Wife’s Birthday So day five of isolation in our house is the wife’s birthday and she is absolutely delighted about having to be stuck at home! I spent the night before blowing up balloons and sticking up banners until 2am to try and make it a little bit more special. She’s had loads of card’s […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 4
Working from Home Worked from home again today and had quite a busy productive day. After rejoining my Nutanix engineering at 9am we finally managed to sort out all the problems there and now everything is nicely up and running again. Had four Microsoft Teams video meetings today about a variety of subjects again. I’ve […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 3
Working from Home Started the day with a Microsoft Teams meeting with the rest of the IT team and discussed things that needed to be carried out for the day, including some certificates that needed renewing. I then found a problem with our Nutanix hyperconvergence system which I then spent the next 6 hours online […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 2
Working from Home First day of working from home and the day consisted of three Microsoft Teams meetings, a new server build, a few day to day support incidents and a list made for things to get sorted out tomorrow! Fairly quiet day overall. Boris’s Lockdown It was announced that Boris Johnson would address the […]
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CoronaVirus Isolation Day 1
The whole world is now aware of the CoronaVirus and everyone is trying to keep themselves and their families and friends safe. Thousands of people have already died from the effects of CoronaVirus around the world and the epicenter is now in Europe with the likes of Italy and Spain worst affected and the UK […]
Nissan Qashqai Dangerous Driving – Dashcam
Another trip home from work in my invisibility cloak it seems. After picking up the wife I started on my way home. However, after driving just a few 100 yards to the junction of the main road, a Nissan Qashqai is indicating left – I’m assuming to go left onto the road I have just […]
Why Migraines are not “Just a Headache”
Introduction I saw this image on Pinterest and it made a lot of sense to me, so thought I’d steal it, then it inspired me to write about my own experiences with migraines… My Migraine History I’ve suffered from migraines for about 5 years. For three years they were absolutely horrific. I suffered from cluster […]
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Xbox One Live Stream
Something a little different, but I have set up a Mixer account which means that I can now live stream my Xbox One play. This means that you can watch what I’m playing on my Xbox One – exciting stuff I know. Most of the time it will actually be my four-year-old razzing around on […]
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The Day before Christmas Eve
With Christmas almost upon us, we had to venture outside to carry out the last of the shopping and a few other little jobs that needed sorting. We had to go to the tip to get rid of the masses of Amazon boxes and packaging, go to Tesco to get some last-minute bits, get the […]
Winter Funland – Event City Manchester
Last year, we and some friends took our kids to Winter Funland at Event City in Manchester. We had a really good time and there were loads to do and we queued up and got to see Santa and we left pretty happily. So we thought we would go again this year. The wife booked […]
Legoland Review – Manchester Trafford Centre
With it being the last day of half term, we decided to take our four year old to Legoland at Manchester Trafford Centre. He loves playing with Lego and was looking forward to going. Pre-Booked Tickets Myth We had pre-booked tickets as to try and avoid the queues, but when we got there there was […]
Port New York Webcam
We are planning on heading over the pond to New York in August next year for a two week break. I myself have never been to New York but my wife was raised there and still has family there. So we are looking at going over to see the family and also to do the […]
Dashcam – Fiat 500L Drifting
We had been down to Redditch to visit family and sort out some stuff for over the Christmas period and headed back home to Manchester on Sunday evening. After spending a boring two hours driving up the M6 with it’s never ending roadworks, we got off at junction 21 and headed towards the A57 towards […]
Dashcam – Ford Focus Bad Driving
Just as I decide to bring this blog back, an older gentleman decided to pull off some terrible driving on the way home from work tonight. He was drifting in and out of lanes for a while and at one point was right in the middle of both lanes. Then carried out this maneuver after […]