This will only make sense to you if you attended IBC in 2004 (or it might have been 05).
Old Steve
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Formula 1 laundry
Sam is a big fan of the Formula 1 and cars in general. His first proper word was “Car!” and for the last month or so everything I point at gets called a car.
Blog changes
You may notice that the page has changed a little since you last visited. Me and Jessica have decided to combine our blogs so there is now a single place that you can visit to get news from both of us. I’ve been intending to make this change for a while and still have a few tweaks to make, but for now… enjoy.
Quantum of Solace
I was reading “For Your Eyes Only” this morning and I noticed that the title of one of the chapters was “A Quantum of Solace”. Perhaps you already new the meaning of the film title but if not here is the text from the book:
The Governor paused and looked reflectively over at Bond. He said: ‘You’re not married, but I think it’s the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn’t care if the other is alive or dead, then it’s just no good. That particular insult to the ego – worse, to the instinct of preservation – can never be forgiven. I’ve noticed this in hundreds of marriages. I’ve seen flagrant infidelities, patched up, I’ve seen crimes and even murder forgiven by the other party, let alone bankruptcy and every other form of social crime. Incurable disease, blindness, disaster – all these can be overcome. But never the death of common humanity in one of the partners. I’ve thought about this and I’ve invented a rather high-sounding title for this basic factor in human relations. I have called it the Law of the Quantum of Solace.’
I though it was interesting anyway 🙂
Changes
It’s my last day at Kingswood Warren today – I first came down here for interview just over eight years ago. Next week my place of work will be in West London which’ll mean an unhappy commute for a year or so before I escape to Salford.
This morning at Kingswood
We’re almost finished with the packing and then we’ll be going to the pub.
Steve emerges from under his desk
Snowing again
Now I’m stuck waiting for one of the many delayed trains.
Still snowy in Kingswood
The last month & Happy New Year
There has been a definite lull in my activity on the blog over the last month so I thought I’d give a quick digest of what I’ve been up to.
Samuel with one of his new toys
First of all there was Christmas… we were lucky enough to have my parents to visit this year so Samuel got to spend Christmas day with Grandad and Grandma. Jessica prepared a lovely Christmas dinner and Samuel had a great time with so many people there to entertain him. I have a mountain of chocolate to get through post Christmas and have so far only dented the surface.
This was before I had a drink
For New Years Eve, Cara and Nick took time out of their busy social calendar to spend the last evening of the decade with me and Jessica. As Samuel slept soundly we made some predictions for 2020 and enjoyed a game of Taboo whilst eating Pizza and a hastily assembled cheese board. We pulled the last of the festive crackers and I invented Elton-vision (above).
He enjoyed himself, honestly
On New Years Day we went to Kelsey park where Sam had a go on the swings and I fed the squirrels. The squirrels in the park are really tame and a lot of people bring nuts along to feed them by hand.
Squillie enjoys a cashew
We’re hoping that 2010 will be a quiet year for our family so we can enjoy all Sam’s milestones and have a bit of a rest after our marriage-house-baby stress marathon. Things at work are all change with a move from Kingswood to W12 and a challenging project taking a lot of my time. I hope that you had a great holiday and are looking forward to an exciting year too.
Happy New Year!
When things are quiet…
When things go quiet in our house you need to start looking to see what Samuel is up to. Whilst Jessica’s back was turned last night Samuel decided to investigate one of the food cupboards and managed to achieve this.
This would make a good advert
HDResearch and Development
I’ve been playing with my new DSLR camera and wanted to try some HDR photography. The image below is produced from three different images which I combined using a piece of software called Qtpfsgui. I was going for a different look but quite by accident generate this painting-like image which shows the BBC’s R&D department (my current place of work).
Looks like it was drawn