Well I never

[caddyman]

Much to my (happy) surprise, I am working from home today.

I had phoned the office to let them know that I would be late getting in as I was awaiting delivery of the book as grumbled about endlessly yesterday. I also asked them to email me some stuff to be getting on with as I was feeling a bit of a fraud for being late on account of something as numpty as a delivery.

Anyway, the book arrived rather earlier than I thought it would - about 10.20, so I thought that I'd finish my coffee and head on in. It was about then that I received an email with a bunch of papers telling me that as no-one was owning up to a meeting this afternoon, that I know is in the diary, I might as well work from home. It will actually be helpful since I need to write a commentary on a revised determination - we haven't made any changes for a number of years, so dispensed with that formality a while ago, but now we've levered ina bunch of new things that need a friendly, plain English explanation. So working from home is actually beneficial, not to mention dead handy.

I have left the book downstairs while I do the work, otherwise I could not say that it wouldn't distract me. It looks suitably interesting and rather large: Defence of the Realm: THe Authorized History of MI5.




I daresay there will be much reading and revelation in the next few days.

Comments

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

Ooo that does look interesting- let me know if it's a good read?

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Woh! My kind of book. Yes, do let us know if it's a good 'un.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

At a tangent

[lapinenoireuk.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be "Authorised" ? or does it deal with the Cousins ?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

You will find both variants in the OED and neither specifies chiefly US.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

I heard about this on Monday(?); it may be worth picking up, if only as a companion to the Mitrokhin Archive.