Back to conference day 2

I can't say I'm delirious about it, but I have to say a Friday could be worse!

Saying that I suspect there might be some clock watching!

Good grief

It is soooo cold in this room!!!

BCBS239 Conference

This will come as no surprise...it's a real sausage fest!

Will be checking on this

Hopefully a bit more again!

Today's giveaway at London Waterloo

I'm on 35th Floor

In an office in New York City! Bloody crazy hell fire!!!

Awesome name

A scuba watch...not suitable for scuba diving!
Fantastic!

Beautiful sunset arriving at Gatwick coming back from Rome!

No more obnoxious noise!

Than an Italian ambulance/police car/fire engine siren!

Such a wail!

Sweet moment in Vatican City!

Ruined!

By the rain that has just kicked off!

Boo!!!

Platform 2

Not often that two days in a row you head into London from Platform 2!

Appreciate yesterday was a Sunday and today is very early, but still!

Back at it...

After a long weekend in Scotland! Will miss this lot!

Excited today

Nou Camp beckons!

Stunning panorama of Barcelona!

It's a proper quaint wee place too!

A Pepita!

Incredibly good food at La Pepita restaurant!

The iconic view!

A cheeky selfie

With audio headsets!

Gaudi day today

First up Sagada Familia!

Energy needed, Churros and Chocolate

To the rescue! Yum!

Work Travels Again

Off we go again then on a Monday, week in Birmingham and Edinburgh with loads to do, not a lot of time to do it and lots of stress!

Happy days!

Tired today

But looking forward to the theatre tonight...wee bit of Ronan!

There's a good looking lad!

Great scenes

Daylight streaming in through the windows this morning!
It helps its a first clear morning in a while (forecast suggests that won't stay) and the days are definitely getting longer again now!

Birmingham bound once again

My view from the Virgin Pendilino train.
A cold day out but snow has melted today!

St. Andrews

Not the home of golf though!
#fitba #birminghamcityfc

Urrgh

Just hit a pure wall of tiredness!
Sick already of this new travelling thing if I'm honest! #bringbackmoscow

Big Forum - Management Meeting

A bit nervous today about my attendance at this at work today! Still will be a good opportunity and good insight into how things work!

London Transport

Is really a complete shambles at the moment!
The waterloo and city line is possibly as busy as it has ever been, close to dangerously so!

Got to stop listening to the wife

Have to get the earlier train now as Waterloo station is now so busy in the morning!

Minus 5

That's definitely a record for this winter!!!!

Brilliant

Waterloo and city line is screwed...broken train! Problematic ally im on said train underground and between stations!

And now...

It's going really, really slowly!

Joyous

Finally made it to Waterloo...but the train home is also f@cking packed!
#januaryblues

To reiterate

Pure horrible!

Thanks Waterloo and City

Great queues to welcome us back to the commuting lifestyle!

1st day back

And the horror show that is the first day of getting up after the festive period.

To be fair though, all in all it didn't go too badly, and not doing a bad job of living in the here and now!

Happy days, will see if I stay positive after getting home and having a run!

This could take some time, but we're on our way north!!!

Wow

Seriously cold, seriously frosty for first time in as long as I can remember!
Very festive looking too!

Quieter today

But still far busier than I was really expecting!

Let's see what tomorrow and more interestingly next week will bring!

Christmas holidays...or lack of

I'm really surprised today how much today feels like any other Monday, given we're only three sleeps from the big day (I think)

Train this morning, although quoted than normal was still busy (did get a seat though) and both the office and London itself are still buzzing with commuters and workers!

Will be interesting to see how it looks tomorrow and when we are done on Wednesday given everyone seems to be bring their kids to work with them!

Back to school

College today for more work on the ICA diploma in Financial Crime! Can't say I'm overly excited about it but compared to my youth, at least I'm not hungover!

Might grab the chance of its there to grab some delicious offerings from Borough Market! Yum!

Cold this morning

Jack Frost has been hanging out! First really deep frost possibly in close to two years in my eyes!

Window seat!

Can't say I think much of the view here!

Blimey

The day sure does go quick when you have loads to do!!!

Delays

Again, only a few minutes, but been going slowly since leaving Birmingham International and now stopped about halfway to Birmingham New Street.

Let's just hope it's not the same later tonight!

British people are pure hilarious

So there's a woman in a reserved seat on the train, and the two women who have booked them ask her to move. She does, but decides that these two women need to know her beef with Virgin Trains...'they wouldn't run this train without season ticket holders, and it's impossible for me to book seats, it's discriminatory!'

I can't help but feel her and travellers like her are in need of a freedom fighter, a Martin Luther King-styled leader, who will ensure that all travellers are treated equally no matter what the status of their train ticket!

Fantastic, hard hitting conversations on the 7.43 Euston to Birmingham! You can't beat it!

Early start

But hopefully the last trip to Britain's second city for a while!

Let's see how that works though!

Looking forward to my bed later! It being freezing cold doesn't help today at all!

Table for 1!

In Birmingham, but got a large Malbec so all is good with the world!