Archive for November, 2006

Sleepless nights

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Upstairs neighbours’ sign. Removed from above their doorbell at 4 a.m. by very grumpy downstairs neighbours.

Spamalot

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

When Tom first went to New York, back in January last year, Spamalot was just preparing to start out on Broadway.
And Tom was gutted to find out that it wouldn’t start until after he left for home.
On a subsequent visit to New York when I joined him, we tried to see it and found a [...]

Indian driving

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

So It’s going on a week since I came back from Bangalore and I’m sure everyone is panting for news vis-a-vis what it was like . If I’m not too lazy, I’ll post something over the weekend, but here’s something to be going on with… the driving.

You may recall Julie’s comment on [...]

Fleeting visit to Frankfurt

Monday, November 6th, 2006

After long, long months of drawing out the project I started on back in January 2005, the start of the global roll-out suddenly came upon us in a rush.
And because the London office is in the middle of a big office move, we’d decided to start with the German offices… and also persuaded the project [...]

Boxes, boxes

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Where did it all start… ?
Well back in South Africa – July 2001 – we packed up our entire flat to go into storage while we were away “temporarily” in the UK.
From there, for a fairly economical £40 a month, Elliott (as in “The Amazing”) looked after our goods very well all the way to [...]