On the rota to deliver my first formal tour today.

But take up of these ad hoc 'on the half hour' things has been almost non-existent by students. So I wasn't surprised to have no takers. Despite spending quarter of an hour in the new foyer accosting students. "Been here two years..." was one comment evidently blind to the several hundreds of additional square metres she'd been given and which another student described to me as like being in an MC Esher picture. "I go in one door and come out in another place entirely. I'm here one moment and there the next." A bit like my life at the moment.

Still, determined to learn the route and the content of the tour I took myself round it twice which should stand me in good stead for the staff reception's on three nights next week. At least you get a better class of audience on your own. But no very challenging questions.