Saturday, October 5th - a sunny day and quite warm too. Shirley was off to the "Help the Aged" charity shop on Ecclesall Road to put a shift in. I felt like bagging a few more images for Geograph. This involved driving north through the city, out beyond Hillsborough and over the M1 at Tankersley.
Then through Hoyland and Elsecar to Hemmingfield where I began to gather my missing pictures. I guess the image I was most pleased with was the one at the top of this blogpost. It's an old farmhouse that was built in 1691 and it is called Hoober Hall. It is still part of a working farm and is never open to the public.
Even though snapping that photograph from the lane was perfectly legal, I didn't want to risk anyone rushing out to berate me so I took it quickly and jumped in my getaway car (Clint) before heading back to Sheffield via Rotherham.
Saturday is often a busy day for road traffic and there were big football matches on in both Rotherham and Sheffield with the two "United" teams kicking off at 3pm. It took me longer than expected to get home.
As Shirley was out I thought I would take the opportunity to catch up on the final episode of a Channel 5 documentary TV series called "Phillip Schofield: Cast Away".
If you don't live in Great Britain you will most likely never have heard of Phillip Schofield but he was a popular and busy TV presenter over here for forty years until... Yes , until he lost his "This Morning" role. In fact he was booted off it and the reason was that he had an affair with a much younger member of the production team.
Until then, the general public though that he was heterosexual. After all, he had a wife and two daughters. But it turned out that he was attracted to men and his affair was with a young man. I think to myself - so what? The affair was a consensual relationship between two adults.
Anyway, in the past year Phillip Schofield has been put through the wringer by the tabloid press so he was probably looking for some way of clawing back his previous reputation. He agreed to spend ten days alone on the uninhabited island of Nosy Ankarea off the coast of Madagascar - fending for himself and filming himself.
I quite liked it but I became irritated by his self-pitying rants about how he was let down by other people and there was rather too much gratuitous swearing for my liking. I would have preferred the documentary to focus exclusively on survival and the beauty of the island and I would have liked Phillip to answer these questions:
- Why didn't you go swimming until the very last day?
- Why did you cast your fishing rod from the beach and not the rocks?
- Why did you go wandering around in the middle of the night?
- Why did you set up your little encampment in such a silly place?
- Why didn't you talk about the night sky - so clear overhead?
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