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Aug 26 2015
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Me, 4 years on

Tuesday 25th August 2015, 1.40pm (day 1,461)

Drew, 25/8/15

26th August is my birthday, so today marks the end of the fourth year of this blog. On the day I started it, 26th August 2011, I took a picture of me (and Clare) on a train going down to London, which though it wasn’t The Photo for that day, appears on the ‘About’ page. So you can have a look at it if you like and compare it with this one, taken, also, on a train going down to London. I think I’m weathering OK. I intend to keep the blog going indefinitely… even if its title is now well out of date.

I’ve also added a page which reproduces my favourite 10 photos from years 3 and 4 of the blog.

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Jun 05 2015
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport

The 8:34 to York departs on time

Friday 5th June 2015, 8.35am (day 1,380)

8:34 to York, 5/6/15 A day in Manchester, a day too far in the week if you ask me. But it was a glorious morning at Hebden Bridge station today.

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Apr 02 2015
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Daily Post, Transport

Commuting, California-style

Wednesday 1st April 2015, 9.00am (day 1,315)

Caltrain, 1/4/15

Transferred this morning to the second stage of my California journey, the conference I am attending in Palo Alto. Could have picked a photo from there but there will be plenty of opportunities for that in the next two days, so here is a shot that lacks aesthetic qualities but does capture the rather bizarre train I caught this morning. A double-decker arrangement, but with an open trough down the centre of the upper deck, giving the impression of being sat up in a glorified luggage rack for the 45 minutes it took to travel from downtown SF into Silicon Valley.

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Dec 08 2014
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Daily Post, Transport

On the train home

Monday 8th December 2014, 4.10pm (day 1,201)

The train home, 8/12/14

It’s really not an exciting period in my life. But it is, at least, the last week of teaching. Note the photographer to the left.

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Nov 24 2014
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger, Transport

On the cattle truck

Monday 24th November 2014, 5.00pm (day 1,187)

Cattle truck, 24/11/14

The point of this blog is not just to find the day’s ‘artistic’ or ‘creative’ side but also to try to epitomise my day. This shot sure does that. Sometimes I’m this close to sodding off back to Fiji.

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Nov 03 2014
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport

On platform 2

Monday 3rd November 2014, 8.00am (day 1,166)

Platform two, 3/11/14

Another beautiful morning, which we are becoming quite used to. When the light hits Hebden Bridge station right, it’s worth hanging around for — this train was going to Manchester, but for the sake of an extra 10 minutes until the next one, I stayed and got the shot.

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Aug 17 2014
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Daily Post, Transport

Nearly missed it…

Sunday 17th August 2014, 2.35pm (day 1,088)

Running for train, 17/8/14

… but this family did make their connection in Leeds. As did Clare and I on our way home from London, after an excellent weekend all round.

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Mar 13 2014
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Daily Post, Transport

Platform 1, Manchester Victoria station

Thursday 13th March 2014, 2.45pm (ish…) (day 931)

Platform 1, 13/3/14OK, I am repeating a theme from three days ago, but there you go. I spend a lot of time on trains and railway platforms. This may be the right time to catch platform 1, anyway. As the renovations proceed, over the last couple of weeks it has lost its roof, allowing the continuing pleasant sunshine to fall on those waiting for their trains home. And the roof leaked anyway.

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Nov 08 2013
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport

The 7.50 departure to York

Friday 8th November 2013, 7.50am (day 806)

7. 50 departure, 8/11/13

My train was slightly late, but this one left just at the right time. I don’t know if this picture is quite what I expected to be when I took it, but it was always going to be today’s photo.

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Jul 02 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

‘The Constant Gardener’

Tuesday 2nd July 2013, 8.00am (day 677)

The Constant Gardener, 2/7/13

As being uploaded on the train to Manchester this morning, by the inefficient but highly effective data collection form known as ‘reading’. The book in the background, by the way, belongs to my fellow Manchester academic Mike, whose surname I can never remember but who teaches English & American literature so reads things far more obscure than my relatively populist novel.

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