New door sign

A nice surprise!

New office

Having just returned from 5 weeks travelling, I have a lot of tasks to do. Two big tasks are to clear the backlog of emails and unpack my new office.

Here is a photo sent to me while I was away. Thanks Jenny and Mary for helping to pack and move the boxes while I was away.

Here is my blogpost showing my last week in my old office: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2023/06/packing-up-my-office-for-past-20-years.html

Here is my office after unpacking had begun:

Packing up my office for the past 20 years

It has been decided that our building at Charles Sturt University is going to be demolished because it contains asbestos. So, we all have to pack up our offices. 

I have been in my office for 20 years. I have enjoyed the meetings and events that have been held in my office and the commaraderie with my students and colleagues in my corridor and building. 

A lot of interesting books, documents and artefacts have been accumulated over the past 20 years. Some are easy to throw out, some are harder. Lots of things are still being used and will be transferred to my new office. I'm glad I will have lots of bookshelves as I have many children's speech resources from my ARC Future Fellowship purchased from all over the world in many different languages. Lots of memories of great people and events have been unearthed during the packing process.

My office for 20 years

A lot of boxes

Last meeting in my office - Friday 23rd June with Dr Helen Blake