Finding a home in the workshop

Tuesdays were a special day during my PhD: it was the day the glassblowing rep would visit. We didn’t have in-house glassblowers, so if you needed something repairing or an unusual piece of glassware designed you had to head up to the tearoom to meet Paul, who would cheerfully listen to your problem, distilling it down to the key issues that he could then take to his technical team to design a solution.