The Telewest men arrived this morning at 10.10 (they said they’d be coming between 10am and 2pm, so not bad at all) and did their thing. I asked for them to install the Cable Modem on the Ethernet port, which they did. Then, after they left I set about trying to make it work with… Read More »
A lot has happened since my last post. I’ll try to be reasonably brief… We did eventually move into our flat reasonably smoothly. We hired a pretty big Luton van (it had a tail-lift and everything, fun!) which I drove. We picked it up at 8am, drove home, and then it was all hands on… Read More »
Well, what a palaver. We had a nice holiday in Anglesey. Relaxing, but we managed to fit in some fun/interesting stuff too. In brief, went to a Roman Fort, a slate museum, a castle and a museum of childhood. Beached a bit and climbed Snowdon. We also got a bit of an earth-shattering call from… Read More »
Holidays are coming, holidays are coming! Looking forward to holiday time. We’re going up to Anglesey on Friday and staying for 9 days. We’re camping “here”:http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=260660&Y=378750&A=Y&Z=3 (I hope 🙂 Hopefully the weather will be nice so we can enjoy the beaches. Had a totally knackering day on Saturday. Got up early and drove down to… Read More »
Well, what a wonderful birthday. We drove up to Birmingham on Monday night. We found the hotel without incident and it was quite adequate. Quite a sizeable room, and we went out for a nice meal at and watched You Only Live Twice On Tuesday morning we got up at 06:05, I felt horribly sick… Read More »
Well, the plan for becoming a bus driver has progressed one stage further. I have an interview with Travel West Midlands. Typically, it’s on my birthday (5th August for anyone who might have forgotten 😉 I have to be there for 8.30am. I have to do a written test, driving assessment, interview and medical questionnaire.… Read More »
Well, I don’t know how that’s happened. I could have sworn I had made more posts recently. I haven’t been working the past two weeks, I registered with the agency but no work yet. It feels weird not going to work every day like I have been for the past year. I do find it… Read More »
My last day at IBM today. It’s a bit weird, I don’t really feel it’s sunk in yet. I’ve been collecting a few items of memorabilia. We’re going out for lunch as a team today, after a free lunch for the whole department yesterday. I’m going through all the last-minute things I have to do.… Read More »
I had my driving lesson last night. It was pretty fun. The instructor was a good one, friendly and encouraging but also critical. He drove me across town to a quiet residential “proving ground” where I drove around doing lots of left turns followed by lots of right turns, then basically just drove around getting… Read More »
Really Quite Bored. That’s what that stands for. I’ve got a week and a day left working here, and I’m looking forward to finishing. I’m feeling really sleepy at the moment. I’m looking forward to my driving lesson, driving a van and starting work as a Kitchen Porter for 4 weeks. OK, so I’m not… Read More »