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May 09 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

Waiting for ‘Swan Lake’

Thursday 8th May 2025, 7.20pm (day 5,005)

The wife, who apparently has been waiting to see this version of Swan Lake (you know, the one with the male swans) for 20 years, asked me out on a date for this one, and it was like, why not. It thereby becomes the fourth ballet that I have witnessed. The first was decades ago, the other two have been depicted on here: these guys in Moscow should count, and this cameraman was definitely about to film one.

And my review: yes, it was pretty good, it definitely had a sense of humour (which for the other ballets I mention, was not in evidence). I was keeping up with it all until about 40 minutes in, when the swans arrived. After that I kind of lost the plot a bit. But there were plenty of people on the stage who could dance very well and looked very good whilst they did so. There you go, that’s my review of Drew’s Ballet Experience #4.

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May 07 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

Someone else’s stuff

Wednesday 7th May 2025, 11.35am (day 5,004)

Cardboard boxes, 7/5/25

Never even got close to leaving the house today. The living room was mostly out of bounds, thanks to deliveries of stuff in cardboard boxes that has just kept on coming over the last few days, and some of it isn’t even ours. If Kevin from Morpeth is wondering where his box of chocolate bars is, we’ve got it, it’s one of those in the picture.

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May 07 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Studious contemplation

Tuesday 6th March 2025, 9.35am (day 5,003)

My last scheduled day of on-campus teaching in this academic year. Very few turned up, but that’s OK, it was an optional class. Hopefully they are all off in studious contemplation somewhere, like she seems to be: although quite probably she’s just checking social media while she has her fag.

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May 06 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Watching the game

Monday 5th May 2025, 4.20pm (day 5,002)

Fan portrait, 5/5/25

I pick this one today because I think it’s a nice portrait, though I don’t know these gentlemen and so can’t be sure it captures some kind of essential quality about them. But I see a lot of football these days — the game mentioned in the post title was my 80th of the season and I intend to do a few more yet before it’s over — and I see a lot of people like these, as we’re all in it together.

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May 05 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Milo tries hypnosis

Sunday 4th May 2025, 5.00pm (day 5,001)

Milo waits, 4/5/25

“If I stare at him in the right way, perhaps some of the food will leap off the plate.” It didn’t work though, Milo. I’m immune. (Well, maybe I gave him a bit later on.)

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May 03 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Rotherham Minster, from the café

Saturday 3rd May 2025, 1.30pm (day 5,000)

Rotherham Minster, 3/5/25

Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is one of those places where a high proportion of its casual visitors surely come because it has a League football team and for no other reason. This is not to knock the place. I did have a decent day out here today (at the football) and it certainly has a big and impressive church, as depicted.

This shot breaks plenty of rules, including being taken from inside the café over the road, and my leaving in the lights that surrounded its window. But the woman in the red coat helps. And anyway, I don’t care about the formalities because today I have stretched this blog out far enough to reach day 5,000. 13 years, 8 months and 7 days of daily photography has brought me to this point. I suppose I occasionally think about winding it all up but it hasn’t happened yet, there always seems to be something coming up which encourages me to continue, whether it’s an interesting trip away, or a numerical target like today’s. The next one should be that I ensure I make it to my birthday this year: because on the day I turn 56, I will have documented exactly one-quarter of my life on here. Seems a reasonable (next) goal to me…

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May 02 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Plumlings

Friday 2nd May 2025, 2.30pm (day 4,999)

Plumlings, 2/5/25

Going on the number of plumlings that currently festoon the tree, I predict that come around late July, the whole thing is going to fall over. Should it stay standing, even 2023’s glut (forty-four pounds of fruit) may be surpassed.

Hello, it’s day 4,999. I’d better not forget to get the camera out at some point tomorrow.

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May 02 2025
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

The red parked car

Thursday 1st May 2025, 9.45am (day 4,998)

Red parked car, 1/5/25

Or should it be, the parked red car? I know there is supposed to be some kind of innate order to English adjectives, but here I am unsure. Anyway it is often seen in this position — this was not a lucky capture. And yes, it tilts to a noticeable degree: otherwise, this shot is faithful enough to the perpendicular.

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May 01 2025
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Daily Post, Sport

Marsden FC

Wednesday 30th April 2025, 7.40pm (day 4,997)

Marsden football landscape, 30/4/25

Sometimes there is no better place to spend a glorious evening than somewhere like Marsden FC. Not quite perfection — there were too many insects buzzing around for that — but not bad, not bad at all.

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Apr 29 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Ready to fly

Tuesday 29th April 2025, 11.05am (day 4,996)

Dandelion clock and leaf, 29/4/25

The weather has been pretty good for some time now and things seem to be emerging earlier this year, nature-wise. It feels we should be well into May already, but that month doesn’t start yet for two more days. The dandeliion clocks are heavy with seeds, and an explosion is surely imminent.

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