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As the great email clear-up continues, I find myself in 2011 and with the first draft of a blog post. Just reading through it is a reminder ...

I was made redundant a little over a year ago.  Even with all the various ins-and-outs of my career, outsourcing, insourcing and all the ...

I find myself caught in a strange kind of halfway house. I've been productively spending my time volunteering... it keeps me busy and ...

Perhaps it's the weather. Perhaps it's because I've finally started to read the bleak, dystopian vision presented in  "The...

I was running intervals this evening, so throughout my day at work, I kept meaning to go and buy a bottle of water to take with me... but I ...

For a bit of change of scenery, I went store visiting in York today.  It's been a bit relentless over the last few weeks, with 11-12 hou...

We had a royal visit at work today.  For those of us trying to get some work done, it was a massive pain in the arse, to be honest.  There w...

When I first started work, I thought that I was going to be managing director; I thought that it was only a matter of time... ten years at t...

I work with some intelligent people.  I say this now because of what follows.... One of my colleagues isn't a driver and has a somewha...

Have you ever found yourself caught in a conversation that you wish you hadn't started? One of my colleagues started dating a guy who ...

When he arrived in the office the other day, my boss greeted me warmly.  After exchanging pleasantries about our respective weekends, he tol...

I was slightly mortified last week to be referred to as someone's "work dad". We were chatting away over the desks about a m...

After a day spent with work visiting Worcester, Malvern and Evesham, I travelled home on the train from Bristol Parkway station.  After a ch...

I was doing a lunchtime pavilion event thing at work today. It’s one of those things where you offer a few free chocolates, pens and post-i...

I’ve taken a dislike to the man who has the locker next to mine in the changing rooms at work (this is, by the way, the celebrity section of...

My friend Tony is something of a photography buff, and he took many fantastic photos documenting our time in Scarborough (his wife is in the...

Maybe it’s because I’m not a parent, maybe it’s because I’m a miserable bastard…. But I find that the noise of a crying baby cuts right t...

Today, someone in all seriousness explained to me why the project to merge two teams together was called “Project Windsor”. Apparently it’s...

We started working on a Phantom of the Opera medley at choir last night. The first two sections we covered were “Music of the Night” and “T...

My team does a quiz every Friday afternoon. The questions are always the same, but we draw a different letter from the alphabet each week a...