One thing about where I work is that in the winter it is absolutely freezing! In the corner of our office we have a thermometer, and next to the thermometer is an official looking piece of paper taped to the wall telling us what extremes of temperature it has to be before we’re allowed to…
Wednesday
Here we are at Wednesday, and this morning started like every other in the office with an update of ‘foot watch’. We are monitoring how many people use the town centre in Wokingham for some sort of report we’re meant to be writing. Instead we decided to make a waether chart to predict when most…
Tuesday
Tuesday is the day I go to Oxford Brookes on ‘day release’ from work to study a Masters Degree. Currently we are being taught ‘research methods’ by a chap who explains everything with very emphatic hand gestures – so much so he puts the sign language interpreter who stands next to him to shame. We…
My Day in Four
Following on from my ‘Friday Night Post’, my dear and much treasured friend Katty Blanch suggested ALBD could perhaps explore the idea of ‘my day in four pictures’ as a theme for future posts. This I thought was a tremendous idea seeing that: a) I have become quite a whiz on my new camera phone…
Sweet dreams are made of this
There is an unerring design – perhaps design fault – of my character that rejects reality on the basis that the worlds I can create in my head sometimes prove the most attractive places to be. I did this a lot when I was younger. I used to have stacks and stacks of ‘Horse and…
A Friday Night Post
Well, it’s the end of the week and I would be lying to say if the situation has improved. I am sitting here on a Friday night at 22:01 reading ‘Participation or Pathology: Contradictory Tensions in Area Based Policy’. What is more, Neil leaves for America on Sunday, so instead of reading my Planning Policy…
When even dull is interesting
It is extremely difficult to find words that will not bore you, when in fact all that I have to say bores myself. About three years ago, whilst doing some work experience in a planning office, a wise and greatly respected senior planner called Jane Gibson took me to one side warned me: “Amy – you realise that…
A Quick Catch Up
It is time for a quick catch up. Unfortunately Uni work, work work, and the little life lived in between appears to be all I can cope with at the moment, so in an effort to get down all I would like to say but in a more time efficient manner, I rely once again…
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There is nothing like having a busy head to make you feel completely useless. In the past week I have managed to fall on butt twice from not looking where I was going (one instance I was particularly grateful for being female as it involved a bollard), I have almost driven all the way home without remembering to turn my lights on,…
Congratulations Mr Tony Whitmore!
You are the winner of ALBD’s very first reader competition! Your mystery prize will be in the post to you shortly… as soon as I have got your address off Neil…. ALBD Winner: Tony Whitmore Thanks to everyone who added a comment, your thoughts and views were incredibly insightful and will all be used to…