Tuesday 8th May 2018, 12.45pm (day 2,448)
Joe must have a maths test coming up… equations like these have started appearing around the house.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Aberdour beach and the Firth of Forth
Monday 7th May 2018, 12.25pm (day 2,447)
A glorious — and three-day — weekend continues with the chance to spend a Monday relaxing with our friends in Aberdour and exploring its stellar beaches: this one, known (erroneously) as Black Sands is particularly fine. This weekend has reminded me why I should come to Scotland more often.
Forth road bridge
Sunday 6th May 2018, 4.55pm (day 2,446)
We didn’t just visit Scotland for a melancholy afternoon at Raith Rovers. On the second day of three, we drove both ways across this fine transportation architecture. The new Forth Bridge was built after the old one started pinging apart a few years ago. Like the other two monumental bridges — now, one rail, two road, and one from each of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries — it is an elegant structure, worth crossing just for the hell of it.
Ball girl, Raith Rovers FC
Saturday 5th May 2018, 4.35pm (day 2,445)
The football season comes to its many and diverse ends, each club finishing in different ways with different emotions. Raith Rovers of Scottish League One have managed to blow their hopes out in the last three games, promotion hopes have disappeared and at the final whistle today all was over. It was a very melancholy place all round — club, and town (Kirkcaldy in Fife). Maybe this picture captures something of that.
Last day of teaching (group photo)
Friday 4th May 2018, 11.50am (day 2,444)
It’s been a very busy week. But one reason for this is that it’s been the last week of teaching; I do not have to stand up in front of students and sound intelligent again until about the 28th September. I need some head-space, so this is a good thing. But then again I do miss them when they’re not around. Here we line up for our ceremonial end-of-term photograph; this little clump is about a fifth of the whole, this time round.
Baby fern creatures
Thursday 3rd May 2018, 4.40pm (day 2,443)
Didn’t a creature looking like this once erupt out of John Hurt’s stomach? The end may be nigh.
Big point
Wednesday 2nd May 2018, 11.10am (day 2,442)
Although the photos don’t reflect this I have spent all the working week in Manchester thus far. Today’s fun was one of those events which someone else decided was terribly important. No offence to John, this speaker, who did a good job (and here makes his BIG point) but the detached look on the faces of one or two of my colleagues probably reflected my own, all things considered.
Spiral on stone
Tuesday 1st May 2018, 8.15am (day 2,441)
Just hanging out. I sometimes feel it would be nice to spend a pleasant morning, as it was today, just chilling out in a sunny spot.
Blossom on May Day (nearly)
Monday 30th April 2018, 5.30pm (day 2,440)
OK, maybe I didn’t take the picture on May Day. But that’s when I’m posting it, so it still seems appropriate. Let’s hope spring is here to stay now.
Preparatory puzzle
Sunday 29th April 2018, 12.05pm (day 2,439)
Went with other family members for my first ever ‘Escape Room’ experience. We weren’t allowed to take photos inside, which is fair enough, but here are the preliminaries… To oil rusty brains on a Sunday morning, we were given some toys and puzzles to play with. Not that it helped us escape in the 1-hour time limit. Another fifteen minutes, perhaps.
I guess by now the Rubik’s Cube is a very familiar icon. I did solve it once, you know. At school; I have witnesses. Only once, though. (I knew how to do two-thirds of it; one time, the remaining third just magically fell into place.)
Being 42 