ABSTRACT

The four of them were struggling with resource plans in one of the small meeting rooms. These rooms had been carved from the drawing office when the old dockside works had been converted as a home for cleaner, higher tech activities. There were windows on both sides, now partly blocked by extra whiteboards, but still looking down, to the left over the cubicles of the open plan development area and to the right over what was now the repair lab, shipping areas and stores. The skylights that used to illuminate the drawing boards now showed the hurrying streamers of mares tails, orange in the setting sun.