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All Saints Christmas open day in the morning, lots of
flower arrangers making the church beautiful for Christmas,
managed to get some work done in spaces.
2022-12-16 Friday
- Call with Lars & Andras, mail chew, dug through the admin backlog. Sync with Simon. Men of Faith Christmas Dinner in the evening at a local pub.
2022-12-15 Thursday
- Up early, dropped H. to the station; catch-up with Miklos, caught the end of the COOL community call, lunch, catch up with Andras, review with Tor, mail & admin.
2022-12-14 Wednesday
- Up early, breakfast on the move, eventually found the concealed entrance to the venue. Worked on improving my German: sinn - sense, stiftung - foundation, sinnstifting - meaningfulness. Good meetings, delayed flight, out for dinner with some of the team, airport. Drove home around the under-construction M25 - bed at 3am.
2022-12-13 Tuesday
- Up early to get E. off to school, so J. could lie-in, review with Kendy, booked more travel to Univention Summit, FOSDEM, parking for Gatwick (trains on strike), and drove south and caught a plane.
2022-12-12 Monday
- Planning call, reviews with Mike, Pranam, TDF catch-up, sync with Michael, Christopher & Cor.
- Minuted All Saints PCC meeting until rather late.
2022-12-11 Sunday
- All Saints, roast lunch, rested variously, read the news, calculated cost per mile for the Leaf, and realized we need Economy 7 electricity and to charge at night to make it work well.
2022-12-10 Saturday
- Up earlyish, off to see B&A, had a lovely lunch. Picked up Nissan Leaf - our first battery car, interesting times. Home - played with the babes - N. and E. while H. and M. were out in Cambridge at a comedy act.
2022-12-09 Friday
- Mail chew, admin, reviews, catch up with Gokay, more annual reviews until late. H. baby-sat A. at our house, watched Home with her.
2022-12-08 Thursday
- Catch up with Miklos & Andras, worked on annual reviews variously.
2022-12-07 Wednesday
- Early call on bibliography design; chat with a friend ; weekly sales call, good to have Mazin around.
- Lunch, and into Cambridge, met up with Naomi & visited Claire College conference facilities, back for some marketing discussion, then a C'bra Christmas Party at The Boot in Histon. Missed the babes Ely Cathedral carol concert sadly.
2022-12-06 Tuesday
- Sync with Kendy, review with Pedro, catch-up with Simon N, Pod Point installed to charge electric car.
2022-12-05 Monday
- Planning calls, partner call, ISO catch-up, sync with Philippe. Travel to Susan Allison's licensing as a Vicar in Ipswich - a good evening out with J, nibbles, home on bus with the church.
2022-12-04 Sunday
- All Saints, shared Christmas'y lunch at church - fewer people there than last time oddly. Home.
- Watched The Big Short with M. (studying economics): "I want you to short everything that guy has touched".
- Out to see James, Kate & Penelope in the evening with H. while the babes were at StAG - really nice to see them.
2022-12-03 Saturday
- Helped get a birthday cream-tea lunch for Mary Rogers; for her rather advanced 90+ birthday, lovely to see her.
- Relaxed, watched Your Christmas or Mine with E. surprisingly fun.
2022-12-02 Friday
- Up early, off to swforum.eu event - Open Source Workshops for Computing and Sustainability; interesting. Met lots of old friends.
- A stand-up lunch, more sessions, Eurostar home - mercifully on-time. Met a group of interesting hacker-types on the train: fun.
2022-12-01 Thursday
- Early set of trains to Brussels, arrived rather later - dark. What is it about hotel lighting that is so dingy these days (?) perhaps economising on electricity or bulbs. Plugged away at E-mail and admin until late.
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