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Victoria is a Public health researcher- trying to rid the world of Malaria one mosquito at a time. Simon is an engineer. some things just have to be broken before they can be fixed.

Monday, November 27, 2006

a walk in the wild

i thought i'd brush up my backwoodsman skills so i lit a fire. I cooked an egg in an orange and a trout on a stick. The oly flaw in these survival skills is the need for and orange, an egg and a trout. I can do fire though. And i'm growing an orange tree. My fishtank is too small for trout.

Monday, November 20, 2006

full circle

Well its official. I have a job
Contour got back to me and i start Jan 2nd in my new role of tea-boy
Praise be!

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

this week i have been mostly...

i bought the first series of the Fast Show on DVD. Scorchio! It has been keeping me entertained.
I also, rather depressingly, signed on :(
To cheer me up, i went walking in Snowdonia. I was there in an official role, teaching scouts how to navigate. That didn't stop me imitating a mountain goat.















I then went on a weekend trip to London and saw all the sights (except for the Queen who is apparently horizontal with a back injury. Gawd Bless you Ma'am.)
















Then to top up my joy, i bought a car. It is big and blue. Notice how i have lovingly adapted the bush so i can park it on the drive.

Monday, October 09, 2006

life at home

I have been a bit lazy updateing my blog but i've been sooo busy procrastinating.
Last week i painted
6 medium sized bedrooms
1 small bathroom
1 hallway
6 doors
1 mile of skirting board
and i had a big fire.

Yesterday was a highlight for me. As a family we debated the length of time bread was taking to toast in our toaster. My father's estimate was 3 minutes (too long, inducing premature worrying and frustration) It used to take the length of time for another piece of toast to be buttered, jammed and then eaten. "just over two minutes" was deemed the accurate timing of a control experiment. I predict this is an increase over this historical life of our toaster. Maybe it's time for a replacement.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

new car


today i got a new car at work. It's for a business trip i have to make tomorrow, which is incidentally my last day working for powertile.
it has cruise control.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

A prize. I won a prize

Yesterday some girl rang me up form Double Take- photographic studios. She said i had won their top prize of a champagne reception, hair stylist, makeover, photo session and screening. I was quite astounded. I have likened it to winning a hot air balloon repair kit. Only useful if you need it. Never mind i may choose to go and am allowed to take someone with me- place your bids now. I probably won't though, my time is more valuable than my hair :)

Thanks tho' to Vicke's sister Clara, or whoever it was that entered my name into the draw.

On a different note i'm off camping this weekend in Farnborough. Firstly i'll be on a mission to see if 1) i can find a scrap yard with my car in it and 2) if i can steal my car back.. I'm feeling pretty hopeless.

Regarding the camp i was looking back at how scout camps first began, i.e with Baden-Powell on Brownsea Island, but was interested to discover the founder of scouting got many of his ideas from Ernest Thompson Seton, a radical of the early 20th Century with great ideas for enjoying wildlife and with fun ways of holistically developing youngsters. Here's his ethos, which i generally live by anyway:

First, your fun must not be bought with money. Make your fun; Woodcraft shows you how.

Second, your fun must be enjoyed with due decorum. No one must be hurt in body, spirit or pocketbook.

Third, the best fun is that which appeals to the imagination. Physical fun has its place, but its zest is apt to pass with one's youth; joy in the realm of the imagination grows with one's years, and increases with each indulgence in it. At the end of a long life, it means more than at the beginning.

Legend.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

what has been and what will come

I have just spent 2 weeks in malawi with a fine bunch of people from Cardiff Uni Christian Union
We did everything from elephant spotting to entertaining orphans in extreme heat. I may publish my diary if i can be bothered.
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Whilst i was away i received news from Contour, the aeroplane seat company informing me i had a second interview- arranged for this friday. I'll let you know how it goes.