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I've visited the counties in yellow. Which counties have you visited? made by marnanel map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright 2001.

North Centric, right?

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Phew - I'd forgotten that unis pay at the end of the month. Imagine my shock when I saw the healthy state of my bank account today - that was my last salary from Newcastle. I nearly had a heart attack and thought I would have to pay back huge amounts of money, but slowfox and a good look at past bank statements calmed me down. It pays off that I've reduced my mortgage repayments to near zilch - this way I can start attacking that nasty credit card far sooner than I thought, plus I will have some back up for November, when my only income will be from casual work. It also brings into stark relief that a contract which starts in December will actually bring the first INCOME at the END of the month. So the reprieve is only temporary.

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Speaking of casual work - I'm sitting here in the sunshine and have ZERO motivation. Of the 6 hours I wanted to have worked up until now, I have done maybe 3. 4 more today, and 2 more tomorrow, plus 2-3 hours "consultancy" on Monday = 12 billable hours. We're getting there. I've decided that I'm not going to label the Swedish data I have, given that I have no text for them, and I don't know the sequence in which they were recorded. I can make educated guesses, sure, but that's not enough. So we'll leave it at that ...