Off to see Pirates of the Caribbean tonight with my OUP Pakistan colleagues (one of whom will pop out partway through the trailers or thereabouts to pray). Yay for Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom!

Felafel beforehand for me, and Kebab Kid for the others.

So, a bunch of us went for a walk on Sunday, picnic and all -- to Moreton-in-Marsh Arboretum. There's a convenient train from London to Moreton via Reading and Oxford, which covered all the bases of where our lot were going to be coming from; and in addition Kate M drove her nice little sportscar from Oxford, as she had a crook ankle ( Read more... )

Mimbled around at work yesterday, recovering from the weekend. Got some good stuff done nevertheless, inlcuding a proper project conversation with the guy who is overall in charge of the OUP Pakistan project that I'll be working on from August (without going to Pakistan itself, which is a relief). Sounds like an interesting role for me and plenty ( Read more... )

Round to James' last night for our very semi-regular video evening -- a bunch of us squeezing into James' living room post-food ( Read more... )

At the Bristol convention, John Anderson (Comics Forum) told me that there was someone else from OUP wandering around. And so it proved to be, once I got back to work and contacted her; someone in ELT who is responsible for purchasing illustration work is particularly interested in stuff to do with primary childrens' work. I haven't yet seen ( Read more... )

I really must be going funny. I agreed with Sandy (my colleage who came to New York with me) that we'd meet downstairs in the hotel lobby at 7:45 to get breakfast and wander over to work. Well, I rolled out of bed groaning, got washed, got dressed, got out, all without checking my own watch (as opposed to the hotel clock radio which is what I was ( Read more... )