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Nov 18 2023
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The Cardiff Bay barrage

Saturday 18th November 2023, 11.35am (day 4,468)

The Cardiff Bay barrage was built in the 1990s, at huge expense, specifically to get rid of what were perceived as unattractive mudflats, and thus prepare the land for colonisation by the Great God Commerce: which seems to have subsequently taken place. It’s not an unattractive piece of engineering, I guess. Out there is the island of Flat Holm, which still counts as Wales, so this isn’t another shot that depicts the land of more than one country. (There have been three of these: two with England and Wales (both around the Dee Estuary), and one with England and France.)

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Nov 10 2023
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Morning on the tops

Friday 10th November 2023, 8.20am (day 4,460)

Long Causeway mist view, 10/11/23

Today didn’t quite work out as planned, but nor am I complaining. A glorious morning. The sheep seem quite contented about it, too.

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Nov 08 2023
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Rainbow’s end

Tuesday 7th November 2023, 2.40pm (day 4,457)

Rainbow and geese, 7/11/23

Rainbows are, technically, optical illusions, but they are illusions that the camera also sees. This one was definitely touching earth somewhere around the Old Lees Road/Hurst Road area of Hebden Bridge this afternoon. The geese wouldn’t have seen it though; they were flying in the opposite direction.

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Oct 30 2023
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On the Long Causeway

Sunday 29th October 2023, 1.35pm (day 4,448)

Long Causeway wind farm, 29/10/23

This statement will seem disagreeable to some but I actually quite like wind farms. The ones above the upper Calder Valley, as seen here from the Long Causeway road that links Hebden Bridge and Burnley across the moors, are not unattractive.

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Oct 26 2023
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Still working on the roof

Wednesday 25th October 2023, 9.15am (day 4,444)

Roofers and mist, 25/10/23

The roofers have been working on Nutclough Mill for weeks now. Months, even. But there are worse mornings to be up there.

Today is, as you may notice, day 4,444 — twelve years and two months, more or less. I did think about finding something 4-related to mark it, but this photo was always going to be today’s shot once it was taken. Nevertheless the number is worth noting, particularly as Stafford, last Thursday, was place number 444. Which if nothing else shows I am maintaining a steady diet of one new place every ten days.

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Sep 24 2023
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September shower

Friday 22nd September 2023, 4.30pm (day 4,411)

September shower, 22/9/23

The week has been a busy one but ends uneventfully. The weather was unconducive to a spell sat outside the pub, so the drinking was done indoors today. I believe this shot was captured through the window; a sensible approach under the circumstances.

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Sep 10 2023
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Scafell and Slight Side

Friday 8th September 2023, 9.00am (day 4,397)

Scafell and Slight Side, 9/9/23

Scafell, on the left, is the second-highest mountain in England at 3,162 feet (964m) and even Slight Side, the pimple below the sun, is 2,499 feet, so no dwarf. I decided that ascending both was a good idea on a day which reached the high 20s Celsius, and on which breezes were just a dream, happening elsewhere. This was, perhaps, the slowest walk I have done since I was a toddler. But they were bagged. (See the Wainwrights blog for the gory details if you like.)

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Sep 02 2023
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Rain over London

Friday 1st September 2023, 7.00pm (day 4,390)

Rain over London, 1/9/23

As seen from the Walthamstow Travelodge, looking south. Yes, I’m in London again. I like London. There are things to do here.

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Aug 15 2023
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More glorious summer

Monday 14th August 2023, 11.30am (day 4,372)

More crap weather, 14/8/23

The uneventfulness of today was largely determined by this crap. Really, what’s the point in facing it? It is forecast to improve, so I just got on with stuff indoors.

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Aug 07 2023
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The Humber Bridge, from North Ferriby

Saturday 5th August 2023, 1.15pm (day 4,363)

Humber Bridge, 5/8/23

Back on November 4th 2020 I stood under the south end of the Humber Bridge — the right-hand end as this picture shows it — and took this shot. It was a day of considerably nicer weather than today, despite this being August. Anyway, this gigantic construction can join the Forth Bridge and Tay Bridge as great bridges to have appeared twice. I believe that this one is so long that the two stanchions are slightly out of parallel with each other, to allow for the curvature of the Earth, and I wonder whether you might even be able to see that on this shot, though probably that’s my imagination.

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