Posted: Tue 5 February, 2013 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, Travel, Work-related |
This month has started with a trip up to Manchester, visiting a work client. It’s been fun, even with having to use the piece-of-shit hire car to get to and from there.
Next week I’m down in Devon, so it’s all a bit mileage heavy.
No idea yet what the rest of the month will bring, but all the same, it’ll also give me chance to shake down the new car once I’ve got that tomorrow.
Posted: Tue 8 January, 2013 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Bankruptcy, Business, Domestic, Own Business, Travel, Web Development, Work-related |
Usually around this time, I’d be looking at hitting the Spring Fair at the NEC in Birmingham, which kicks off at the start of February.
I’ve gone a few times over the years, usually building up some contacts for building websites etc. Sometimes I made use of them afterwards, most of the time I didn’t. (to be honest) It’s always an interesting trip, what with one thing and another.
This year, I’m not planning to go. Partly it’s on a week that is already madly busy, but also I’ve got enough on my plate for the moment without adding to it.
2014 may be a different matter, but 2013 is one where I definitely won’t be going.
Posted: Fri 7 December, 2012 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Customer Services, Domestic, London, People, Reviews(ish), Thoughts, Travel |
On BBC currently there’s a wonderful documentary series called “Inside Claridges”. Obviously it’s a ‘behind the scenes’ look at how Claridge’s Hotel runs – and it’s absolutely fascinating, a true “How the other half live”
The entire thing is quite, quite mad – I understand why and how they do what they do, but it really is potty. For example, taking photos of how a suite is laid out when a guest leaves, so that it can be laid out the same way if/when they return to the hotel in the future. I suppose if you’re paying £5,500 per night it’s the kind of invisible thing you expect – and yes, I think paying £5,500 per night is utterly obscene – but to me, it’s also potty.
All told, it’s a really sweet little series, well worth catching on repeats, iPlayer or whatever. It’s what BBC documentaries should be (in my opinion) about – things that the general viewer will never see, the way other people live, even if those lives are completely antithetical to our own.
Posted: Sun 18 November, 2012 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Old(er), Public Transport, Thoughts, Travel |
It really doesn’t seem possible that it’s now 25 years since the fire at King’s Cross station in London which killed 31 people.
It’s not (for me at least) one of those events where you always remember where you were when you heard about it, but it was still a major event, and brought about so many changes with train stations, including replacing all the wooden escalators with metal ones, banning smoking in stations (it had already been banned on the trains, but was OK in stations) and secondary influences and improvements for things like fire-fighting services and so on.
But knowing it’s 25 years ago is a real surprise – time flies, and all that jazz.
Posted: Tue 6 November, 2012 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Driving, Travel, Work-related |
It’s another of my weeks with some heavy mileage again.
Over the weekend I was up near Manchester, seeing friends. 400 mile round trip.
Later this week, I’m down in the Devon office – another 430 mile round trip.
And then I’ve still got three days of normal commute, which is a 40-mile round trip. So 120 miles there.
All told, 950 miles – and that’s not including whatever I decide to do next weekend.
I must be barmy.
Posted: Sat 20 October, 2012 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Bankruptcy, Domestic, Finances, Travel, Work-related |
Amazingly, I’ve already been in the new house six months. (Well, in two weeks’ time, anyway)
It’s been an eventful six months by anyone’s standards, but it’s all settling down now – even with the new cat as well – and it’s beginning to feel like a home.
So bearing in mind everything else that’s going on, I’ve now signed up for a 12-month tenancy here.
It’s a good thing, being a bit settled. And this area’s a good one – if I do change jobs in the next twelve months, the location here gives me plenty of location alternatives within an easy commute.
All told, it’s good to have options as well as a bit of stability – and this place gives me both of those things.
Posted: Sat 29 September, 2012 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Public Transport, Travel, Weirdness |
While looking today at train ticket prices, I came across this…
Now I might be missing something, but if the train will take me 35 minutes, and cost £13(ish), why would I be interested in going by National Express, which would cost me more to travel for three times as long ?
I think someone might’ve missed the point…
