Tag Archives: rain

Dec 25 2012
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Daily Post, Landscape

Heptonstall church, Christmas Day

Tuesday 25th December 2012, 1.00pm (day 488)

Xmas walk, 25/12/12

Was determined to present a photo that wasn’t ‘festive’ – not that I am anti-Christmas, I just fancied hitting a different theme. This shot was taken during the short walk we did in the early afternoon, a nod to the desire to get some exercise among the eating and drinking, and is altered slightly by the rain in the lens but not spoilt, I think. No White Christmas this year, though we have had some in recent years.

Anyway – a happy Christmas to you all, wherever you are and whatever your weather.

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Dec 20 2012
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Thursday market, Hebden Bridge

Thursday 20th December 2012, 9.00am (day 483)

Fish van, 20/12/12

A regular Thursday scene in Hebden Bridge, but not previously depicted on the blog. The fish van is a welcome visitor – he’s having a quiet day here, there is usually a considerable queue. Mind you, it was chucking it down with rain this morning.

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Nov 26 2012
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Wet Monday morning

Monday 26th November 2012, 7.55am (day 459)

Wet Monday morning, 26/11/12

Ho hum. Not many Monday mornings to go, fortunately. Nice to see the Council are keeping the drains clear of fallen leaves, anyway.

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Oct 04 2012
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Taking shelter, Bergen

Thursday 4th October 2012, 3.05pm (day 406)

University of Bergen, 4/10/12

Travelled last night from Trondheim to Bergen. I do like Bergen, it is a fine city, but it’d be even better if it didn’t chuck it down with rain about 75% of the time.

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Jun 21 2012
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

First day of summer

Thursday 21st June 2012, 8.45am (day 301)

Wet ducks, 21/6/12

Astronomically, today was the first day of summer. Ha ha. It’s throwing it down here. Even the ducks look depressed.

Incidentally, what you see here is the original bridge, dating from around 1510, for which the town of Hebden Bridge is named. It’ll have seen drier 21st Junes in its time.

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Jun 15 2012
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

June storm

Friday 15th June 2012, 1.25pm (day 295)

June storm, 15/6/12

Today in Donetsk the Ukraine v France game started, but was then suspended for an hour because of heavy rain.

This June in Hebden Bridge spring started, but has since been suspended for a couple of weeks because of general crappiness, of which today saw more; including this attempt to emulate the weather in the Ukraine, except it’s nowhere near warm enough for a decent thunderstorm. It’s just rain.

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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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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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‘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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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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