Sun 24 – Sat 30 May Well another busy week over. A blessed bank holiday but work dominating everything as usual. I am only paid to work three and a half days each week. But it’s indicative that I could only make the gym twice when in theory with my rota I should have been Read More…
Month: May 2015
The Siege (El Asedio) by Arturo Perez-Reverte (2010)
This is the book which I have just finished reading. I bought it at Oxfam in Glasgow partly because the volunteers were so nice in there (compare to the volunteer lady in a Leeds charity shop the other week, ‘we don’t put sizes on the clothes because people argue about them with us’). I felt Read More…
Is May the best month of the year?
Sunday 17 – Saturday 23 May May is a brilliant month. OK it includes my birthday but we’ve also got two bank holidays and the weather is generally good. And then there’s Eurovision plus this week we had the fantastic commitment to equality by Ireland though I do accept that the month has been tempered Read More…
Want to know more about Tech for Good? Two useful articles
These are two recommended articles. They both focus on how digital technology can create social change for the benefit of society. The first one looks at lessons from the successful establishment of Birmingham Impact Hub – a ‘real world’ centre where people can explore creating things using digital technology. The second analyses if a new Read More…
Thank God for Sweden
Well here it is, the brilliant Eurovision winning song from Sweden sung by the gorgeous Mans Zelmerlow. A bit of controversy in his past around his attitudes to LGBT people but hopefully he’s no homophobe and I liked the dedication of his win last night. And there is no way in the world I wanted Read More…
Walk a mile in my shoes – the video trailer
When I was in Glasgow on Monday, one of the people I met up with was Chris Young. Chris has mental health problems and has been walking around the coast of the British Isles having conversations around and raising awareness about mental health. This video is a trailer for a longer film about what he Read More…
The week QPR got relegated and I had manflu in Leeds
Sun 10 – Sat 16 May Last blog week started with the dismal news that QPR had been relegated back to the Championship. And via an abysmal 6-0 defeat at Man City. Then during the rest of the week came out news about the massive fine QPR still has to pay to be allowed back into Read More…
Coming out again – I am a Liberal Democrat
Sun 3 May – Saturday 9 May Wow, what a weird week. My birthday and the general election repeat from 1992. Then my Tech for Good programme closed with 247 applications to be read plus a bank holiday which left everyone wondering what day they were in throughout the rest of the week. So Read More…
Half in Sitges, half in London, and three consecutive days in the gym
Sun 26 April – Sat 2 May 2015 So last blog week started in Sitges and ended in London with the weather being not great in Catalunya but colder and wetter in London. Not a bad week at all, relatively peaceful as the maelstrom of the election and uncertainty about the future whirl around me. Read More…