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![Picture of the Day: Desk, Liverpool [2004]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/04902dba-07d9-424b-9c20-85130bc3ae9d_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "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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![Picture of the Day: Pies!, Honley Show, West Yorkshire, UK [2007]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/975099ef-6f18-4df1-923c-db8e5e672b29_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "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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![Picture of the Day: Laburnum Arch, Unknown, UK [2015]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/242105a3-fadc-4423-b2c9-b6baa587e7af.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "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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![Picture of the Day: Gandalf the Blue, Delamere Forest, UK [2005]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0195eb9c-abe9-4650-936e-4240b7da48c2.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "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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![Picture of the Day: Bishop Eton, Liverpool [2011]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66e9fcff-e53e-4479-99b5-12c63337fc03_1_101_a.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "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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![Picture of the Day: Canal Boat, Foxton Locks, UK [2017]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/290a9419-fa51-4361-ba17-89cefefa2bf8.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "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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![Picture of the Day: The Man Who Lives in the Middle of the M62 [2007]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/e39fadd5-12cb-4a8b-8e69-ea7d1ef6eda2_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=450%2C375&ssl=1 "Picture of the Day: The Man Who Lives in the Middle of the M62 [2007]")
As seen on this day in 2007. The farm in the middle of the M62. A place so famous, award winning artist John Shuttleworth recorded a song about it. However, contrary to popular belief, the farmer didn’t refuse to sell or give up the land to make way for the M62, that is a pile
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![Picture of the Day – Oven Door Bakery, Liverpool [2006]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/8a3b8de7-e570-4a71-8d11-a83857de9c61_4_5005_c.jpeg?resize=256%2C320&ssl=1 "Picture of the Day – Oven Door Bakery, Liverpool [2006]")
As some long term readers will remember, in the early noughties, I was living in Liverpool while working at the Liverpool University in their Computer Department. Happy times. Back then I was spending roughly about £5 a day in lunches then moan about not having any money at the end of the month, despite the
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![Picture of the Day: Down Tools – Swaffam, UK [2017]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0112b81e-9a38-47e5-ac98-7afda3140a9c.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "Picture of the Day: Down Tools – Swaffam, UK [2017]")
I try not to take arty photographs because snobbery. Anyone can point a camera, hold it correctly, frame the view and press the button. They can even apply filters if they want. Its not exactly difficult like smooth shadework, mixing oil colours or sculpting from clay. But every so often I see something that shows
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![Picture of the Day: Little Steam Engine, Kirklees Light Railway, Yorkshire [2007]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/576559a6-21a7-4934-9b14-ea7d9e30d5dc_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "Picture of the Day: Little Steam Engine, Kirklees Light Railway, Yorkshire [2007]")
Can you see the little steam engine? Look how shiney its brasses are. Look at the red buffer bar and the green and black livery on the engine. Can you hear the hiss of the steam coming out of the engine? “All aboard” cries the station master and the carriage doors are closed noisily. Can
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