-The pictures and musings of James Purves
Archive for April, 2006
2006-04-26 23:32:00
Apr 26th
Went to Terminus at the Great Eastern Hotel at Liverpool Street all thanks to my new uber-boss. I’ll be doing the saem job on the same project but my reporting lines have changed and although I’d technically been working for my new boss since January this is the first time we’ve had the whole team out for a social chat. Took full advantage with a steak sandwich, chips and a cold beer – MMMmmmmm! I’d never eat there on my own credit card so nice to try it out and it was full to the brim with proper bankers and traders who obviously no longer think that lunch is for wimps!
2006-04-25 14:34:00
Apr 25th
A suicide bomber blew herself up today not too far away from Dad’s office and the Church. I’ve spoken to Mum since and luckily they’ve confirmed that they’re both fine, but Ellen and I both had moment of panic as Mum and Dad’s flat is right next to the Naval HQ (the bomb was near the Army HQ). Looks like a (un)civil war is about to begin (if it hasn’t already)…
2006-04-24 22:46:00
Apr 24th
Back from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Glaway (Ireland), was a great trip bus sadly didn’t take too many photos, those that I did take are here! Hopefully mark will send me his as well so I can post them up too.
I’ve half written a longer post with all the details of the holiday, I’ll post it up when its done.
2006-04-24 13:57:00
Apr 24th
Two fish in a tank.
One turns to the other and says “Do you know how to drive this?”
2006-04-10 22:53:00
Apr 10th
What’s your quality of life?
“London remains at position 39; Birmingham and Glasgow both climb one place to joint 55th position
London is the UK’s highest ranking city and is stable at position 39 (score 101.2). The two other UK cities covered in the survey are Birmingham and Glasgow, which both score 98.3 and climb one place to joint 55th position.”
http://www.mercerhr.com/referencecontent.jhtml?idContent=1173105
2006-04-09 20:42:00
Apr 9th
Went up to Bracknell on Saturday to see Nev, Sam, Vik and Alan. Nev and Sam were down for the weekend as Nev was running the Reading Half Marathon. We went bowling and then went to the pub to see the Grand National results. Ended up back in the pub tonight with Matt and Linus to watch the Man U – Arsenal game.
Heading off to Scotland on Friday, I’ll be in Edinburgh for a couple of days and then heading over to Glasgow to catch up with some familiar faces before heading on to Ireland to see Mark.
