Thursday 20th October 2016, 12.15pm (day 1,883)
It’s nice to see I can still have a reasonably engaging effect on my students…. (with help today, I admit)…
Engaged…
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
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Circle Square rises
Tuesday 18th October 2016, 9.40am (day 1,881)
Point one’s camera in almost any direction in Manchester these days and one will hit a building site. This particular one — to be known, once complete, as ‘Circle Square’ (you have to cringe just a little bit) — is on the site of the old BBC building. Creative destruction….? Something to record, at least.
Another beautiful morning
Monday 17th October 2016, 8.40am (day 1,880)
It really has been a fine run of weather over the last two months and still shows no real signs of becoming unpleasant. My train to Manchester this morning was 15 minutes late and I cared not at all, just 15 minutes longer to hang out in the sunshine and take pictures.
This year’s habaneros
Sunday 16th October 2016, 1.50pm (day 1,879)
Look what’s been ripening away beautifully on my bedroom window sill while I was away in Prague. This house is now self-sufficient in habaneros. You want some wicked fresh chili peppers, this is the place to come.
Nutclough castle
Friday 14th October 2016, 4.50pm (day 1,877)
This shot is taken not twenty yards from my house, but I think it sustains a suitably Eastern European feeling. Particularly with the bats — or whatever — circling ominously above.
In Prague airport
Thursday 13th October 2016, 4.00pm (day 1,876)
My six days in Prague come to an end. It’s a very beautiful city, if you’ve never been, you should visit. I know the sign on this shot looks wonky: it’s funny how the camera can distort perspective quite easily sometimes.
Dina and Ellie present at ECIL2016
Wednesday 12th October 2016, 1.05pm (day 1,875)
Dina is from Greece but works in Scotland. Ellie is from Iran and works in Australia (she helped look after me when I went to Brisbane back in 2013). Both are here presenting in the Czech Republic at the same conference session as me (from the UK) and other delegates from Croatia and Belgium, helping, in our small ways, to advance knowledge worldwide.
This is why Brexit and the isolationist, racist mentality it provokes is so utterly stupid. I don’t just mean that as a random insult. I mean vicious, ridiculous stupidity of the most damaging kind.
Prague castle guard
Tuesday 11th October 2016, 2.15pm (day 1,874)
The conference here in Prague has been in full swing since Sunday lunchtime, but we were given this afternoon off, so I went to Prague castle, reputed to be the world’s largest castle (though it seems to me that the Kremlin in Moscow would give it a run for its money). It remains the home of the Czech president as well as being a huge tourist attraction, and judging by the pomp and circumstance in evidence today, he was in residence. It’s a good way of getting people employed, by the looks of things.
The Vltava, from Charles Bridge
Sunday 9th October 2016, 10.50am (day 1,872)
Quick walking tour of Prague this morning although as you can see it was a rather gloomy day. This picture is taken from around the Charles Bridge, a lovely piece of medieval engineering art, and these days heaving with people, possibly the selfie centre of Europe. I pointed my camera at the river instead. The Vltava has its source at the southern edge of the Czech Republic and runs north into the Elbe, and eventually the North Sea.
Being 42 