Thursday 23rd July 2026, 2.55pm (day 5,446)
Well, I can dig it. I felt much the same way at this point in the week.
Campus chill-out
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
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Bluebells, wall, tree
Tuesday 21st April 2026, 5.45pm (day 5,353)
More flowers. Then again, it is spring: a sunny, but chilly day today. If this is taken to represent my spending time today frolicking in the countryside, it shouldn’t be — teaching has restarted and I spent the whole day on campus. These bluebells sprout outside the entrance to the Chemistry building, in which, most of the semester, I have had the late afternoon slot in theatre G54.
You can’t see me
Sunday 12th April 2026, 12.30pm (day 5,344)
“You can’t see me. I’m not really here.” Well, the black is a kind of anti-camouflage when put against the bright colours of spring and all that. Anyway Hebden has a great many jackdaws and wherever you look there’s a good chance of seeing at least one.
The courtyard
Tuesday 21st October 2025, 12 noon (day 5,171)
The courtyard within it continues to be the only truly nice thing about the Ellen Wilkinson Building, my place of work for the last 20 years and, more or less, three months. Will I miss it when I finally do manage to leave? Probably not. But it can look nice, at different times of the year.
Daffodil patch by Oxford Road
Thursday 13th March 2025, 9.35am (day 4,949)
This big patch of daffs is coming into flower rather later than many others in the vicinity, but some confident early adopters have made a start on it. Actually I like this picture more for the bark of the tree, which looks very ancient and Ent-like. This is all in the middle of the UoM campus, not a space normally renowned for feeling rural.
Pigeon patrol
Wednesday 5th February 2025, 9.25am (day 4,913)
My first Hebden Bridge picture in one whole month. It doesn’t seem like the pigeons have changed their behaviour much since I’ve been away: still the group callisthenics, tight circles around a carefully-chosen patch of town. They look impressive enough in black-and-white. Except for the one who’s broken formation, to the lower left.
The seeds hang on
Monday 18th November 2024, 11.05am (day 4,834)
I assume these are sycamore seeds, and so I think they’ve missed their chance to spiral down through the air and find fertile ground on which to start producing more sycamores. I like this shot because of the vivid green contrasting with the dead brown, but posting this the following morning I already know that green is not featuring any longer in the local palette (because it’s snowed, basically). Winter is here.
Stock campus shot
Wednesday 23rd October 2024, 10.30am (day 4,808)
This is a fairly stock campus shot, but then again it was a fairly stock campus day. At least there are people in it, which is more than has been the case for several other recent photos.
Textures
Thursday 17th October 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,802)
A hidden corner of campus. This shot has no deeper meaning, I just like the textures, of trunk, undergrowth, the wall. Although maybe that stuff on the wall is mould, but then again, you should see our bathroom wall.
Being 42 