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Dec 30 2024
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Half-time feelings

Sunday 29th December 2024, 3.50pm (day 4,875)

Morecambe fan, 29/12/24

After the interest and congeniality of Padiham the day before, Salford City v Morecambe, my last football match of 2024 was one of the worst of the lot, a truly dire game in a characterless metal box. The general demeanour of this gentleman, captured at half-time, sums it up. Time to move on — though for Morecambe this movement increasingly looks like it will be downward again, and back out of the League at some point in the spring. Perhaps I’m wrong, but you didn’t see them play today.

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Dec 30 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Sport

Mural, Padiham FC

Saturday 28th December 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,874)

Padiham FC mural, 28/12/24

Both the weekend’s photos are from the football; two contrasting experiences. Here, the positive one at Padiham FC, an enjoyable game in a congenial stadium, one with character and distinctiveness. This mural has been painted since we last visited here two years ago, and, I think, its effectiveness can be judged by the fact that you do have to look twice to realise Joe, in his dark coat and grey woolly hat, is not actually part of it.

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Dec 28 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Parasols

Friday 27th December 2024, 2.45pm (day 4,783)

Parasol fungi, 27/12/24

I cannot think of any comment other than: How cute. And all with a burst of golden sunlight in the background, and there really hasn’t been a great deal of that in December (though in this country, there never is).

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Dec 27 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

In the Sheffield fog

Thursday 26th December 2024, 1.30pm (day 4,872)

Wheel and fog, 26/12/24

Until about 2.30pm on Christmas Day I had not anticipated spending December 26th in Sheffield, but at that point an acquaintance told me of a spare ticket for a coach trip to go there and see the football (Sheffield United 0-2 Burnley, in case you were interested), and so it came to pass. In fact there were quite a few games in the area postponed or abandoned because of fog, which was certainly the main weather feature of the day. This is one of those shots that looks as if I’ve post-processed it and turned it monochrome, but that’s not the case: this is really what Sheffield city centre looked like at about 1.30pm.

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Dec 27 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Natural Xmas decoration

Wednesday 25th December 2024, 12.55pm (day 4,871)

Pine trees and hogweed, 25/12/24

Really, not an exciting Christmas Day, but are they ever, these days? A pleasant one though, and mild, so Clare and Joe were dragged out on the usual pre-consumption walk, where was captured this piece of hogweed in front of the pine (Christmas) trees, simply because I like the shape it makes. A natural candelabrum, maybe.

Anyway — a happy Christmas to you all, I hope you enjoyed the day, however it was spent.

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Dec 25 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Portrait, Stranger, Transport

Tractor run

Tuesday 24th December 2024, 6.50pm (day 4,870)

Tractor run, 24/12/24

Attempts to create a new tradition by running a bunch of tractors and trucks, decorated in lights, through the centre of Hebden Bridge on 24th December were greeted by this photographer as an opportunity to depict something different on the 14th Christmas Eve to grace these virtual pages. Did he (I) really see the point, though? Well, not really. But it did draw a reasonably sized crowd.

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Dec 24 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

Above Dove Stones reservoir

Monday 23rd December 2024, 10.10am (day 4,869)

Dove Stones hiker, 23/12/24

Well, I didn’t have anything better today, and by the signs of it, neither did he. I hope he enjoyed his bout of exercise as much as I did. (For more details see my other blog.)

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Dec 22 2024
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Joe’s card trick (with risqué deck)

Sunday 22nd December 2024, 3.20pm (day 4,868)

Risqué cards, 22/12/24

Joe — or his hands, anyway — makes his first visit to Hebden Bridge since the summer, and first appearance on the blog since 7th September, demonstrating a rather nifty card trick: I did work out how it was done in the end, but it took some figuring out.

Can we both note that the deck of cards (and they are all like that, more-or-less) in fact belongs to the wife, although she claims I bought it for her….

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Dec 22 2024
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Daily Post, Sport

A minute’s silence

Saturday 21st December 2024, 3.00pm (day 4,867)

Minute's silence, 21/12/24

3pm on a Saturday, and all around the country, a certain proportion of the players and spectators stand for a minute of tribute to someone or other. Here at Brighouse Town (the guys in orange), it was to commemorate a recently deceased former goalkeeper, it seems. Not that anyone had heard of the guy until this moment but all the same, it is good to take a minute now and again to stand and collectively create silence, a commodity that is not always easy to acquire.

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Dec 21 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Get your crap out of my river

Friday 20th December 2024, 11.55am (day 4,866)

Heron and bike, 20/12/24

No Christmas break in sight for the herons, who still have to fish, and thereby eat. This one, rightfully, looks with some disdain at the litter that has been chucked in the Hebden Water next to its usual spot at the weir. Bloody humans, leaving their crap all over the place. And it’ll be there for weeks, I bet.

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