I recently came the end of a long term assignment that had me travelling to Swansea every week and living in a flat three, four and sometime five nights a week. The drive at the beginning and end of the week was somewhat draining as it took at least three hours, more usually four allowing …
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Train, Bus or Car
My youngest daughter has to buy a bus pass each term to cover her travel to/from her college in Telford. This also provides unlimited travel throughout the area every day of the week. Sadly, she lost the pass last week. It costs £5 to get a replacement (about the same as a normal peak-time return) …
Training day
Change of surroundings today. Headed into an office in central London for some training. My current client runs a small bus service for staff between the office we are working at near Heathrow and their office near Paddington station. I hate this service. It takes far too long and makes me sick. No, really. I …
My first ever major back-problem
Back in May last year I hurt my back whilst attempting to carry out a trivial task. Final straw me thinks. I ended up in considerable pain and off work for six weeks. I have never had that much time off work before nor had any time off for a back problem.
Postponing a holiday for work
One of the things I am usually really careful about is ensuring that I take my holidays on time with my family. I do not generally make much of a song and dance about it, but I do work very hard and very long hours. Although I try to get away from the client offices …
Bad night, gone home
The hotel room was still not being heated properly so I got them to change me to another room. The room was not of the same standard but seemed fine to me and was as warm as I wanted it to be which helped me out a lot. Despite being in a warm room though, …
Light traffic
The drive down to Heathrow area from North Shropshire was a breeze today. I reached the office by 8.00AM. No better illustration that many many people have taken at least another day off if not the rest of the week. On the radio, they said around 5m people are expected to call in sick today …