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Aug 09 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

Bus crash — aftermath

Tuesday 8th August 2023, 4.50pm (day 4,366)

Bus crash aftermath, 8/8/23

Walking through Manchester city centre tonight it was impossible to not notice the activity around the corner of Oxford Road and Whitworth Street, with everything cordoned off by police tape and some major sweeping up under way. Turns out at lunchtime a bus took out a central reservation, for some reason (which I can quite believe involved swerving to save the life of some idiotic cyclopath of the kind who thinks his Deliveroo bag gives him the right to ignore red lights), a few people hurt but nothing serious. And the picture? Well, the pink scaffolding is impressive. Some might say there’s not been enough pink on the blog recently.

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Aug 08 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

Cancelled

Monday 7th August 2023, 1.50pm (day 4,365)

Library stamps, 7/8/23

I am occasionally still known to consult that nowadays esoteric and slightly old-fashioned source of information, the ‘book from the library’. This whole date-stamping and cancelling thing seems quite archaic now, doesn’t it? But in 2006 it was still all the rage.

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Aug 07 2023
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Daily Post, Sport

World’s Oldest Football Ground

Sunday 6th August 2023, 3.10pm (day 4,364)

Hallam FC, 6/8/23

One to add to the ‘superlatives’ at the bottom of the stats page, the next time I update it. Hallam FC have been around, as the stand says, since 1860, and have always played here, at Sandygate, in the west of Sheffield. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this makes this place the oldest football ground in the world. Hallam are the second-oldest club, after Sheffield FC: I guess it made sense to start no. 2 fairly near to no. 1, after all, they needed someone to play. (What the third-oldest club — Cray Wanderers, from Kent — did at first with their playing time is not as yet recorded.)

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Aug 07 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

The Humber Bridge, from North Ferriby

Saturday 5th August 2023, 1.15pm (day 4,363)

Humber Bridge, 5/8/23

Back on November 4th 2020 I stood under the south end of the Humber Bridge — the right-hand end as this picture shows it — and took this shot. It was a day of considerably nicer weather than today, despite this being August. Anyway, this gigantic construction can join the Forth Bridge and Tay Bridge as great bridges to have appeared twice. I believe that this one is so long that the two stanchions are slightly out of parallel with each other, to allow for the curvature of the Earth, and I wonder whether you might even be able to see that on this shot, though probably that’s my imagination.

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Aug 05 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Building, ever more

Friday 4th August 2023, 9.05am (day 4,362)

Another building site, 4/8/23

There seems some kind of irresistible compulsion to construct more and more tall buildings in Manchester city centre, pretty much regardless of other considerations. There were a number of blocks built around one end of Canal Street and finished just before all that lockdown rubbish kicked off in 2020, which still appear to be mostly empty; certainly none of the commercial spaces on the ground floor has ever been occupied. And yet the city has plenty of homeless people and families who I’m sure would be able to make good use of such accommodation. In the meantime, let’s just build some more: it keeps certain political interests happy, doesn’t it.

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Aug 04 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Butterfly and buddleia

Thursday 3rd August 2023, 2.55pm (day 4,361)

Butterfly and buddleia, 3/8/23

A bit more sunlight today — hardly high summer though. Heatwaves are just something other people are having. The buddleia seem happy, however, and there were plenty of butterflies around in the garden this afternoon.

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Aug 03 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The unwanted chair

Wednesday 2nd August 2023, 12.10pm (day 4,360)

Office chair outside, 2/8/23

Campus is hardly the most exciting, nor populated, place at this time of year — somehow this object symbolises this. Or maybe it’s begun its summer migration, and got beached on the shingle. A boring shot I know, but this was a day in which all the photos I took seemed to be crap. If the sun would shine, it might help.

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Aug 02 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Parking place

Tuesday 1st August 2023, 3.30pm (day 4,359)

Van above river, 1/8/23

Hebden Bridge has its share of risky parking spaces — there’s the ‘Wing Mirror Two Inches From That 40-Tonne Truck Descending At Speed’ variety and more than a few ‘Garage Perched Precariously On Thin Pile Of Bricks (Above Terrifying Drop)’. But this is a new variety. I assume Storplan have good insurance.

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Jul 31 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

King’s Cross, as usual

Monday 31st July 2023, 9.55am (day 4,358)

King's Cross, 31/7/23

Almost every one of my trips to London ends here. Now and again I might leave in a different direction, but mostly it’s on one of the half-hourly Leeds services: we all watch the departures board over there, to see if this will be one of those times where LNER give us all more than about eight minutes’ notice. (Today, they did.)

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Jul 31 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

My lunch: the final stages

Sunday 30th July 2023, 12.50pm (day 4,357)

Lunch at Eagle, 30/7/23

A tasty pasta dish, being prepared by the good chefs of the Eagle pub on Farringdon Road, London. She’s allowed one bit of pasta to escape, but I’ll let that pass.

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