Friday 6th October 2017, 8.05am (day 2,234)
One of those days when the sun just comes up at the right time, two minutes before the train arrives to take me to Manchester.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Category Archives: Urban scene
If it’s Manchester it’s a building site
Thursday 28th September 2017, 9.05am (day 2,226)
A beautiful morning. Could not resist taking a photo. Could not avoid another building site. The whole city…. the whole city.
Site entrance (orange and blue)
Wednesday 27th September 2017, 5.40pm (day 2,225)
In Manchester this week, yes, but it feels like a brief interlude, my October looks a little different than in previous years for various reasons. One constant though — Manchester’s a building site. It seems always to have been one, and possibly, now always will be one.
Man in hole
Monday 25th September 2017, 2.05pm (day 2,223)
We’re all working away in a hole one way or another. Question is, I guess, can we make the most of our time in there?
St. Malo
Wednesday 20th September 2017, 2.40pm (day 2,218)
St Malo is on the northern coast of France, close to where the coast of Brittany takes a turn to the north and becomes Normandy. The old town is behind a complete ring of 17th century fortifications built to defend against the nasty English and Dutch. The tidal range here is extensive, some 45 feet between high tide and low; the broad beach you see here is completely covered by several feet of water twice a day.
The liquid nitrogen arrives
Thursday 14th September 2017, 8.05am (day 2,212)
However you make ‘miracle substance’ graphene, or go about making it into things once you’ve got it, you clearly need a lot of liquid nitrogen to do it with…. Early morning delivery here at the National Graphene Institute, from the big tanker out of shot to the right. And yes, I was on campus by just after 8am. How keen of me.
Storm on Portland Street
Monday 11th September 2017, 9.30am (day 2,209)
My walk to work this morning took twice as long as usual due to having to take shelter twice from vicious bouts of rain. I’m inside here (in Caffe Nero as it happens, and yes, I had bought a cup of tea), hence the reflections in the coat of the woman on the left. Inside was the place to be at this time, I can assure you, and I’m sure these two would agree with me.
Alley off Trafalgar Street, Brighton
Sunday 10th September 2017, 10.40am (day 2,208)
I do like side streets. Particularly in an attractive place like Brighton, where the graffiti artists have talent and vision, on a relatively sunny morning.
Top entrance, Nutclough Mill
Thursday 7th September 2017, 12.20am (day 2,205)
Once again, not an exciting shot, but Thursday was not an exciting day. Indeed, so uneventful was it that this is in fact a mild curiosity, a shot taken just after midnight on what therefore still amounts to the day before. Still counts though, making this the second-earliest shot ever on the blog: only the one in Bergen on 27/9/14 (12.10am) beats it.
Being 42 