I'm now officially on-call with the new job. At the moment 1 week in 2 but call-outs should be "relatively" rare. They are actively trying to hire more of us though, so give it 4-5 months or so and I expect it to be 1 in 3, much more palatable. Think of the money, think of the money, think of the money ( Read more... )

This month has involved a week away in Scotland, spent around Loch Ness and up in Dufftown, including 5 distillery visits (Glen Grant, Glenfiddich, Glen Ord, Dalwhinnie & Cragganmore), 1 brewery (Black Isle), 1 chocolate factory (The Olive Tree), 10 bottles of beer, 3 bottles of whisky and a chocolate bar of my own design, mwahaha ( Read more... )

There's not been a huge amount happening, except for the wedding of one of Jane's friends we attended in York last weekend. That was fun, set off at 10am and got back to the hotel at just gone 1am, having had a generally good day albeit with a fair whack of hanging around. I would have liked to have had some more time to potter around York, it's ( Read more... )

We have so far done:

• Hairspray - we stage doored Mr Michael Ball, he was terribly nice!
  
• We Will Rock You - failed to impress me in exactly the same way that Mama Mia failed to impress me. A bunch of songs thrown into a dodgy storyline with a VERY large crowbar. Jane loved it though.
  
• La Cage Aux Folles - Graham Norton's last night. It was awesome ( Read more... )

We set off on Boxing Day, and had a non-event of a journey up to Livingston, except for the SatNav telling us to take the back-roads near the end, which confused us to heck. The hotel was virtually invisible from the direction we arrived by, only after driving around the shopping centre for about 20 minutes did Jane yell "There it is!" to me, and ( Read more... )

We've been up in Scotland since Boxing Day, travelled up to Dufftown with a layover in Edinburgh overnight in a dirt cheap hotel room. I have decreed that when we go up again this shall be the only way to do it. Driving all the way back is not so bad, as it's motorway all the way at the end. Driving up is hard work at the end ( Read more... )

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( A few sample pictures of Brunei and other bits )

Hundreds of photos and quite a few cool vids. I can inflict them ALL upon you :)

Though I really wouldn't do that to you. I'm not yet recovered from the flight back and think both Jane and I got travel-flu :( 17hrs on a plane will do things to you...

Was up before 9 today making croissants and tea for me and Jane. She spent a good portion of the afternoon in bed with a migraine and I tried to watch Dune but failed.

Been making lists of things to do for holiday... it's quite a long list!