I like spring. Well, I like autumn too, but spring has the flowers! First the white ones - snowdrops. Than the yellow ones - daffodils and primroses. Than the blue ones. As a child, I remember ‘going bluebelling’. We did it every year, with my Gran. This was before the Wildlife and Countryside Act of… Continue reading Bluebell season
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Rites of passage (2): cake and flowers
On a beautiful spring day, what better way for a retired academic to spend an afternoon? Off to Milton Keynes, where the campus crocuses were looking particularly lovely, for the School Assembly to include my final official farewell. Today's School Assembly was a new experience for me, one of the features of the restructured Faculty of… Continue reading Rites of passage (2): cake and flowers
Doing it
So, the great day has passed. I retired on Tuesday. I suspect retirement from The Open University proceeds very differently from the practice in most universities, let alone most jobs. Since I was working from home on The Day, absolutely nothing happened. No presentation of a clock, no round of drinks with colleagues down the… Continue reading Doing it
The retiring academic 