Tag Archives: narrowboat

Jul 03 2025
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Working on the roof

Wednesday 2nd July 2025, 2.30pm (day 5,060)

Attending to the roof does seem to be his primary task, going on the strip of felt that is either not yet attached to the front, or is partway through being removed. It’s a fairly low-power way to house oneself, I imagine — and maybe in a few years time, once AI eats 95% of all electricity generated, anywhere, many more of us will be having to engage with it. (Note: not one pixel nor letter of this or any other of my blogs has been generated by AI, nor ever will be.)

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Nov 17 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Transport

Serenity

Sunday 17th November 2024, 10.25am (day 4,833)

Serenity, 17/11/24

Clare has just said: “That name really doesn’t suit anything else about that picture, does it?” And this observation doesn’t even account for the way the dog started snapping at the swans a few minutes later. But that’s why I chose the shot.

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Apr 07 2024
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Daily Post, Transport

The canal at Mytholmroyd

Saturday 6th April 2024, 2.20pm (day 4,608)

Canal at Mytholmroyd, 6/4/24

My limited experience of vehicles like the ‘Sweet Basil’ (its name is just visible on one side of the prow) is that they are nice, peaceful ways to get around the place — but they take their time. And living on one for a week might be just about doable: any longer and I’d be, like, where’s the bath? Nevertheless downsizing has an obvious appeal, at some gut level.

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Oct 22 2023
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Daily Post, Transport, Urban scene

King Edward’s Wharf, Birmingham

Sunday 22nd October 2023, 10.45am (day 4,441)

It is said that Birmingham has more canals than Venice, and it’s a believable stat once you start walking around the place.

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May 13 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

This year’s offspring

Friday 12th May 2023, 4.05pm (day 4,278)

Gosling at marina, 12/5/23

The annual outcrop of Canada goslings is usually good for a pic, and so it proves again in 2023. This was one of a family of four — six if you count the watchful parents — who at the moment seem to have set up home on the canalside marina.

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Dec 17 2022
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Daily Post, Transport

Rochdale Canal, at Callis Wood

Friday 16th December 2022, 2.10pm (day 4,131)

Cold canal, 16/12/22

I got out of the house, though as you can see, it isn’t getting any warmer. Winter 21-22 was nothing to speak of in the UK, but the 22-23 version has some bite.

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May 10 2022
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Daily Post, Transport

Canal Street lock

Monday 9th May 2022, 8.55am (day 3,910)

Canal Street lock, 9/5/22

Hardly a great photo technically, and converted to black and white as much to conceal deficiencies as any other reason. But it does suggest that when there is a boat in the Canal Street lock in Manchester city centre, this is often the most interesting thing to see on the walk into work. It’s nice that this old transport system is still used: not everything useful has to be hyper-efficient.

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May 01 2021
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The Canal Street lock

Friday 30th April 2021, 9.20am (day 3,536)

Canal Street lock, 30/4/21

It’s always nice to see Canal Street, in the centre of Manchester, actively live up to its name. Lock open, rather than lockdown. Perhaps I could have stood a bit to the left and made this a more symmetrical shot, but never mind. The guy at the gate has busted the photographer.

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Oct 19 2019
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport

Rain shower at the marina

Friday 18th October 2019, 3.00pm (day 2,976)

Shower at marina, 18/10/19

Yes, I would rather the box was not there. But one can’t have everything. Otherwise this rain/sun combination did catch my eye as I came home early from work — very early, but then again, it is Friday.

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Jun 24 2019
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Canal Street lock, Manchester

Monday 24th June 2019, 9.05am (day 2,860)

Canal Street lock, 24/6/19

It’s nice to be reminded that the canal that runs through the very centre of Manchester still operates properly, a couple of hundred years after it was first built; and as ever, shots like these also remind me that this is the same canal, the Rochdale Canal, as runs through Hebden Bridge. So this boat could have been chugging through my home town a week or so ago. I imagine a few things about this scene have changed since the 1820s, however.

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