I've been arranging some days off next week including, as it turns out, a trip up to TheOldPlace. Christmas will be here soon so I'm running out of time. Especially as one of my tasks is to collect some Christmas presents ordered from a store a couple of weeks back.

Having said that I'd warn the VC's office if I was back up that way, I dutifully sent along an email and almost by return had an interview with the VC arranged. Oh well, if I didn't want to go, I wouldn't have mentioned it... It just somehow seems to need to be done to 'close' that loose thread off. Or something.

And, I hear, other changes are afoot as another former colleague departs for fresh pastures. I wish her well. The information team gets another chance to be revised (or not), although I understand that recent new appointments there are "frighteningly efficient". There's a compliment I don't think I could aspire to!