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Jun 06 2026
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The writing of names

Friday 5th June 2026, 2.30pm (day 5,398)

Names and pens, 5/6/26

Attending a ‘Names Festival’, along with a grand total of fourteen other people, seemed a hassle-free way of bringing the working week to a close. These are all names, of the four others sat at my table: three in Chinese and one in Bengali. It was suggested I add my own name, but we just have that boring old single script to work with and it was written out on my name badge anyway so I kept myself an invisible presence, at least in terms of this particular, ephemeral document.

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Jun 03 2026
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The latest marketing slogan

Tuesday 2nd June 2026, 3.25pm (day 5,395)

Challenge accepted, 2/6/26

Actually, now I make this full-size I see the sticket is very difficult to read, but hey, this one was always more about the art than the aspiration. It says “Challenge Accepted”, by the way. The challenge we have at the moment is persuading the students (who as postgraduates are supposed to still be cranking it out) to stick around on campus, though at least these two have made it.

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May 30 2026
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The endless task

Friday 29th May 2026, 2.50pm (day 5,391)

Grading, endless, 29/5/26

It’s that time of year again. Oh God. At least I don’t have to do them all.

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May 12 2026
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Neglected corner

Tuesday 12th May 2026, 6.05pm (day 5,374)

Neglected corner, 12/5/26

It’s astonishing, and kind of embarrassing, quite how grubby are some of the harder-to-reach corners of our house. This one sits below the unused chimney, but that’s an explanation, not an excuse. I picture it here to shame the cleaning fairies who, of course, should be the ones doing the work.

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May 08 2026
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Set up for talking

Thursday 7th May 2026, 12.05pm (day 5,369)

Chairs for tutorial, 7/5/26

More teaching, though of a different sort. To celebrate the last active (for me, anyway) week of the semester, just for once I thought it would be nice to try to get them to do a bit of talking. You know, to each other. I guess it worked, more or less.

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May 07 2026
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Live in Bangladesh

Wednesday 6th May 2026, 10.35am (day 5,368)

UNESCO online, 6/5/26

Actually there were participants from a few different countries here today but the core was Bangladeshi. I’ve finished my part of the webinar — that’s my icon on the right of the set (a picture that is nearly nine years old now, as in it I’m wearing my eclipse glasses). My colleague Martyn is about to get going in my stead, and who doesn’t love a Dr Strangelove reference?

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Apr 23 2026
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The horde arrives

Wednesday 22nd April 2026, 8.50am (day 5,354)

Victoria horde, 22/4/26

As will be made obvious by my photographs, I don’t go into Manchester every working day by any means. But when I do, if arriving on platforms 4 or 5 this will invariably be the first thing seen there. Up we all go, to then distribute ourselves through the city by some other means of locomotion.

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Apr 14 2026
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All quiet in the Ellen Wilkinson

Monday 13th April 2026, 10.30am (day 5,345)

Ellen Wilkinson commons, 13/4/26

I can’t really complain about the lack of activity on campus today — I was putting in my first appearance there in 19 days so have no leg to stand on. In the Ellen Wilkinson building’s ‘learning commons’ there may have been someone skulking at the back but they do not appear on the shot. On the left, the mural is of the building’s eponym: Britain’s first female Minister of Education and someone of the general kind of good reputation and worthy history that means they have buildings named after them. She died in 1947 aged 55, so is another person I have outlived.

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Apr 07 2026
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Breakfast with good fortune

Monday 6th April 2026, 9.55am (day 5,338)

Breakfast room, 6/4/26

I don’t know, I spend the whole day — and a public holiday, no less — in one of the planet’s most significant cities and I feel like depicting at the end of it is breakfast. What this says about me, I no longer care. Actually I am quite happy with this picture: like many of the ones I like the best it is the one I intended to take when pressing the shutter. Over the road, the “Good Fortune Studio” stayed just like that throughout my 48 hours at this particular Travelodge, and that says something too.

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Apr 01 2026
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Heads

Tuesday 31st March 2026, 12.55pm (day 5,332)

Neues Museum heads, 31/3/26

If I was more of an artist I would come up with some allegorical statement here, the heads appear as if they are flying — but really, they are trapped, objects displayed for the delectation of visitors to this museum, none of whom will care for more than a few fleeting moments, if at all. Then again if I were more of an artist I would dispense with these commentaries altogether; I did try it once, way back, but it never took. This is the Neues Museum in Berlin, by the way: our last full day here.

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