Archive for June, 2009

So you might have noticed that the frequency of my blog posts has dropped. There are three reasons for this - New job is kinda full-on. Think of it as flexi-time, where the core hours are 8-6, and I can work any other hours that I want on top. Wife’s busted arm means that I have...
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Due to my training buddy’s inability to manage his diary, I’m having to move our Coast2Coast ride this year to mid-September. Basically he’d forgotten that the weekend we’d planned on will be . . . His wedding anniversary His wife’s birthday Just a couple of days before his wife’s PhD viva Actually, now I write it down, it’s...
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I was visiting a client in Blyth the other week, and I came across this part of town . . . So what’s this mean in practical terms? Hmmm… Junctions marked with asymmetrically placed brickwork and trees… Foliage taking the place of parked cars . . . … and some of it well-established so as to obstruct the...
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Remember all those hilarious jokes about women drivers? They were the staple for comedians right up to some point in the ’80s, and revolved around the perception that operating a complex machine like a car was beyond the simple minds of the fairer sex, who were better suited to cooking dinner, producing heirs, and getting...
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I’ve been kinda busy this week - away on a three day company strategy team building thing (some highs and lows there for sure!), and discovering that Wife does a whole lot more than look good on my arm. With her broken arm, I’m doing a bunch of the stuff that she was doing...
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