Tag Archives: Manchester

Feb 18 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Go that way, for no particular reason

Tuesday 17th February 2026, 6.10pm (day 5,290)

Roadworks and signs, 17/2/26

For the second semester in a row I have been allocated a 4-6pm teaching slot, and, as yet, we are nowhere near far enough into the spring for me to be seeing sunsets on a Tuesday; it’s dark by the time I emerge. The walk home then begins up Brook Street, which for some time now has been consistently a traffic jam at about 6.10pm. The cause is obvious, and I’m sure all the Manchester drivers are very happy when they realise there is, as far as I can tell, nothing in particular going on in the coned-off lane.

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Feb 17 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Quantum proposition

Monday 16th February 2026, 9.15am (day 5,289)

Quantum theory, 16/2/25

Whomever stencilled this on Cross Street, Manchester, is obviously referring to the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum theory — the idea that whenever a decision is taken, both possibilities play out, and so all possible worlds exist as parallel universes. Which is all very well but if, somewhere, I am the King of Norway — or banged up in a concentration camp for some perceived felony or other — or having great sex with Natalie Portman on a regular basis — the “I” that exists in this reality still had to go to work on this Monday morning. Another proposition then — it is what it is.

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Feb 11 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Back to China(town)

Tuesday 10th February 2026, 9.50am (day 5,283)

Chinese lanterns, 10/2/26

I didn’t go on from Dubai to China — this is Manchester. The lanterns have all appeared since I was last there a week ago, so get to make their regular appearance on the blog: I think most Februaries have featured them in some form.

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Jan 19 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Moor Road metrolink

Sunday 18th January 2026, 3.30pm (day 5,260)

Moor Road metrolink, 18/1/26

Having managed to avoid going to work in Manchester for several days (a run that is not over yet), I nevertheless concocted a reason to go there on a Sunday, to ‘get out of the house’ — go figure that one out. I did not regret this, but it was a day on which the city lived up to its reputation for a certain dampness of climate. It’s not obviously coming down in this shot, but you can just feel it, can’t you?

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Jan 09 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

It all comes back down

Thursday 8th January 2025, 10.15am (day 5,250)

Dismantling ice rink, 8/1/26

Every year, the square between the National Football Museum and Manchester Cathedral is occupied by an ice rink from early November. Then, every year around this time, it is dismantled again. I guess it keeps some people employed. Presumably there is some order involved; piece number 697 is getting ready for filing, for example.

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Jan 03 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

Moonwalking

Friday 2nd January 2026, 12.50pm (day 5,244)

Moonwalking, 2/1/26

Courtesy of Clare’s Xmas present for her mother (Carol), and the ‘Lightroom’ immersive movie theatre at the Aviva Studios in Manchester, we got to go Moonwalking today, at least for a little while. The main thing I learned was that the Moon has really good landscape photography potential. Other than that, was it worth £30 for 50 minutes of Tom Hanks’s narration and other people’s children, not yet familiar with the concept of quiet contemplation, being boisterous? Hmmm, well, just about.

I did try to crop it so the feet to the bottom left, and the corner of the ceiling to top left were not visible: but it didn’t work out.

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Dec 12 2025
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Daily Post, Landscape

Sunset, way too early

Thursday 11th December 2025, 3.40pm (day 5,222)

Manchester sunset, 11/12/25

God, look at the time. If this looks like it is taken over some misty marshland somewhere, it’s an illusion — instead it was captured from the 3rd floor of the Ellen Wilkinson Building, as I made my leisurely way to my 4pm class, which doesn’t even manage to start before sunset at this time of year. And still ten days to go until the solstice.

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Nov 14 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Sport, Stranger

Working out

Thursday 13th November 2025, 11.35am (day 5,194)

Wieghtlifter, 13/11/25

As seen in Sackville Street Gardens, Manchester. It seems a fairly light workout. It’s a shame he wasn’t stood more in the light but maybe it works better this way. I think he knows he’s being photographed.

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Nov 12 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Transport

Between platforms

Tuesday 11th November 2025, 12.15pm (day 5,192)

Platforms 4 and 5 of Manchester Victoria station, to be precise (making this, incidentally, the 900th shot taken in Manchester). The sign is meaningless in context, but the pigeon seems to be wilfully defying it anyway. On the left (4), the 12:15 to Redcar Central and on the right, the 12:15 to Blackburn, both punctual. But was I on my way into work late, or coming home early?

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Oct 29 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Chinatown works

Tuesday 28th October 2025, 12.15pm (day 5,178)

Michelle Yeoh mural, 28/10/25

Manchester’s creative destruction is an ongoing, continuous thing. The pagoda in Chinatown has been boarded up for a couple of years now. Attractive murals were painted on the bare boards — or stencilled on them, as this shot from September 2023 depicts. At some point since then, Michelle Yeoh’s not-unattractive features were added. Time passes. And then everything gets ripped down again, board by board. Nothing behind the screens is any different, and we wait for it to all cycle round again.

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