It’s a Bank Holiday today, so I’ve got the day off. I decided to spend at least some of it sorting out my new laptop – ripping CDs to iTunes, labelling photos, and generally making sure that it’s set up the way I want it. My previous laptop was so slow that it was really […]
My work has been having a bit of a health kick recently. I think they reckon that a healthy workforce is a productive workforce, so they’ve been offering free basic health screening, coupled with diet and exercise advice. It only took 15 minutes one lunch time, so I thought it was worth going along. My […]
Wednesday was the third anniversary of Christopher’s death. I know it’s only a date, and only has significance if I choose to give it that, but it has still been a difficult week and I’ve been fighting off headaches and depression. I was invited round to lunch on Sunday by some close friends, and that […]
I had a rather stressful, but ultimately successful day on Wednesday. For several years now (ever since Chris died, in fact) my home IT system has been getting gradually more and more ropey and unsupportable. It didn’t help that he set the network up in a way that made sense to him at the time, […]
Two weeks ago, towards the end of the first equipment trial, I started getting weird blue flashes in the corner of my left eye, accompanied by very blurred vision. At first, I thought it was the onset of another migraine – I’ve been getting a steady stream of them recently – but the pain never […]
It’s coming up for three years since Christopher died, and on the whole, I’m managing to get on with my life reasonably well. But there are some things that are harder to deal with than others, and for some reason his iPad falls into that category, along with his computers. I think my hang-up with […]
Last autumn Christopher’s stepfather, Peter, had the inspired idea of dedicating a tree to him at his local Woodland Trust. It’s a field maple, which should be hardy and able to cope with the worst the weather can throw at it. But it’s been a particularly long and bitterly cold winter, and young saplings can […]
Today was the last day of the Financial Year, both for my company and our main customers. So it has been absolutely manic recently. I have either been responsible for, or contributing to, a total of seven payment milestones across two projects, all of which were due to be delivered today. One of the project […]
Well, that holiday was certainly something of an adventure! It’s been a real shock to be back home (it was snowing earlier today in contrast to the 30 degree heat of Peru), back at work (bidding again), and discussing the state of my porch roof with the builder (we’ve agreed to wait until the next […]
Since it’s very nearly the end of the year, I thought it would be instructive to look back at my New Year Resolutions from a year ago, to see how things turned out. They were, in no particular order: Fixing the leak in the porch roof, which drips every time it rains – hmm. Still […]
