Saturday was a nice, relaxing day. Because the daughter and grandson didn't come down, I gained about three hours to the day! I used some of that time to give the kitchen a good clean, including the fridge/freezer. I also watched some DS9 and played W3 ( Read more... )

So, in my (almost) 16 years at LJMU I've now had 11 line managers, 6 job titles (but have really only done 4 distinct roles across 4 different departments), and 12 (soon to be 13) desks. Yeah ( Read more... )

Last week was busy in the way the run-up to Christmas always is. Things get done but nothing exciting enough to be worth recording ( Read more... )

Work is still mad. No sign of it letting up, either. But I'm being strict with myself about leaving on time ( Read more... )

Well, the Doctor Who finale really suffered from not being a two-parter, I think. Everything was just too rushed. The alternative Doctor wasn't what I was expecting but worked - kind of ( Read more... )

I spent yesterday afternoon watching 'The Mutants', a Doctor Who series with Jon Pertwee. The monsters were, of course, fairly ridiculous, but like so many stories from that era it had an ecological message. You can't just keep stripping resources from a planet and expect them to last forever. And there's danger in interfering with other ( Read more... )

Luke has just opened his Easter eggs - chocolate for breakfast :D :D ( Read more... )

I have found a wonderful mindmapping site called mind42.com. I can't be bothered working out how to do the linky thing - just google it :D It's really easy to use - just like mind-mapping on paper but on the computer screen, instead. I'm using it for character sheets for my nanonovel - Selisse is pretty much done and Varran is coming along ( Read more... )

Happiness is ( Read more... )

Happiness is ( Read more... )