In the last few years, I've seen some adverts about completing tax returns, e.g. Moira Stuart sitting in an understairs cupboard. However, I've ignored them; I only work for a single employer, and they deduct income tax from my salary each month (PAYE = Pay As You Earn), so I don't have to do a tax return. I do my own calculations in Excel, to see ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a busy weekend for me.

On Saturday, I was out on SJA duty, covering "Seasons of Love" in South Norwood by St Mark's Players. They did a performance on Friday night, then a matinee and an evening performance on Saturday, so I handled both of them. I'm going off to see the "Lord of the Rings" musical in a couple of weeks (neatly ( Read more... )

Well, it's been quite a busy week. I wound up going to bed at 10pm last night and sleeping until 11:30 this morning ( Read more... )

A few cheerful highlights from the past few days...

Tuesday evening was SJA training (as usual), and this week was about deaf awareness/sign language. ( Read more... )

A quick round up of the last few days...

On Thursday evening I went off to the annual BCS/IEE Turing lecture - this year's talk was about the ways that technology can help/hinder disabled people, and it was very interesting. ( Read more... )

Well, I've now left PMSI for the second time; it wasn't under quite as happy circumstances as the first time (when I was going off to do my MSc), but I certainly felt better about it once I had the new job sorted out. I start there tomorrow, and I'm quite looking forward to it.

( Job stuff )

It's been pointed out to me that I don't update my LJ as often as I used to. This is mainly because I have less spare time, particularly with my increased travel time to work - roughly speaking, I'm out of the flat for 12 hours a day (assuming I go straight to/from the office). Anyway, a quick round-up of what else I've been doing over the past ( Read more... )

Well, another week, another update. Now that the MSc project results have been finalised, I think that transcripts have been sent out to students; I certainly know that someone in India has received one. Unfortunately, there's been no sign of mine, so I assume it's stuck in a sorting office somewhere, due to the postal strike. So, I emailed the ( Read more... )

Diverging from the one-track note of most of my recent post, a summary of what else I've been up to in the last month or so ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a fairly quiet week here - I've spent most of the time reading. In particular, I've been re-reading the first four Harry Potter books, and I'll be picking up the new one tonight (just after midnight).

I had an interview with the BCS yesterday morning, regarding my application for professional membership. I think it went quite well ( Read more... )