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Mar 05 2012
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Former Factory HQ, Manchester

Monday 5th March 2012, 8.05am (day 193)

Factory Records, 5/3/12

Walked a slightly different way to the office this morning; not a big deal, just a matter of going down a street parallel to the one I normally go down, but I very rarely do it. So I never noticed before that this building on the corner of Charles Street and Brook Street is the former HQ of Factory Records, the company that brought us Joy Division (World’s Greatest Ever Rock Band… it’s just a fact guys, live with it). I’m enough of a rock geek to think this is pretty cool.

Though not as geekily cool as having a photo of the exact phone box in which Withnail does his ‘No, I’m not in London… Penrith… Penrith!’ rant at his agent. But that’s another story.

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Mar 05 2012
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Joe’s 9th birthday

Sunday 4th March 2012, 11.15am (day 192)

Birthday balloons, 4/3/12

Joe was born at 2.41pm, 4th March 2003. Happy birthday to him. Twenty minutes after this photo was taken (the balloons whipping around in a squally, damp wind), we had a bunch of other 8- and 9-year-olds swarming around the place – which was a good reminder of why we’ve still only had the one child. (I joke, I joke.)

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Mar 05 2012
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Outside the back door of the Frou Frou Club

Saturday 3rd March 2012, 10.50pm (day 191)

Back door, Frou Frou club, 3/3/12

Gosh, a Friday and a Saturday night out in the same weekend. I remember this, it’s called a social life.

I like this shot, particularly the disembodied head lurking to the left. Not bad, considering I’m usually in bed by this time.

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Mar 03 2012
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Joe, Albert Square, Manchester

Friday 2nd March 2012, 6.00pm (day 190)

Albert square, 2/3/12It’s Joe’s birthday this weekend. For the first part of his treat, went into Manchester to see Oliver!, courtesy of my sister. But we had pictures from the theatre last weekend, so let’s vary the scenery. I like Albert Square, it’s about the only part of Manchester which is picturesque, at least, on the few days a year when there’s not a bunch of tents, market stalls, traffic cones or something else covering the cobbles.

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Mar 03 2012
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Daily Post, Landscape

The summit of Barf

Thursday 1st March 2012, 2.00pm (day 189)

Summit of Barf, 1/3/12With no computer at the moment it’s difficult to work properly so I went on a walk, which I enjoyed despite cloudy weather. 160 Lakeland fells done now – 54 to go (see the other blog for details).

Barf was today’s highlight. That really is the name of this mountain, by the way (apparently it is a version of a word that means ‘a low hill’). While on the summit, this couple placed Action Man here on the cairn, to take a photo of it ‘for our grandson’, Nice idea! So I stole it. The idea, that is, not the Action Man.

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Mar 03 2012
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The new town hall

Wednesday 29th February 2012, 8.30am (day 188)

New town hall, 29/2/12Would have been nice to have somehow encapsulated, in a photo, the fact that today was the extra day of the Leap Year. But that proved beyond me, though it did amuse me that Joe was annoyed because this year he has to wait another day for his birthday (which is on Sunday).

So here is a picture of the building site that is Hebden Bridge’s new town hall; the scaffolding and cranes of which have been visible from our house for a few months now. A time-lapse project would have been nice – but too late now.

The Mac’s still in the shop so apologies for the erratic appearance of the posts at the moment.

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Feb 29 2012
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Weavers’ Cottages, Calder Holmes

Tuesday 28th February 2012, 8.40am (day 187)

Weavers' houses, 28/2/12For various reasons, including the fact that my Mac (and thus iPhoto) has gone to the shop for some surgery, I wanted to get today’s shot in early. So that meant grabbing one on the way to the station; just as well then that I don’t seem yet to have run out of things to capture, photographically, in this town. These houses are right by the canal (which runs behind the fence, unseen in this shot), and the arrangement of windows was so that they got plenty of light so that weavers could use them for their literal cottage industries in the early 19th century. Apparently.

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Feb 28 2012
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Today’s guest lecturer – Morgan Spurlock

Monday 27th February 2012, 2.10pm (day 186)

M&IL_class, 27/2/12

It’s the 15th consecutive day in which I’ve left (or not been in) Hebden Bridge. I’m tired. I needed someone else to teach the Media & Information Literacy class, and in this incarnation, Morgan comes cheap and is quite entertaining.

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Feb 25 2012
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Grand Opera House, York

Saturday 25th February 2012, 2.20pm (day 184)

Opera glasses, 25/2/12

I could say that we were here, with Joe, to see Rigoletto or something equally cultural but actually it was Spamalot, the Monty Python musical. More fun than an actual opera, anyway. I am very happy Joe likes Monty Python: it shows that the sense-of-humour genes have been passed on.

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Feb 25 2012
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Mirror in the Railway, Friday night

Friday 24th February 2012, 8.00pm (day 183)

Railway mirror, 24/2/12

Back home. Was supposed to be going out in Manchester tonight but the gig was postponed, or cancelled, or I got the date wrong, or something. Anyway, when that happens, that’s what locals are for.

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