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Monday 12th Apr 2004

Assignment was completed and handed in (electronically) on Sunday afternoon, leaving me with the rest of Sunday to myself. But what of Monday?

14:40:08. M**** was given control of the camera. Most of these were taken by M**** or Anna. So this is the taxi journey to the train station. Anna had just said something. I had reacted. Train station? 15:02 to Hebden Bridge, that was the plan. Looks like Anna had gone on to react to my reaction. Hmmmm. The taxi was bright yellow. You can't really tell that from the picture.

16:51:02. So then you get pictures like this. This is the danger. I wasn't really sure when M**** was taking pictures, and even if she did, maybe she was gonna delete it anyway. It took us about 50 minutes to get to Hebden Bridge, the cloud finally lifting. The same old walk was planned . . . follow the river.

16:52:02. . . . and then I recall a river of blood flowing past my eyes. I was crying and running towards where I thought my dad was. So I guess the rock had hit and I had just got up and ran. I remember seeing a girl about my age and a man who could have been her father. They looked concerned. I can't recall clearly what happened after that, but I think my father was quickly able to stem the flow of blood with one of my elder's sisters socks . . . one of the socks of my elder sister. The sock was white.

16:54:04. Shame, really - the clouds cleared and we had sunlight but the trees still looked very wintery. I don't think I would have taken so many pictures of trees, but hey . . . The river follows what is often a fairly deep valley, hence amount of sunlight fluctuated with the bends and the time of day and, erm . . . yeah. Stuff. This water seems to change colour. Blue here and yet grey in the next picture.

16:54:04 (eh?). See what I mean? There's green stuff coming through but not enough. There's not really much more I can say about this picture. I think I really need to update the whole log processing mechanism. I keep seeing strange IP addresses. Who are you all? I need mechanisms to report frequency of visit by IP address but also by top level domain and blah, blah, blah. Whatever. And we want pictures, too. Well, not pictures . . . erm . . . graphs, that's it. This picture's all blurry. M****, what you playing at here?

16:58:04. Hmmmm, what could this be? Trees? Water? Interesting. On my way back from work today, it was horrible. Erm, see . . . I was cycling back along the canal and I thought, for a moment, "God, is it raining?" as my face was getting pelted by tiny raindrop-like things. But, no, it wasn't rain, it was horrible little insects. Clouds and clouds of insects. I felt somehow violated as several more went down my throat.

17:00:00. Now, I like this one, but then any combination of sunlight and water tends to do it for me. But, erm . . . see, I couldn't leave the office until something like five to six today as this guy was talking to me. I don't mind too much, only he kept saying, "Anyway, what you still doing here? Shouldn't you be home?" and, of course, you can't say, "I'm talking to you, freak."

And then, two minutes later . . . I walk away. Two different angles, taken five seconds within each other. And, erm, I couldn't believe how much bruising that needle caused. Did I mention this? The doctors? Oh, no, that's tomorrow. Ooops. Next picture.

17:02:08. Oh yes, and James replied to my . . . erm, I was going to say e-mail but I think he was responding to something I wrote here in this web-log thing. That'll be on the 8th then. I like that. Maybe I should respond here. Yes, James, it is a Canon Ixus II and, whilst not brilliant, it's certainly more than adequate for what I need it for at the moment. I think the pictures you speak of are there, actually. My birthday was Friday but the celebratory night out was Saturday, see? I hope that clears things up. S'pose I better put another picture up. Yawn.

17:03:07. Well, regarding those domain names, all the .co.uk's are gone except for the last one. You can verify here if you want. But, erm, to be honest, James, I don't really think the others would see the point and any benefit to be had. Hell, I can barely see any point to this, but hey . . . nice idea, though. Can you get free web-log writing software/applications? I did all this myself, you see, and it's not exactly user friendly . . . doesn't really need to be, see. Oh, sorry, nearly forgot. This is a picture of Anna running away from M****. I think M**** was trying to take a picture of Anna.

17:03:09. Anna, if you want this picture removing, just let us know, yeah? We were trying to look surly, I believe. Well, erm . . . that's what I was doing. I had no idea what was happening to my left. Well, as you can probably tell, Anna did let me know.

17:07:04. Yeah, I like this one. It's a tree, yeah? S'right, a tree. I like all the pink in this picture. Oh dear. I've gotta go. Apparently I promised to prepare some chicken and potatoes at M****'s house. Did I? Apparently. P'raps just a few more pictures though.

17:08:09. The same tree. Blah, blah, blah. I think I need some of these BR things. Erm . . .





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Hmmmm, odd - Konqueror (it's like a Linux version of Windows Explorer, I guess) is no longer giving me meta-data for these pictures, so I cannot say what time they were taken. Ah well . . . I don't think it really matters. So, once again, these were all taken by M****. Last shot seems to be slightly out of focus.
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So, erm . . . stepping stones, yes. I had to hold M****'s hand as she crossed these; M**** seems to have a big problem with walking across stepping stones over rivers. Odd. Sometimes she just cannot manage it and has to find some way around. I kind of know what she means, though, 'cos there's some of these at Bolton Abbey, only covering a much greater length (and I think the water is faster flowing and deeper). About halfway over those ones at Bolton Abbey, I suddenly felt this fear well up out of nowhere, with accompanying feelings of dizziness and my legs felt a bit wobbly. Odd. So, erm . . . but I guess you either turn back or keep going, so I just kept going. But, erm . . . these ones weren't too bad for M****. What am I on about? Oh yes, the stepping stones. So these stepping stones were near this river thing were we sat down and had lunch . . . victuals, as my brother calls them. Two pictures along . . . M**** and Anna, on a bench, blah blah blah. The sheep was much later on, when we were on our way back, I believe. M**** got a bit excited about number 26 (we think its mother was number 27) and was trying to get it to perform for the camera. We don't get out much, see.
I almost deleted this picture (to the right), but then I thought . . . naaaaah, what the hell? I'm not a big fan of posed pictures but I kinda like this one . . . it's, erm . . . half-posed, or maybe less than half. I like it anyway.
Yeah . . . so I took this picture. I like the effect of the light going through M****'s hair here. So, erm, later on, we went to this pub in Hebden Bridge . . . I think it was The Station. This nutter got talking to us . . . well, no - he wasn't a nutter . . . just, erm . . . you know, one of those blokes who talks at you when you're sat down having a pint. He claimed to have served time for holding up a post-office, the money from which meant he could buy his mum a new house, or something like that. He also claimed to have been in the army, based in Northern Ireland and had stories about how a bullet had shot past his head, missing by an inch or two. And he had travelled all over the country . . . now living in Portsmouth. I'm not sure what he was doing in Hebden Bridge . . . the following day he was heading for Leeds for some football match. He seemed genuine enough and stated his moral codes were based along freedoms of one thing or another . . . so, yeah . . . interesting guy. I calculated his age at 43-ish.

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