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18 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Lookout! – North Wales, UK [2016]

When I was a little boy I was fascinated by lighthouses and all I wanted to be “when I grew up” was a lighthouse keeper. Growing a bushy beard, wearing a white sweater, smoking a pipe and telling outlandish tales about hidden treasure and sea monsters to passing groups of four children or more with…
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17 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Lampshades and Brollies Amongst the Palms, Majorca [2014]

It seems six years ago I was all inclusive in Majorca supping mojitos by the pool in the evenings. What wouldn’t I give to be doing that today?
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16 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Coke Head, Monkton, South Yorkshire, UK

There was a time when the skyline in Yorkshire was peppered with sights such as this. Pit heads everywhere as industry stripped the seams of coal to power the country and industry. Now, only a few mines remain and most of them are open cast, looking nothing like the one in the photo. That said,…
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11 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: “Camouflage”, Loughborough, Leicestershire [2011]

Believe it or not, there is a man standing in this picture. It may look like a harmless artistic photograph of a grassy bank with a metal pipe sticking out of it but if you look….really closely…you’ll see….there is a man dressed as a World War II German soldier. Can you see him now? This…
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10 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Desk, Liverpool [2004]

Todays picture is another desk of hidden objects (not too disimilar to the one posted last month). This time the picture is of my desk in the new build house in Liverpool. I probably took this for a meme that was popular on Livejournal. It’s interesting to see many of the items on display and…
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9 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Pies!, Honley Show, West Yorkshire, UK [2007]

When we were allowed outside, at this time of the year county shows and festivals would be popping up all over the UK ,indeed, some of these fairs have been going for many years others, like Hollowell, relatively less. Prior to my visit the the Honley show in 2007 I had only really been to…
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8 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Laburnum Arch, Unknown, UK [2015]

When I was a child in the UK, laburnums seemed to be everywhere. Trees in domestic and ornamental public gardens would bloom a vibrant yellow every year. The annual display looked lovely and would add further enjoyment of the garden to gardeners and visitors. Then, sometime in the mid-nineties, around about the same time as…
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5 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Gandalf the Blue, Delamere Forest, UK [2005]

Before we begin, yesterdays picture of the day was from 2011 and not 2016. Doh! Today we see the rare demin coated Gandalf-Stegzy in the wild. This was taken during a walk through Delamere Forest in 2005 back when walking through Delamere Forest was a thing. Now Delamere Forest is mostly a middle class family…
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4 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Bishop Eton, Liverpool [2011]

As a youth living in South Liverpool, I spent a fair bit of time in Bishop Eton Parish. Not only did I have a bar job there, but in my younger, informative years, I spent a good while singing in the church choir. The redemptorist priests had a house there within the grounds, the gate…
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3 Jun 2020

Picture of the Day: Canal Boat, Foxton Locks, UK [2017]

Before lock down there was a nice American themed grill house restaurant at Foxton Locks called Texas Steakhouse. Seemed totally out of the way being in the middle of nowhere in particular but it looked popular. Well it appears that it is now closed and is called Hoggets which styles itself on serving wanky posh…
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