Greenhead Park again — the notebook itself points out it were the second from this park that year, the child's plimsoll in March being the first. Two shoes from one park in six months is worth a line in the notes, and it got one. I keep an eye on patterns like that without making anything of them.
Right trainer, blue, by the paddling pool railings. Laces gone. By late September the paddling pool business is winding down, so the trainer had the railings more or less to itself. Weather were mild, and flask conditions good on the bench — Greenhead is well supplied with benches, which makes it easy ground, and I'll admit I've never once had a feeling that called for the stool there.
The photograph came out. A blue trainer against park railings gives you a clean picture even grainy, and grainy it will have been. Park finds and moor finds are different work — a moor shoe you sit with, a park shoe you record efficiently, because there's dogs and prams and people wondering what you're photographing. I were quick and thorough, which is the park method, and home in good time. A plain entry, honestly kept.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.