Mother and son, Hallowe’en
Wednesday 31st October 2012, 7.15pm (day 432) I don’t really do Hallowe’en myself, but others do, and it’s a good photo opportunity at least. Like, for this tender mother-and-son shot. Aren’t they cute.
View ArticleClare in her Halloween costume
Thursday 31st October 2013, 8.50pm (day 798) Halloween is, of course, an over-commercial, Americanised piece of tosh, a festival of tat that in the UK risks supplanting our own home-grown folk festival...
View ArticleGuest at the Halloween party
Friday 31st October 2014, 10.55pm (day 1,163) Happy Halloween, happy end of the week, end of the month, end (for me) of a long period travelling. The house across the road threw a party tonight, an...
View ArticleClare’s 40th birthday partty
Wednesday 26th October 2016, 9.40pm (day 1,889) A very happy birthday to the wife, born 26/10/1976 and thus forty years old TODAY. And how can one fail to go for someone with such attention to their...
View ArticleOctober commercialism (and an inaccurate clock)
Wednesday 9th October 2019, 10.50am (really) (day 2,967) I did not notice the inaccuracy of the clock at the point of taking the photo. But I can assure you that I could not have been here at 10.15am....
View ArticleTotems
Thursday 31st October 2019, 9.40am (day 2,989) Back home — at least for a day. It’s Halloween but I don’t really go for The Festival of Cheap Plastic Tat. I did have a couple of online classes to run...
View ArticleHebden Halloween fun
Saturday 23rd October 2021, 12.35pm (day 3,712) These two certainly look like they’re having a jolly time on their respective Saturday lunchtimes in Hebden Bridge. But perhaps they just feel about...
View ArticleExchange Square, in the dark
Friday 28th October 2022, 7.30am (day 4,082) We have yet to put our clocks back, and so the level of darkness in Manchester this Friday morning is somewhat boosted by the extra hour, but even after...
View ArticlePebble, way too early
Tuesday 12th September 2023, 6.30pm (day 4,401) Christmas decorations appearing in early November, I have learned to live with. But Halloween ones appearing more than six weeks before the fact? Ah,...
View ArticleThe Ship Inn, Brighouse
Saturday 28th October 2023, 12.50pm (day 4,447) I wonder how many different public houses have appeared on here over the last 12 years. Quite a few I imagine. Free advertising: the Ship in Brighouse...
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