No, we will definitely not do that

Grr - what a week! Yet again I am being a bit slack on updating this - now I know I can just send an email update, I might start doing more.

The "Kingston Duo" came over for dinner on Tuesday night which was cool - it's been ages since we all caught up and it's good to get reacquainted over a bite to eat. The recipe which I mentioned in my previous post was White Chocolate Cheesecake - which I have the pleasure of being able to share with you in the post after this one.

Main course were Lamb Shanks, which just about had enough time to cook. Reason being I got held up at work after being asked at the last minute to run a conference call.

I don't mind doing that - providing:
a) I have an idea as to what the meeting is about and
b) I'm given the flexibility to run the meeting how I want

Now when Dorothy (yes, another alias!) who asks me to run her meeting, then joins the call and proceeds to stamp her authority all over it - I wasn't too happy. I replied to her "no, we will definitely not do that" with "I think we need to take this offline" and that appeared to help the discussion move forward more productively. More frustrating than anything else - you either want me to run your call or you don't..

In other news, my new headphones for podders2 - or shuffle podders finally arrived today. They are a pair of Sennheiser PMX70's. I bought them so that I can go "yogging" as Ron Burgundy would put it, without having to constantly hold onto the apple one's. (They just fall out whenever you move your head). Expect a full review at the weekend when I will give them a proper road test.

Yes, I am a lazy get!

I've been a bit lazy this past couple of days in keeping this up to date, but I do have a number of excuses:

Manners was in London training on Wednesday, so we went for a beer in the evening near Waterloo and the London Eye. For the best part of two years we had been meaning to go to the All Bar One which serves one of my all time favourite beers - the Munchen brewed Paulaner on draft. We discovered the slug and lettuce next door lacks a decent menu, but the food in the All Bar One was pretty reasonable.

The journey home was marred slightly by witnessing someone get their lights punched out in what the BBC News would describe (in a very politically correct way of course) as a racially motivated attack.

It amazed me that no one on the tube stopped to break it up - but then again, I guess you never know what anyone is hiding in their coat anymore.

Yesterday was spent at work which included spending an hour in a Hi-Def video conference which was pretty cool. Incredible when you think that 10 years ago everything would have either been done over the phone or in person and that now we can all sit in rooms anywhere in the world and see and speak to people face to face.

After work I drove back to Birmingham where I'm spending the majority of my Easter break, although I'm in North Wales for some of it too. Whether that's a good or a bad thing I'm not sure yet!

Called into central brum for a pint with my uncle on my home, only to discover the local social club serves only Carling (which, together with Carlsberg, will herein be known as "Cooking Lager" to blog readers) and Grolsch - which was off. So a bottle of bud it was - but it's the company not the drinking that matters as they say.

Today (Good Friday) has been spent chilling out. I promised myself no work laptop or BlackBerry over the weekend, however I broke that rule first thing this morning when I discovered I'd forgotten to put my out of office on.

Other than that, I took the beast into the local town earlier to get some hot cross buns and dropped Mommy Bedders off at the gym. The afternoon has been spent messing around with the new dog and catching up with relatives - all pretty tame by any standards!

That's a rather boring entry completed, but at least things are kinda up to date!


Bedders.

My Current Favourite Advert

Two posts in one day - check my bad self!

This is my favourite advert at the moment - thought I would share it:



Which is almost as good as this one:

All That Matters In A Garden Is The Waterfeature...

Hey Everyone.

Not too much to put into today, other than that I spent the day working my ass off for very little return - but hey, what's new?!

I've been away recently on a Six Sigma (6s) course. Today some nice books arrived courtesy of Amazon and my company (who paid for them lol), but at the moment I don't have enough time to read them. I guess they'll sit on my desk for a while, making me look falsely intelligent! For those who don't know what 6s is, hit this link here - it's good shit!

Also arriving today was my Podders Deux - little brother to my big iPod, the iPod Shuffle. Not really seen one properly before, but for £30, engraved and delivered, it's not bad and ideal for when I go jogging.

I ordered the (product)red version which donates some of the cost towards the global fund to fight AIDS in Africa. Not only is it a great cause but it also looks unique - what more could you ask for?

Haven't tested it yet - it's still charging, but I'm sure I'll mention it again and give a full verdict later.

Right - back to Sport Relief and Chris Moyles, Comedy Dave and Chappers all looking pretty damn funny jogging away on treadmills, not to mention Top Gear do Ground Force.