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Entrance to C block
Friday 16th January 2015, 2.20pm (day 1,240) Was determined that today’s photo should come from Manchester, to break the run of Hebden pics and prove I do turn up at the office now and again. This...
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My courtyard
Wednesday 3rd February 2016, 10.00am (day 1,623) My office has been in the Ellen Wilkinson building for ten and a half years, plenty of time to become familiar with its charms which, on the whole, are...
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Sitting on the steps
Monday 17th September 2018, 3.25pm (day 2,580) Day one of Welcome Week — and so there came a time in the day when we all needed to have a break. Picture taken through my office window, making it the...
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This year’s courtyard blossom
Thursday 21st March 2019, 11.00am (day 2,765) Last day in Manchester, certainly, for 33 days. Off tomorrow, on my most significant journey of 2019. So time for this year’s ‘cherry blossom in the Ellen...
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Blossoming, unseen
Wednesday 24th March 2021, 1.30pm (day 3,499) There may be a few people, other than me, working in the Ellen Wilkinson Building at this time. There are occasional noises, dimly perceived, as if made...
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The Educators
Friday 25th June 2021, 1.25pm (day 3,592) At this time last year we had our annual ‘staff awayday‘ entirely in Zoombieland, and frankly it was the lowest point of that bleak, lonely time for me. I...
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Work going on, ground floor
Tuesday 26th July 2022, 12.30pm (day 3,988) Summer at uni, a time to get renovations done to buildings (like the Ellen Wilkinson) which sorely need it. A scaffold and a red tool box set off the view...
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The foyer
Friday 19th May 2023, 3.10pm (day 4,285) I said on Tuesday that campus was busying up. I withdraw that assessment after today’s visit, on which I reckoned I might have been the only member of uni...
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Louis waits for our meeting
Tuesday 6th June 2023, 2.05pm (day 4,303) On the basis that it was going to be warm enough to sit outside, colleague Louis stood by the exit out to the courtyard. However, today was about 10º cooler...
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Lunch in the courtyard
Tuesday 13th June 2023, 12.35pm (day 4,310) Too nice a day to have lunch sat inside, and a few minutes after I made this decision this group joined me in the courtyard. This space has appeared on here...
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