Clearly it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Phone call early today to say they were offering me the job (subject to references and such like being sorted out).

Wow! I was rather taken aback after feeling I'd let myself down rather yesterday.

Finding management to actually tell was harder than you might have thought but it seems someone will write a reference when they've worked out who should do it.

Glad that one way or another the 'waiting' is over and the decision made. But it's going to be sad leaving somewhere I've enjoyed working for over a decade. Or perhaps more accurately the people I've enjoyed working with.

Still, the time has evidently come.

Speaking of which, the time has come to get ready both mentally and physically for the three day conference and the early start tomorrow. So further thoughts will have to wait till I've web access again in about 10 days.