Saturday 30th May 2015, 6.20pm (day 1,374)
Going on how dominant his team were today in the FA Cup Final, I guess he has a right to be happy — and this was only half time. The Villa fans and neutrals around him can raise little such enthusiasm.
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Sat at the back
Friday 29th May 2015, 9.55am (day 1,373)
We are all paying attention, honest. Not an exciting photo (with due respect to the people in it) but I should somehow depict the conference which actually got me to Paris. Last day here, a mixed break, to put it mildly, but life goes on. It’s certainly a fine city, undeniably a world centre.
Bistro ‘Aux Marches du Palais’, lunchtime
Thursday 28th May 2015, 1.40pm (day 1,372)
Going a bit out on a limb with this shot because it’s out of focus, but I think it captures quite well the atmosphere of this totally unreconstructed bistro which we stumbled across at lunchtime. Food, wine, this is why I came to Paris… (well, OK, I came for a conference, but y’know).
Admiring the view from Montmartre
Wednesday 27th May 2015, 11.35am (day 1,371)
So as you might have gathered from yesterday’s post (I said, don’t ask), we have been in Paris for a few days. France becomes the 22nd different country to feature on the blog. Not a new country or place for me, but it’s been a while (2003 was the last visit to France and around 2000, I forget exactly, to Paris). We were staying near Montmartre, a good place to amble around on a warm sunny day and enjoy the view over the city from the steps below the Sacre-Coeur, as these people (and several hundred others) are doing.
Lost property office, Gare du Nord
Tuesday 26th May 2015, 6.50pm (day 1,370)
Welcome to Paris. Don’t even ask.
Outside ‘Flying Saucers’
Monday 25th May 2015, 4.05pm (day 1,369)
Clearing up after the Bank Holiday crowd. Saturday’s walk notwithstanding, it has not been the most eventful eight days, but there’ll be a burst of activity from tomorrow.
Lego lady gets desperate
Sunday 24th May 2015, 7.20pm (day 1,368)
I could explain again the basis of Clare’s blog with her Lego lady…. but I’m not going to. Rest assured that I did take this shot, hence it fits with the rules of my own blog. Do I feel like this? That’s for me to know and you to find out.
View from High Knott
Saturday 23rd May 2015, 11.30am (day 1,367)
Far too glorious a day to not go on a walk. The walking blog will get updated tomorrow, but for now, here’s one of today’s spectacular views: Great End on the left, then the three lumps from centre to right are Loft Crag, Pike o’Stickle and Harrison Stickle — the Langdale Pikes. England doesn’t get a great deal better than this.
Steve and Abdul
Friday 22nd May 2015, 7.15pm (day 1,366)
At the end of a week that I have mostly spent marking but which tired me out anyway. Where else to go but the pub?
Speaker at the cinema
Thursday 21st May 2015, 8.15pm (day 1,365)
Went to the cinema tonight to see a superb film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — if you’ve never seen it I highly recommend it. It was being shown as a charity fundraiser, which meant we were obliged to listen to the speeches beforehand, hence this picture. But I am being unfair — it was for a good cause. And did I say it was a very good movie?
