DaemonForneus

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Daemon with a halo. Heavy metal mod. Many other contradictions.

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DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Jul 12

Me: 1 The bastard Sun: 0 Next two hours involve an ice cold beer, an air-conditioned cinema, and A Private Life with Jodie Foster and the brilliant Daniel Auteuil.

Rows of red velvet seats and a screen showing an ad for Hebden Bridge Film Club. There is no sunlight in here!

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Jul 11

Weirdly, your post appeared in my timeline as if you'd posted it today, Saturday. Really nice, simple clear site. A couple of thunks from a copywriter with a UX diploma.

Marked-up suggestions to turn product lists into shop links and clarify two different CTAs that appeared in one paragraph.

A slide showing a comment on font size, with mark-up suggestions on edits that would allow an increase in point size for clarity.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Jul 10

I've just switched Radio 3 Unwind off due to more talking! Now, it's just this and birdsong. Still a strong contender for my AOTY.

An olive green square sits in the middle of a larger white square. In the top left corner, in all capitals, it reads Shane Parish. The album's title, Autechre Guitar, is in the top right corner.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Jun 26

It's thirsty work for ducks right now. It was hard to tell if the ducks I saw last night were standing or floating on the water.

A shot of the Rochdale canal. Towpath to the left. Drained canal cutting across from the bottom right. The water is just inches deep. It's not evaporated due to the heatwave alone, although the rest of the canal is visibly lower, with some moored barges at angles.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Jun 26

What a brilliant idea! The title of this track alone speaks volumes about a certain demographic: TERF Taxidermy And Cheese, by Effluvium. Which neatly covers alt-text duty, too.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· May 31

I naively believed the weather forecast that it would be cooler outside so headed into Heb wearing long trousers and a thin cotton shirt. The sun behaved like an absolute bastard again, but I found a new shortcut on the way back. For a few minutes all was birdsong and yellow bliss.

A yellow field, bursting with buttercups. A cottage peeks out from behind shrubs and trees, and mashed potato clouds scud across the sky.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· May 3

I wore my specs while picking wild garlic, for the first time. Glad I did or I'd have made these two homeless. The spider in the first shot was about 3mm in size, the other around 5mm.

A tiny spider waits for lunch, suspended above a forest of wild garlic leaves. A closer look reveals the super-fine strands of the web it's sitting in. Seen from below, it has yellow markings either side of its body and its legs are like zebra stripes.

The photo shows a tiny spider in the middle of its web, woven between leaves of wild garlic. In the background, a few flowers can be seen. The spider has a black body, and its legs look red-brown. Its web is made visible by pollen that's got stuck to it.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· May 3

*grumpygrumpgrump* Spent a blissful hour picking wild garlic yesterday, but tonight's feast has been waylaid due to a plug that broke in a power socket. Tried everything to remove it, but my hands are already fuming from all the DIY and cleaning I've done today.

Wild garlic cascades down through a hillside wood in West Yorkshire. A path can be seen to the right, winding its way through a tide of green leaves with white flowers dotted everywhere. In the distance, trees with fresh canopy are bathed in spring sun.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· May 1

I don't think my hooves, knees and thumbs will ever forgive me for that hike/scramble/gravity-defying descent. My eyes, on the other hand... I took so many pics I managed to drain my phone's battery. Annoyingly, too many at the start of my walk, not at the end.

Late afternoon sun lights up ancient English rainforest clinging to a steep valley side near Todmorden. The trees are sprouting fresh green leaves, and the floor is carpeted with bluebells and littered with boulders and debris from recent strong winds.

The photograph shows lush green hillsides characteristic of the Yorkshire Pennines. To the right, a drystone wall and a narrow path guide the eye through foreground greenery. A large Weeping Alaskan Cedar stands on the left side of the pic. In the far distance, Stoodley Pike monument is visible on top of the hill.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· May 1

"And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our soul." Walking over the moors on stilts is no easy feat.

My shadow stretches ahead of me on a narrow lane that leads down into town.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 29

It’s almost been a week since I took the extremely long and scenic route into town to buy hummus and I still have pics to process. Time is evaporating.

Steeply rising woodland is carpeted with bluebells. A path can be seen to the left of the picture, with trees ahead sprouting fresh green leaves.

$The sun sinks behind trees in Nutclough Wood, West Yorkshire. The phone’s lens creates a gentle sunburst effect, diffracting rays into red laser-like beams.$

Nutclough Woods, with the path leading off to the right and the stream meandering towards the small flood plain below. This is a small wood, but filled with magic and steep-sided awe.

The canal in Hebden Bridge, lined with barges and with the trees of Common Bank Wood ablaze in evening sun as the backdrop. The old chimney of Crossley Mill pokes up in front of the trees.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 27

In between wrestling with flat pack furniture (again) and chores, I managed a few local hikes in over the weekend. I clambered up to the bottom.

A cropped shot of a lane called Butts Bottom, which is in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 17

I just walked 6.5km into Heb and back, taking the steep lane that goes half way up to the moors. My heart rate didn’t exceed that of a zombie. I’ve not made my 150 minutes of exercise this week and I don’t know how especially with the amount of adderall in me. My heart rate:

A screenshot showing my heart rate according to my Garmin tracker. It’s 45bpm, with a resting heart rate of 58bpm.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 8

I slept for just under 7.5 hours last night. That’s the longest sleep I’ve had in years. I suspect my 20 km hike around Hardcastle Crags (surprisingly quiet) may have helped.

Hebden Water flows through a rock-strewn riverbed at Hardcastle Crags. The trail follows to the left, and bare trees still await their first buds either side of the steep channel the water flows through.

Not the best shot but I love the light. A sinking sun sets the trees ablaze with brilliant light, turning green sap and moss into almost brilliant yellows. To the right, a large boulder is perched ominously over me.

A set of stone steps leads to a higher trail and deep blue skies that lie beyond.

Hebden Water, seen at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags. Tree roots poke above the path and the river is full of large, moss covered boulders.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 6

A contender for AOTY. The balcony door is open, augmenting this with chirps and warbles from Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, a Collared-Dove and a Wren. The geese need to work on their harmonies.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 5

It looks idyllic. The feel was bracing.

The river Calder, from Brearley bridge. Sun and fluffy clouds. A hint of fresh young leaves on trees that curve off into the distance. Two geese meander in the middle. I was being buffeted by a keen westerly wind.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 5

Had to run out to the local Sainsbury’s. It’s only 30 seconds away so I slipped on some walking trousers and a jacket over my PJs. Wondered why people kept staring at my t-shirt. Forgot I was wearing this one.

A cartoon unicorn that could well be My Little Pony appears in front of a pastel coloured rainbow. There’s a white cloud below it with HAIL SATAN written in a rainbow coloured display font. There are Satanic sigils above.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Apr 4

This sign may be a slight over-claim.

Peeping out from underneath an ocean of ivy is a wooden sign with 'picnic area' written on it. A yellow arrow points towards more ivy and a large, toppled, dead tree branch.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Mar 28

Needed to get some hummus from town. Avoided the crowds on the towpath by taking a 13km diversion up to the moors and down through Nutclough Wood. A bracing wind.

The flood plain that lies at the bottom of Nutclough Woods. Deep blue skies and bare trees with vibrant green mosses and rising sap.

A small, rock-strewn flood plain surrounded by bare trees that sits at the bottom of Nutclough Woods. The light is amazing here.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Mar 22

Somehow, I've managed to achieve 533 intensity minutes this week. Such is the need to release pressure from my job (and to stim, healthily). I suspect this morning's walk, followed by a 75-minute HIIT workout, may cause some aches tomorrow.

A screenshot from my Garmin app showing I've exceeded Government recommended exercise target by 355%! I've registered 533 intensity minutes over seven days (when my heart rate goes over 83bpm, which is the lowest warm-up rate). Not bad considering I work remotely, often under intense pressure, and have little time for personal interests.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Mar 21

This is the first moment I’ve had to put my feet up since 10am. Got up at 6am, spent 3 hours editing my CV and wrote a cover letter. Gave the flat a spring clean, then walked 15km along the canal to buy kefir. Fed the ducks and snapped the perfect metaphor for how my life’s going.

A capsized boat lies in the Rochdale canal surrounded by heaps of rubbish and wooden palettes.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Mar 17

Finally! All doors and windows are open. (Ignore the fact that I’m wearing a thermal top.)

An almost cloudless blue sky is reflected in the river Calder at Brearley, West Yorkshire. There’s a sliver of cloud on the distant horizon.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Mar 14

The lengths I'll go to, and the detours I'll take, to get a 500g bag of linseed.

Large moss-covered rocks like in Hebden Beck. I stood on a rocky outcrop to get this shot and keep my feet dry. Trees line the steep bank to the right, and there's a fence where the path is to the left. Blue skies and sun!

Hebden Beck shot at Hardcastle Crags, West Yorkshire. Bare branches creep in to the top of the shot, and the riverbed is strewn with large moss-covered boulders. Sunlight sparkles on the water, and there's a steep valley side to the right.

A snapped tree blocks the way in Kinder Scout Wood. The trail is narrow, muddy and treacherous, and I had to clamber up even higher to get around it. It's heartbreaking to see so many trees being blown over by endless storms.

Looking towards Hardcastle Crags as I began my journey home. There's a moss covered drystone wall cutting in from the middle right and in the distance, the steep valley sides are covered in bare trees that are starting to show signs of rising sap, blossom and early leaves.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Mar 7

New job opportunity! What's everyone waiting for?!

A job listing for a Social Media Founder Branding and Content Strategist. It asks that the individual relocates to Dubai, and was posted after the US attacked Iran, and while Iran was responding by firing missiles at Dubai.

DaemonForneus@daemonforneus· Mar 4

Lay down all work, Surrender to the Sun. It is shining, It is shining. Work is getting unsustainably stupid. Stressed, I picked up the wrong vape. Best mistake ever. Instant calmer.