Monday 5th September 2022, 9.15am (day 4,029)
And from the evening, to the morning — not having moved very far. These houses constitute home; although I have neatly covered up our own windows with a tree trunk.
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On the walk back from Old Town
Saturday 4th June 2022, 6.00pm (day 3,936)
Well, I was walking back from Old Town — I don’t know where this person’s itinerary had taken them. I am reminded now and again that I do live in a pleasant part of the world. That’s not an accident.
Unexpected snow
Thursday 31st March 2022, 8.00am (day 3,871)
Although I spent most of the day in Manchester, Hebden Bridge should feature on here for the fourth day in a row thanks to the unexpected scenes which greeted its residents when opening their curtains in the morning. While we were enjoying the balmy spring weather a week ago, I joked with my international students saying “British weather — it could snow again before we’re done”. But I didn’t necessarily think I would be proven right. This was all gone again by the time I came home, however.
A walk in the woods
Sunday 30th January 2022, 12.05pm (day 3,811)
This trip down to London also offered the chance to pick up a County Top (see the other blog); specifically Bushey Heath, the highest point in the historic county of Middlesex, swallowed up by London in 1965 although at least it still retains a county cricket team. It wasn’t major mountaineering, though. Clare here strolls through the woods near Bentley Priory (an ecclesiastical relic? no, a premium housing estate) in one of those shots that chews up the bandwidth thanks to all the foliage.
The interior
Saturday 20th November 2021, 12.25pm (day 3,740)
Time to do some exploring. It’d be nice if the weather improved — even the locals are complaining that it should be sunnier and warmer by this time in the year — but at least the drizzle gives this shot a nicely melancholy atmosphere. This is taken almost in the very centre of the island, very close to where Edmond Halley, the famous astronomer, set up an observatory in 1677.
The mast, in autumn
Wednesday 3rd November 2021, 12 noon (day 3,723)
Hebden Bridge in autumn plumage. A nice place to be. Cold at the moment, though, but the trees look good.
A splash of autumn
Thursday 21st October 2021, 1.05pm (day 3,710)
Can’t say I had the greatest day at work today but at least it was sunny outside. A walk in the woods helped, a little. I guess because these trees are more sheltered than most, they’ve barely begun to turn yet — just the merest splash of autumn has hit them, thus far.
St. Mary’s Church, Banbury
Friday 16th July 2021, 11.40am (day 3,613)
The ‘Strategy Forum’ came and went — nice to meet people again, not so nice to be presented with visions of the future ruled by metrics and process management, with scholarship now an apparent inconvenience, allowed for grudgingly if at all. I couldn’t make it even to the end of the last half-day so escaped about 11am and shortly afterwards was in Banbury, which can become the 349th different location to feature on the blog. St. Mary’s Church is one of those buildings that it’s very difficult to get a full impression of on a single photo, but here’s my best attempt.
Granville Square (London shot #101)
Tuesday 1st June 2021, 9.15am (day 3,568)
On this, the 101st day that London has appeared on this blog, we had left for home by 10am, but there was still time to discover another of the quiet little corners that make this a pleasant city in so many ways, and partly explain why I come back so often. Granville Square sits not fifty yards off the Kings Cross Road, right in the centre of the city, but you wouldn’t know it on this glorious June morning.
The hillside (with non-conformist tree)
Tuesday 18th May 2021, 2.30pm (day 3,554)
An improvement in the weather, at least temporarily. The red tree proudly stands out from its neighbours; dare to be different…
