Recycled as firelighters
Yes, it's been a bureaucratic day.
First of all I didn't get much sleep last night as the battery in the smoke detector died. Which meant that it spent four hours starting at 01:15 giving a sharp 'wake up' bleep every five minutes. Unfortunately it's in the top corner of the room about 3.5m from the floor, which meant that I could just about reach it with my longbow but couldn't do anything to take the battery out. I eventually took my pillow and duvet to the sofa on the landing and got a couple of hours shut-eye there.
Then I went into work in time to attend the beginning of the HCI exam in case anyone had any questions... except that the exam wasn't in the other building at all, but in some building I'd never heard of, which required me to return to the office, check the web (no-one else in the department knew where the building was either) then drive out to arrive about 10 minutes after the exam had started.
Next it was up to the Official Numberplate Place to check on the status of the paperwork for the car. No numberplates, but a stamped sheet of paper I had to take into town to the customs office. I eventually found the office, but they can't do anything until they get papers from the shipping office who helped me in the application for numberplated. It just so happens that the chap who will deal with it is on holiday this week, then next Monday is a national holiday (the second of Whitsun) so I have to go back there on Tuesday in the hope of getting papers I can take back to customs, who'll give me more papers I can take back to the ONP to finally get my numberplates.
Although I don't have number plates, I do have a registration number - YI804. This meant that I could at last get Icelandic car insurance rather than having expensive UK-car-abroad insurance, as you can't get Icelandic car insurance unless you have an Icelandic registration number. So some progress has been made.
I got back to the exam hall half an hour before the end of the exam to find that my students had already finished, which was fine. As there are only six of them sitting that particular module I had a chance to mark all of the scripts this afternoon, which has got it out of the way. More paperwork, although less stressful than the morning batch.
Now I can relax this evening and finish off the Elizabethan-style lidded purse I'm making for myself. Once I've got it finished - and photographed at various stages - I'll put the instructions up on the web. I googled until I was blue in the face trying to find instructions for one of these but to no avail, so I thought I'd create them myself.
Pictures will appear once it's complete.
First of all I didn't get much sleep last night as the battery in the smoke detector died. Which meant that it spent four hours starting at 01:15 giving a sharp 'wake up' bleep every five minutes. Unfortunately it's in the top corner of the room about 3.5m from the floor, which meant that I could just about reach it with my longbow but couldn't do anything to take the battery out. I eventually took my pillow and duvet to the sofa on the landing and got a couple of hours shut-eye there.
Then I went into work in time to attend the beginning of the HCI exam in case anyone had any questions... except that the exam wasn't in the other building at all, but in some building I'd never heard of, which required me to return to the office, check the web (no-one else in the department knew where the building was either) then drive out to arrive about 10 minutes after the exam had started.
Next it was up to the Official Numberplate Place to check on the status of the paperwork for the car. No numberplates, but a stamped sheet of paper I had to take into town to the customs office. I eventually found the office, but they can't do anything until they get papers from the shipping office who helped me in the application for numberplated. It just so happens that the chap who will deal with it is on holiday this week, then next Monday is a national holiday (the second of Whitsun) so I have to go back there on Tuesday in the hope of getting papers I can take back to customs, who'll give me more papers I can take back to the ONP to finally get my numberplates.
Although I don't have number plates, I do have a registration number - YI804. This meant that I could at last get Icelandic car insurance rather than having expensive UK-car-abroad insurance, as you can't get Icelandic car insurance unless you have an Icelandic registration number. So some progress has been made.
I got back to the exam hall half an hour before the end of the exam to find that my students had already finished, which was fine. As there are only six of them sitting that particular module I had a chance to mark all of the scripts this afternoon, which has got it out of the way. More paperwork, although less stressful than the morning batch.
Now I can relax this evening and finish off the Elizabethan-style lidded purse I'm making for myself. Once I've got it finished - and photographed at various stages - I'll put the instructions up on the web. I googled until I was blue in the face trying to find instructions for one of these but to no avail, so I thought I'd create them myself.
Pictures will appear once it's complete.