The boys and I are off down the M6 in the morning so the gpm corner will go very quiet for a few days. Done: report (my bits), tax paid, VAT return, dishwasher fixed (a nice man this time), swimming rota, laundry mountain and it looks like I might get to bed before midnight. Not […]
Archive for January, 2007
Technology, email, the internet - they’re great when they work. When they all go wrong it’s worse than snail mail. I’m presently in the very latter stages of finalising a report with a colleague in wildest Durham. This involves firing lots of files with photos and graphs and maps and tables around by email, all at the […]
I asked one of the boys the other day just what it is they do in SVS. “Oh, learn to write cheques and stuff like that”. How quaint! I felt this wash of nostalgia for the feel of a shiny new cheque book but, as I hardly ever write cheques these days, I rarely get a […]
That’s the sound made by a coin sliding back up towards its starting point…
That was the sound, I think, of a very small coin dropping softly. Son No 1 disappeared off to his room for approaching 2 hours this evening to revise and I hadn’t said a word. And then, after swimming, he picked up his cornet & did some practice and I still hadn’t said a word. Did something […]
and I love them dearly (honest!). But those of you who have daughters might appreciate this offering from Ogden Nash.
It feels like a major triumph. We looked at day 3 of the crisis management, non-negotiable revision timetable we started putting together at the weekend and with much harrumphing older son disappeared to finish his solo talk and revise some music. Later, after I’d spent an hour - yes, that’s right, a whole hour - washing the contents […]
And do they drive their teachers to distraction? They certainly know how to wind their parents up. Prelims start in earnest this week and has the pace of work increased? I should really rephrase that. Is any work happening at any noticeable pace? Did Richard Hammond crash his car? At any mention of exams or revision a […]
Schools and parents talking to each other always seems to be an issue. Or not talking, which is perhaps more often the case. I saw a comment about this from a disgruntled parent on Don’s website a while back and meant to go and post a comment, only I couldn’t find it when I eventually […]
I think there’s a law about it. I had to upgrade my computer last year because of the increasing demands from clients in terms of reports. So many photos, complicated graphics and huge data tables to be included in a single report that everything becomes unwieldy. GIS and databases. Reports these days can easily run to […]
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