University days

Thanks to my newest Facebook friend Tim Bradshaw for digging out this classic photo from roughly 2001. When we all studied at Durham University together we would sit in the Palatinate office, Durham's student paper, and pretend we didn't have lectures to go to. As you can see, the office had no windows so we couldn't tell the difference between day and night. In this action shot, Dan "the man" Morris is laying out the music section, while I mess around taking photos with Tim. On the whiteboard at the back you can just make out a scruffy flatplan. Interestingly enough, this was around the time that the Guardian awarded us the title of best student newspaper in the country - we were that good.