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Our home broadband is still borked following last week’s lightning strike. We’re stuck in a Kafkaesque nightmare where blame...
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We’re back from holiday after ten lovely sunny days.
While we were away there was a lightning storm in the area which struck...
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This last week and a bit we were on holiday in Majorca, staying at the Protur Bonaire in Cala Bona. Because of Covid...
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I started the week with a drive over to Essex for lunch with my parents and sister. It was my Mum’s 70th birthday and, after...
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I love Apple’s annual WWDC keynote. While shiny new hardware is interesting, seeing previews of the software that I’ll be...
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It was the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this week. I lean more to the abolish-the-monarchy side of the spectrum, but I was happy...
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It wasn’t the best start to the week. We discovered a water leak from the bath on Monday morning. Water was trickling down...
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Our engineering leadership team sat down for three strategy days this week, aiming to define a vision to take us to 2025. I...
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We’re hiring for an engineering manager at Privitar. The EM role can differ in focus between companies, but our spec, like...
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For Bank Holiday Monday we took the boys to Woodside Animal Farm near Luton. It ticked all the boxes: animals to feed,...
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This week I was covering engineering manager duties for one of my teams, meaning I was at the sharp end of the team’s...
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I took H to see Sonic the Hedgehog 2 at the cinema on Monday. Up to now he’s not had the attention span for films, but last...
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I was back to work after last week’s holiday. Not too many non-spam emails to read, but plenty of Slack activity to catch up...
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We’re back from our holiday at the lovely Workers Cottage in Norfolk.
The weather brightened up and, although cool, we...
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I write from a lovely cottage in Norfolk, not too far from the sea. We’re spending a week here for the start of the boys’...
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I was in the office for four days this week. Colleagues from the US and Israel were visiting London, plus my Swedish boss,...
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It’s been an unsettled week. Rain storms and Saharan winds (leaving left red sand deposits) gave way to glorious sunshine...
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Hybrid working has begun at work. Three days at home; two days in the office. In our engineering team we’re coordinating on...
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We had pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. L makes excellent thin ones. The boys had Nutella on theirs, but I insisted on drowning...
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It’s hard not to be horrified and angry about the invasion of Ukraine this week. I have current and ex colleagues affected...
