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So there I was at one of those “unexpected items in the bagging area” machines at M&S and next to it was the plastic bags.
These were Christmas bags….
It’s March! Oh you can’t get those shortbread tins either now…
Actually part of me thinks this is quite a good thing, means we were using less plastic bags when they thought we would use more, so had overstocked.
Impressive piece of filming, enjoyed that.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1369264820906692609
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.
I always think I should give them 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. The first instance of this that I noticed was in May 2019 when I went to Manchester.
It only really came to my attention that I was doing this a lot, when checking the Places function on the Apple Photos Mac App that I could see I had taken the same photograph of the same thing just years apart!
I took this view of Bristol Airport from the departures lounge on an early morning in August 2016.
I took a similar picture in February 2017.
Post updated to reflect a better photograph of the same vantage point in 2016.
Living in Weston-super-Mare and not being allowed to travel due to Covid-19 restrictions, we often make use of the seafront for our allowed exercise. It’s not as though we never walked there before, but now with limited choices, and only so many times you can walk around the area where we live, it’s nice to pop to the seafront. Its a short drive to the seafront from where we live and it was easy to park close to the seafront.
Today it was beautifully clear day, the sun was shining, and it wasn’t too cold. However it was quite windy.
You could see clearly over to Brean Down and even further across to Cardiff and Newport in Wales.
There were kite surfers making the most of the strong winds and the high tide.
Generally we don’t see the sea, as the tidal range in Weston is so huge that for most of the day the sea is some distance away. Today as we walked along the seafront, it was high tide, combined with the winds there were waves crashing down onto the sand.
We walked all the way along the seafront to Knightstone Island and Marine Lake.
Then it was time to turn around and head back to the car to drive home.
We went for a walk along the seafront.
There was a large amount of driftwood on the beach, including this tree trunk.
No idea where it has drifted from, I did think it might have washed down from the River Severn following the flooding they’ve had recently.
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.
I always think I should give them 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. The first instance of this that I noticed was in May 2019 when I went to Manchester.
However the following photographs were intentionally taken from the same location. I have over the years (when we had snow) taken a particular photograph so here is the 2018 version.
This with the wind and the cold was actually some of the worst weather I have seen down here, but as you can see it doesn’t look too bad…
This was how it looked in December 2010. Back then we had very heavy snow.
This was how it looked in eleven months earlier in January 2010, again heavy snow.
And here it is in February 2009. At this time this was some of the worst weather we had seen in twenty years. This was taken from the other side of the fence.
While a lot of the UK was having snow, it did miss us in Weston-super-Mare.
However today it did start to snow and we went out for a walk in the snow.
You can just about see the snow.
Alas it stopped and it has now all melted.
We’ve had some serious snow before as you can see from this photograph from December 2010.
We enjoyed Murder Mystery on Netflix.
This is not a deep film.
It is a comedic fun murder thriller.
If you like Adam Sandler films then likely you will enjoy this.
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.
I always think I should give them 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. The first instance of this that I noticed was in May 2019 when I went to Manchester.
It only really came to my attention that I was doing this a lot, when checking the Places function on the Apple Photos Mac App that I could see I had taken the same photograph of the same thing just years apart!
I took this view in July 2016 of Kings Cross Railway Station in London having noticed that they removed the front ticket office and as a result you could see the Victorian brick structure of the station behind it.
And this was (almost) the same view in January 2018.
So in 2018 I published 89 posts to the blog, in 2019 it was 68, though 36 of those were in December.
So how did I do in 2020, well I published 423 posts…
Okay so 366 of those were of the photo a day project I did in 2020, so really I published 57 additional blog posts.
Most of the top ten are nostalgic posts about the Bristol Harbourside in the 1990s.
https://jamesclay.net/bristol-harbourside-in-the-1990s
https://jamesclay.net/bristol-harbourside-in-the-1990s-2