It’s been a busy couple of days. Spent most of Wednesday and Thursday preparing a presentation for a research group awayday (design brief: be funny and serious), then went up to Coventry on Friday with Isobel to visit friends and go on the annual all-day barcrawl of the Warwick SF society, shortly followed by Issy’s birthday on the Saturday.

Tomorrow (Monday) I’m off to a workshop in Bristol which runs until Wednesday (and which clashes with the awayday, so I won’t actually to see the fruits of my efforts). Back in the office on Thursday to do some frantic preparation for the project meeting in Aberdeen at the beginning of July, which I’ll also miss because I’m on leave. Thanks to circumstances, I reckon that I’ve worked enough extra time in the past fortnight to more than compensate for the leave I’m taking. If only I could claim overtime…