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Last updated: 2024-10-27.

Job

As of early October 2024 I’ve been employed by Edenred PayTech. I changed employer, but stayed in the same job. From early February 2022, I was working for Civica, on a project for PayTech. The client wanted to reduce their use of contractors, which is what I effectively was. But they wanted to keep certain people. The asked me if I was interested in moving over, which I was.

I’m developing software in Java, helping to make things work, doing a bit of mentoring of junior staff. It’s all good, apart from the terrible Dell laptop and the OS thereon.

Writing

The post-MA novel languishes. Some comments from people on my writing group made me decide I needed to rewrite the start, and I haven’t quite decided how best to do that.

Meanwhile I’m working on a new novel, set in Edinburgh around 1983–84. It’s about students and music and is not at all autobiographical. Not at all. There were no witches on The Meadows when I was at Edinburgh.

That I knew about, anyway.

Also I’m writing a short story for the aforementioned group’s competition, but if you’re reading this after 15 November 2024, either I didn’t finish it in time, or I didn’t update this page. Either seems entirely likely.