10 Aug – 16 Aug Doing I had a catch up with former colleagues, as we gatecrashed the leaving drinks of another former colleague from my previous agency. Fun was had, lots of chat and gossip, lots of drink. I decided that going camping for the weekend was a great idea! Well, not just camping, […]
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3 Aug – 9 Aug Doing Dinner at Marcus at Wine Club. Another Michelin restaurant, although one I’d eaten at before. They were having a dinner offer, the lunch menu at lunch prices, so we got together for some chat and food and wine. More vaccinations on saturday, final round of them, before I headed […]
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27 July – 2 Aug Doing some weeks I get really busy, most weeks I do little. This is another of the latter, must be because of summer! I did travel down to Southampton way on Tuesday for an away day of working, with a gorgeous view of Hamble harbour. The weather turned stormy this […]
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20 July – 26 July Even when nothing happened…I’m going to FINISH these for the year 🙂 Doing The pitch meeting I was working on was on the Tuesday of this week, so another night in the hotel just over the road from work, ready to be in the office at 7 for last minute […]
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13 July – 19 July Doing bah. nothing. absolutely nothing. Working hard on a pitch, staying over at work. On occasion, it’s just easier to get a bed in short walking distance from office rather than traveling to and from home, if you finish after 10 and back in for 7ish! Work at the weekend. […]
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Doing A relatively quiet week, with 2 running club events. First of all was the AGM, which wasintereting to listen to all the things that happens in the club. Secondly was Sports Day – a group of us got together to do some sports – egg and spoon race, long jump, shot put and the […]
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28 June – 5 July Doing Had a second day at the Formula E at Battersea Park. Overall, this was a great event, helped by reasonable weather (even if there were some showers). But I ended up watching the races from a deckchair in front of a big screen instead of watching the track as […]
Race Day at the Belgian GP with Shell Motorsports
Our final day at the track! Surprisingly the trip in on the morning was pretty much the same as on the previous days. We hit traffic at the same place and got to the track around 10 again. Before we left, our instructions for the end of the day were made plain – bags to […]
Saturday at the Belgian GP with Shell Motorsports
It’s supposed to rain at Spa. A day at the track without full waterproofs in the bag is pushing your luck, you’re bound to get wet. Except, it seems, in 2015. So far, sun. And even more sun. It is very, very warm, so much so that I left the coat and brolly behind today […]
A trip to the Belgian GP, day 1
In the previous post, you’ll have read that I managed to win a lovely VIP trip to the Belgian GP, through a competition organised by Shell Motorsports. Finally, after a few email exchanges, that the day arrived and we were off to SPA. Sofia and I were travelling by Eurostar, as were a number of […]
The Hunt by Shell Motorsport
It was a lovely day in London yesterday. It was made even better by Shell who ran an event – follow the clues, find the Ferrari, answer a question and see if you’re quick enough to get there first and win a trip to the Belgian GP. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have […]
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21-27 June Doing A birthday party at the beginning of the week, for both a friend and her company – she’s busy trying to set up Wisher, a gifting app. I only had 2 days in the office this week; on Wednesday, I went to Marcus for lunch, another one on my Michelin list, this […]
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14-20 June Doing The Amba City Mile race, a chance to see how fast I can run a mile. The answer is – not very fast. There wa a good group from my running club there and they put up a strong showing. The rest of the week was very quiet, although a lot was […]
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7-13 June Doing On Sunday, I went and ran my first Colour Run, at Dorney, which was complicated by various blowup obstacles. I’ve never done one of these runs..they definitely seem to be targeted at the younger set, with lots of groups of teens having a lot of fun rolling round in powder. I went […]
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31 May – 6 June Doing Lots and lots of work, so noting happening during the week. On the saturday, I popped along to the Chiswick Food Fair, one of the events taking place in the first ever Chiswick food festival – Eat Chiswick. Reading Just 1 book read, back to the fantasy, this time […]
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24-30 May Doing Sunday was a day in town, meeting up with a friend for lunch and to watch the Monaco GP in the pub. A great day, with just a little too much wine 🙂 The fun the day before did not help that much on Monday, when I ook part in the Bupa […]
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17-23 May Doing Nothing, absolutely nothing. Dairy says nothing, photos says nothing. This was a very quiet week. A week filled with lots of work and then lots of housework. Reading Only the one book read. Finishing off the Outlander Series. Not sure I want to see it on TV, but will keep an eye […]
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10-16th May 2015 Doing I started the week running Hackney Half Marathon. A closed road course in its second year, it has had a lot of publicity locally. There were some organisational issues in the 1st year, but it looks like they had definitely learnt from them, as I found the organisation of the day […]
A trip to Gloucester
After spending the first day of my bank holiday weekend in Worcester, on the Sunday I explored the town of Gloucester. A day similar to the previous in that it took in Cathedrals and museums. First of all was Blackfriars Priory, founded in 1239, dissolved in 1539 and bought by a local alderman who turned […]
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Doing the second day of my weekend was spent in Gloucester, with the Soldiers of Gloucester museum, the cathedral and the British Waterways museum. Here’s the write up of the Gloucester visit Nothing much the rest of the week, except a lot of work Reading Another book read, a quite a few more articles. This […]