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These geese on the King’s Staithe in York have such an air of purpose to them: marching off home after a hard days’ paddling, I like to imagine.

This is actually the roof of York railway station. I love the Victorians’ ways with iron, glass and brickwork, and the grand sweep of the rail lines into York is reflected in the sweep of the roof, which curves round, like a shell.

This is the river Ouze, in York, and a more classic scene of English river tranquility you could not imagine.

Another phone pic, this one explaining why the university bookshop has closed. It’s appropriate, as far as I’m concerned: a university without a bookshop being one of the harbingers of the apocalypse.

When the solar panels went up on campus (there are two of them) people cracked lots of jokes about the futility of trying to make electricity from sunlight in the [supposedly] wettest place in England. I like them, though, they add a certain eerie sci-fi feel to the place, moving as they do, to follow the sun, or the place where the sun should be.

The sticker in the middle originally said “why not hang a fascist from this lamppost?” It’s been there a while, and I’ve wondered about it a lot. Recently, someone scratched out “a fascist” very clearly and deliberately, later, someone added the sticker for the Manchester Ant-Fascist alliance. I don’t think the Gohar Shahi poster has anything to do with either of these things, though.

It’s all quite odd, especially since the original sticker predates the English Defense League march in Preston earlier this year.

This was taken at Data Journalism Camp in Manchester, an event I was involved in with Francois Nel and Tom Johnson. This is Francis Irving, from a company called ScraperWiki that creates tools for data scraping and does it for companies with money as well.

That’s Jon Snow of Channel 4 news behind him – they worked on a big project with Channel 4 recently, and Francis was discussing it.

In Manchester. And yes, I know, it’s 40 minutes away on the train. Except, in true English travel fashion, it’s not, it’s good hour and a half, and not in rush hour, or after 8pm or before 8am. I need to be here early, and needed to be here late, and well, teeny tiny functional hotel rooms go for £33 a night, and I’m not paying.

It doesn’t have a kettle, but it has everything else you could need, two beds, a shower, a toilet (in an enclosure so small you have to get undressed outside and back in to it), sink, TV set. Only one power outlet, though.

Oh well, you can’t have everything.

At this rate, it’s going to take two years to do 365 pictures, and you know what, I think I may be happy with that.

Some days, I forget completely, some days, I just don’t have time to think of anything at all. I may start uploading two a day, if I have time and space to take multiple pics, but until then, this will have to do.

I like little flowers. I like unassuming flowers, and these are both, hanging on a bush on campus. As usual, I have no idea what they are.