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The job-hunting continues. I’m being careful not to write too much here while I’m interviewing, but I’m hopefully making...
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We had a break-in this week. Thankfully it was only our side gate that was damaged before we disturbed them and they ran...
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Our holiday continued at Center Parcs in De Haan, Belgium.
We all enjoyed Aqua Mundo, the swimming pool/slides/rapids dome....
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This post is a little late because last week we were away on holiday. More on that in a moment.
On Monday I joined Andy to...
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I had a bad interview this week. The hiring manager asked two probing questions for which my answers didn’t match their...
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More calls and a couple of interviews this week. I’m narrowing down to a few roles that I like, although all are at early...
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My job hunting seems to be going well. I’m through to a couple of interview processes next week at companies I like. No...
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Not the best start to the week: on Monday I was made redundant after just one year at Privitar. The company had been...
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Back to work after the Christmas break.
For the last day of my time off L decided we should all go bowling in Stevenage. It...
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Christmas is done for another year. We’ve started to get used to the lie-ins, guilt-free booze and cheese, but it’s back to...
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Merry Christmas! This is a couple of days late as a result of taking a proper break. I’ll recap.
The week began with H’s...
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🎶 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow 🎶 We had a decent dumping of snow to wake up to on Monday and all of us were out...
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It’s been icy-cold this week, the temperature barely reaching above zero. No snow yet, but plenty of ice and frost.
I picked...
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I’m very proud of my team this week. We delivered a big release of our platform exactly when predicted and planned, despite...
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It was my birthday on Monday. I had taken the day off, but was feeling a bit under the weather, so lunch out with L was...
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Almost thirty years ago I went on a French exchange with a boy from a school near Lyon. We rode for hours on bikes through...
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We were supposed to have full fibre (FTTP) installed on Monday afternoon, but the Openreach engineer didn’t turn up. After...
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We went trick-or-treating for Halloween with the boys around the village. The curmudgeon in me grumbles about the...
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A busy week started with H’s birthday. He wanted a gaming party, so we hired a man with a tent and plenty of consoles to...
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It was the boys’ parent-teacher consultations this week so we visited their classrooms to sit on teeny-tiny chairs. They...
