That was the week that was
Well, here we are, it's Friday and everything is quiet so I thought I'd add a few words during lunch.
I've had the pleasure of spending 2 days in our county town of Trowbridge this week. It's quite an interesting place to go, it's history dates back to well before the 12th century. In more recent times, it was a mill town, and quite a wealthy one if the sizes of some of the properties is anything to go by. However, the town centre is slightly blighted by the nearby sausage factory belonging to Pork Farms Bowyers. The locals have complained for years about the smell of cooking coming out of the factory chimneys and although the company have gone to great lengths to minimise the smell, on a warm day with the wind in the right direction it's nearly enough to put you off your BBQ.
Why was I in Trowbridge - well, I had a couple of client meetings to discuss their requirements for a web presence. Lucky old me!
As for the rest of the week - NASA finally managed to get it's latest mission to Mars off the launch pad. After a couple of cancellations, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was finally on its way, ETA March 2006. Perhaps it will help explain what happened to our ill-fated Beagle 2 mission in 2003.
In another good news story for space, the European heavy lift rocket, Ariane 5 successfully launched the heaviest ever communications satellite in to earth orbit. This 6.5 tonne beastie is destined to assist global corporate communications. Dunno why they need it - can't the bosses just shout a little louder?
Of course, it could not be all good - NASA have decided to ground the shuttle whilst they try to solve this issue of the main fuel tank shedding foam. The next launch (Atlantis) was scheduled for September but NASA now say that nothing will happen until November at the earliest - of well.
My heart goes out to those poor people at Heathrow airport. A wildcat strike by a catering company has brought the airport to its knees. Illegal secondary action by other Heathrow staff have meant that British Airways has had to cancel all of its flights and many other airlines are suffering knock on effects. I actually feel sorry for the passengers and BA, the actual action is through no fault of theirs and yet they have to suffer the brunt of militant union action. Hmmmm...one can almost hear the cry "Bring back Maggie Thatcher - this wouldn't have happened in her days".
And last, but by no means least, the England cricket team manage a great score against Australia (currently the world's best cricket team). Let's hope the bowlers can build on an impressive start by our batsmen and make this another memorable victory, taking the series score to 2-1 in our favour.
Well, that's it for now, I need to go and get some more work done, hope you all have a great weekend.
Cheerio
I've had the pleasure of spending 2 days in our county town of Trowbridge this week. It's quite an interesting place to go, it's history dates back to well before the 12th century. In more recent times, it was a mill town, and quite a wealthy one if the sizes of some of the properties is anything to go by. However, the town centre is slightly blighted by the nearby sausage factory belonging to Pork Farms Bowyers. The locals have complained for years about the smell of cooking coming out of the factory chimneys and although the company have gone to great lengths to minimise the smell, on a warm day with the wind in the right direction it's nearly enough to put you off your BBQ.
Why was I in Trowbridge - well, I had a couple of client meetings to discuss their requirements for a web presence. Lucky old me!
As for the rest of the week - NASA finally managed to get it's latest mission to Mars off the launch pad. After a couple of cancellations, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was finally on its way, ETA March 2006. Perhaps it will help explain what happened to our ill-fated Beagle 2 mission in 2003.
In another good news story for space, the European heavy lift rocket, Ariane 5 successfully launched the heaviest ever communications satellite in to earth orbit. This 6.5 tonne beastie is destined to assist global corporate communications. Dunno why they need it - can't the bosses just shout a little louder?
Of course, it could not be all good - NASA have decided to ground the shuttle whilst they try to solve this issue of the main fuel tank shedding foam. The next launch (Atlantis) was scheduled for September but NASA now say that nothing will happen until November at the earliest - of well.
My heart goes out to those poor people at Heathrow airport. A wildcat strike by a catering company has brought the airport to its knees. Illegal secondary action by other Heathrow staff have meant that British Airways has had to cancel all of its flights and many other airlines are suffering knock on effects. I actually feel sorry for the passengers and BA, the actual action is through no fault of theirs and yet they have to suffer the brunt of militant union action. Hmmmm...one can almost hear the cry "Bring back Maggie Thatcher - this wouldn't have happened in her days".
And last, but by no means least, the England cricket team manage a great score against Australia (currently the world's best cricket team). Let's hope the bowlers can build on an impressive start by our batsmen and make this another memorable victory, taking the series score to 2-1 in our favour.
Well, that's it for now, I need to go and get some more work done, hope you all have a great weekend.
Cheerio
posted by andy at
2:38 PM
2 Comments:
Hi there,
well that was really interesting as nobody seems to really know if these circles are actually terrestrial or not. as you are an internet and web site guru you never talk about chatting or chat rooms or where one could actually talk to you. see the thing is, one writes a comment but it stays a comment and you don't seem to refer to them at all in your as we would call it, diary.
Although everything is very interesting you seem to be very interesting yourself as well and it might be a challenge chatting to you or reading your comment on a comment that one of the visitors have placed.
as we get around the world a lot travelling to various fashion fairs, we have chosen aol as a chat platform, but hey lets face it some of the rubbish people write is soooo very boring. So dear andy could you not write about chatting and which rooms to visit and so on. when talking to some many superficial people every day one wishes to 'talk' to someone with more intellect and brain sometimes. You might not want to share your internet name with us but you might want to give us an idea about where to go and even whom to talk to. well that is it from the a.p.fan group tonight we will be back and hopefully get to read more.......bye for now, hope your day is special
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz well at least you had a wedding anivesery to celebrate. How did that go and what did you surprise alison with.
seem that you have nothing to say to us at all. shame really but I think I'll give it a miss next time. not so good , mate
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