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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.


Carruthers at dawn. St Johns Park, New Town. August 2010.

Here is the building where I now work. A slightly different architectural style than the previous one. The best thing about working in this building is in the fact that you don't have to look at this building.

Last Friday a burst water main meant that we lost all water coming into the building. Not too serious for a bunch of pen-pushing keyboard-stroking bureaucrats on the top floor, but less pleasant for the renal ward downstairs...
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Pasadena Adjacent said…
Don't you wish you had brought the piano along?
20 August 2010 at 13:08
Roddy said…
The courtyard is different isn't it!
20 August 2010 at 19:34
smudgeon said…
It does seem like a personality-free building. Could be worse, though - you could work in a shoe or on a Vogon cruise-ship.
20 August 2010 at 19:43
Sue said…
My goodness...I would close my eyes as soon as that building came into sight! It's hideous!
21 August 2010 at 21:07
Kris McCracken said…
I'm on the fourth floor. The Nephrology unit is one the third, the Alcohol and Drug Service on the second and the Withdrawal Unit on the ground.

I was told that some time ago, some kind of toxic fluid was dripping from floor three onto the photocopier on floor two.
22 August 2010 at 18:20
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