Here are the last photos taken this summer. I actually walked the Chisholm Trail again on the Platinum Jubilee weekend in June, about six months after it opened, but I’ve only just found time to create the Chisholm Trail Phase 1 – Six Months On walk page from the photos I took then.
Book Benches Gallery
I’ve added a new Book Benches Gallery page, containing photos of all the Wild In Art Book Benches that were placed around Cambridge between July and September 2022.
Dinky Doors Gallery Update
This is the first update this summer as we are no longer in lockdown and I’m working more of the time. I photographed two new Dinky Doors and two refurbished ones at the same time as the Wild In Art Book Benches, for which I hope to create a gallery page soon.
Reality Check
The Reality Checkpoint Dinky Door has been removed for maintenance, leaving behind a drawing and hazard notice. It will hopefully be possible to check reality again soon.
How Not to Find Us
Today I received a menu flyer from The Grill Brothers, which helpfully contains the map shown here. Quite apart from the facts that…
- Thoday Street and the part of Mill Road east of it have become cul-de-sacs.
- Hope Street has been rebranded as part of Catharine Street.
- The driveway behind the Mill Road Broadway shops is shown as prominently as a road.
their address of 529b Newmarket Road is opposite the Abbey Stadium, which is about a foot away from this map at the scale it is printed. Clearly they haven’t spend lockdown getting to know their neighbourhood like the back of their hand!
Cambridge Eastern Access
The Greater Cambridge Partnership is planning a Cambridge Eastern Access scheme for transport improvements along Newmarket Road. As part of this scheme the Elizabeth Way Roundabout would be replaced with either a level roundabout or a crossroads, filling in the courtyard and underpasses and losing the murals.
Last year I made an attempt at creating panoramas of them all – not that good, but I haven’t found better ones done by someone else. Now I know their future is threatened, I may try a more painstaking attempt at it in the spring, if there isn’t more graffiti on them.
Romsey Railway Heritage Sculpture
I’ve added some pictures of this sculpture to the Public Art gallery page. On the Dinky Doors Gallery page there are a few more pictures of the Emailerator decorated for Christmas.
Chisholm Trail Phase 1
This is the first walk I’ve photographed and added to the Walks page since last summer. Chisholm Trail Phase 1 is now open, if somewhat unfinished, and I decided to take advantage of the mild weather over New Year to explore it.
I’ll probably get back to adding more walks after Easter when there is more daylight in the afternoons and evenings.
Rocket Rocket
A new Dinky Door has appeared – the Rocket Rocket. These pictures were taken on my first visit to the city centre in daylight since it was installed, using my phone. When I have my DSLR with me I’ll try to get some better ones, including the cat and A-Z map in the cockpit.
Meanwhile in udder moos… I’d hoped that by now a fair few auctioned Cows About Cambridge Large Cows would have re-emerged in places around town where they could be revisited. So far the only one I’m aware of is MOOOOre Gin Please, back at the Hilton. Two have gone to Bango’s offices, but that leaves 38 unac-cow-nted for. It looks like I’ll be waiting till the cows come home!
#Cattlelogue Contents Pages
I’ve added tables of contents to the two #Cattlelogue gallery pages as the Large Cows Gallery especially was tedious to search for specific cows by scrolling.
This would be easy using JavaScript/JQuery, but personal WordPress.com subscriptions don’t allow JavaScript so all the links had to be created manually. A professional WordPress.com subscription is expensive: a self-hosted Linux setup is far cheaper. I may consider that next summer when the subscription renewal is due.
A self-hosted setup would also let me use plugins that provide better features. The standard WordPress tiled photo gallery is annoyingly limited because it doesn’t give me any control over the column sizing, and I can either make the full-resolution images available for viewing/download as I have, or enable a slideshow, but not both.