I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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There’s an app you can get in Cambridge to tell you where your nearest bus options are and to plan bus trips across the county. It’s a bit clunky and it doesn’t seem to include the guided bus so I…
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Five habits of a moderately effective person
With apologies to Stephen Covey and his ‘Seven habits of highly effective people’. Click here for more information about that book. Here are my five.
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2014: good but at the same time sad
I set the precedent last year (click here) of listing my five highlights of the year so I suppose I’d better continue. But it’s difficult to call them all highlights because it’s been a year of some sadness. I’ll start…
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it…
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Shooting clay pigeons (and missing them)
It’s Xmas 2014 and I’ve been invited to a corporate event: clay pigeon shooting and dinner courtesy of Milner Strategic Marketing @milnerltd. I’m ‘director’ of the Cambridge office, hence the invite. Unfortunately the law of inevitable coincidence kicks in and…
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5 reasons why I prefer @_CaffeNero to @CostaCoffee
I do like my coffee. With a croissant for breakfast, mid morning or after lunch. Frequently this means that I’m in Caffe Nero or Costa Coffee. I’ve got a loyalty card for each of them but if there’s a choice…
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch: a week in Turkey
We got an offer way back for what was claimed to be a £799 holiday for £149. We got it from one of the supermarkets we go to, the one we patronise when we only want to buy food and…
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Rugby: it’s a different game
Wednesday evening I felt myself slowly going downhill and headed off to bed soon after 2200 shivering and fearing the worst. I had a restless night and spent Thursday generally on auto-pilot with little ambition to do anything.
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Oxford and Blenheim; 22/23 Sep 14
I’ve just come back from Heathrow where I’ve been seeing my son off on an SQ flight to Perth. He’s emigrating, taking a job with the Perth police so it’s been a tough experience.
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Miss Saigon, 28 Jun 14
It’s a surprise to find that it’s four years since we last went to a musical in the West End. That was the Jersey Boys. Click here for that story. That was my birthday treat. This time it was Juni’s.
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