Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Last Saturday morning I hauled myself out of bed (back home in Doncaster) to attend some extra volunteer training with Natural England. My training covered the use of what we affectionately call 'The Chipper'(see below). This excellent piece of machinery is used to shred felled trees into small wood chips. ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Wake up England
Three thousand nurses are leaving the NHS each year and emigrating to Australia. I remember watching the first few Prime Minister's Question Times (reduced from two to one session by the victorious, incoming labour government) as an undergrad student in 1997. As well as feeling sick at ...
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
I often read The Register and this story caught my eye about a gent who crashed a model aircraft he'd built. The whole project, that had cost him so much, ended up in a pile of rubble.
It is quite a few years since I built my last model aircraft. I ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
This blog has already examined the pursuit of personal goals and highlighted people who have varying levels of success in what they achieve. Every day the level of confidence we have in ourselves determines how far we go in achieving our potential. I think of my friend John who, being ...
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