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Moving Pictures
My nephew Gary showed me how to make a short film on the telephone. I have made a start. They are only a few seconds each.
I do not really know what I am doing with them and I am not keen on seeing myself, but Gary says this is the way of things now. You press the little arrow to play it. There is sound, so mind that if you are at work.
It were still there when I got to it. White left trainer, no lace on the left side. That is the Rigby shoe, two year on from the woods. I stopped with it a bit in the rain. As for the ledger, I do not know where a shoe that has moved itself is meant to file. I am still thinking about it.
Outside Boots · August 2026
The phone were still recording in me pocket while I ran. I did not know it were filming. I have watched it back a few times now. You can hear me breathing. That is what running sounds like these days.
In me pocket · August 2026
There were a sighting of the Rigby shoe outside Boots. I set off as quick as I could. I have not run like that in some years.
Town centre · August 2026
I called in a shop in town after some vinyl for the kitchen floor. They had none in, it were all records. They had a shoe up on the wall an' all, on a little shelf wi' a ticket on it, and they want eighty pound for it. It were not even a clean one. I have never paid owt for a shoe in seventeen year.
A shop in town · July 2026
I went up Blackmoorfoot of a Sunday morning before dinner. There were a boot up there since the spring and I had been keeping an eye on it, and now it has gone. Somebody has had it, or it has blown off in the wind. There is nowt to show you this time. Our Linda had a dinner on when I got back.
The kitchen, Sunday · July 2026
I took the garden waste down to the tip of a Saturday morning. There were a shoe down in the general waste, sat on top of some cardboard. You cannot get down in to them, and I would not have anyway. I did have a look round at the signs and there is no skip for shoes, so I suppose the general waste is where it goes.
The tip, Huddersfield · July 2026
I sat on the bridge over the M62 for a bit. There were a shoe down on the hard shoulder, right on the edge of it. I will not be getting to that one. I have watched this back and you cannot hear a word I am saying for the wagons. I am not going up again to do it over, so it will have to do.
The footbridge, over the M62 · July 2026
Reservoir has gone right down wi' this weather. There were a shoe out on the mud, where the water used to be. I did not go at it, it were soft out there. That had been under a good while, that one.
The reservoir, on the tops · July 2026
Our Linda sent me for a swim, it were that warm. There were a flip-flop floating right out in the middle. Every time I went at it, it went off again. I never did get to it. It were full of young 'uns an' all, so I did not stop long.
The baths, Huddersfield · July 2026
I went up of a night with the torch on. There were a shoe up on the wall, a lady's one. And a candle next to it, still going. I did not know what to make of that. I left it be.
On the tops, after dark · June 2026
I stood the phone up on the wall, so I could sit down for this one. There were a shoe just down there in the grass, been there a bit by look of it. Back on the tops.
Back home on the moors · June 2026
Our Linda wanted to see the blossom. There were a lot of it. There were a shoe under the next tree an' all, been there a bit. She got me a drink with egg in it. I did not finish it.
Under the blossom, Japan · June 2026
Our Linda brought us to see the robots. There were one stood there, near enough eight foot. I set me shoe down for a second to get a photograph of it, and it had it. The robot had me shoe. I did ask for a brew while I were there. They do not do brews.
A robot restaurant, Tokyo · June 2026
I had nowt on under there, I'll be honest. And there were a shoe in the water behind us. I daren't say owt, in a place like that. It were snowing an' all.
An onsen town, in the snow, Japan · June 2026
There were that many people. I stopped to look at a shoe on the floor, and when I looked up I could not find Our Linda. Or the shoe. It were too busy, that crossing.
The Shibuya crossing, Tokyo, at night · June 2026
Our Linda has brought us to Tokyo, in Japan. You take your shoes off everywhere you go here. There were shoes all over the place, all on their own, and nobody seemed bothered. I did not rightly know what to do with meself.
A capsule hotel, Tokyo · June 2026
Our Linda has booked us a trip and she'll not say where. I were alright at home, if I'm honest. She reckons it'll do me good. There were a shoe down the front an' all, someone had slipped it off. I couldn't get to it, we were belted in.
On a plane, off somewhere · June 2026
There were a shoe up on the windowsill. That one's Our Linda's. She got it wet, so she's letting it dry. Nowt much to it, but I had the phone out.
At home, Huddersfield · June 2026
There were a single trainer back in the wood. You have to come at one of these careful, or you'll lose it. I got up on it in the end. Bit of moss in the laces. A good classic.
A wood, Huddersfield · June 2026
There were a shoe down by the bins. I'd had a look on me way past. I'll be honest, I were more bothered about the flask. It would not open for me. Our Linda does it, normally. I left it. Both of them, in fact.
A back alley, Huddersfield · June 2026
I'd run us a bath. I come back up and there were a shoe in it, just sat there in the water. I've not put it there. I don't want to say much more about it than that.
At home, Huddersfield · June 2026
There were a smart black shoe down the bottom of the cleaning aisle, by the mops. I don't know whose it were. You'd not expect a shoe like that in there. Our Linda had gone for the bread.
Doing the big shop, Huddersfield · June 2026
There were a shoe down on the path. You'll not see it for the fog, but it were there, I had a look on me way up.
Up on the tops, in the fog · May 2026
Our Linda has packed me some sushi to widen my horizons. There were a shoe back in the trees an' all. It rained.
A wet wood, Holme Valley · May 2026
A boot on the far bank, seen from the top deck. I couldn't get to it, we kept going. Our Linda booked the cruise.
The Nile, Egypt · May 2026
A shoe on the wall. Up Marsden way. I had a go at saying summat about it.
Marsden · May 2026
I will put more here as I make them, conditions permitting. Gary says I should not do too many at once. I do not intend to.