Belated thanks!

Apologies for dropping off the internet for the last month or so. Things have been a bit mad even by my work's crazy standards. I'll save you the gory details of the relentless erosion of contracts, terms and conditions, and the casualisation of professional academic staff in UK higher education. Suffice to say, after being reduced to a two month contract, I've had to do some concerted job hunting and have had six (count em!) job interviews in the last four weeks. The upshot of which, is that I have now gone from potentially having no job beyond February, to potentially having two jobs, at two different universities. On the plus side, this is good because, y'know, I have a mortgage to pay, on the minus side, it's all just a bit mad.

Aaaaanyway...as a result of all this nonsense I have been woefully remiss in thanking folk for all the cards and gifts they have sent. So thank you amaraal, nodbear, mylodon and esteven for the gifts, which are now under out Christmas tree being prodded on a daily basis by daughter. And thank you also latin_cat, aletheiafelinea (thank you for the opłatek! :), esmerelda_t and katriona_s (love your Christmas hat! XD) for the lovely cards. I did manage to send out some Christmas cards and parcels, but I was very late in posting them, so I suspect they will be New Year's cards for most of you :}

I've also been neglecting following_sea terribly which makes me feel very :( but I've been accumulating various things to post both here and there, so I plan to spam you all with Navyboy related goodness over the holidays :)

Hope you're all well and looking forward to the holidays however you choose to spend them. A x



Winter Sky