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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...
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Youngest son, C, managed to fall off a wall at school onto his head. No lasting damage done, but it meant bruises, an...
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We’re close to the end of our Sky broadband and TV contract and it’s time to switch. I’ve been researching. We rarely watch...
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Winter’s on its way: the nights are drawing in, it’s noticeably colder in the mornings and the heating even automatically...
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It was a bank holiday on Monday for the Queen’s funeral. I didn’t watch the coverage, but I was thankful for the free time...
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The nation is in full-on mourning mode following the Queen’s death last week. Brands are jumping on the grief bandwagon,...
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The Queen has died. I’m no monarchist, but her 70 years of duty to our country has been remarkable. And while I’ve little...
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This was the last week of the school holidays. Everyone except me is returning or starting at school next week, including...
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After last week’s peace and quiet, L brought the boys back from her parents’. Chaos has resumed.
At work we announced the GA...
