Back to Work...

Posted by Julia Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:09:00 GMT

Well the holidays have been and gone. We managed to get up to Newcastle for a few days to see the family, and ended up staying longer than expected due to the rather inclement weather conditions.
New Year was spent with Rich and Rach in Newbury. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it until midnight, and was safely tucked up by 10:30pm. This baby growing is really tiring!

So, it was back to the grind stone today. Admittedly, I got the soft option, as I had an antenatal appointment and was working at home.
The exciting news is that I heard Baby Davey’s heartbeat!
The midwife found it straight away, and it seemed really strong - (like I’m the expert on Unborn babies heartbeats!). So have been sitting here with a very silly grin on my face. Now just got to wait until the 20 week scan which is at the end of the month - very exciting.

(Ross and I didn’t want to call the Baby “the Bump”, “It”, or “the Baby”, so we gave him a name - Baby Davey. And so it get’s even more confusing, we don’t know if he’s a boy or a girl, and in fact probably won’t find out until he makes his arrival into the world. So although we refer to him as a boy - the truth is we don’t know…)

I have to go back into the office tomorrow, and joy of joy, apparently there’s a problem with the air con unit in our server room, so all the servers are overheating so the IT team in their wisdom have decided to open all the doors and windows they possibly can. Ridiculous. My manager has instructed me to wrap up warm tomorrow, and sent a begging email to the MD to ask for some heaters.

So here’s to keeping warm!

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All Aboard!

Posted by Ross Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:30:00 GMT

Welcome to HMS President (1918)


I started my new job aboard and it Rocks - quite literally! In fact the first day was quite nasusous but now only the biggest waves get a mention. People must have grown a lot since the ship was built - I’ve nearly scalped myself twice now on the low ceilings - its the doors that brain you!

Unfortunately, the pictures of the office didnt come out very good - so I’ll have to get some more in the new year.

Work wise there is a todo list as long as the ship! The next few months look like they are going to be very, very busy! There was talk of a doing a work blog - so that may feed into here in the future.

For history buffs heres the background for HMS President 1918:


Britain’s secret weapon during the First World War was built in the dockyards of Devonport and other South West ports.
The Q-ships were Britain’s amazing answer to the German’s potent new weapon - the submarine or U-boat.
These fighting vessels were a great trick of disguise and cunning - they were actually ordinary ships built as decoys.
In the ports of the South West, ships of every shape and size were transformed - trawlers, steamers, schooners and cargo ships were all transformed secretly into men of war. Many Q ships were sunk without trace…
The ships were nicknamed Q-ships after the original ‘Q’ numbers given to the some of these special service decoy vessels.
The ships had guns under dummy lifeboats or hidden under fake funnels and awnings. Some of the ships used paint to hide their cache of weaponry. The idea was to lure the U-boat into attacking these decoy ships which would unleash their hidden weaponry.
The men on these mystery ships showed courage beyond the call of duty…

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