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Mar 02 2021

Back in training (healthy)

Monday 1st March 2021, 4.45pm (day 3,476)

I put up this photo because I love the backdrop of the houses on Calder Holmes Park. A proper football landscape if ever there was one. I put this up also because of how it wound up certain people when I posted it on a Facebook group earlier. One of the most iniquitous things about the year that we have lived through is how it has wiped out the idea that any ‘ordinary people’ might be able to make their own judgments about what is healthy and safe, and what is not. Well, lockdown lovers everywhere — yes, there are certain people who are back out there, living their lives.

Tagged 51, Calder Holmes Park, football, gallery, photography, photos, training

Feb 28 2021

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Daily Post, Urban scene

Into the light (Clare with blue cube)

Sunday 28th February 2021, 2.15pm (day 3,475)

Whatever it is I wanted to say with this picture, the cube is there; it is Clare (and I) who are just passing through.

Tagged 51, Clare, gallery, hiking, photography, photos, Railway, Todmorden, tunnel, walking

Feb 28 2021

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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Sport

The forgotten court

Saturday 27th February 2021, 3.00pm (day 3,474)

Whomever made an effort to build this small square of concrete and stick a basketball hoop at one end of it obviously had lofty ambitions for the health of the youth of Dodd Naze estate. Now it stands forlorn and forgotten: no more than a third of a mile from my house as the crow flies yet until today I had no idea it was there. But that also means it hasn’t featured on here before, and as the second half of the blog’s tenth year opens with us still in (nominal) lockdown; new scenes are precious.

Tagged 51, basketball, black and white, court, gallery, hoop, monocrhone, photography, photos

Feb 27 2021

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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

More Friday night duckwatching

Friday 26th February 2021, 4.55pm (day 3,473)

Media rhetoric suggests we should all be grateful that Our Glorious Leaders have announced a ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown but none of that changes the fact that for now, and for weeks yet, there’s nothing to do. The ducks continue to have a far better social life than us, At least the evenings are getting lighter, the days (a little) warmer.

Tagged 51, birds, ducks, evening light, gallery, Hebden Water, nature, photography, photos, wildlife

Feb 26 2021

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Daily Post, Landscape, Portrait, Stranger

Photobombed on Winter Hill

Thursday 25th February 2021, 11.50am (day 3,472)

This walker knew just what she was doing when she saw me pull out my camera. She called over afterwards, saying ‘don’t mind me…’ — but I assured her that I had got the shot.

For more pictures of today, being my latest attempt to stay sane and healthy, see the page on my County Tups blog. Also, as this technically counts as being in Bolton, I now have to award that place the title of ‘location to have the longest gap between appearances on the blog’. It’s 2,539 days since its first, and only other, appearance on the blog thanks to Bolton Wanderers’ stadium featuring on day 933 (15/3/2014). At over 1,000 feet in height — not to mention that its base is itself 1,440 feet above sea level — the TV mast seen here is one of the tallest structures in the UK.

Tagged 51, Bolton, county top, gallery, hiking, photography, photos, walk, walkers, walking, Winter Hill

Feb 24 2021

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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Unseen corner

Wednesday 24th February 2021, 11.15am (day 3,471)

This little graveyard perches on the hillside, across the valley from my house. With a powerful enough pair of binoculars, it might even be possible to see this diorama from our bedroom window. But until today, it had gone unseen. There’s nothing else to do but explore these nearby hidden corners.

Tagged 51, cemetery, gallery, graveyard, photography, photos, statue

Feb 24 2021

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Dead brolly

Tuesday 23rd February 2021, 3.50pm (day 3,470)

In fact, this is so dismembered I’m not even sure it is, or used to be, an umbrella. But never mind. It makes a difference from depicting the dead city of Manchester more generally. And does reflect what was a quite windy day.

Tagged 51, dead, gallery, graffiti, Manchester, photography, photos, umbrella

Feb 22 2021

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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Catkins

Monday 22nd February 2021, 1.45pm (day 3,469)

The sun was definitely out this afternoon. Spring feels like it’s in the post, and once it does break out in full I doubt many people will be staying at home, whatever the powers say. I think it is a birch tree at the bottom of the garden that’s broken out this rash of catkins since I was last up there.