And they're off.....!!!!

Thank you to the girls for kick-starting our group activities before the Christmas break. It was a fantastic effort and I'm sure you are all inspired and terrified about living up to it next semester! I have a sister living in Rome who has to buy her fruit and veg each day from the market which only sells produce in season. What would the market traders of Rome make of our spring-water washed salads packed into plastic and flown hundreds of miles before being redistributed by lorry? What a waste...

So yesterday's activity reminded me to make more of an effort to get to the local farm shop instead of relying on the convenience of supermarkets. But perhaps something which will have an even longer lasting impact on me will be the memory of Adam's fish. I wonder if all line-caught Sainsbury's tuna fish are so laid back?

And on that note - I need to reel in a few 'group leaders' for a small additional task: I will be asking each group to blog their activity following the event (see the entry from Laura, Amy, Eva and Alex below...), so need the email addresses of one member from each team to invite you to 'join' to make your entry. Please nominate your leader and let me have their emails...

Have a great Christmas - don't forget to finish those dissertations - and I'll see you all in the New Year! :)

Is there anybody there..?

The rain has stopped and the sun has come out as you all take to the streets of Manchester in search of 'ghosts'. Remember these ghosts do not have to wear white sheets. They can be ghosts in your memories, manifestations of society's imagination or remnants of physical artefacts.

Place, argues Entrikin is best viewed "from points inbetween" - between the rock of objective generalization and the soft place of subjective particularism. It is this "betweeness of place" that I hope you will uncover and engage with.

Share with us your layering of ghosts in place and your discoveries of the occult from points inbetween...