Thursday 17th December 2015, 3.20pm (day 1,575)
Congratulations to all my students who graduated from the class of 2015 at today’s ceremony — and indeed to all students everywhere, who work bloody hard, you know.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Tag Archives: University of Manchester
In the library
Thursday 3rd December 2015, 2.15pm (day 1,561)
I do sometimes still end up doing work in this place. I wonder whether the government think it is ‘productive’…
Conversation outside University Place
Thursday 12th November 2015, 3.10pm (day 1,540)
A shame about the signs on the door, which rather spoil the composition. So that’s 21 days in a row of shots only in Hebden Bridge or Manchester, breaking the record for this particular sequence; and seeing as the weather forecast for this weekend is pretty dreadful, thus no Lake District walk, the run will go on for a few more days yet.
Some of my new students
Monday 21st September 2015, 1.15pm (day 1,488)
The campus suddenly gets a hundred times busier. But this is what I’m here to do. So ignoring the fact that it was raining today, which it seems to do on this arrival day every year, it was great to meet 30 or so of the people with whom I am going to share the next 11 months or so.
Under the ex-bridge
Thursday 10th September 2015, 9.40am (day 1,477)
The bridge over Oxford Road has been removed. Underneath, the premises that used to be (on the left) the Spar and (right) Ryman stationers’ wait for their conversion to an eco-friendly community learning centre. Well, perhaps.
University Place
Tuesday 8th September 2015, 3.45pm (day 1,475)
Conference in Manchester today — this was the venue. I like taking architectural shots like this but am aware that without some crane or giant scaffold, the angles will forever be that little bit wrong. This can be seen here with the perpendiculars around the wedge of sky. Ah well.
Clouds over the library
Tuesday 11th August 2015, 11.50am (day 1,447)
First day in Manchester for a while. Ominous clouds, but they passed over without molesting us. I like this shot — trips to deepest Africa notwithstanding, one of my favourite ones for a while.
Oxford Road, closed
Friday 12th June 2015, 8.55am (day 1,387)
The university bridge over Oxford Road is considered iconic (if only because it has the words ‘University of Manchester’ plastered on it in big letters on the far side of this shot). It’s also rather dingy — see this picture, for example. Anyway, it’s going soon, being demolished, and this week Oxford Road has been closed while they prepare for the big removal. It’s so much better to have a university campus without a big fat A road running through the middle of it. Would that it were like this the whole time.
Putting up the fencing
Thursday 4th June 2015, 3.20pm (day 1,379)
There must be some big student event going on this evening at Manchester because the south-western quadrant of the campus has become ringed by this security fencing. I like this picture because of not noticing at first the arms belong to two different people and the litter bins which look like some kind of waste disposal robots.
Outside the library
Monday 11th May 2015, 11.45am (day 1,355)
One of those days where it threw it down with rain for my journey to work — including the walking outside bits — and then two hours later it was glorious sunshine. It’s the gap between teaching and exams so the campus is relatively chilled out. These two seem to be getting on well even if they do only have one leg between them.
