Lenton Lodge

First off, apologies for not following through with the promise of a snow shot. To counterbalance the humdrum image offered in today's post, I promise snow-inspired beauty tomorrow (the MET assures me more is on the way).

I have taken quite a few pictures of snow this morning on my walk around campus, but cannot think of anything interesting to say about them. Perhaps I am no longer excited by the landscape's transformation into a winter wonderland (I enjoyed a whole week of snow in Lancashire over Christmas).

So this is a picture of a meeting on producing professional development portfolios for seminar teaching in English. The meeting was organized by my colleague Jude. Jude and I are in the early stages of working towards the PGHCE so we visited the resource room in Lenton Lodge to discuss some ideas (for those in Nottingham: Lenton Lodge is the beautiful house behind the swimming pool).

The room is stocked with books for improving research and teaching practice in Higher Education. I had no idea this facility existed until this morning, which perhaps says more about my status as a new member of the part-time teaching staff than it does about the PD department's efforts to promote it.

I decided that the scene deserved photographic record: meetings are usually documented in the form of minutes or notes, not pictorially (and for good reason: issues of confidentiality, for example). That said, I would not have taken this picture in most other meeting contexts...I consider Jude a friend as well as a colleague...

N.B Another thought, which I make in this horrendous bee-yellow colour: the humdrum image has some bearing on 12th Night...

This is, of course, the last day for guiltless excess and I am wondering whether this post should have portrayed the last crumbs of festive behaviour.

However, as the photographer of this photo, I am back to wearing my puritan hat: remember all decorations and cards must come down before you go to bed.