diff --git a/lib/parallelIO/MetaData.h b/lib/parallelIO/MetaData.h
index 85a6e0b9..1bad07f2 100644
--- a/lib/parallelIO/MetaData.h
+++ b/lib/parallelIO/MetaData.h
@@ -37,9 +37,6 @@
 #include <pwd.h>
 
 namespace Grid {
-  namespace QCD {
-
-    using namespace Grid;
 
     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     // header specification/interpretation
@@ -71,6 +68,11 @@ namespace Grid {
 				      std::string, floating_point);
     };
 
+  namespace QCD {
+
+    using namespace Grid;
+
+
     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     // Bit and Physical Checksumming and QA of data
     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
diff --git a/tests/IO/Test_serialisation.cc b/tests/IO/Test_serialisation.cc
index ceddee77..6d918787 100644
--- a/tests/IO/Test_serialisation.cc
+++ b/tests/IO/Test_serialisation.cc
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ public:
                           double, y,
                           bool , b,
                           std::vector<double>, array,
-                          std::vector<std::vector<double>>, twodimarray,
-                          std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<Complex>>>, cmplx3darray
+                          std::vector<std::vector<double> >, twodimarray,
+                          std::vector<std::vector<std::vector<Complex> > >, cmplx3darray
                           );
   myclass() {}
   myclass(int i)
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ public:
   }
 };
 
-
 int16_t  i16 = 1;
 uint16_t u16 = 2;
 int32_t  i32 = 3;