I publish under the name Rebecca Allen, but most people know me as Becky. Here is some irrelevant information that nobody would ever need to know about me:
- I am lucky enough to live just a few tube stops from the office in a thriving and diverse community at the northern tip of the borough of Islington, abutting Haringey and Hackney.
- I am a governor at a secondary school a few streets away from our house. Ofsted said it is a good school with many outstanding features. This is what Ofsted say about excellent schools that are too deprived to be capable of meeting their outstanding criteria.
- This is my favourite restaurant. I hope it never becomes too popular on Saturday lunchtime.
- The hospital I was born in was here (closed in 1985), but now I am firmly a north Londoner. I’d rather leave London altogether than have to cross the river.
- My little girl was one of 58 English babies named Juliet born in 2010. I’m pretty sure none of the other 57 share her middle name.
- I bought my first macbook in late 2007. Vista drove me too it. Windows 7 looks fine, but I don’t think I’ll go back (for now).
- I hated statistics/econometrics at school and during my first degree. Now I love nothing more than data-crunching in Stata. This probably says something about me or about education in general, but I’m not sure what.
