Well any day I might write a blog would be completely different – my job is very varied, which is one of the things I love about it.

This morning I started work at the King David High School, Liverpool. Over the last three years I’ve been working on the Galkoff’s and Secret Life of Pembroke Place project – for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Museum of Liverpool. This project has had some archaeological elements, including an excavation of courtyard housing. The main focus of the project has been the preservation and conservation of the tiled façade of a Kosher butcher shop, Galkoff’s. This project has given me lots of opportunities, including building contacts and friendships with people in Liverpool’s Jewish community. Today a team from the museum installed an artwork at the King David Campus which reflects on some of the history of the Jewish community in Liverpool

After such a great start to a Monday morning I was back to the office for some slightly more mundane tasks. I needed to send some large computer files which can be quite a slow process with the museum’s network security. So, I used some of the time I was waiting for uploads to work on a silly idea I’ve had in mind for a while: to try to create a Harris Matrix of Pulp Fiction! Archaeologists use Harris Matricies to represent the relationships between different events/contexts on an archaeological site. They can sometimes be very complex, and are somewhat difficult to explain to people. I wondered if one of the mixed-up storyline of the film would be a useful way to demonstrate how they work? It’s a work-in-progress, the numbers should be in the order you see them in the film! (you might have to have seen the film quite recently for it to make sense?)

This afternoon I helped facilitate some tours in the Museum of Liverpool. A volunteer, Lee Sharp, who is doing an MA course in Museum and Heritage Management at Liverpool Hope University has recently created a display of some of the finds from the court housing excavation I mentioned. Lee has listened to the oral testimony of twelve people who lived in courts to create the labels for the finds. Today Lee did some tours of a reconstructed court we have in the Museum. The tours were brilliant – well done Lee!

Now I’m just doing last minute tweaks to my preparations for a Twitter Conference we’re running tomorrow about latest finds in Merseyside’s archaeology. Follow #ArchMoL19 and @MuseumLiverpool to find out more.