Monthly Archives: August 2010

steps forward

Posted on August 25, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Some weeks flash by don’t they? This week has wiped by with some work wins as well. Yeah! Starting new jobs can be tough. I am pretty sure you have no idea quite what is coming when you start and then of course you are hit by a tidal wave of expectation……

Well I am prepared to state that I am feeling cautiously optimistic as I come to the end of my 3rd month. We have a new website launched today which is quite a lot better than the last one, we submitted 3 bids for £150K which I hope comes off and I have 3 people starting next month! I can’t wait to have a team of people working with me. Imagine 3 extra people to worry about stuff!

Briliant

I am also hoping that their appearance will mean less weekend working, less lists and generally a better sense of control!

So only a few more weeks…..

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highgate cemetery

Posted on August 14, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Occasionally in London, well it is such a great big city so maybe more often than occassionally, you make a new little discovery. My recent stumbled-upon-delight is Highgate Cemetery. Could be a creepy place I guess? …. Grave yards do have a reputation for being homes to ghosts and ghouls.

However, I am easily persuaded that they are bit more like a history book. And with a bit of Imagination you can marvel at the 100s of lives that are there.

Highgate Cemetry, it is quite wonderfully disordered with Ivy covered graves in the main. Possibly the most famous person to be interned in recent times is Karl Marx. While for most of the other famous people you have to read head stones and climb over trees….  it is hard to miss Karl! On top of the pedestal is an enormous bust of his head. It is honestly absolutely enormous.

Anyway, a new little gem to wonder about in the dying London summer.

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how was your week?

Posted on August 14, 2010 by | Leave a comment

“God it was busy!”

That appears to be the Pavlovian response of all people in their late 30′s. Life buzzes by and we hurtle along checking emails on hand helds, chatting on mobile phones, tapping in to keyboards day after day. Monday to Friday, and for an unfortunate few on the weekends to.

How is it that suddenly your entire life is defined by how busy your work week is…… I met some friends last night for a post week drink… and honestly no one answered the ‘how was your week?” question with a rave about a restaurant, play or exhibition! It was all about how busy busy busy we all are.

This is probably the product of our age, the city we live in

So today, as a Saturday, I am going to figure out something so that when I am asked how my week has been I will have something interesting to say!

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bikes, mazes and ping pong

Posted on August 4, 2010 by | 2 Comments

I know an odd title for a blog. It can all be explained though. Every now and then in London, there are things that appear. Some stay, some go. This year it is all about Mazes, Bikes and Ping Pong.

It would seem that the major of London, believes that Ping Pong is to be the major contributor to the UK medal tally in 2012. And as part of the apitals contribution ping pong tables have sprouted on corners, coming with the odd talent scout and probably a good dose of hilarity, to inspire and invigorate the down trodden London worker! Although this is not the first time their has been a sprouting of odd things – last year it was Pianos which was slight more intimidating then ping pong in my view. Although I have no real talent in either let it be known.

The Bike thing is also ever so slightly hilarious. Suddenly there are lots of wobbly adults out in the traffic using Boris’s Bikes. Rather cumbersome looking things that come with advice for tourists to stay on the left side of the road – you can imagine how that is going to work out – especially since it is written in English and not exactly in enormous writing!

And the final odd thing to sprout is the maze in Trafalgar square. I have no idea about the hidden meaning but it does look like pretty good fun……

So that is London I guess in summer – things that appear on street corners!

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the last of the sun

Posted on August 4, 2010 by | Leave a comment

It would seem that Mother Nature has called a sudden halt to summer in London. For a while there it was quite exceptional – warm in the shade, hot in the sun. I even striped to bathers in the local park (clearly an indication that I may have been here too long!) .

However, sadly in her wisdom the sun has been wrapped in a long grey fluffy cloak and the heavens have started to scatter us with water. It is getting darker in the evening, although strangely the sun is still popping out ridiculously early in the morning.

I will, though, not start a full mourning period for the sun until I start reaching for my boots and that handy extra layer!

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