Light at the end of the Tunnel

2008 has been different, from a work perspective, as I've been part of a team who have been funded, skilled and targeted to deliver something worthwhile - and we've succeeded. Saying that, it has been exhausting and we're not quite over the finish line yet (project end is 10th December).

It certainly proves the point that if you want to do something properly you need to assign adequate resource and incentive to do it, rather than our traditional approach of expecting the same few faces to take on more and more work. I wonder, when the project is over, and with these difficult times restraining recruitment/contractors, whether we will return to our bad old ways...

The heating at the office is bust, so we're wrapped up warm. A nice run round Richmond park at lunchtime helped the circulation a bit.


Have plans for 4 little socials between now and Xmas day so that should help us to hop skip an jump along to the holidays.

After all these years I'm watching "Band of Brothers" as it is being repeated on BBC and we're storing them up and watching when we can. Solid, serious, impressive and sobering like so little telly is. Lead Balloon continues to be just right too - not too cringeworthy, but cringeworthy enough. Putting in an offer on a house, just because he went into an Estate Agent's to ask to use the fax machine. And Magda is priceless. "You bought a house?". I guess you have to have seen it.

A group of us do an annual "top albums of the year" poll and there's been loads of great music this year - having real trouble whittling it down to 10. If you haven't heard The Stand Ins by Okkervil River you should make the effort...


Am trying to have a week without bad food and booze before the Christmas onslaught. Have also accepted challenge from Fossy of "who can do the most miles in December" followed by a race on Jan 4th (The Tadworth Ten).

Pub Quiz on Thursday - huzzah!