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  • Picture of the Day: Brave Girl, Arundel Castle [2008]

    There are many things I won’t do like stick my fingers in the electric socket, swim with radioactive sharks, walk down Granby Street naked or jump off a bridge with nothing but knicker elastic around my ankle. Indeed, there are many foolish things I have done that I won’t ever do again like fall off

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  • Picture of the Day: Seaward, Aberdaron [2004]

    For some reason the auto post for this entry didn’t trigger. Usually I’ll write entries days ahead during busy times and the WordPress scheduled post thing isn’t always reliable. Anyway, I’ll back date these next two posts…. Aberdaron, on the western coast of North Wales, is, as many long term readers will know, my favourite

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  • Picture of the Day: Sheffield’s Wheelie Good [2010]

    Evidently in 2010 I was in Sheffield. Can’t think for the life of me why although I was living in nearby Barnsley so it is possible I was there for commuting purposes or for meeting friends.  I’ve been to Sheffield many times in the past. I lived there in 1992, visited again in 1997. It

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  • Picture of the Day: Benchmark, Northampton Guildhall, Northampton [2017]

    Many years ago, perhaps even around the 1980s, I noticed a curious little symbol on a gatepost near my school. As the internet hadn’t been invented, I had no option but to draw it and ask older people what it might be. Of course old people are not Google and the various responses I had

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  • Picture of the Day: Budget Kiss — Stilton, UK [2014]

    May is that time of year in the UK when villages start to become alive. Hipsters gather their trailers and converted caravans to vend organic vegan fat-hen flavour ice cream shampoo and barbecue slow cooked artisian oven baked allergen free squid rings to shuffling Guardian reading zombies. While village community association members bicker about who

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  • Picture of the Day: Tunnel Vision, Catesby, Northamptonshire [2009]

    Back in 2009, I got seriously into geocaching in a big way. It was niche, nerdy and didn’t really have much of a cost other than the travelling around. Perfect for a geek with no money and a car. Geocaching (see http://www.geocaching.com), if you didn’t know, is a worldwide game where containers or caches are

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  • Picture of the Day: South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey [2011]

    I love lighthouses. When I was a child people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Having consumed an unhealthy amount of Enid Blyton, Portland Bill and sea mysteries my answer was always a Lighthouse Keeper.  I fancied (and still do) being the stereo typical lighthouse keeper – growing a

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  • Picture of the Day: Dead Horse, Brierley, Barnsley [2008]

    All about a horse in a field thirteen years ago.

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  • Picture of the Day: Sheffield Hallam Amateur Dramatics Society (1992)

    Not all of my photos have exact dates of when they were taken. In the old days, only really fancy cameras recorded the date when the photo was taken. Not only that, a lot of photos I have are of people I still know and I don’t really want to be posting them online without

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  • Picture of the Day: Peace Garden, Calderstones Park, Liverpool [2013]

    Back at the turn of the century, Mrs Gnomepants V1.0 landed a sweet gig working as part of a millenium fund funded project to do with artistic green spaces. The culmination of which was a topiary garden known as The Peace Garden. Her job was to show people around the garden and tell them the

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