Friday 10th April 2015, 11.20am (day 1,324)
There’s a lot of it about… particularly among the ewe population of northern England.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Lakeland panorama (in metal)
Thursday 9th April 2015, 3.10pm (day 1,323)
Though the choice of photo didn’t reflect this, I was walking in the Lake District yesterday, and I’m going to walk there again tomorrow — so to mark the day inbetween, here’s another version of the Lakeland panorama, cast in metal and placed on Morecambe promenade as a view indicator. Attractive enough in its own right, too, on another beautiful day.
Neapolitan
Wednesday 8th April 2015, 6.55pm (day 1,322)
Those who know their ice-cream, know why.
Below the bridge
Tuesday 7th April 2015, 3.45pm (day 1,321)
Spring has definitely sprung. These geese — pictured from about 15 feet up — were enjoying it as much as everyone else today. Particularly those of us who are having a week off work (though I’d like to get over the jet lag please).
Waiting for the duck race
Monday 6th April 2015, 3.20pm (day 1,320)
Easter Monday, so we had the annual Duck Race down the Hebden Water. If you don’t know what that is, there is no point explaining it. This shot doesn’t do justice to the crowds watching it — but who cares, it epitomised my day, and that is the point of this blog.
Sunrise wing
Sunday 5th April 2015, 6.15am (British summer time) (day 1,319)
Taken somewhere over Wales on our final descent into Manchester this morning, allowing for the time difference a 19-hour journey door to door. The humps in the foreground are the wing and engine; behind are various hills poking above a layer of mist and fog.
Farewell to San Francisco
Saturday 4th April 2015, 8.20am (day 1,318)
Off I go on my way home. I hope to be back one day — but that is true of many places. I guess there are several where I have visited for the last time in my life… and there is no way of telling which. Anyway, enough of that — check out the Bay Bridge in the foreground, Golden Gate behind, and Alcatraz to centre right. A very impressive city, and an enjoyable and interesting week.
Conference welcome desk, Friday afternoon
Friday 3rd April 2015, 2.20pm (day 1,317)
Staffing the ‘welcome desk’ halfway through the last day of the conference is not the most exciting job in the world, I am sure.
Last day in California — it’s been an interesting and enjoyable week. Can I take the weather home, please?
After-dinner bus
Thursday 2nd April 2015, 9.10pm (day 1,316)
More transportation, this time the bus back to the hotel after the conference dinner. There seems to be something amusing both Alexandra in the foreground and the gentleman behind, who happens to be Marc Prensky; those of you active in the education field may have heard of this guy (digital natives etc.).
Commuting, California-style
Wednesday 1st April 2015, 9.00am (day 1,315)
Transferred this morning to the second stage of my California journey, the conference I am attending in Palo Alto. Could have picked a photo from there but there will be plenty of opportunities for that in the next two days, so here is a shot that lacks aesthetic qualities but does capture the rather bizarre train I caught this morning. A double-decker arrangement, but with an open trough down the centre of the upper deck, giving the impression of being sat up in a glorified luggage rack for the 45 minutes it took to travel from downtown SF into Silicon Valley.
