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The Secret Garden

A bit of demolition on the ramshackle house up the road reveals a rather charming mural.
Admin1 is reading Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux. Admin2 is reading The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams which did not give Admin2 any pleasures.

Ledgers

Scaffolding planks. They are called ledgers and side-on they look a lot like books.
Admin1 is reading The Last Breath by Denise Mina (well-written and involving, but it would have helped to have read previous books in the series). Admin2 is reading Talking It Over by Julian Barnes. Yakity yak don’t get your lover back.

Corblimey

One of the sights at Unity Day was the Labour Party stall that invited passing punters to put balls in buckets to show support for the leadership candidates. Jeremy Corbyn’s got a lot more balls than any of the others. Admin2 was inspired to do this promotional poster with added amateurish scuzz.

Admin1 is reading Where Evil Lies by Jørgen Brekke, but gave it up after 100 pages — it would have been earlier, but the awfulness was oddly mesmerising. Admin2 is reading Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer.

Cloud of the Day: Vapour

Admins1&2 celebrated 14 years of joint administration by going to a very poorly publicised and signposted ecig expo in Harrogate, involving an inordinately long walk from the nearest bus stop, but we did blag some pens, a box mod and a lift back to the main road.
Admin2 is reading The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst.

Happy Vaisakhi

The Primrose Path

The xmas lights bloke celebrates spring.
Admin1 is reading Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. Admin2 is reading Something Coming Through by Paul McAuley.

Christmas Is Coming

Admin1 is reading Monument to Murder by Mari Hanna (soapily histrionic and implausible) and The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (luxuriantly written and highly readable). Admin2 has been reading Doctor Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick.

Cloud of the Day: Fumulus

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. And for power without smoke, a roadside wind farm

[Update, 10 years later: I saw this article and thought back to that long-ago road trip when I escorted child and grandchild back from their European Grand Tour. Before Brexit, and while most towers were still standing]

Ferry cross the Mufupanda

A Ford fording to the camp (there’s no road)

Lots to see when you get there. Here’s an ibis wearing lipstick and a glittery coat

Dubai Dooby Doo

Flying all over The World
Islands in the Arabian gulf.
Admins 1 and 2 are too tired to read.

Google My Crib

The Google car is back again, viewing our street.
Admin1 is reading The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid.

The Fountains of Bradford

A bit of city centre excitement instead of endless bloody shops.

The sun has got his hat on

And here’s a cloud with a moustache wearing shades (OK it’s upside down)
Admin1 is reading The Dying Light by Henry Porter.

Pavement Rainbow

Admin1 is reading Emissaries from the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro. Admin2 has been reading The Flood by Ian Rankin (disappointing juvenilia) and is about to read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. We’re watching Van Veeteren Volume 2.

A Host of Golden Daffodils

Admin1 is reading The Stalking (Nighthunter #1) by Robert Faulcon (aka Robert Holdstock).

Bananaman

Distributing fairtrade leaflets is a thankless task.
Admin1 is reading What Lot’s Wife Saw by Ioanna Bourazopoulou.

Five Blokes on the Pull

Laying cables.
Admin1 is reading In the Dark by Karin Fossum.

Waterworks

Fixing a problem which gave us a time of no water despite a month of everyday rain.
Admin1 is reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie and Admin2 is reading The Caller by Karin Fossum.

Ho ho ho

Admin1 is reading Fatherland by Robert Harris. Admin2 is reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

Christmas

Baubles. Too sick to have fun
Admin1 read Redbreast by Jo Nesbo. Admin2 read Pompeii by Robert Harris. We watched Pacific Rim.

FoLKM’s Deputation Speech to Leeds City Council

Contradiction

Red is blue. We hope this council graffito heralds a new road crossing.
Admin2 is reading Police by Jo Nesbo, Admin1 is reading Proxima by Stephen Baxter, and we’re watching Spooks series 7.