Monthly Archives: June 2010

Spaces, originally uploaded by rutty.

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About 150 people left the company today. We suddenly have a surfeit of free parking spaces.

This makes me sad. In three months time I won’t be needing any of these spaces because it’ll be my turn.

This makes me a little bit more sad. Still. I still have my health, a beautiful wife and a gorgeous daughter

I love this girl, originally uploaded by rutty.

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Ruby loves bath time and it’s my favourite part of the day too. It’s my job to stick her in the bath and get the bathroom wet and we always have a lot of fun.

I could do with a waterproof iPhone. Do they make those things?

Horsey Horsey, originally uploaded by rutty.

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This is another of Ruby’s reclaimed toys from years past. You can’t buy these any more, although I suspect that this one was made rather than bought. There’s a wingnut holding the head on.

Poolside, originally uploaded by rutty.

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Our band played a concert for Help For Heroes tonight at Whatton House Gardens, a rather nice country house in North Leicestershire. The gardens were lovely and there was this nice little pool sat right in front of the building.

I’ve decided that I need to try not using so many effect apps for my photos so this has only been run through Perfectly Clear

Break out the vuvuzelas, originally uploaded by rutty.

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Today was the “Ericsson World Cup” where twenty teams from various UK Ericsson sites turn up at a St Albans sports ground to play five-a-side football.

Well, it’s better than working (in a soon-to-be closed site)

We had some excellent weather so I took the factor 40 along so that I didn’t catch on fire. I managed to blind a few people with my white legs, which was amusing.

What wasn’t amusing was my ability to injure myself. I was only ever going to be an emergency substitute (I’m crap at football and I have two bad knees) but I joined in the kickabout before the games started. I managed to go about fifteen minutes without hurting myself but I then made the stupid mistake of jumping to head the ball.

This was too much for my left knee which twisted (with a nice grinding noise) and crippled me. I’m not walking like I’ve done something in my pants.

To make things worse our team managed to go the whole group stage without scoring a goal. At least we drew one game and got some free food.

Empty, originally uploaded by rutty.

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Jo and Ruby are visiting friends in Oxfordshire today and tomorrow so I’ve been over to watch the football at some other friends’ house in Beeston. We had curry too.

This was our bed when I got home. I felt quite sad that Jo was not there. It doesn’t happen often (well, hardly at all) but I miss her enormously when she’s not there

Too nice to work, originally uploaded by rutty.

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We’re having some absolutely beautiful weather at the moment in the UK and it’s a real shame that we have to trudge all the way down to Coventry for work every day.

At least our offices are nice and we have access to some good outside areas.

I hope there’s some good weather once I’m redundant in October