Tag Archives: Hebden Bridge

Nov 26 2011
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene Gallery

Burst water main, Market Street, Hebden Bridge

Saturday 26th November 2011, 10.05am (day 93)

Burst water main, 26/11/11_low-res

So we move into the second trimester of this blog. End of November, December, January and most of February – the winter months. Expect lots of pictures of the cold and wet. I get several trips abroad in this period but they’re all to Norway (to where I head once more, tomorrow), Russia, the Netherlands – you won’t be seeing any winter warmth.

This picture was the only really interesting thing to happen today but is deceiving. The flood has been caused not by rain but by water flooding out (literally) from a burst mains pipe and drowning the road.

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Nov 22 2011
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna Gallery

Duck parade, Hebden Bridge town centre

Tuesday 22nd November 2011, 9.50am (day 89)

Duck parade, 22/11/11

I like ducks: handsome creatures, in my opinion. Tasty, too 🙂  I wonder exactly what is going on to the left of this shot, it’s clearly something of interest in the duck world.

By the way, this is the third shot in a row taken at almost exactly the same time of day.

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Nov 19 2011
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Daily Post, Landscape Gallery

Midgehole Road woods, Hebden Bridge

Saturday 19th November 2011, 1.25pm (day 86)

Midgehole woods, 19/11/11

Glorious day today. Even the Boy wanted to take a walk. No other comment necessary.

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Nov 12 2011
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Daily Post, Interior Gallery

At the craft fair

Saturday 12th November 2011, 11.25am (day 79)

Craft fair, 12/11/11

Never done one of these before. Having no idea what to expect it was a surprise to see quite how sour- or dead-faced many people are as they shuffle past, or how unwilling many are to acknowledge a ‘hello!’. Others (stallholders, customers) very friendly and encouraging, however. I did not lose money once all things were accounted for and it was an interesting learning experience.

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Nov 04 2011
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The unlit bonfire, Calder Holmes Park

Friday 4th November 2011, 4.25pm (day 71)

Bonfire-to-be, 4/11/11

Bonfire Night (remember, remember, the 5th November) is England’s one genuine nationally-observed folk festival, and even then we are in danger of letting it be usurped  by Halloween, which is (in its commercial form) an alien import. But let’s face it, it’s just fun to burn big piles of flammable things. There’ll be a guard on this to make sure it doesn’t get lit tonight, I bet.

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Nov 02 2011
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport Gallery

Waiting for the late train, Hebden Bridge station

Wednesday 2nd November 2011, 9.00am (day 69)

Hebden Bridge station, 2/11/11

What irritates me most about the public transport in this country is not the unpunctuality (which tends to be concentrated on certain lines at certain times of the day, and after a while you just learn to avoid them – if you can, of course). No, the thing that gets me the most is the stupid ‘no growth in numbers’ contracts which the train operating companies have signed.As a result, public transport is an utterly backwards industry in which there is actually no business incentive to increase custom. (Undergraduate education is becoming another one.)

There is one, and only one, reason why such a state of affairs is tolerated: it’s because every journey by public transport represents  a little redistribution of tax income. The government like collecting tax, so encourage us to use cars, which are enormous sources of tax revenue. They don’t like paying tax back out. so don’t want us to use public transport, which is ‘subsidised’ (I call it ‘invested in’). As a result Britain has the highest public transport costs of almost any country in the world.

But despite everything, it’s still a damn sight better than using a car.

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Nov 01 2011
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape Gallery

View from my house

Tuesday 1st November 2011, 10.20am (day 68)

Autumn view, 1/11/11

Hebden Bridge in autumn plumage. Definitely a good time of year to be here.

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Oct 29 2011
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Halloween Burlesque Party

Saturday 29th October 2011, 8.00pm (day 65)

Halloween burlesque, 29/10/11_low-res

Let’s edit out the text that originally accompanied this photo, written last night when I was too inebriated to be lucid and pithy and all those other things I’d like these texts to be. Let me instead just reiterate what a good night it was. The audience were asked not to take photos of the performance and stick them online – so I should respect that – though it’s a shame, as I got some good ones including of the wife making her own performance debut. But the audience were also a sight worth recording. Happy Halloween – a couple of days early, it is true.

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Oct 21 2011
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Keighley Road, Hebden Bridge

Friday 21st October 2011, 6.30am (day 57)

Keighley Road, 21/10/11

Why do I have the sinking feeling that I am going to be getting up in the dark for most of the next six months?

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Oct 20 2011
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Frosty morning

Thursday 20th October 2011, 8.45am (day 56)

Frosty morning, 20/10/11

Beautiful morning today but a bloody cold one, with a sharp frost, clearly visible here. Well, that’s winter on the way then.

Slight reservations about posting this if only because there’ve been a lot of Hebden Bridge pictures this last few days. Off to Russia on Sunday however, to give this blog renewed international flavour.

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