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5ive go mad in London
Well, maybe not quite! I set off for London around 2ish and got into town around 3.30. After a quick walk to the Circle Line, I was soon at the Embankment, heading across Jubilee Bridge, heading for the South Bank. It was hot muggy day and perhaps as expected, the place was very busy with …
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LNG Meeting in London
I took the train down to London for one of our regular Learning Network Group self-development meetings. I cut the timing a bit tight for the 11am start, but on arrival, I noticed so did half the others! Six members attended in total where Philip P ran a very interesting session on Gender Dynamics. I …
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Financial Future
Ann and I met with Chris, our financial advisor today as part of our annual review. We can both see the end of our working lives more clearly now and I’ll be the first to retire (well, that’s the plan!) in or around 2013, when I’ll close the business down. Failing that, it’ll be 2015, …
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Personal Website re-launched
A bit of a quiet week here business-wise, so it was a good opportunity to finish off the re-design of my personal website. Actually, I’d been tinkering with it all week but for some reason, I’d not being particularly productive with it all. So, with grim determination, resulting in some significant re-design along the way, …
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Psssst!
Now there’s an innovation – ALCOHOLIC Ginger-Beer by Crabbies! It’s scrummy!!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing seemed to be …
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Smug Bugger! Lent Dented!
However you choose to measure it, Lent in now over and I can return to a diet of occasional junk-food and generally stuff that tastes nice, but isn’t good for you! This year, I managed to stick* to my list for 40 days and nights and avoid the following: *Well, when I say ‘stick’, I …
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Ann’s home..!
Ann got back around 3.15 – earlier than expected – having had a great time at the firm’s 10th anniversary ‘do’! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with …
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Mice will play…
Unusually, Ann’s away this weekend. It’s a work-do celebrating the company’s birthday – 10 years. All staff are invited…a few thousand…but no partners. So, Lee and I are fending for ourselves whilst ‘the cat’s’ away. I took Lee to have a look at a possible property to consider moving into later this year. It’s in …
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It’s London again
Another manic day! It began gently with Nick, my Accountant, arriving as planned just before 8am, to go through last year’s figures. We’re slightly down on turnover, but enjoyed a good jump in profits! With all that sorted, it was then off to London again! I’m not sure how I managed to schedule things that …
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Normal Service will be…
On May 1st, Google will be changing the way they manage my Blogs, and this has an impact on the feeds to Facebook and other social networking sites that ‘talk’ to my blog. It’s quite a big change, requiring a whole load of tweaks at my end plus the ‘fun’ of transferring six years of …
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London calling!
What a busy week! Six-days too. Today, I’m off to London for one of our regularish LNG meetings. Luckily, Denise has managed to find us a semi-permanent home in Holborn (at least for this year), so that’ll help preserve the LNG funds. Nice one Denise!!! Today, we’re recapping assertiveness techniques courtesy of Angela. Steve PalmerI …
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Lent Boy (2010)
I’m in ‘Lent Mode’ getting ready to give up all the things I really like to eat, for the 40 day period. This year, the list is longer than 2009 and includes: It’s been 15 minutes and so-far, so good! 😉 Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post …
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Let Them eat Cake….
I seem to have spent the whole week eating! One of the benefits (or curses, if you’re dieting) is that with Lee staying with us, I get a lunch-time meal too. Well, I managed to avoid that today because I drove down to South Mimms to meet-up with Simon H for a business catch-up and …
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What do points make…?
Followers of my blog (and those that try to follow me in the car!) will be well aware of my heavy right foot! So heavy in fact, that at the beginning of 2009, I was up to NINE points – all for speeding. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have any points on …
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The Cecilian Singers’ Carol Concert 2009
We drove over to Leicester to see David singing in the Cecilian Singers Choir. Val couldn’t join us this year as she’s in America visiting her sister. We’ve been going annually for a few years now, but the format this year, was slightly different as they’d changed the venue to St Philip’s Church in Evington Road. …
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Learning Network Group Meeting
We all met at the excellent Royal Festival Hall today for our final meeting of 2009. Rick took us through his experiences of measuring leadership performance through the use of a comprehensive questionnaire – the whole thing was fascinating and useful in equal measures. The small turnout of Lydia, Antoinette, Sharon, Angela and Jan, plus …
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Let’s Dance (Week 7 of 7)
Well, here we are, seven weeks (and three left feet) later, we’ve now had the final dance-class of this series. It all starts again in September, but I’m not sure we’ll be able to commit to it. It’s all been very enjoyable and Bob and Marjorie have been excellent (and patient) tutors – but 9pm …
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Let’s Dance (week 6 of 7)
We thought we might have a lot of catching-up to do as we hadn’t attended last week, but it was actually quite a relaxed session. Numbers were down – maybe because of holidays – leaving only around eight of us to fill the floor. We spent most of the evening practising our waltz, which I …
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Exam Time – 2
It’s Ann’s final day in London on the Prince 2 course today and having passed her Foundation exam earlier this week, it must be time for another exam! On this occasion, it’s a bit more serious, as it’s the pratictioner part where you have to put it into practice. It’s a three hour affair, the …
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Exam time – 1
Well done Ann – she passed her Prince 2 Foundation Exam today. So just the Practitioner Exam on Friday left to do now! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), …
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Let’s (not) Dance (Week 5 of 7)
The dance-class is probably running tonight, but as Ann was knackered after her ongoing intensive Prince 2 Course and 1 was… well…just lazy… we didn’t go. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in …
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Let’s (not) Dance AGAIN! (Week 5 of 7)
We knew we had a bit of catching-up to do as we’d missed last week’s lesson. So, imagine our surprise when we got there tonight, only to find that no-one else was there! It’s been a day full of surprises! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until …
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Big Mac and a Big Disappointment
I went for my six-monthly check-up at the local dental practice today. The dentist I saw was new and boy, was he rough – ouch! Last time my mouth was that stretched was back in the 1970s when I used to eat a whole Big-Mac in one mouthful! He looked as serious as hell throughout …
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Steve on the Game?
Phew…not quite! Just when I thought I’d have to develop some new skills to supplement our income (and perhaps introduce a comedic element too!) by going ‘on the game’, Ann learned today that she had been successful in getting the job she was interviewed for earlier in the week. That’s good news all round and …
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Let’s (not) Dance (Week 4 of 7)
We didn’t go to the dance-class tonight as I’ve had a really bad headache on-and-off since Sunday night. An early night for me tonight to try and shake it off. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of …
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Walk the Dog…
If we had one! – and we’d never get the cats to move away from their comfy sleeping positions! Yes, we went out for a walk again tonight as it was such a beautiful evening – it’s becoming a habit (that’s twice this week)!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing …
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Let’s Dance (Week 3 of 7)
Thankfully it was a lot cooler tonight so that made the activity more a little more enjoyable! So, just call me ‘Matilda’ as tonight we practised our waltz. The good news was that I didn’t pulverise Ann’s feet as much as last week; the bad news, I still haven’t quite perfected the moves. More especially, …
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Walkies…
Shock horror, I joined Ann and Jo for walk tonight. I’ll be going to dancing lessons next…oh that’s tomorrow! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness …
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Let’s Dance (Week 2 of 7)
Luckily, it was lot cooler this week, but the room was still quite hot. This week, we did a little cha-cha and then Bob attempted to teach us all the waltz. Our initial thinking was that this would be a ‘piece-of-cake’ compared to the cha-cha – how wrong we were – and it was good …
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