Espe, as part of her Red Cross Volunteer training, is having two day’s worth of practical training in an Ambulance. The first of these took place on Monday night, and the events of the night make for a pretty good story. She joined the ambulance driver, trainer and another trainee mid afternoon. A brief tour of the station was interrupted by their first alert. A reported labourer had an limb injury. The other trainee somehow heard this as a limb amputation and got out of the ambulance at the scene of the muttering something along the lines of please don’t…
Back at work after two weeks in Poland, and to be honest I can’t stand it. Made that little bit worse as due to one of our rotas, three times this week I’ve been unable to go to lunch with any of my colleagues and friends (including missing Isabel’s last day in the office celebrations). I get back home, and after witnessing a taxi driver t-bone a parked car I have to put up with all the incessant hooting that for some reason half of the imbeciles in the city think will clear the traffic jam in front of them.…
Stepping off the plane having flown from Krakow to Luton I was welcomed by a wonderfully sunny evening. On Saturday I met up with Nimesh for a lunchtime bite to eat. We ended up eating in a wonderfully British beer garden and chatting over several beers in the sunshine. He’s off to Taiwan for two weeks as part of his increasingly successful career. In the afternoon I headed down to Clapham to meet up with Jon. We spent several hours on the thoroughly crowded common, people watching and chatting over a few tins. On days like these I really want…
A few goodies for you here: First off, the World Press Photo winners 2006. I saw the 2005 exhibition in Krakow last year. A truly moving experience. Those in London, if your quick, you can see the exhibition in the Royal Albert Hall. For those who are not take a look at www.worldpressphoto.nl and for full effect try to read the background to each photo. I’ve been assisting some of the lads who are doing the Mongol Rally this year in a team of three Minis. 6 of them are going after Pete (Espe’s old flatmate in Madrid) watched Jon…
Another flying trip to the UK on the way to Poland. Nice as the flights are paid for by the company, but so short I don’t really get to see anybody. On Saturday I went up to Tottenham Court Road to look at expensive electricle goods and then went round to see Marc’s latest toy. A 1970 Landrover. In need of some restoration work and I helped out by supervising Marc and his uncle change a wheel cylinder in the rain and wind. It was quite a shock going from the humid 30+ temperatures in Madrid to the misery that…
I finally went round to Philippes last night to have a bit of a play with his Honda ZFR 800. Something we’ve been meaning to do since I convinced him to invest in a Haynes manual a few months back. We set about adjusting the chain which had far too much slack. Reasonably simple to do, but it still resulted in a skinned knucle for Philippe. First rule of car/bike maintanence learnt: You will hurt yourself. Having adjusted the chain we decided to take the fairings off the bike and have a good look at all the fun stuff below.…
Congratulations to Jen, one of my work colleagues, who just won her first bike racing trophy. She got 2nd place on one of the races this weekend at Brands Hatch as part of the Bemsee Clubman 400 series. A phenominal feat for someone who only got her bike license 5 years ago, and is in her first race season. She also won Rookie of the day. Read her blog at blogs.sun.com/racerjen Jen mentions another racer, Conrad, in her blog. As it turns out this Conrad chap also works for Sun and he has a rather intersting pic on the internal…
For those that know of Boris Johnson, especially from Have I Got News for You, will appreciate the comedy value he adds to this world. For those that do not, take a look over the WikiPedia entry for him. Boris was recently invited to join a charity Germany v England football match. Unfortunately I don’t think they played much football at Eton… Boris Video “there was no malice in my actions. I was going for the ball with my head, which I understand is a legitimate move”