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2 Jun 2020

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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1 Jun 2020

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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28 May 2020

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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27 May 2020

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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26 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Winch – Porth Ysgo, North Wales [2019]

100 years ago the coast around the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales was a hive of industry. Parts of the area was dotted with manganese mines and associated shipping docks and winch houses. It’s hard to imagine what it was like as these days it is an area of serenity and eerie beauty peppered with…
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22 May 2020

Picture of the Day – Missis Mop, Brierley [2009]

The timid and much loved moggy Missis Mop, here seen on my bed in Brierley, South Yorkshire, could be ever so affectionate.
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21 May 2020

Picture of the Day – Maddy, Leamington Spa, 2011

In a hedge, by a gate, in Radford Semele near Leamington Spa, lived some sparrows. Maddy always thought that sparrows were very interesting.
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20 May 2020

Picture of the Day – Sundial, Farnborough Hall, UK [2017]

A great thing to do in the UK when you’re absolutely stinking rich and still living in the massive family home but you don’t want to spend money on maintainence, is to gift the home to the National Trust on the condition that you only open to the public for the minimum amount of days…
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19 May 2020

Picture of the day – Cleethorpes [2018]

It was a splendid day today in 2018, the sun was out, the sky was blue and Prince Harry was getting married to an American. What more could a British person want? A trip to the seaside for Fish and Chips you say? Perfect! And so that is what we did. You can read about…
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18 May 2020

Picture of the Day: Royal Oak – Langstone [2008]

As a child I was gifted the book Haunted Inns by Marc Alexander (1973) which is a kind of gazetteer of reputedly haunted inns around the UK. Indeed, during the early days of the internet (you know, when it was fun and not full of fascism and capitalism) I had a site on Geocities called…
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