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Feb 20 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

Very fine albums

Thursday 19th February 2026, 10.30am (day 5,292)

Albums, 19/2/26

80s music aficionados will surely recognise the work of New Order (and Peter Saville) on the left: what a fine album is Power, Corruption and Lies. Hook and Sumner’s guitars are melodic and brilliant and they’d all discovered Ecstasy too. The 80s peaked right there if you ask me. Marc Almond puts in an appearance as well, and his lot weren’t bad either. Sadly I will never now see Soft Cell live, thanks to Dave Ball popping off this mortal coil last year (RIP). Clare went in 2021 but I was on St Helena at the time: bugger.

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Dec 18 2025
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Christmas hat (abstract)

Wednesday 17th December 2025, 12.55pm (day 5,228)

Bah humbug hat, 17/12/25

The hat with the Scroogey message has been hanging around the house for years, having been acquired from I-Don’t-Remember-Where. Here it is added to a pile of gear C was intending to wear to the first in a run of her Christmas parties. Her excuse could be that it’s the only suitable headgear in the house, but that, in itself, says a lot about why it still sees use.

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Oct 26 2025
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The great Movie Sort of 2025

Friday 24th October 2025, 3.35pm (day 5,174)

Movie reorganisation, 24/10/25

Maybe fifteen years ago these were in some kind of alphabetical order and general state of organisation but like molecules in a viscous liquid, they slowly rearranged themselves over time. Returning them to their original state of order has been a days-long job, only finished as I post this (Sunday morning). And it took all that time to find L. A. Confidential (which is what prompted the Sort Out in the first place).

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Aug 11 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Ripening

Monday 11th August 2025, 8.55am (day 5,100)

Plums and pears, 11/8/25

A rapid return to the theme of purpling plums, but as is often the case in August, we seem to have a lot of them. The pears come from elsewhere than our garden but further ripening is still required.

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May 19 2025
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Daily Post, Transport

Signs of doom

Monday 19th May 2025, 11.00am (day 5,016)

Roadworks, 19/5/25

It’s time for the annual appearance of the “Person Struggling with Umbrella” sign, and all that entails for traffic up and down the Keighley Road. I haven’t driven a car on this island since last August (the only plae I have been behind the wheel was on Ascension), and I’m just fine with that.

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May 07 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

Someone else’s stuff

Wednesday 7th May 2025, 11.35am (day 5,004)

Cardboard boxes, 7/5/25

Never even got close to leaving the house today. The living room was mostly out of bounds, thanks to deliveries of stuff in cardboard boxes that has just kept on coming over the last few days, and some of it isn’t even ours. If Kevin from Morpeth is wondering where his box of chocolate bars is, we’ve got it, it’s one of those in the picture.

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Mar 12 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait

Keeping the hygienist happy

Wednesday 12th March 2025, 11.20am (day 4,948)

Dental hygiene, 12/3/25

In general, I remember to use interdental brushes on my teeth maybe once a month; except when a visit to the hygienist looms, when I start to do the right things more often in order to assuage my feelings of guilt and potential shame.

Paying one of my twice-yearly trips to the dentist really was the most exciting thing done this Wednesday, hence why this is a photowhack; the one and only picture taken on a given day.

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Dec 11 2024
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How we feel about the trains

Wednesday 11th December 2024, 2.40pm (day 4,857)

Train delay, 11/12/24

Christ Almighty you have no idea about the shite that is the local train service. Don’t think that the one you see here is pictired trundling happily onto the platform — instead it is hanging there, just for arbitrary reasons. Not only that, but it’s the first train out of Hebden into Manchester for some hours. The giuy’s face says it all. In the end I didn’t even bother.

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Dec 11 2024
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Planning ahead

Tuesday 10th December 2024, 11.45am (day 4,856)

Planning meeting, 10/12/24

There was no prospect at all of my leaving the house today. Thoughts — and the discussions with the Zoomland colleagues depicted, vaguely, at the top of the laptop screen — were of planning for next year, not finishing off this one. This is a photowhack: the one and only photograph I took today.

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Sep 11 2024
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Pickled peppers

Wednesday 11th September 2024, 1.20pm (day 4,766)

Pickled peppers, 11/9/24

If my name were Peter Piper, could it be said that, on this blog, if I (Peter Piper) depicted a pack of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers were in the pack that Peter Piper depicted?

If English is not your first language and any of that makes any sense, then I congratulate you.

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