Tag Archives: rain

Jun 13 2012
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Dry patch, Urbis

Wednesday 13th June 2012, 9.30am (day 293)

Dry patch, 13/6/12

Urbis has already appeared on this blog more than once; but seeing as it’s right outside Manchester Victoria station, I walk past it an awful lot, so it has plenty of chances. And I think it’s a relatively handsome building. This shot came about because just as I walked up the ramp, on another drizzly day, a truck drove off and left this perfectly rectangular dry patch. My in-camera shot had the wrong white balance setting on it and was a bit fuzzy, but a fiddle in iPhoto and here we have this abstract. Not bad.

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Apr 29 2012
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Daily Post, Landscape

The rain it raineth every day

Sunday 29th April 2012, 2.25pm (day 248)

More rain, 29/4/12

This was the view this afternoon through the skylight in my home office, at the top of the house. Enough of this bloody rain already. Really.

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Apr 27 2012
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

‘Drought’ in Hebden Bridge

Thursday 26th April 2012, 4.25pm (day 245)

Joe in rain, 26/4/12

The non-democratic British government, and the private capitalists they get to do their dirty work with public services, are so inept they can’t even do the weather right. Last week we were all told that the country currently resides in a state of drought. Since then it’s hardly stopped raining.

It’s not a ‘drought’, anyway. What we are being told is that the private water companies have inefficient water capture systems and a lack of any real conservation strategy. But that’s an undesirable message as far as they’re concerned, and one easy to spin into ‘It’s the Weather. Honest guv. It’s out of our hands.’ No it isn’t. If the government just gave everyone a water butt for free we could sort out a lot of the ‘problems’ by tomorrow morning.

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Apr 10 2012
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger, Transport

At Todmorden station

Tuesday 10th April 2012, 11.45am (day 229)

Tod station, 10/4/12

This photo encapsulates the weather we had today: wind, rain and sun. Taken from inside the (heated) waiting room on platform 2 of Todmorden railway station.

Another very strong candidate for photo of the day is on my Facebook page, by the way. Doubtless it will make its way into the next ‘best of the rest’ collection.

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Jan 20 2012
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Uncategorized, Urban scene Gallery

A very rainy day, Manchester

Friday 20th January 2012, 2.15pm (day 148)

A very rainy day, 20/1/12

Tolerable weather this morning so I left home without any equipment. On the two-mile walk back from my office to the railway station, I decided happiness would have been a small frame of wire with some synthetic material stretched over it, even if it had been red with black spots and had two comedy eyes poking up from the top. I’m still damp now, several hours later.

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Jan 04 2012
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Hebden Bridge, Uncategorized, Urban scene Gallery

The parents taking shelter

Wednesday 4th January 2012, 2.55pm (day 132)

Taking shelter, 4/1/12

The weather today was as foul as it’s been on any day of this blog so far. I was on picking-up duty from school. The only place to shelter there is this gazebo-like structure. By the time I arrived it was already full of other parents. 15 minutes later Joe ambled out and then wondered why he didn’t get a treat on the way home.

Joe’s fantasy, by the way, is that his school gets flooded. Well, it’s called Riverside for a reason. If this rain keeps up he might get his wish.

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Oct 12 2011
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene Gallery

Calder Holmes Park, Hebden Bridge

Wednesday 12th October 2011, 8.45am (day 48)

Rain in Calder Holmes Park, 12/10/11

The Indian Summer buggered off back to India at least a week ago and since then it’s barely stopped raining. Not much else worth adding here, except perhaps, ‘enough already’.

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Oct 10 2011
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Taking shelter, Manchester city centre

Monday 10th October 2011, 4.10pm (day 46)

Taking shelter, 10/10/11

A bit blurred I know but this was the best picture I came up with to encapsulate what was another rainy day. Apparently Manchester is not, according to its reputation, the rainiest city in the UK (it’s Glasgow, I believe) – but on days like this it certainly feels like it.

Incidentally, is it me or do Caffé Nero spell their name wrong?

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Sep 05 2011
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene Gallery

View from my living room

Monday 5th September 2011, 10.55am (day 11)

Flower, rain and mill, 5/9/11

Joe goes back to school tomorrow after his summer vacation. On this photo you can almost see the rain still falling. Someone’s telling us, ‘That’s your summer mate. That was it, gone. It’ll be back in another three-quarters of a year.’

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