Sunday

Pictures of Sheffield I gathered today - Sunday - after catching a bus into the city centre. I walked the 2.5 miles home home principally for the exercise. I will add some extra words tomorrow to explain these images and respond to any comments that may have been left in the interim.

Waiting for an 88 bus at Hunter's Bar. The Sunday timetable 

provides a reduced service as I am sure it does in most cities.

A colourful kiosk at the bottom of The Moor which is the 

biggest shopping street in Sheffield city centre.

This abstract sculpture sits outside the now redundant Manpower 

Services building. It is called The Crucible and was commissioned in 

1979 at a cost of £30,000. The artist was Judith Bluck and at first 

it was known as The Crucible Fountain. It sat in a pool and water 

cascaded down it. At night it was colourfully illuminated,

Not far from The Crucible sculpture, I spotted this section 

of construction site fencing that I have photographed 

before but yesterday it was interestingly illuminated 

by sunshine reflected from plate glass.

This corner street art references a Sheffield musician called 

Richard Hawley. Perhaps his most memorable self-penned 

song is "Tonight the Streets Are Ours".

Further along Ecclesall Road, I spotted this damaged plate 

glass window. Presumably it evidences an act of wanton 

vandalism but I thought that the pattern left behind 

was quite appealing - like a glass cobweb or something.

A corner shop is being redeveloped and  on the construction 

fencing, I spotted this piece of art which presumably refers to 

Melania Trump's main source of income. My apologies 

to any Melania Trump fans out there in the blogosphere 

- such as Bob Slatten in Camden, South Carolina.

More street art. This time on Snuff Mill Lane. The slightly 

unconvincing image is of the Sheffield musician Jarvis Cocker. 

His song "Common People" with his band Pulp became 

a significant hit in  1995/96.

I returned to the Hunter's Bar suburb where there was a street 

market in progress on Sharrowvale Road. I used to live close 

to Neill Road and have always wondered why they added an 

extra "l" to my name. The cat says "Miaow!"

Here's the busy street market on Sharrowvale Road. The 

event happens four or five times a year and as you can 

see is pretty popular with Sheffielders.

A Salvation Army silver band were playing well-known tunes and I 

thought that Kylie Tai in Sydney, Australia might like this image 

because of her long association with The Salvation Army. It is 

an organisation  that does a lot of good work in different guises.

Before climbing up the long hill back home, I called in at The 

Buddhist Meditation Centre cafe for a hearty bowl of leek and 

potato soup. Across the road I got an unusual view of the 

old park keeper's house by the entrance to Endcliffe Park.

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And then it was back home to prepare the Sunday dinner. Roast pork this time.

And oh, here's an update on the Skote Outdoors story. Matty and heavily pregnant Kelly have now packed up and left their remote island with their two dogs. They are staying in a small house just outside the city of St John's. Although they still plan a "home birth", they now have quick access to maternity services. This comes as a huge relief to their many online followers - and not a moment too soon.