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This  morning, I slept in until just after 09:00, so I didn't have time for "Breakfast at Carluccio's" whilst waiting for my train: just a couple of pastries from Sainsbury's and a large cappuccino. Superficially, Manchester had that unappealing greasy-wet look, but I saw its fine buildings, trams and canals. I also saw how many homeless people there were. From this lock on the Rochdale Canal, I walked to Sackville Gardens to pay homage to Turing (see extra) and continued through the Gay Village to Piccadilly.

I worked most of the three-hour journey to Edinburgh, and then walked to the Bayes Centre to meet PhD student Y. She was wearing a beautiful traditional dress jacket in gold fabric that she said her aunt had made. Her second supervisor has given her a couple of challenging technical and programming assignments, dealing with maths that I've never studied. We had a good technical discussion that helped both of us. She got to see that the technical side wasn't easy for me, and I had the opportunity to improve her approach to scientific programming.

From there I took the shuttle bus to King's Buildings, where PhD student B was in the office, allowing us to have a discussion about what he's been doing in the past week.

After that, I was tired, and the bus home took ages. A had started cooking, and I finished off as we caught on the past 24 hours. Then I walked Django, seeing many kids "guising", but none has called in here. I guess that (wisely) kids are told only to call in on houses where they know people, and now we don't have children at school, that rules us out!