We didn’t get the writing job that would have been 100 hours work for me.

That’s disappointing on a personal level, because I put a lot of work into the proposal. The feedback was that our proposal was excellent (yay me! LOL!) but the price was too high. I don’t know by how much.
I guess this is more evidence to back up my decision to start contracting once I am done with my current projects.

In proactive news, I applied for 2 jobs on the weekend. Neither is a perfect fit, but one would be really interesting and the other is 3 days a week. There’s another advertised today, which is at the bottom end of my range but would certainly be something I could do.