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Consciously at least, nothing was planned in my mind. Last night thought the subject of boyfriends and girlfriends came up – Clare is quitting her PE job to move up to Aberdeen and be with her Allan. This coupled with…
Continue readingIt’s hard to say what I thought my last day Blackwell (should that be Wiley-Blackwell now?) was going to be like. Truth is, I think, I didn’t have a clue. But, ‘an odd day’ does seem to cover it. It…
Continue readingYou know how some weekends are just good from start to finish? Well, this weekend has been one of those. There’s been no frittering of time doing really stupid, time-wasting things. It’s just been all, most definitely, good. This afternoon,…
Continue readingA nice sunny, spring day today, just right in fact for a walk in the woods. So i headed over to Amersham – it’s not actually that far and met up with Emma, and we had a spot of lunch…
Continue readingI like my new bike. Did I mention that? It is good to be back on two wheels. Today I skirted ’round the ringroad to the free Watereaton Park&Ride, and then cycled into town. Got there and back okay â…
Continue readingIt has been a while since my last posting on this, my most tightly locked filter. This is because I have had nothing of news to impart. That is, until now. For the past three weeks I have been emailing,…
Continue readingAlan from Sophos has just called. I now, *officially* have a second interview for the job. 🙂 It’s next Tuesday morning. Good job I don’t drink to excess otherwise I might have to curb any excess at my leaving do!…
Continue readingWith all that’s going on in my life at the moment, I figured that I needed a bit of a treat. So today I splashed out some of last month’s bonus (apart from sensibly paying off remaining bits of the…
Continue readingJust got back from Abingdon – least said about the cursed traffic Census that doubled what should have been a half hour journey the better – but, wow! I guess that’s what it feels like to have a really good…
Continue readingSome of my regular readers may have noticed, and indeed wondered about, the almost month-long silence in activity in these pages. I’m not entirely sure why that was, I did have ideas of what I wanted to say and posts…
Continue readingAgghhh! It feels like homework all over again. I have my Web Content Editor test in front of me, which consists of three exercises I need to complete and return before my interview tomorrow, and it all feels too much…
Continue readingThe sun has been shining and Spring is definitely sprunging all around, and so far a number of good things have happened. 🙂 1. Yesterday I sent an en-masse email invite around just about everyone who I’ve ever worked with…
Continue readingGoogle might be good at finding out what odd passtimes the bloke two pods down from you at work likes doing in his spare time, or for finding irresistably cute pictures of cats, but it does seem a little lacking…
Continue readingThe cottage in Hemmingsford Abbots is adorably old and small and cute. Of white (though traditonally dirty) brick it has roses round the door. Originally a one up, one down cottage with ladder staircase, it has been extended twice. Once…
Continue readingArrived back in Bicester mid-evening yesterday and so woke up this morning for the first time in over a week in my own bed, and of course Bella and Arthur woke up for the first time in their own beds….
Continue readingIt’s been nice this, un-planned full-week off, and I definitely picked a good week for it with the weather. Daily walks on the forest with the dog, and afternoons sitting about in the garden, or be it a ragbag selection…
Continue readingI received my first Icelandic critique of the opening chapters of my novel today. It didn’t come, as you might think, from one of the my cousins, but from a fellow critter, Sif Traustadóttir, on CritiqueCircle. When I saw that…
Continue readingWoot! Cambridge won the Boat Race! A brilliant race by anyone’s standards. Both teams rowed well. Oxford did well to stop Cambridge making use of their first bend, but then, where the heck did Cambridge get the power to see…
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