Set upright on the wall along Lumb Lane, Almondbury. That's the detail that matters here, and the notebook underlines nothing but I can tell it wanted to. A shoe on the ground has arrived; a shoe set upright on a wall has been placed, and by whom and why is not for me to say, and I didn't say it then and I'm not saying it now. But I recorded "set upright" and the words are doing their own work.
Right boot, brown, work sort, steel toe by the look of it — I don't tap them to check, you can't interfere — with one lace missing. A working boot in good order bar the lace, stood on a wall on a lane out of Almondbury, found on the morning walk from the house, because we were still doing everything from the house that summer.
The weather were warm and heavy and the rain arrived by ten, so the timing were right for once. No sit-down — the book says there were nowhere sensible to put the stool, and Lumb Lane is all wall and verge and camber, so I believe it. But here's the entry's real distinction: photographed twice and both came out. The notebook marks this as unusual, and it were. Two for two hadn't happened since the new camera arrived in 2018 and it didn't happen often after. I couldn't tell you what I did differently. Happen the boot were just cooperative, being a working sort.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.