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Jun 22 2026
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Football and big mountain combo

Sunday 21st June 2026, 4.05pm (day 5,414)

Fløya landscape, 21/6/26

Seems like an adequate combination of two of my more favoured recreational pursuits. In the background, Tromsdalstinden, the summit of which stands at 4,055 feet (1,236m) above sea level and which I hauled myself up on 30/9/2017 — in weather that was a damn sight warmer than today’s ‘Midsummer’s Day’ incidentally, as the snow evidences. As seen from the ground of IF Fløya, the green-clad players of whom are defending here, but they needn’t have worried: they were already 2-0 up at this point just after half-time and went on to win 4-0.

Incidentally, I make this the 100th Norway shot to feature on this blog.

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Feb 04 2026
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Turkey, surprisingly

Wednesday 4th February 2026, 3.25pm (day 5,277)

Snow in Turkey, 4/2/26

Today I was up in the air for the first time since April (my return from Ascension Island), heading somewhere warmer than the UK is at the moment — and also warmer than central Turkey is at the moment too, by the looks of this. I don’t know about you but these are not conditions I would normally associate with that particular country. However, see for yourself…

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Jan 06 2026
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Snow above the woods

Monday 5th January 2026, 12 noon (day 5,247)

Snow above woods, 5/1/26

As it did on 5th January 2025, it snowed, but at least I wasn’t trying to get to London today — nor anywhere else. A quick walk was mandated around lunchtime, though, mainly for photography purposes. I like the way the young trees march up the hillside in their protectors, somewhat mimicking the chimney stacks in front.

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Nov 19 2025
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Bit o’ snow

Wednesday 19th November 2025, 2.40pm (day 5,200)

Definitely just a dusting — but, nevertheless, today was easily the coldest day of the winter so far. And I guess we must say winter has now arrived, at least, in West Yorkshire.

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Jan 05 2025
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Futility

Sunday 5th January 2025, 9.45am (day 4,882)

Snowbound station, 5/1/25

You thought you were leaving Hebden Bridge today? Naaah. Ain’t gonna happen, not at 9.45am, not at any other point either (though there were unsubstantiated rumours that the 13:48 may have run, probably to get some people home — that was it, though). Just as well I gave myself three days to get to Heathrow, huh. Let’s try again tomorrow.

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Nov 24 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The thaw (too fast)

Saturday 23rd November 2024, 3.00pm (day 4,839)

Canal in thaw, 23/11/24

The last few days have been very cold. Even this morning there was still plenty of snow on the ground. But the temperature rocketed upwards today, to 11º or 12ºC, and it rained quite heavily, thus taking out all the snow and filling all available drainage — including the river and, seen here, the canal — almost to overflowing. Three more hours after this picture was taken and all the remaining snow was gone, as if it had never been.

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Nov 19 2024
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November morning (or not)

Tuesday 19th November 2024, 1.00pm (day 4,835)

Nutclough November, 19/11/24

I have marking to do and didn’t really leave the house all day (well, OK, I went to the pub, but it was dark by then). The snow came, and this shot seems to sum up the day well enough.

I entitled this “November morning” before I looked more closely at the time it was taken. But somehow it feels like a morning, so I’m not going to change it.

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Feb 27 2024
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Skiddaw in cloud

Monday 26th February 2024, 12.30pm (day 4,568)

Skiddaw, 26/2/24

This shot was actually incidental to the walk I completed today — my penultimate Wainwright walk, unless there is some big change of plan between now and, say, the next month. Skiddaw was nowhere near where I was. But — it looks so good here. All macho and domineering, despite its sheen of snowy white. Would that we could all look so good at a few million years old.

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Jan 17 2024
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The graveyard on the hill

Tuesday 16th January 2024, 11.25am (day 4,527)

Graveyard on hill, 16/1/24

Snow was forecast and duly arrived, though it was hardly a winter apocalypse. It did make the town look good, though. This graveyard sits on the hillside across the valley from my house: it takes a long zoom to pick it out in a photo and, usually it’s all rather brown and unprominent. But I like the way the snow picks out the headstones, like rim-light, almost.

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Nov 30 2023
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First snow of the winter

Thursday 30th November 2023, 12.10am (day 4,480)

Snow dusting, red light, 30/11/23

OK, it’s not much, but the first snow of the season fell on Hebden Bridge while I was out in Blackburn last night. It didn’t last, but here it is. A curiosity: one of the few pictures used to represent a day despite being taken before going to bed the night before; in fact in pure calendar terms this is the earliest ever shot in all the 4,480 days so far. Times on here are rounded to the nearest five minutes, but this does take the award from the previous holder, 27th September 2014, by one minute and twelve seconds: the exact timestamp on this shot is 00:08:03.

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