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Thursday, 6th January 2011
Posted by Judith on 06 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Work
There was a lot of weather kicking about in Europe today. Here is was pretty pedestrian – grey and uninspiring, but no rain or wind. We worked and things kept going wrong. Sometimes you just have one of those days…
Wednesday, 22nd December 2010
Posted by Judith on 23 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Another rainy day, although we did get a phone call from Johnny, who thought there might be a flyable window at Santa Brigida during the middle of the day. Even if it had been, we didn’t want to get our gliders wet and muddy, so declined.
Geoff got on with some proper work, but I was feeling a bit unmotivated, so messed about doing jobs and then settled down to some proper displacement activity: looking at some stats for the blog. It made interesting viewing, although I have yet to do a proper in-depth analysis (not that I ever will… Geoff has shamed me into not wasting good working days from now on.)
Anyway, from a quick glance, we’ve had more than 30,000 podcast and web cast downloads from the site and interestingly, the largest number of downloads for the winter flying podcast are in the months of June/July/August; and the largest for flying in alpine conditions in December/January/February. Go figure.
Tuesday, 21st December 2010
Posted by Judith on 21 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Work
After weeks of sunny weather we got some precipitation today. So we worked and then I went out to lunch with the family. Japanese. Yummy.
Tuesday, 14th December 2010
Posted by Geoff on 15 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Geoff writes: it was almost certainly flyable at Santa Brigida today (the very strong winds shown on the left are Tramuntana, and Santa Brigida works well in that), but in the end we decided not to bother, and stayed in to do some work, mostly on the never ending accounts (which, actually, are nearing the end). In the evening, Judith went to her parents to make Christmas biscuits, which turned out to be rock hard, and probably inedible. Still, it was the journey, rather than the arrival, which was important…
Monday, 6th December 2010
Posted by Judith on 07 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Work
We arrived back at home way after midnight, after my lovely dad waited for our delayed flight and picked us up from the airport.
This morning we found out that our boiler has packed up, despite having it fixed a few weeks ago, so we have no heating or hot water. It’s a national holiday today and Wednesday, with a bridging holiday tomorrow. With everything shut, there’s no chance of getting it fixed any time soon. If we are stuck without water until Thursday, then it will be a trip up to my parent’s house for a shower.
The lack of heating isn’t a problem. We’ve had 18°C temperatures during the day and the snow is melting in the ski resorts with the temperatures in the Pyrenees well above freezing. The snow line was above 2700m today, so it was raining even at the very top of Masella. There were 37km of piste open, but what it will be like when we actually get to go skiing after the public holiday, I don’t know.
We have a mountain of work to catch up on, including our annual company accounts, so we have a week of stress and potential acrimony ahead. Ho hum.
Tuesday 23rd – Friday 26th November 2010
Posted by Judith on 26 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Work
What we missed…
Every day during the conference has had fluffy little cumulus outside the window. Predictably, the weather has been epic. I have left the house a total of three times in the last 5 days… once to get some bread, once to go to the municipal bins, and we went out for some food last night. I have cabin fever and need to go out for some fresh air. Only 6 hours to go…
Monday, 22nd November 2010
Posted by Geoff on 22 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Geoff writes: the final day of the pre-conference week, with the conference opening in full tomorrow. Lots of live events today, plenty more people logging in, lots of minor crises… a typical day when we are running a conference. Only four more days to go. But they are going to be incredibly busy. We’ve stocked up on the alcohol.