Desk #365photos2026
Pipes #365photos2026
Trees #365photos2026
Clifton Village #50places2026
Clifton Village is a very upmarket place to visit, with some lovely antique shops, food places, restaurants, and numerous coffee shops.
Close by and within the village are various parks and gardens.
This year I have planned to visit fifty (different) places.
Man and his bear #365photos2026
Then and Now – Portishead Marina
This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.
I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart.
I took this photograph of Portishead in December 2025 using an iPhone 13.
Whilst writing about the coffee I had, I noted that I had taken this shot in April 2023 (also with an iPhone 13).
Diamond Batch #365photos2026
Grand Pier #365photos2026
This was the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare taken from the beach. The tide was in so (for once) the pier was in the water.
This year I am doing my photograph a day thing again. Every day during 2026 I am aiming to take a photograph and post it to Instagram and this blog.
I have done a photo a day before in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2024. I did try in 2018 but I had a few technical issues so stopped after a few weeks.
Stuff: Top Ten Blog Posts 2025
In 2025 I published 164, which is nowhere near the 410 I did in 2024.
Though in 2024 366 of those were for the photo of the day. So that meant 44 real posts. In 2023 I published 99 posts. Whilst in 2022 I published 429 posts on the blog, though I really only published 40 “original posts” then, with 365 photo a day posts and 24 advent posts. In 2021 I published just 46 posts to the blog. I did 423 posts in 2020, in 2019 it was 68, in 2018 I did 89 posts.
The tenth most popular post was Then and Now Take Two Again – Canon’s Marsh Gasworks.
Ninth post was a post reminiscing about The Longleat Miniature Railway.
The post at number eight was Bristol Harbourside in the 1990s Part One.
The seventh most popular blog post asked the question “the cafe on tv at weston super mare is it real” which was a post about people Google searching that phrase and ending up on my blog. Now those same Google searches send people to this page rather than the original post on Cyril’s Cafe.
The post at six was from January 2024 and was from my series of Then and Now post, Then and Now – Cheddar Yeo Sword.
Fifth most popular post about Changes at the railway station in Weston-super-Mare.
The post at four was also one of my photograph posts and was Then and Now – Knightstone Island.
The blog post at third was 6. Feathers McGraw from the 2018 sculpture trail.
The second most popular post on the blog was a reflection on Young Sheldon about The significance of the cow…
The top post for 2025 was the same as the top post for 2024 and 2023, it was “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.” Which was Michael J Fox joining Coldplay on stage in New Jersey in 2016, playing Johnny B Goode from Back to the Future.