I cannot begin to imagine the feelings one has to deal with when facing starting again at a university one year on from having started elsewhere only to have subsequently dropped out. When the first university was Keele, and the second is Imperial College, the feelings must be even more strange. There cannot be many students who have …
Category Archives: Family Life
Living in a flat v. living in a hotel
All of my assignments since joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting over ten years ago (most of which have been with IBM of course since PwC sold their consulting business) has seen me living in hotels at least three nights most working weeks. Until my last assignment that is. For the last two and a bit years, I have been able …
Youngest daughter goes to uni
Leaving home for Hull university Alexandra, our youngest child, left home for University in Hull at the back-end of September. She was heading into the unknown, not least in so far as accommodation arrangements were not confirmed because of going through clearing and she was simply advised that she would meet potential landlords and would …
A level results day
Last year, Zoë did not worry that much about her A level results as she had chosen to go to Keele Univesity to study Geology and their requirements were, well, not that challenging. Alexandra had rather more at stake to fill her place at Lancaster for Theatre Studies, so she was very worried on results …
Tunnel Vision
Had a great day yesterday, enjoying a long tour through tunnels and locks on canals around Dudley with the Dudley Canal Trust, followed by a meal at Mad O’Rourke’s famous pie factory (pub). and then a drink at The Crooked House. This was a surprise treat from my brother for my recent birthday. My …
Beyond Spamalot
Christmas 2010 & New Year 2011 has not been the most exciting holiday I have had. it did not help that I worked up to and including Christmas Eve and also between Christmas and New Year. Admittedly, this working was done remotely, but it was work nevertheless. I was supposed to be in Swansea the …
Garden furniture rotting
It is a good job my father-in-law enjoys working with wood and doing odd jobs for us. We bought an extensive amount of wooden garden furniture years ago but in hindsight it would appear our regime of reproofing the furniture against the inclement weather has not been sufficiently rigorous. We were coming to the conclusion …
Haircut
I had my hair cut at a barbers today. It was at a new place in town, only been open a week, but I thought I would give it a try. The owner is Turkish but has an English wife and he has been cutting hair for 16 years. Unfortunately, he had a very different …
motorbike
I was checking out a few things on the internet archive and found an article from my site from before 2000 that does not seem to have made it to the current version, so I thought I would re-post it. The sad thing is, I haven’t been back on a bike full time since the …
Mortal
A few Fridays ago, I was sat in the coffee bar at Stafford railway station waiting for a train to London. A rarity these days as I am mostly working in Swansea and normally work from home on Fridays. My work phone rang but I failed to retrieve it from the depths of the correct …