I had to wait until yesterday to get my windscreen replaced. Not great given I had first called it in to Autoglass two Saturdays before. They had turned up at my place of work on Thursday the previous week with the wrong glass (so much for call centre staff training) and found that the glass …
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Bath mats and low chairs
My knee felt a lot better after a quite settled weekend that did not require me to do much. The drive down on Monday was nice and easy and a physio session in the afternoon helped me a lot – although, as always, I was very uncomfortable for the rest of the day. Sadly Tuesday …
The cruelty of children
For months, one of my daughters has been looking forward to going off for a summer holiday in France with a friend to stay at the friend’s family holiday home. Our daughter was a little concerned about telling us about the holiday offer originally as it overlaps with a family booking to see Hamlet in …
Day on the beach
Despite the holiday starting with weather warnings from the Met office, heavy rain and high winds (a joy to experience in a tent), we did get some excellent weather down on the beach. The party had several dogs. We have two: Tag on the left and Kitch on the right. This holiday is the first …
Happy Birthday to me
Ah, the joys of a birthday on a Friday just before a holiday. A great excuse to have the day off. Travelled home last night at a reasonable time (which took a special effort). Kids were at school, wife at work so just me, the fish and the dogs for most of the day. It …
Free drinks in the club room
I decided not to work at the hotel this evening – I need a break, and should think about winding down ready for my holiday (the family get a big angry if I spend too much time thinking about work). I have just been to the club-room and had some free drinks. I rarely drinks …
Broke my specs
With amazing timing, I have broken my specs. This is a recent pair with good quality varifocal lenses with severa coatings. I think the frames were from an older Vision Express pair – my first varifocals which were not good (Vision Express had given me an inferior and older design of varifocal lens – guess …
A tiring week but a holiday to look forward to
I had promised myself that this week just gone by would see me making the effort to swim everyday, eat sensibly, and get away from work at a sensible time. As it turned out, I swam only once, ate badly most of the time, and worked even later than usual (both leaving the office late …
Phew, what a drive
Must be something about following a bank-holiday but the journey down this morning was not fun. I got up early with the hope of getting in before 9am to address some critical defects but the journey ending up taking 5 hours. Main problem was lower part of M40 had had an accident at some point …
Easter break
Managed a holiday at last. Not the best of weather for a break mind but still nice to get away from work for a little while.