6.19am:
6.24am:
Green white and red vinyl banner approx 6’x1½’. Attached to park railings in Park Drive South with fourteen black cable ties through small brass eyelets. It reads Learn to play croquet in Huddersfield in a bold white sans-serif with details of courses and a contact email address in smaller red text underneath.
6.29am:
The midges illuminated by the low sun appear as tiny airborne pin pricks of light. The four-sided Victorian glass lamp on the park gates appears to be illuminated too but this is also a trick of the light from the low sun.
6.34am:
The trees on Castlegate Loop include cypress, common lime, some kind of large willow. From my position on the New North Road side of the flyover only the canopy is visible above the blue railings.
6.39am:
The slightly splay-footed gait of the man walking ten metres in front of me on Southgate. He is wearing blue Nike trainers, a black North Face backpack and black shorts, t-shirt, baseball cap. He is drinking from a cardboard carton with a short straw.
6.44am:
A white long-wheelbase high-top 17-plate Ford Transit van. No livery. A set of long ladders on the roof. Parked in the yard at York House next to the small rotten wooden window with leaf pattern textured glass (Pilkington's Autumn design) and an unusual bespoke iron grill.
