Monthly Archives: September 2004

When Austen is slaughtered

Up early to go into town as Mirinda was teaching two lectures for the part timers today. I sat, happily in the silent area of the college library from 11am to 12:30. Beforehand, we had a look at the new … Continue reading

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Excellent evacuation

Day started cold and dreary but brightened up to be quite hot and sunny by lunch time. Busy cleaning up bits and pieces at work. I spent a lot of time in the basement. Mr B rang me at 12 … Continue reading

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Happy uni thoughts

Worked from home again today on the websales site which still isn’t working. Testing now to start properly on Monday. In the evening I popped over to the uni to collect some books from the library. I am getting to … Continue reading

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Winners and losers

Nicole was in today for the first time this week. She is having an awful time in her new position. Not knowing what Gill is doing, having to work in a way alien to her, etc. She has spoken to … Continue reading

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IT or not IT

Worked from home then left at 5pm to attend induction session at Surrey Uni. The librarian was very good (we have some excellent resources at our finger tips) but the IT guy proved the point that they should not be … Continue reading

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Failures

The new web sales site was not ready to test, as promised, so I spent the day testing a new government site called Kickstart. It failed. Mirinda spending most of the week in town.

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Quiet Sunday

Lunch at Darnley’s and a walk on Blackdown with the poodles. Otherwise, an extremely quiet Sunday.

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Anglo Saxon lectures

Went to the Saxon Symposium at Sussex Uni at Falmer. Dawn picked me up at 8am. I left Mirinda sleeping soundly. We arrived heaos early – before registration in fact. Once inside, we saved seats for Bev, Matt, Lorna and … Continue reading

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Double jobs

Codedrop today and it didn’t work! First time for me. I had a chuckle because the test on CPP yesterday was a bit iffy if they’d asked me. Of course, they didn’t. So I spent the morning writing about testing … Continue reading

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Dig, work, trains, yoga

Early start again. Though the 06:57 was cancelled because the guard took ill and therefore, the 07:04 was jam packed. We waited and caught the 07:10. Could have spent another half an hour in bed. Great excitement today! Last night … Continue reading

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