Who was there? Hazel Hall

I am so glad that I accepted the challenge of organising the reunion. What really made it worth it was to see how much everyone enjoyed the day. It was also quite a lot of fun to work with the team as we tried to track people down to invite them along on 15th July. I hope that I will still be fit and able do it all again in 2016.

Here's my news for those who couldn't make it on the day. Not long after graduating I married Tim Read, who is also a Birmingham University graduate (Astrophysics). We first lived in Birmingham. Tim was working for Apricot Computers on the Hagley Road and I was employed by Birmingham Polytechnic (as was) when we both decided in summer 1989 that we wanted to move to Edinburgh. By November we each had job offers in Scotland, and our little house in Northfield went up for sale. Almost seventeen years later we are still in Edinburgh. I still work in Higher Education as a senior lecturer at Napier University. Over the years I've drifted further and further away from the subject of my first degree, and have eventually ended up with a PhD in Computing, completed part-time in just over 4 years (and yes, it nearly finished me off!) Tim works for Sun Microsystems from home as a Staff Engineer for a team that is mainly based in Mountain View, California. Tim and I devote most of our time to work, exercise (I took up running 10k races as "recreation" when writing up my PhD), socialising, and planning holidays on remote islands with our bright yellow tandem. (For those who are interested, there's more on what I get up to at work on the Napier web pages. See http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~hazelh/esis/hazel.html.)