7 sleeps to go

Ok, so the thing is that this time ( ok , USA 8.15 pm) next Thursday, we will be in Seattle----yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes.
Sorry but the excitement levels are growing.
So last time on here I was talking about the bar-b-q last sunday---it was great--cant remember the bunch of us out there for a long time--not really surprising with the crap weather we have in the UK.
Part of the afternoon was to watch Andy Murray winning Wimbledon, now there's a thing I never believed that I would see--he was pretty damn good though wasn't he.
So a pretty mental week--
Cambridge Monday morning at 0830, then drive to chippenham in the afternoon. Office all day Tuesday in chippenham and then drive to Manchester late afternoon. BTW, I met with our Mate Patrick in the evening for dinner at the Village hotel in bury--this is a bloke who is a senior lecturer in catering --cooked for the royals has our Patrick--so always worried that he wont like the food and might just tell them. It was great and it was fantastic to discus his recent trips to Greece with him.

Wednesday I was a judge in a competition our company in Bury had been running with local schools in the Manchester area and they had set a program of these 11 to 12 year olds doing a presentation of how they would improve health and safety in the factory. I really have to say that after the 4 shortlisted teams gave their 5 person team presentation to the 3 judges and a whole bunch of folk in the audience, with power points and posters, with new ideas, with such clarity and confidence, I am now optimistic about the future of this country.

Anyway, it was drive to chippenhan yesterday afternoon, from Manchester, and after in the office today from 0630 I left after 4pm and drove back to London--pretty awesome week--Weybridge office tomorrow so not too bad.

Got my new digital camera yesterday so it will be a crash course in what it can do but blimey--take a photo and it has Wifi so that I can send my photos straight to things like Facebook--mental.

So its all coming together now for the trip--weve got to go through all the paperwork at the weekend--does anyone else always feel that they have forgotten something---maybe we will but having just discussed the all day horse riding on the 1st of august in the rocky mountains anything else is kind of nonsense really.

So thstsd it for today but will be back on over the weekend--Stay Calm and be Carefree.