Work has finished for the year. Well, I still have to mark a handful of supplementary exams. And write up a new course. But apart from that, it's finished.

I'm about to head off on the Christmas circuit so I'll be posting intermittently. I would have left earlier but the weather has been quite lively. Last year, it was bushfires. This year, it's rains of Noachian intensity. (Please adjust for hyperbole.) That's life in the temperate SE, I guess!