{"id":172,"date":"2017-11-09T20:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=172"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:42:23","slug":"shake-rattle-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/09\/shake-rattle-and-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other week LU Text informed us of planned ‘canopy work’ outside Fylde:<\/span><\/p>\n

‘From Monday 30th October, a section of canopy which has been installed to the Fylde Building along the South Spine will be worked on. Completion of these works is planned for Friday 3rd November. Noise disruption is expected in the immediate area. External work at Fylde will take place during the times of 7.30am\u20134.30pm Monday to Friday and 9am-4pm Saturday and Sunday.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching staff may remember to warn students that they will be subject to the bomb shelter experience (see subtext 167) – the room may shake every few minutes accompanied by loud bangs and crashes and you may be gently showered with dust from the ceiling. Teaching staff may remember to tell students, but the intermittent nature of the thumps and the level of noise does not stop them, and indeed the member of teaching staff (understandably) ‘jumping’ and\/or squealing.<\/span><\/p>\n

What LU Text did not warn those of us teaching on the ground floor of the Charles Carter building was that a large generator would be making so much noise that you could hardly hear yourself think, let alone shout loud enough so the students could hear you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other week LU Text informed us of planned ‘canopy work’ outside Fylde: ‘From Monday 30th October, a section of canopy which has been installed to the Fylde Building along the South Spine will be worked on. 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