and what did I find today, in a box in my office, but a picture of me with Leo in my very first Oxford office, in Mansfield College, when he was a very new purchase indeed. I can tell that I've only very recently arrived, because I quite soon painted the whole thing a strong deep blue, like being inside the heavens but without the stars. Note two other things: the sagging rubber plant on top of the filing cabinet (there was always a rubber plant, back last century), and, on the desk, my very first computer, an Amstrad. I thought I was so hip and cool having such a thing! If you remember them, green lettering stuttered its way across the screen - one font only - and then, if the connection worked ok, one could print stuff out on a rattling dot-matrix printer. The pic also works as a reminder that my current office is the smallest that I've had in my whole career: definitely downward mobility in terms of academic real estate, but I'm curiously fond of it, all the same, even if it's full of - because it's full of? - books and storage boxes and, seemingly, lions.
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