Suzanne Fletcher's Blog

Friday 5th September

The big news is that the bridge has been finally put in place today between Queen's Campus and the North Shore. A magnificent spectacle involving the largest mobile crane in the Country lifting the large arch into place.  I will put some more up to date links in tomorrow when the media catch up, but for now this is the most up to date photo you will get taken just as the crane was moving away.

The bridge symbolises a number of things, but as we were at the leaving party for Professor Martyn Evans, moving from Queen's Campus to Trevelyan College at Durham we talked of the bridge linking the relatively new, but established hub of University life in Stockton to the unknown but potentially exciting North Shore development.

I also reflected on how even in this academic setting, where there were many learned people and students it was the simple things that mattered.  Martyn spoke of how he had been happy at the Campus and how he had come to love Stockton.  Lots of complicated things go off in our lives, we have far reaching policies in our politics, and we attempt to develop our spiritual lives.  But what matters are very simple and basic matters - if we are happy and belong most other things fall into place.

On a lighter note - what a day to be going to the hairdressers, and thank goodness for my Tilley hat.  Not the height of fashion, but kept the hair dry !