bikes and things

After Vaughan whipped me on our ride today I got home and made a superb plum crumble with Emma. Fantastic with custard and some cream. Thanks for the plums Mum.

After six days of pretty much non stop rain Emma and I decided that camping in Cornwall should be cut short. Drove back to Bath to dry out our stuff and relax in the garden before driving back to London later today.

Hopefully get a ride in instead this weekend too.

A few more here and Emma’s photos.

Went to Critical Mass last night with Emma, Alex and Luis from work.

Was a bit too slow and the route wasn’t great to start. Got a lot better when it hit Oxford Circus.

The full set of photos here.

Then went for a ride this morning with Vaughan. Bit of a delay starting as Vaughan managed to lock his keys in the boot of the car. Turns out the car is well armoured to stop people picking the locks, including the breakdown man. Tried to get his Direct Line breakdown to cover him but he didn’t have home start. He couldn’t add it to the policy either as his wallet was in the car! Oops.

Finally headed out to Surrey Hills for an hour or so which was better than nothing. Played around with Vaughan’s new helmet cam thing. The results of which can be seen here – roughly cut together in iMovie ’08. We mounted the camera on the top of the forks to get a bit lower to the action. Might be worth putting it on the headtube next time as whenever the forks turn you don’t see the trail.

Off to Critical Mass tonight. Will upload some photos later.

Somehow this firm of stupid recruitment consultants managed to get hold of my details. After a few phone calls asking if I wanted a job I asked to be removed from their contact database. Still more emails.. Then I asked again and got a very polite reply from a lady who had originally called me, which I thought would be the end of it… Unfortunately not. More emails from them. It would be ok if the emails were a little more carefully phrased or even a little creative, but the tripe they come out with is utter rubbish! 

4th time lucky being removed from their database. What a bunch of chancers.

Dear All

I think we are all feeling the way the market is at the moment – However we still have jobs on Health Care, Education, Rail and today I picked up a job on Aviation – so in short Public Funded projects.

If you are interested in Healthcare, Education, Rail or Aviation projects, then please get in touch, as clients / companies are letting people go what seems to be at a very rapid pace within Housing, residential, mixed use and retail sectors.

I dont believe we need to panic – but if you are feeling the heat and want to secure something else then send me an upto date cv with samples – but you must remember it will be put forward for the above projects.  Obviously if you have relevant sector experience then it would be easier…. 

I hope to hear from you all

Kind regards

Alex Breton Consultants 

Anyway, I’m very happy in my current job! I wonder if their clients know how much they pester people?

Update: So I poked around their website a bit and they even have a recommend a friend section! Woo. Sounds like they’re desperate for work. 

Not sure if this was the kind of service they were suggesting when they wrote this? ..prides our self in offering a very different approach to the common problems faced within the industry

For info. If you want to get a job in architecture through a recruitment consultants – use RIBA Appointments!

Testing the new wordpress app.

iPhone arrived on Sat much to my excitement. Spent a while setting it up and finding the apps I wanted from the app store. Pretty impressed so far although it’s taken a while to get used to the keyboard – the virtual one that is. By the sounds of it I was very lucky to get one and such a painless experience setting it up. Posted from the iPhone of course.

Spent a weekend riding around London with Emma trying to get her comfortable with riding to work. Followed the 22 cycle route to London Bridge from Peckahm.

Glad she likes riding her new bike so much. Three cheers for the cycle to work scheme.

My £500 car has done me well since I got her 3 years ago after a crash. So I gave her a hoover and took some pictures. Just for a laugh like. Here’s to another 3 years.