and empty since. Some pubs on the approach roads to town (like the Woodsman Inn) have been lying derelict for two decades now. Yet the contradictions of the property market are such that it seems now, by law, only new café-bars and restaurants are allowed to open in the town. It is clearly cheaper and more desirable to convert a former bank into a pub than convert a former pub into a reopened pub.

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Dec 20 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Market Street, round the back

Wednesday 20th December 2023, 4.20pm (day 4,500)

Squat the airbnbs, 20/12/23

It’s a valid political opinion. Whether anyone pays attention is a different matter.

This has hardly been the most eventful December — not a single photo in the month so far has been taken further than 30 miles from home — but this will change soon enough. Today is also day 4,500 of the blog, a nice round number: I have done one of my periodic updates of the stats, a page which if nothing else, proves quite how anal I am.

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Oct 22 2023
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Under the M6

Saturday 21st October 2023, 10.40am (day 4,440)

Art under M6, 21/10/23

The water is that of the Tame Valley Canal. Above, thunders the M6, doing its rounds just north of Birmingham. Whoever marked the crossing point of these two transport arteries with this piece of work was inspired. Someone else’s art, again, but worth sharing.

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