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Originally uploaded by eddiebrown.
Yes, my photos are up on flickr now.
Having gone one way last year, this year we went the other. After a quick navigational error (i.e. going down a dead end as I thought the other way was a dead end,) Gary explained to us all how a punt goes over a wier – via some rollers.
For the record no one fell in. despite some near misses.
Still working and slowly making progress on something
Still working away
Seeing as how GMail decided my renewal notices from Purple Cloud were spam, i realised i wasn’t getting any email today.
eddie-brown.co.uk had expired.
Arrrgh!
Its paid for now (evidently, as otherwise you wouldn’t be seeing this.) but if you have tried to contact me since late afternoon yesterday (Saturday 11th August 2007) then I suggest you might like to try again.
Something for the tickler file i think.
Him: Have you got an email address i can take?
Me: Yeah, its YourCompany’sName.com @
Him: Oh, do you do that so you know who an email is coming from?
Me: Yeah (surprised that he has not stopped me to explain how thats’s their web address, or ask if i work for them, etc.)
Him: yeah, we get more and more of them.
For example, I am quite sure that someones PC at Peterborough City Council provided loads of addresses to spammers, cos i get a lot of spam sent to theirdomain@mydomain….
A search on Google News for “Emley show cancelled” returns a number of news stories in the main stream media (and the main stream parts of the main stream media at that) which add the Emley Show to the list of events cancelled due to Foot and Mouth.
Foot and Mouth emerged last Friday. I had already been driving past signs saying the show was cancelled for a week by then. I can hear the black helicopters circling already. The real reason (as some news outlets correctly reported, therefore making the inclusion of its cancellation rather pointless in their pieces) according to the Emley show website is that the fields used for the show (and associated parking) have received quite a lot of water of late, for a while holding a small lake near the bottom.
But one does wonder why suddenly lots of places reported it. maybe because their website shows up in a google for “Show cancelled”? No, that cannot be right. They are all because of flooding…. Odd.
Meanwhile, the Eye always makes good reading
So, the other day I was at a Water Treatment Works (a very short visit. induction, a cup of tea and that was it. Well, except for then going to the WTW we were meant to be working on, as opposed to the one with the site office….) and part of the induction mentioned how the company running the site works put notices on the wall in the canteen with updates on health and safety, e.g. from occurrences on other sites, other parts of the company, etc.
And as I was perusing them, waiting for my tea to cool, I noticed a sign which mentioned how some people seemed to like to break into such sites, look round, and put photos on the web.
For some reason, a certain someone muttering “MMMMMmmmmm – Plant Rooms” at college sprang into mind.
Remember, its not big. and its certainly not clever.
Of course I have a job that lead me round these places anyway. Which is cool. As is the amount of Hi-Vis yellow clothing in my boot at the moment. Thinking of boots tho, i must remember to get some new ones, a lace eye came off, which doesn’t help keep my foot in…. just as well i have spare shoes.
Failing that, why not just be a tourist? Or combine the industrial with lighting?
On My Honour, I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and to the Queen,
To help other people
And to keep the Scout Law
Well, better late than never.
100 years ago yesterday, a military hero started an experiment to see if the idea he had to produce a training scheme for boys was any good or not. When he found that even mixing boys from different ends of the social scale it worked he set to work compiling a book (which was actually issued in instalments) which went on to become a best seller.
Oh, and led to the formation of an international movement.
Personally I hope that from all the publicity we also find more adults who can give time and skills to scouting. It doesn’t even have to be the proverbially “2 hours a week”
Having finished Harry Potter, I really ought to finish Scouting for Boys. Its a bizzare read. It doesn’t read like all those self improvement books we have now-a-days which are more narrative, its much more like listening to B.P. in a series of lectures, or more accurately chats around a campfire.
But like Ian Hislop recently said, its still relevant today, even 100 years on. Many of the basic issues that people see with society are still the same.
What? No posts in July? Cannot start slipping down that slope….
So, if you are wondering, We went on Holiday to Cornwall. And then when we got back, the polo passed its MOT. Which means I should be driving that for the next 12 months now.
Then its just getting back into the work, and working at Getting Things Done.
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