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Apr 29 2025
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Friends…

Monday 28th April 2025, 6.40pm (day 4,995)

Friends with God, 28/4/25

On Saturday it will be day 5,000 of the blog, but I won’t be leading up to this milestone with an eventful week. Having done four trips abroad already in 2025, thus, one a month, it’s time to stay at home for a while and Write Up. Writing Up is the one obligation I owe from these travels and the sooner it is done, the better. None of this has anything to do with today’s picture except to offer a reason why I was in the pub again. I suppose today is an effort at a collage, although a very random one.

Am I claiming some status via this pamphlet? No, someone was just making suggestions. Anyway if by God you mean The Planet then I’m all for that.

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Apr 28 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Sport, Stranger

Alex needs a spray

Sunday 27th April 2025, 12.55pm (day 4,994)

Marathon finish, 26/4/25

The Manchester marathon took place in quite warm conditions and Alex definitely needed this assistance as he passed the 26-mile marker, thus, 385 yards to go. By the time she reached this point — over four hours later — Clare was also very much in need of some water, but she made it nevertheless, thus completing her second marathon after Edinburgh in May last year. That’s two more than I have ever done, or ever will do: even at walking pace (like, up a mountain or something) I see no need to ever propel myself 26.2 miles in one day. Well done to all who do so.

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Apr 26 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

The hen party heads for Liverpool

Saturday 26th April 2025, 12.25pm (day 4,993)

There must surely be a kind of terror in the face of the stag and — even more so — the hen parties that descend on certain places every weekend. Liverpool seems to particularly attract them: this is taken on platform 11 of Crewe station, but Liverpool is where they’re going, inflatables and all. Perhaps the photo is flawed because none of their faces can be seen, but maybe that does everyone a favour.

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Apr 26 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Red kite, green field

Friday 25th April 2025, 2.35pm (day 4,992)

Red kite, 25/4/25

Red kites (Milvus milvus) were nearly extinct in Britain at the end of the last century but in the 2000s, thanks to some serious efforts on behalf of conservationists, have made a remarkable recovery. If you are aware of the place you might not think that Luton would be one of their strongholds, but that is where this picture was taken, just on the edge of that town. There were a number of them gliding around this afternoon seeking prey, and clearly, Luton is not a great place to be a fieldmouse.

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Apr 25 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Making ripples

Thursday 24th April 2025, 5.10pm (day 4,991)

Goose ripples, 24/4/25

It’s a shame about the foliage but these are near-perfect ripples, and the impression I got was very much that the goose was just sitting there and making them simply because it could. A human equivalent might be holding a ruler down on a desk and making it go bdrrbbrrrddbrrdd. A pointless but pleasing application of physics.

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Apr 25 2025
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Light reading

Wednesday 23rd April 2025, 2.50pm (day 4,990)

Pub reading, 23/4/25

This ‘reading in the pub’ theme has been done before but after nearly 5,000 days some things just come round again. Anyway, taking in James V. Wertsch’s concept of ‘mediated action’ is better done with the accompaniment of alcohol, I feel.

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Apr 22 2025
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Outside the James Chadwick building

Tuesday 22nd April 2025, 12.10pm (day 4,989)

Chadwick building, 22/4/25

Back to work, and back to campus, at least for today. This was one of those shots where the shapes pleased me so I went for it, and even the red box is fine, it’s part of the composition. The wonky sign is the anomaly, but I could claim that’s deliberate too. (It wasn’t.)

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Apr 22 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Pink!

Monday 21st April 2025, 5.55pm (day 4,988)

Cherry blossom, 21/4/25

There’s no other word that could possibly describe this so aptly. The blossoms everywhere seem to be doing very well this year and pink, they certainly are.

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Apr 21 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Growing on the sill

Sunday 20th April 2025, 2.15pm (day 4,987)

Windowsill lettuce, 20/4/25

A profoundly uneventful Easter Sunday saw me barely even leave the bedroom, let alone the house. Well, I’m allowed days like that now and again (it would have been chaos in town, anyway). For photographic purposes it was helpful that the sun was shining, illuminating the lettuce leaves on the windowsill rather pleasingly. I’ll go out tomorrow.

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Apr 20 2025
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Daily Post, Transport

Superhero snowplough

Saturday 19th April 2025, 10.25am (day 4,986)

Superhero snowplough, 19/4/25

My Easter Saturday trip out found me in the Locomotion museum in Shildon, Co. Durham, at 10.30ish. This snowplough looks almost absurdly macho, like it’s Thor’s snowplough (Marvel Comics version). Look at the light beams that shoot off as it steams along! The watching human simply stands in awe and wonder as it zooms past. “Me? Put ME in a museum!? The impudence!”

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