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Oct 20 2024
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Poppies (Welsh)

Saturday 19th October 2024, 4.05pm (day 4,804)

Poppies, 19/10/24

A very pleasant day today, and these caught the light perfectly. And I got them in focus, too: there’s quite a long zoom being deployed here.

This is one of those occasions where a whole new location (the 479th, in fact) gets on the blog with a shot that could be taken anywhere. These poppies are currently flowering behind one of the stands of Brickfield Rangers FC, who play on the outskirts of Wrexham in north-east Wales, a town that had previously not offered up a picture in thirteen-plus years, and may not do so again.

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May 23 2024
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Tomatoes-to-be

Thursday 23rd May 2024, 5.10pm (day 4,655)

Tomato flower, 23/5/24

Always finding a reason to bring 42 into the narrative, I note this is the first Hebden Bridge pic for 42 days, the last being on 10th April: my second-longest run without a HB pic on the blog (the longest being the 127-day trip in 2013, to Australia). In those six weeks these tomato plants have been nurtured by the wife and taken over the window sill. Bring on the next stage…

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Apr 10 2024
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Pak choi and sheep skull

Wednesday 10th April 2024, 1.45pm (day 4,612)

Pak choi and sheep skull, 10/4/24

Clare thinks that this picture should be called ‘Death and Rebirth’. Perhaps it’s also an attempt to produce a combination of terms that has never and will not again appear on a single Google search. My last day at home for some time. See you later.

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Sep 27 2023
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Paper chillis

Wednesday 27th September 2023, 4.15pm (day 4,416)

Paper chillis, 27/9/23

An upcoming short trip to London aside, I am not going anywhere in the near future: it will be at least February before I go anywhere radically different (meaning, outside the UK). It’s one of those periods where I need to find inspiration near to home. These plants will do for today, however. I don’t know what these actually are but to me they look like little paper chilli lanterns, hence the title of the post. All available for viewing in a window box a few doors down from my place, anyway.

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Aug 30 2023
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Not a rose (by any other name)

Tuesday 29th August 2023, 12.05pm (day 4,387)

Not a rose, 29/8/23

How unexpected, I thought, as I saw this rose poking up, alone, from the undergrowth at the edge of the Memorial Garden. Then I saw it was not a rose. Plastic bag? A couple of bright red serviettes from one of the local eateries? To be honest I didn’t check. I took a photograph of it though.

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Mar 23 2023
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The optimism of spring

Thursday 23rd March 2022, 9.15am (day 4,228)

New bud, 23/3/23

On another day of restricted horizons, the choice of pictures came down to this new bud, or a storm/sun combination shot from the afternoon. As I sometimes do, I asked Clare which her preference was, and she chose this one, considering “the optimism of spring” preferable. So yes, why not. Spring should be a time of optimism, even if just in little ways.

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Mar 22 2023
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Pea nursery

Tuesday 21st March 2023, 9.30am (day 4,226)

Pea nursery, 21/2/23

How many of these peas will eventually sprout edible small green products remains to be seen: getting them started by the living room window is always the easy bit, each year. But we try.

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Apr 30 2022
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Another Manchester alley (with plants)

Friday 29th April 2022, 3.10pm (day 3,900)

The second Manchester alleyway of the week — this one known as Reyner Street. Proof that if given a foothold, and a bit of sun for an hour or so a day, foliage can flourish anywhere.

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Apr 05 2022
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New chillies

Monday 4th April 2022, 11.05am (day 3,875)

New chillis, 4/4/22

It’s that time of year again. You buy the seeds and put them in some mulch, and await the first shoots. Eventually some of them might turn into the thing illustrated on the packet. But that remains to be seen.

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Mar 12 2022
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Daffodils

Friday 11th March 2022, 9.20am (day 3,851)

Daffodils, 11/3/22

Not quite Wordsworth’s multitude but there are certainly a lot of these sprouting outside the Ellen Wilkinson Building on campus at the moment, something the rather random focus point of this shot is intended to capture. This is the 700th Manchester shot to feature on here, by the way.

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