Happy St David’s day to you all. In other news, everything’s been confirmed with the new job and I’m now heading for the second week of my notice period. I haven’t published the new company’s name for now for obvious reasons, but I’m sure most of you can either work it out or know me […]
Sent to me by Sean who found it somewhere and amused me: 1. Picture yourself near a stream. 2. Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air. 3. No one but you knows your secret place. 4. You are in total seclusion from the hectic place called “the world”. 5. The soothing sound of […]
I found this little gem this morning. It’s amused me and reminded me of a conversation I had with someone recently: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, […]
Aren’t emotions funny things? Within the space of 10 minutes, I had a fantastic high off a phone call which may be giving me something I’ve been waiting for a few years for and wasn’t expecting for another few years[1]; followed by an incredible low after another phone call telling me my bank had fucked […]
…the light that we looked at tonight started its journey across the Universe. For the first time since I got to Sean’s we had a clear sky tonight, so Sean and I threw a few extra layers of clothes on and started assembling my telescope. Its a cracking good telescope – a 6″ reflector with […]
Yes, thanks to all who let me know the formatting is borked – that’s the last time I write it offline in Word. Thanks Microsoft. I’ll fix it shortly… Update: All the recent posts are now sorted.
Well, Merry Christmas to you all. I’m exhausted. After sorting everything out last night and opening our usual one present each (it’s a family tradition that harks back to the time when my sister and I were young and my mother wanted to bribe us once to get us to bed…it’s become a family tradition […]
I’m writing this offline and I’m going to be posting it later. I’m up at my sister’s for Christmas on Anglesey, and while she has broadband, it’s a USB connection to her computer and I really couldn’t be bothered to set up Internet Connection Sharing on her computer just to run a cable to mine […]
Every Thursday night, the Central Beacons team get together in the team base in Merthyr and do some kind of training. The topics covered range wildly from radios and comms, through medical, technical, search, personal health and fitness through to physique sports equipment. Equipment is very important for us – a technical rescue will involve […]
Orange seem to have a fault this morning which is causing me great joy as it deregisters my phone from the network, thus making my phone not work without any visible indication of this on the phone itself. Gee thanks Orange. Waiting for callback from Customer Services now to tell me what they think is […]
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