So Google have launched their ‘street view’ which must have cost millions to produce.


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Most mornings you might expect to receive a cheery “Hello”, or even a “morning, how was your weekend?” and maybe if you're lucky a “do you want tea or coffee?” I received none of these this morning, instead all I got was “How did you get here?” What...Why? “You’ve got no wheels left on your wagon” Hahaha, some people think they’re so funny.        

I do love my job, each day is different and some are just joyous. A snippet from a conversation today “I’ve met Bruce Willis you know” Where was that I replied. “He was riding on an asteroid that was going to crash into the Earth, I had to catch it otherwise he’d have been killed. It was a good job it was raining because it was very hot you know.” ( Read more... )

We were talking about which of the wards was our least favourite and my colleague Andy said “the problem with the staff on mother & baby is that they’re women haters”, I said “don’t you mean men haters”, “oh, yeah” he replied.  

Over the last few weeks they’ve been knocking down the old boilerhouse, where I used to work. It’s just behind the new building where I now work and in a similar style to the 28 days later site I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve taken some pictures.


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On a radio programme I heard recently they were asking for nominations for ‘things that make you proud to be British’. I don’t know what came out on top but I’d like to nominate Test Match Special. Where else can you hear in-depth conversations about Breadfruit and Mini Mokes whilst describing what's going on in the day’s play?  

Towards the end of last year I discovered Justin(dot)tv which streams live tv and when I say tv I actually mean live sports and when I say sports I actually mean football. I have never seen so many matches before. Although the picture quality is not always that great, it is usually watchable. I imagine it is something like listening to pirate radio ( Read more... )

I had to go into town this morning for a Health & Safety test for a skill card that my employers want me to get. With it being one of those computer multi-guess things and the combination of Friday the 13, I thought something was bound to go wrong, but I can report the computer didn’t crash or the camera break and even more surprising my brain fail ( Read more... )

I had this exact same discussion at work with one of my colleagues, except Vicky is far more eloquent. I said sometimes there are far more important lessons you don’t learn at school. My nephew has been at home because his school closed and he’s been building snowmen with his mom (who’s a teacher and her school was shut) in the back garden and I’m ( Read more... )

I’ve said this before, I’ve always thought my education lacked something. In fact if my schooling were a poet it would be Gerard Manley Hopkins (he was one of the few poets we studied). I find it hard to believe now, but we didn’t study Shakespeare or Dickens and you only did Thomas Hardy (Far From the Madding Crowd) if you chose O’ Level (which I ( Read more... )