Heptonstall church, Christmas Day
Tuesday 25th December 2012, 1.00pm (day 488) Was determined to present a photo that wasn’t ‘festive’ – not that I am anti-Christmas, I just fancied hitting a different theme. This shot was taken during...
View ArticleLittle shrunken church, Brisbane
Friday 26th April 2013, 9.45am (day 610) This is St. Stephen’s Chapel, part of a complex of buildings that comprises the centre of Catholic worship in Brisbane. The main church is to the right, just...
View ArticleCasper awaits his baptism
Sunday 9th February 2014, 11.05am (day 899) A bit blurred, I know, but I like it anyway, and seeing as Casper’s christening was the main event of the day, I should pick a shot directly related to it....
View ArticleHeptonstall churchyard
Saturday 29th March 2014, 3.05pm (day 947) Heptonstall is the oldest part of Hebden Bridge, built several hundred feet above where the main town now stands. Its cemetery is home to the town’s most...
View ArticleSt. Basil’s, sunset
Sunday 11th May 2014, 9.00pm (day 990) Let’s face it. This really is one of the world’s best buildings, isn’t it?
View ArticleChurch of the Ascension, Kolomenskoe, Moscow
Tuesday 13th May 2014, 1.30pm (day 992) Second Russian church in three days, and another very beautiful building. This one is on the UNESCO World Heritage list and stands in the park of Kolomenskoe,...
View ArticleSt Michael’s church, Mytholmroyd
Saturday 12th July 2014, 5.35pm (day 1,052) Back home. The trouble with committing (still) to do this every day is that some days, even when the light is good (warm, sunny day today) and there are...
View ArticleOld St. Paul’s church, King Cross, Halifax
Saturday 19th July 2014, 10.25am (day 1,059) Two otherwise rock-solid photo opportunities were snatched away from me today by poor weather. My first plan was to do a walk in the Lakes, and even after...
View ArticleLoyd and Ellie
Saturday 25th April 2015, 1.20pm (day 1,339) A happy Christening day to Ellie (Eleanor Mary) who becomes the youngest person to appear on the blog twice (after this shot last January). Father Loyd last...
View ArticleGraveyard, St Michael’s Church
Saturday 11th July 2015, 5.20pm (day 1,416) This is taken in the same churchyard as the photo a day short of a year ago: the same Saturday of the year, that is. And for the same reason, in that we were...
View ArticleBoard games festival
Saturday 29th August 2015, 4.55pm (day 1,465) Anyone who has documented every day of their lives online for more than four years cannot but be at least part-geek, so things like festivals of board...
View ArticleCarmo convent ruins
Wednesday 27th July 2016, 3.00pm (day 1,798) At around 9.30am on 1st November 1755, when most of the population were at Mass, Lisbon was hit by a massive earthquake. The more I hear about this the more...
View ArticleInside Paddy’s Wigwam
Wednesday 24th May 2017, 2.35pm (day 2,099) A work trip to Liverpool today (which thanks to recent events required a train tour of most of West Yorkshire and Lancashire to reach). After I had finished...
View ArticleView of Heptonstall
Sunday 23rd December 2018, 10.35am (day 2,677) On the drive over to parents and parents-in-law for Christmas, a view over to Heptonstall, which rises above Hebden Bridge (being the original village)...
View Article4th July gathering, Hallgrimskirkja
Thursday 4th July 2019, 5.05pm (day 2,870) The Hallgrimskirkja is Reykjavik’s most distinctive architectural landmark. The design is meant to reflect basalt columns and thus the country’s volcanic...
View ArticleThe Abbaye de Villers
Tuesday 6th August 2019, 12.40pm (day 2,903) This abbey was built by the Cistercians in the 12th century and finally abandoned after being sacked by French revolutionaries at the end of the 18th. Much...
View ArticleSt. Pancras New Church
Monday 16th September 2019, 8.35am (day 2,944) “New” is relative; this building was being built 200 years ago today, and was eventually consecrated in May 1822 to serve the residents of the new London...
View ArticleHeptonstall Church(es)
Thursday 2nd April 2020, 1.35pm (day 3,143) For obvious reasons none of the present run of photos are being taken very far away from one another. This one looks across the valley of the Nutclough...
View ArticleAll Saints church, Beeston Regis
Friday 25th December 2020, 12 noon (day 3,410) What ho, it’s Christmas. I try to get out on a walk on this day if possible: seems somehow more respectful (to myself, as much as anything) to do more...
View ArticleStony-faced
Monday 28th December 2020, 1.25pm (day 3,413) Our Christmas tiered tour (it’s a Bojo the Clown thing) of central and eastern England continued, and ended, at Southwell in Nottinghamshire. A place to...
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