Dressed in a shimmering, metallic ballgown, JH spun around the room with TPR. AM looked on in envy.

Meanwhile all I wanted to know was why my colleagues at Loughborough University were encouraging Masters students to write Information Science dissertations on marine biology. How were the staff qualified to supervise and examine such work?

‘It’s OK’, AM assured me. ‘They just bring in guest lecturers for that.’