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Apr 15 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Urban scene

At the Namibia Craft Centre

Saturday 13th April 2024, 2.10pm (day 4,615)

Craft centre art, 13/4/24

A weekend spent in Windhoek to transition to this new country (the 49th different one I have ever visited, incidentally). Had I known this was possibly the world’s most low-key capital city, particularly on a weekend, I might have replanned slightly, but I’m not complaining. The best lunches in town seemed to be available at the Namibia Craft Centre on Tal Street (recommendation…) and you can also look at some decent artwork, and buy some rails, if you really want.

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Apr 12 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

Crossing into Namibia

Friday 12th April 2024, 12.05pm (day, 4,614)

Kavango river, 12/4/24

This is the fourth shot ever on this blog to definitely feature the territory of two different countries, and all the other three have included England (two where English land was seen together with Wales, and one with France). However, after departing Manchester on the plane shown yesterday, and changing in Addis Ababa, I am now nowhere near England nor will be for some weeks.

The left-hand two-thirds of this shot, including almost all the irrigated land, is Namibia, where I landed about an hour after this point to begin my fortnight’s holiday. On the right, Angola, with the Kavango river forming the boundary between the two. Google Maps makes it possible to identify the location quite precisely: the irrigated circles are the Ndonga Linena Greenscheme, if you want to check my navigation.

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Apr 12 2024
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Daily Post, Transport

Ethiopian tail feathers

Thursday 11th April 2024, 5.30pm (day 4,613)

Ethiopian airlines, 11/4/24

Finally, I’m off. This evening, this vehicle constituted flight ET729 from Manchester to Addis Ababa, via (for some reason) Geneva: the service that saved the day back in January last year when everything went tits up due to a few snowflakes, but that is in the past. I like the Ethiopian Airlines logo, which gives it a suitably avian feel. This will be my last photo taken in the UK until 20th May.

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Apr 10 2024
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Daily Post, Interior

Pak choi and sheep skull

Wednesday 10th April 2024, 1.45pm (day 4,612)

Pak choi and sheep skull, 10/4/24

Clare thinks that this picture should be called ‘Death and Rebirth’. Perhaps it’s also an attempt to produce a combination of terms that has never and will not again appear on a single Google search. My last day at home for some time. See you later.

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Apr 09 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Dusk, with Jupiter

Tuesday 9th April 2024, 8.50pm (day 4,611)

Nutclough dusk with Jupiter

Another depressing day of rain. I’m glad I’m off out of here on Thursday, yet it looks like I am going to miss out on spring entirely, as it certainly hasn’t started here yet. At least my penultimate evening at home was clear: good enough to see Jupiter, anyway, which pops into the shot to the right of the mill tower. But it seems it won’t last.

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Apr 09 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Goose couple

Monday 8th April 2024, 6.45pm (day 4,610)

Goose couple, 8/4/24

Goose couples like these are pairing up around the valley’s watercourses. Doubtless within a couple of months these two will be shepherding around little balls of golden fluff that, within a reasonably short space of time, will turn into hissing, crapping brutes just like their parents. But I guess that’s what human parents do too, right?

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Apr 08 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape, Sport

The Anchor Ground and Jubilee Tower

Sunday 7th April 2024, 2.45pm (day 4,609)

Darwen landscape, 7/4/24

Both these facilities are to be found in Darwen, Lancashire, where concluded my last weekend in the UK until late May. By the time I get back it might have stopped raining — this shot was grabbed in one of the afternoon’s few dry spells. At least, if it does rain on my travels to come, it’ll be warmer rain.

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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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Apr 06 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Dull morning

Friday 5th April 2024, 8.25am (day 4,607)

Dull Manchester, 5/4/24

The sun still seems uninterested in putting in an appearance, and this picture seems to epitomise the general colouring of the UK at this time. Manchester did get a bit more interesting for me later, but that still doesn’t mean it became sunny.

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Apr 05 2024
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Daily Post, Interior

Reading, with pen

Thursday 4th April 2024, 3.15pm (day 4,606)

Reading with pen, 4/4/24

My job title is Reader, and I agree with a senior Professor of my acquaintance who, a while back in my ‘annual review’, said — “You’re a Reader, do some fucking reading”. Yes, I do write in my books: call it ‘annotation’ and you can get away with it. Yes, this book does start with a discussion of Star Trek. But it’s all work, I promise.

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