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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

Time to change broadband supplier

Switched our broadband from BT Total Broadband option 3 (unlimited) just before Christmas to Plusnet (a BT subsidiary) as they offered a better deal and I had been using them happily in my flat in Swansea for the last couple of years. Same wires, but throughput has been higher on Plusnet, better traffic management overall

Swansea Marina

Swansea Originally uploaded by kyber Really enjoyed a break in Swansea last week. I have been working in the area for around a year now, but never had much of a chance to explore the area. My wife joined me for the week and we had a good look around. We also had plenty of

finally decided to get a clean…

finally decided to get a cleaner for my work flat, is this bad?

Working at home

Every time I work at home, I make the same mistake: I forget to take breaks. I do not eat enough (not really a major loss for me) and I end up very stiff with my back hurting like hell from sitting in the same position for to long. I also often end up too

Bin store at the block of flat…

Bin store at the block of flat I live in during the week has been locked over the weekend. Why? Do people go there to party?

A weekend in Swansea

Last time I rented a flat, I was unmarried and living in Ripley in Derbyshire. The flat was something of a come-down from living in my own home, but I’d had to sell up because of some bad business deals (actually, trusting someone too much – we live and learn). I was at the time

Weird having visitors to my fl…

Weird having visitors to my flat in Swansea. My wife and eldest daughter have driven down for weekend saving me a trip to Telford.

Bored. Waiting for mattress t…

Bored. Waiting for mattress to be delivered to my flat. Agency take over at 9.30.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11

Teething problems with the flat http://post.ly/7qIx # Bye bye Marriott http://post.ly/7Oxl # Gambling hangup http://post.ly/7Ord # Powered by Twitter Tools