Neil Hopcroft

We arrived fashionably late, halfway through the first set, and decided that actually we would be better off sitting somewhere where we could see the screen. A worthwhile move to be able to see the stunning montage of footage culled from various sources. Its good to see some political anger making its way back into […]

Off to Glen and Vincent at Banbury tonight – leaving Oxford around 7.30, a couple of spaces in the car, leave a comment if you’d like a lift.

I ventured to the big smoke again last night for Toms birthday celebration. We all met up at the Fitzroy (Charlotte Street)…there was a surprisingly large number of people I knew there – I’d expected not to know anyone there. It was good to see everyone again, Tom and Nicky, obviously, quite a collection of […]

Should I buy a laptop now? If I do, I would get one with manuals I can understand. And I could set it up before I go. If I leave it til I get to Japan, it’ll probably work out cheaper (if I can avoid any of their gaijin rip-off specials) and I wouldn’t have […]

Work permit nearly sorted. Looks like next week is probably my last week in the UK for the moment. I’m aiming to come back for Whitby in November.

I gave up waiting for the Oxford crew at the Temple at about 9.20 – I’d decided that everyone had gone somewhere and I was going to set out to try to find them. Just as I was leaving I phoned edling to see him walking into the carpark…turns out that there wasn’t a devious […]

Just had my ‘welcome to jobseekers allowance filling in the form over the phone’ call. What a bizarre experience, they obviously don’t trust me to fill in the form myself. Next I get to meet with an advisor on friday who will put me through some ritual humiliation of some sort before I can claim […]

Is the conclusion for company name. Assuming they actually deliver the right one this time – they arsed around somewhat with timetrack so we ended up with Timetrack UK Ltd.

Christians birthday party – Cambridge A final chance to catch up with some the old Cambridge crew before I leave these shores. Good to see them all again, even if I didn’t get to talk to them much. I got trapped in the kitchen by a drunk psychiatric nurse (well, he said he was a […]

My first day as a doley and I’m up at 930…hrumph…thats not supposed to happen. Maybe I’ll get into it over the next couple of weeks.