Wednesday 18th June 2025, 3.50pm (day 5,046)
A still life. Those who know New Order may see my point with the title of this post. But it is just a random flowerpot, really.
Homage to ‘Power Corruption and Lies'(or, random flowerpot)
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Tag Archives: Keighley Road
Signs of doom
Monday 19th May 2025, 11.00am (day 5,016)
It’s time for the annual appearance of the “Person Struggling with Umbrella” sign, and all that entails for traffic up and down the Keighley Road. I haven’t driven a car on this island since last August (the only plae I have been behind the wheel was on Ascension), and I’m just fine with that.
Items for collection
Thursday 25th July 2024, 4.20pm (day 4,718)
Not quite the latest pic in the ‘abandoned shoes’ series, as there is a pair here. Along with the other items they seem to have been placed beside the Keighley Road pavement deliberately, for collection and subsequent use by anyone who needs them. So if anyone in Hebden Bridge does want an old telephone, a plastic wine glass, a nail file, the shoes or the other things which were in the pile but unseen — feel free to go and inspect.
Flowers by the roadside
Thursday 14th March 2024, 12.20pm (day 4,585)
From blue yesterday to this vivid red (with yellow shading) today. Dampness remains a constant, though.
Windy
Thursday 21st December 2023, 3.50pm (day 4,501)
Wind is the hardest weather condition of all to capture adequately on camera — but it was very windy today. We will rebuild, however.
Water leak
Wednesday 23rd August 2023, 6.30pm (day 4,381)
Across from our house, out of the road, cometh water: not necessarily a commodity in short supply in West Yorkshire but still, those of us who pay our bills do sometimes wonder what proportion of them goes to cover this kind of unnecessary wastage. The blue paint on the road and on the inspection cover above suggests the utilities company are ‘aware’: but that doesn’t mean anything in practical terms. Not the most exciting of shots, I know, but you could always see it as an abstract.
Behemoth, Keighley Road
Tuesday 2nd May 2023, 1.05pm (day 4,268)
I’ve lived on this road for nearly twenty-two years now. Look at its characteristics narrow, steep uphill, winding course, and the residents have nowhere else to park cars other than on the side. It’s manifestly unsuited for huge container lorries — not to mention the fact that on the other side of the hill (namely Oxenhope), all the characteristics are repeated. Yet still they come, waving a sat-nav as evidence of their rights. And then we wonder why it needs repairing every few years.
Spring has sprung
Wednesday 23rd March 2022, 4.55pm (day 3,863)
Spring definitely sprung in Hebden Bridge today. Everyone and everything seems to be stretching out to enjoy the sunshine.
Roadside butterfly
Monday 20th September 2021, 11.50am (day 3,679)
This beauty — I have given up trying to identify specific species, I always get it wrong (I thought it was a Red Admiral, but apparently not) — was perched not two feet from the traffic on the Keighley Road this morning. Obviously it wanted its close-ups doing.
Also, a curiosity — this is, almost certainly, the first picture of all the thousands on this blog that I have rotated through 180º. Technically you are looking at this upside down.
Emergency response
Tuesday 22nd June 2021, 8.45am (day 3,589)
Whatever was happening up Keighley Road this morning, it was a major incident. Over the course of five minutes the house was passed by three fire engines, two ambulances, two ‘incident response’ vehicles and two Mountain Rescue vans, including this one.
And then once the sirens and blue lights had passed — life returned to normal, with nothing more being heard. I guess that’s a good thing.
Being 42 