Entries Tagged as 'Himself'

March 28, 2008

BA Own Goal - A Terminal Case Study

Writing about http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7317909.stm
And http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heathrows-big-day-is-terminal-embarrassment-801743.html
Wow! This is a management, PR & Internal Comms case study in the making. I can see this being on the CIPR course next year…
The thing that stood out most for me though was the amount of coverage pointing to underinformed and poorly trained staff - from issue with the [...]

February 23, 2008

The Fields of Athenry

By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
“Michael, they have taken you away,
For you stole Trevelyan’s corn,
So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.”
Chorus:
Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and [...]

February 13, 2008

What do I love most this week?

I’m sure that the answer should be Himself.  But actually, right at this moment Ocado is closer to my heart!
They are delivering the ingredients for our ‘romantic’ Valentine’s meal very early tomorrow morning before work, despite my only having ordered them this morning.  Truely, for the girl without wheels, they are a saviour!  (Now I [...]

January 17, 2008

Congratulations Himself

After many, many, many years of evening class study (much of it self-funded) the boy has passed his final Charted Institute of Management Accountancy (CIMA) exam!
Now he just has to submit a “career profile”…
To qualify as a Chartered Management Accountant you must:

complete the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting or another exempting qualification
complete the nine exams from [...]

August 31, 2007

Fabulous Florence in Pictures

We had a fabulous time, and marched our way around the churches and museums and ate our way round the foccaherias, gelaterias, mercado, trattorias and ristoranti!
My top food places of the trip were:

Il Latini - Via dei Palchetti 6
Trattoria Marione - Via della Spada 27/r
Gelateria Carraira - at the Oltrano end of the [...]

August 1, 2007

Domestic Snippets

Writing about Sledging
Format of entry stolen from Monopod - with thanks
Me: What’s Sledging?
Himself: It’s the kind of thing you’d expect the Aussies to be good at.
Me: ?!?

March 5, 2007

Sunday Supplement


January 29, 2007

Slimfast


January 29, 2007

Retox Weekend


January 13, 2007

Egg & Soldiers