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Sep29

Farewell to Centrex

the Centrex Team (Left to right: Susie, Phil, Ellie,Sue, Emma,Erica,Rosie,Gavin,James,Martin and Kate)

Well – time to say farewell to the Centrex crew.

After spending 15 months working on the Centrex Website and Intranet, it’s time to move on.

It certainly was one of the most interesting and challenging projects I’ve worked on for a good many years and the opportunity to work at a site as spectaular as Bramshill doesn’t come along very often.

Here’s hoping the future is every bit as bright as the past and that you all find a suitable place inside the new and improved police authority/infrastructure that the Home office is busy cobbling together.

What else can I say except so long…and thanks for all the memories!

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Sep01

Bush Assassination? Not today…

Dubya.

Today’s supposed row over the TV drama “Death of a President” was a small but meaningful 40th birthday gift for me.

The drama on More4, uses actors and computer effects to portray “president” Bush being shot dead during an anti-war rally in Chicago in 2007.

I won’t go so far as to say I wish it had been an actual news story instead of a piece of fictionalised TV, but for the first time, I actually found myself regretting the fact that I was not a TV subscriber!

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Aug31

Saying goodbye to my 30′s

Chocolate Birthday Cake

Well…my 40th birthday is not too far away now.

I have to say I’m a little ambivalent about it all; On one hand I’m aware of passing another of life’s milestones and that naturally gives me pause for thought. On the other hand, the first 4 years of the new millennium were (for me at least) largely crap and I’m not sorry to see the back of them.

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Aug29

Rant: Royal Mail Once Again Fails

Mail Fail

Todays BBC news carried the (almost) unbelievable story of a Postman who has been suspended for advising his customers how to opt-out of the Royal Mail’s direct marketing.

Postman Roger Annies composed and circulated a leaflet about the Royal Mail’s opt-out clause for unsolicited mail during his rounds in Barry, south Wales.

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Aug17

Rant: Selfish greedy bastards!

Dubya. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

‘Dubya’ Bush and his 10-gallon hat brigade continue to avoid entering into serious discussions with any of the other G8 nations to agree to take action on climate change – despite the US being the single biggest source of carbon emissions in the world!

Instead, the perpetually smirking bastard believes that the issues of climate change and global warnings are best dealt with, by using what he calls “New Technologies”.

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Aug12

Rave: Free Fallin’

Over the last 10 years, we have talked repeatedly about doing a skydive. But somehow we never progressed further; there always seemed to be something happening that meant we never managed to get it booked.

We decided it was time to take the plunge!

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Jul27

Rave: Live Jive 2006

Gavin plays the Djembe

Just been along to Kev and Carrie’s annual BBQ. As always it was superb!

A full account is now on the Bandanna Club website, including a photo gallery.

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