Awwww, chin up Rob…soon be Crimbo 
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Surrendering to delirium. It’s a bit like the mind garden but fuzzy with occasional accidents.
And presumably, with more need to dig out unmentionable substances from under your fingernails?
Fixed
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It would help with sleep deprivation…
I feel longer gentlemen naps heading your way.
How you finding it? How long’s it been since you last did the newborn thing?
Congratulations btw…can’t remember if i said that already. I meant to.
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Gentleman’s nap time will be enjoying greater investment moving forwards.
Quite like the look of this - I’m thinking of parking it up on the roof.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/21ft-by-8ft-Anti-Vandal-sleeper-pod-Container-clean-beds-welfare-units-/282531757535?hash=item41c8347ddf:g:9RkAAOSwmLlX2aWn
I worked for STFC for a few decades but I never made it to Chilbolton (or to the Canary Islands telescopes for that matter, but never mind). We interviewed a promotion candidate from there once. Two members of the panel (the chairman and me) gave him A* (very talented, enthusiastic, phenomenally hard-working, had achieved a lot despite poor support from his management). The other two gave him D (a serious threat to his colleagues’ safety and, they feared, public safety if he ever got promoted that far). TBH both views had some merit.
VB
Perfect stick some wheels and an engine in it,has to be better than the beemer
Ave a wank.
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Enjoying another episode of my part of the MOD’s transformation programme, essentially a take on the 35 year old Mackenzie 7S programme. they sell it to us as if we should be excited. Even the bit about A, B and C performers is described as a new and exciting way to perform! We are now performers on assignment, no longer do we have terms of references or jobs. Fuck me, at this rate our work will soon be assigned by a fucking algorithm and our performance assessed by our peers using an App, complete with Gold stars.
they will soon have me cheering someones performance every morning and getting all excited by the new somesuch shit or other.
Currently doing the mid year PADRs, I can’t fucking believe what I am seeing. People are actually sending e mails to those involved in their work (peers or customers) and asking for thank you e mails to add to their performance evidence pack! Just let one of the fuckers send one to me, I fucking dare them.
I am so glad my time in employment is coming to an end, the future is positively dismal!
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Has just been rescheduled for end of November.
Birding on the island again. Peak Autumn migration only has a week or two to go so I’m making the most of it.
Oh, and it is our wedding anniversary today!
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Ignoring a demand for £15 from a website which promises superpowers upon receipt of said payment.
Stupid me for paying it in the first place.
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How many years? and how is Lou doing?
9 years, Stuart.
Lou is just the same. Happily she has heeded the warnings and is taking things easy. We go to Aberdeen to see the cardiac specialist in a couple of weeks. We’ll know more then.
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It’s been a gliding turning point for me for years. Must have flown round it dozens of times. Looks a bit bigger from ground level, mind. I can understand how working out in the sticks like that might turn you into a threat to your colleagues’ safety in the end, mind.
Lots of interesting projects going on there and very interesting staff to chat to.
happy wedding anniversary , heres to a few more
Thanks, every one is a bonus 
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