My car appears on Google Streetview…..how cool is that! I was on a half day last summer driving to work just after lunch, and suddenly spotted the google car as i turned onto the A57!
To see me click here!
Now thats more like it, played Acid again at Badminton and lost 2 games and won 1 game!
Last night I played Badminton for the 1st time in 3 years. Now I have to be honest, over the last 3 years, I haven’t exactly been following an olympic standard training regime, and I was expecting to lose every single game I played, especially given that my opponent (Acid for those of you that know him!), is playing all sorts of sports every week to keep himself fit. Yet somehow despite all this, I managed to win all 3 games we played!!! I doubt it will last long, but for now I’m a badminton god!
I can’t believe i haven’t written anything for a year now. If you look at this site reguarly (which i’ve found out that some people actually do!), you might notice some back dated blog entries appearing over the next few days, to cover some of the things I’ve missed out.
I’ll try harder to keep this up to date in the future!
My little niece is now 1! Photos in the gallery
Last night was the Goyt District AGM, and whilst it was the 1st district AGM I’ve ever attended, I did seem to play a rather prominent role!
Firstly, I was the only ADC type person who attended, and provided a report… so I had to stand up and tell everyone how well Explorers have done over the last year. Unfortunately Viv forgot to mention that she needed this, until a couple of hours before the meeting, so I didn’t really have much time to prepare. Fortunately it seemed to go fairly well, and I’ll be more prepared next year.
Then came the shock of the night, I was awarded my 10 years long service award! I’ve actually been a leader for 12 years, but Scout HQ have lost 2 of those years, so I wasn’t expecting this certificate for another year or two, but for once HQ where super efficient. The only bad part about the long service award, is that they’ve changed the design, and the badge now has the number 10 on it….just so everyone knows how long you’ve been doing it for!
Finally, I was presented with my Commissioner warrant (nice yellow coloured one) which meant I had to renew my promise again.
I think I spoke more than anyone else, at the meeting!
1st Marple’s very own Barbara Preston has her picture in the “St George’s Day Award Recipients 2008″ supplement of this month’s Scouting magazine. Nearly caused me to fall off my chair!
I’ve finally got around to updating my photo gallery to the latest version of ZenPhoto. I just need to add all my photos to it now, when I return back to the UK.
I’ve also finally managed to fix the Google Maps plugin. So the map showing all the places i’ve been is now working again.
Way back in September 2007, when I signed up for this extended stay in Macau, I was originally due to return to the UK at the end of March (on the 28th to be precise). However due to my little jolly to the US in January, I was asked to stay for an extra 2 weeks, which meant I would have been back in the UK on April 11th.
However for the last several weeks, the company has discussing various projects I’m going to be working on (all of which I need to back in Europe for!). One of these projects is for a very large contract, and it requires some development work being done on site. Initially it was thought that maybe I could go to Austria, then that idea was scrapped, and it was decided I would have to go to South Africa. However this has now changed again, and they’re now seeing if they can get me into Austria.
At the moment all I know is that I’m probably going to be leaving a week earlier than planned, so I’ll be leaving Macau on Fri 4th or Sat 5th April, so I can get this dev work completed. However which country I’m going to be in doing this work, is anyones guess!
