Fire alarm at work
Monday 10th September 2012, 12.25pm An unexciting subject for a photo but this was an unexciting day. It does at least mark the first appearance of the exterior of the Ellen Wilkinson Building at...
View ArticleMaking a phone call
Monday 3rd December 2012, 1.30pm (day 466) Lucky for me that she was, because like most Mondays, this was a difficult to day to find a) inspiration b) the time to actually take a photo. Mind you, she...
View ArticleMy office (for the first time)
Thursday 13th December 2012, 8.55am (day 476) 476 days into doing this blog and this is the first time my campus office has appeared on it. It’s not a very inspiring place, at least, not...
View ArticleCourtyard tree, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Monday 11th November 2013, 12.35pm (day 809) The building where my office is located in Manchester (better than saying ‘where I work’… I work all over), is something of a concrete monstrosity, but it...
View ArticleStairwell, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Tuesday 14th January 2014, 2.00pm (day 873) Snapped for no other reason than I liked the image. There is no deeper agenda. Another pleasantly sunny winter’s day in Manchester.
View ArticleStairwell, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Tuesday 23rd September 2014, 4.05pm (day 1,125) An abstract perspective on a familiar spot.
View ArticleMy courtyard, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Tuesday 30th September 2014, 12 noon (day 1,132) This is ‘my’ courtyard because I never see anyone else in here. There are — and I know them all — three entrances into this courtyard, surrounded by the...
View ArticleFire escape, Ellen Wilkinson building
Thursday 16th October 2014, 11.55am (day 1,148) Well-lit Moments During a Day on Campus, number several dozen and twenty. This is one of the secret entrances into my personal courtyard by the way, so...
View ArticleEntrance 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleSitting 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleBlossoming, 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWork 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLouis 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...
View ArticleLunch 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...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....