agreed - just went for a walk at lunch, and itbwas beautiful outside. cracking winter day.

I'm just a sucker for a winter coat! puffy jackets are way more practical, though

I swap the cons/chucks for r m Williams to match the rest of the policy wonks...

as a research academic (I.e. very few student facing days), my "middle aged professional" cold weather gear is a pair of blunnies (over thick socks), jeans, shirt and v-neck jumper under a long wool coat with a scarf/cowl.

basically, switch the blunnies for other shoes, drop the coat and scarf and it's all remarkably similar to my all-weather, middle aged professional look.

more effort made on occasion when visiting 50 Lonsdale.

edit: this is also remarkably similar to my all-weather-all-purpose middle-aged-lesbian look

100% this. My large university went through a "business improvement program" as a cost cutting exercise, which basically meant cutting heaps of professional (v academic) staff. Now you have academics not trained in a variety of systems wasting a tonne of time trying to use them/do administrative work that a fully trained professional would have been able to do in a fraction of the time, making much greater use of everybody's skills and financial resources.

it doesn't say that's why they were honoured.