Blimey, I forget to write anything for a couple of weeks, and suddenly a quater of a year has passed! So, what's been happening?
Well, just before Christmas I spent a few days out in Copenhagen. The main reason was to deliver some training that I'd been working on for a client, but I thought since I'd never been I may as well take a few extra days to explore the place. Copenhagen is rated as one of the most
desirable cities to live in, so I was looking forward to it. However when we got there (My boss decided to join me on my adventures) it was cold, grey and *very* expensive. A small beer cost over £5, damnit! Being the tourists we were, we hunted out the 'Little Mermaid' which was a great dissapointment - too small, colourless and it's backdrop is an ugly container port. Ho hum. The highlight of the trip, however, was the visit to the Carlsberg brewery. It cost £4 to get in, and with that you got 2 free beers! We'd found somewhere cheap to drink, at last!!
Christmas was spent at home with my family. I was looking forward to a very relaxing break, which by and large it was, except I noticed that rather a large section of guttering had fallen down and needed repairing. So dutifully, I spent a couple of days in the freezing cold, sleet and rain abound, up a ladder doing DIY. On the plus side, I was very well repaid with food and drink!
It seems that people do actually look at my pics on flickr - an image I took of a glass of beer in a pub called Abbaye is now being used by a travel guide company on
their website!
So, into the new year and as one project finishes, so another one starts - this time with Formula 1. It's an interesting company that doesn't seem to run along the lines of most modern companies - in fact it's almost entirely subject to the whims of it's boss, Mr E. That said, he's obviously done a pretty good job as it's worth a small fortune.. as is he!
Anyway, it was a very short interrim project management role that seemed to go pretty well. Yesterday I met up with F1's head of Legal to talk through how the project was going and see how things were going, only for Bernie to walk in on the meeting. It was immediately obvious that he thought I was someone else, as after staring at me for a couple of seconds he told me how much smarter I was looking today! Once it was clarified that we were not who we thought we were, he then told me he didn't like my sort - IT Consultants, that is; He would much rather things were still done with a notepad and pencil.
Well, I guess you can get away with that when you are 77 and worth a few billion!
