There are a number of potential topics for blog posts swirling in my brain which I’m not going to have time to write. I shall therefor attempt to address each on in paragraph form (Twitter style is a little too brief for me). We were at Maelstrom this weekend. We splashed out for a van [...]
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But will it make the boat go faster?
Yesterday I attended an all day away event with work. It was a combination of motivational speaking, team working exercises as well as management Q&A’s and board level views. There was talk about vision and values. We had pretty much the entire company in the same place including the teams from South Africa and Malaysia. [...]
While you were out…
On Sunday we headed down to the Shelford Feast to catch up with my parents and generally enjoy beer in the sunshine. However while we were out thieving scumbags attempted to break into our house. Apparently there is a bit of a spate of break-ins around fete times as it offers a weekend opportunity when [...]
Managing Mammals
I’m writing this post the Sunday house break-in attempt. However much as I’d like to vent and praise I thought I’d stick with some positive commentary on the weekend and save the rest for another post. This weekend has involved a variety of mammals and their interactions with their human masters/slaves/overlords*. We started on Friday [...]
Digital Democracy
Our new Coalition Overlordstm have launched a new web-site to solicit feedback from the citizenry on what laws should be repealed/modified. This is a little more involved than the current option to sign e-Petitions at the number 10 website. The site supports commenting, tagging as well subscribing to feeds for each idea. I’m quite impressed [...]
Stagged
I returned from a long weekend in a rather sunny York yesterday morning. I am now apparently prepared with all the techniques and knowledge required to become a loving and supportive husband in September. Both my brother and dad did well at the Bridge scoring a number of crucial rubbers. The Batman through the ages [...]
A weekend of fresh air and beer
Today’s weather has returned to a sort of grey overcast but not overly cold averaging day which seems very out of place for June. Luckily the weather over the weekend was much better. We had Jeff and Phil + family visiting for the weekend. Luckily the summer event calender threw up a local event which [...]
Dunkirk, as it happens
It’s interesting to see how much of a shock the Dunkirk Evacuation was to British. Although the start of war was noted by Orwell he quickly moved back to documenting his small holding activities and egg production. However as the B.E.F. was beaten back to their eventual humiliation Orwell writes of growing talk about the [...]
Detecting a certain warmth
I arrived back from my whistle-stop tour of southern Africa on Friday morning. By the time I arrived back at home I was good for little more than drifting in and out of consciousness on the sofa while noticing little change in environment. In fact Africa was probably perceived as slightly cooler given they are [...]
Rainbow Nation
Well I finally made it to South Africa for my whistle-stop tour south of the equator. I managed to get an exit seat so I wasn’t too confined. During the 10 hours of flight I reckon I managed to achieve about 2 hours of somnolent state which has been enough to get me to the [...]