“I never imagined that I would settle in the UK” said PhD student VW. “In fact, I fully expected to be living in Poland by now”. He led me into the smart building on the western side of Edinburgh where he rented apartment number 118. I stuck to him closely wherever possible, although I chose to open doors to get from one room to the next whereas VW sometimes climbed over walls. All floors and flats were decorated and furnished identically in pale blue and white French paysan style: one wrong turn and I would be lost in this maze forever. Although it had started to rain, we followed through our plan to collect EM and TPR, hunt for some appropriate clothing in the enormous cardboard boxes in VW’s yard, then cycle out to East Lothian for the afternoon.

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As I walked around the new campus I was joined by a suited man who looked vaguely familiar. He reminded me that he took my undergraduate Knowledge Management class in the early noughties. He had returned for two reasons: to view the new building himself, and to tell me how useful my module had turned out to be in later life.