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Our leader’s birthday

Mrs M writes: much excitement, it's Neil's birthday. He claims to be 35 again but we're not sure we believe him. There was the usual tuneless rendering of Happy Birthday and then cutting of the cakes. Note plural. Also duly noted were the standard of the cakes. Very very smart which is only fitting obviously for a man of our Neil's stature. I'm talking professionally here of course. Anyway here is a very bad picture of the man himself cutting the posh cakes.

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quick tour of our new building

Roof terrace
The move is done and we're now spread across two buildings, either side of Hanbury Street. Like any move, it's been a big upheaval: we're surrounded by crates and boxes, it's hard to tell what's rubbish and what's valuable equipment and everything's a bit provisional. But the new space looks awesome and we now have room to breathe and work. Above: the roof terrace. Nice views.

Stairwell
Some stairs. Useful when moving between floors.

2nd floor

A big, empty bit.

Garage

Paul and Angus creating magic in a garage. On cliched, uncomfortable bean bags.

Mezzanine

Stairs to the mezzanine.

Nev

Nev, in the corridor that reminds me of The Masque of the Red Death.

Black bog 

Black bog.

2nd floor work area

Some people working.

Kitchen

Kitchen, with mezzanine area above. Shame we couldn't manage to get cabinets in matching colours.

1st 

First floor from mezzanine

From above

First floor
First floor workers
Sam lucy donna Platform top down

I stuck myself to the ceiling like a human fly to take this shot.

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