Yes, yes, I know it has been a while, some of us are not as prolific at posting as, lets say Dan of 0ddness. Who hasn't given me a hard time over not posting at all (well OK so maybe he has). Anyhow, I have a few minutes today to sit down and compose a short post, so here it is.
In the last few weeks (as I may have mentioned previously) I have been on a job in London. The job like most do have over run and this means I will be here another 2-3 weeks. Not a problem, you see I have enjoyed this job. The one part I have not enjoyed and certainly wont miss is the commute on the trains.
For those that do it for years, day in and day out, well done. You have my respect. I certainly will not be doing it for any longer than is necessary. I have been pushed, prodded, stepped on, coughed over and generally had to pack my not to small frame into a space most family pets would consider small. They have laws about the amount of sheep/cows you can fit into a lorry, but none about how many people you can physically squeeze into a metal cylinder under the streets of London. Somehow that still seems wrong to me.
So I have been using the train, not just the tube but the C2C to Fenchurch street as well. Which is a nicer experience and every now and then you get a seat as well. It was on this train that I noticed people sit in the same seats on the same trains every day. For some reason I found this quite comical, even though I now have 'my' seat on the train, at first I started taking other peoples. I would deliberately sit in a seat I knew a 'regular' would normally sit in. This, although I found it funny, caused distress to more than 1 person. You would get sarky comments, huffs and puffs, eye rolling at other passengers, and on more than one occasion a "that's my seat" thrown in your direction. All of which I managed to ignore and pretend not to notice. The thing that I find interesting about it, and no doubt some university at some point will run a study costing a trillion pounds to discover exactly what it is I am about to tell you, is that the Women are more territorial than the blokes! Now don't get me wrong people blokes can be just as bad, but, nearly all the sarky comments and that's my seat comments have come from Females. The blokes tend to huff and walk off, now maybe that is because of my size and blokes do not want to 'start' and the women feel safer, or maybe its because the women feel protected by everyone else on the train, who no doubt will jump up to save them when this huge skin head, hoody wearing, red eyed monster (that's me...) attacks. I don't know. But, definitely on the train, the females have less fear and are more aggressive over their seats than the blokes!
Hmmmm, food for thought...
Hello, once again I have left a gap in my blogging life... apologies...
Work is beginning to look up with a couple of new contracts and new customers coming in and making enquiries, so look out for more info on our up and coming new builds and projects, its quite an exciting time.
The latest project I have been involved in, MyGift, is now live although we are still tinkering with it a little bit so please feel free to go and have a look and let us know (constructively) your points of view and criticisms.
We got involved with MyGift because we believed in there product, MyGift is unlike any other online fundraising and donation services with commercial interests or links, such as Just Giving, Be My Charity and Virgin Money Giving. MyGift offers free on site advertising to charities and there will be no set up or admin charges; meaning millions of pounds worth of charges to charities could be avoided.
