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 …
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Roots
P1000526.jpg Originally uploaded by kyber Went for a nice walk today in Apley Castle Park, Telford. http://apley-castle-park.info – rather liked this quick snap on my compact of my daughter sitting on some tree roots.
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 …
Eldest daughter getting stick …
Eldest daughter getting stick for choosing Keele (4yr MSc,Geoscience), as exp. A levs would give wide uni choice, but she likes the place.
At a recent staff review meeti…
At a recent staff review meeting @ McDonald’s, my daughter was told many staff do not know difference between hygiene and cleanliness. Argh!
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 …
My 18yr-old daughter has a col…
My 18yr-old daughter has a cold: put salt-water up her nose as read it would stop a runny nose; it didn’t, and her phlegm now tastes bad.
Daughter turns 18
It is a strange feeling. Really, nothing has changed since the day before, but everything has changed. One of my two children (daughters both) has turned 18. As she is not the good-time, drinking, partying kind, there is no big bash to mark the occasion and she seems to think that 18 is not as …
Eldest daughter turned 18 toda…
Eldest daughter turned 18 today. Waiting at airfield nr Whitchurch for her to start a rally drive experience http://www.rallyschool.co.uk
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01
I had forgotten how long Windows XP installation takes compared to imaging in the corporate world. # I have a high-end AMD processor based system using an AMI motherboard and AMI graphics card. Why can't the former detect the latter? # Nice to see Maplin stores stock Dell laptop power supplies. Non of generic replacements …