Digital by Default

Digital by Default

An InterRail Tale

As I come to the close of trip (albeit one with an extra night in London due to returning on the day of a rail strike) I thought I’d do a little #tripnote It has been a brilliant experience I have to say – though it was hardly a traditional InterRail adventure. For one I…

August 12, 2022
Week 14/52

I think I might have to take a break from these weeknotes due to the absolute lack of activity I have going on in the upcoming weeks! My big news this week I wrote about on Monday. I’ve ‘accepted’ a job back in the Civil Service and I discussed the reasons in that post. I’m…

June 24, 2022
Getting back in the game…again

The big news this week is that I have accepted a new – permanent – job. Well it is conditional on my security clearance being approved but that shouldn’t be a problem other than the time it takes. This job hunt has been an interesting and somewhat chastising experience for me. The way the UKHSA…

June 20, 2022
Week 13/52

As I said in an earlier note it has been a long time since I did formal job interviews – until last week my previous panel interview was for mySociety in November 2016 and prior to that ONS in January 2013 (my Defra interview was – let’s call it – semi-formal.) Since those days the…

June 16, 2022
Week 12/52

I’m back in Blighty and the jet lag is kicking my backside as usual. I left Austin Monday evening – a couple of hours later than planned (a fuel truck crashed and spilled its load at the airport) and after an interesting day (I ended up getting Maced in a 7/11 in a case of…

June 10, 2022