Conundrum
Thank you, Marc Fletcher, for this…
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May’s marathon
It was hot and humid. Very hot and humid. But I’m proud to say that I completed the course and am now sitting wearing my “official finisher’s tee shirt”. I had set myself a personal target of five hours and didn’t quite make it. I think my actual time will be more like five hours…
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Thoughts before setting off for Greenwich
I’m hoping that I’m going to post twice today… For the last nine months I’ve trained sensibly and pushed myself further than I’ve ever done before in terms of physical endurance. Today I will discover if I’m able to complete a Marathon. I look into the window of my mind Reflections of the fears I…
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Strictly Come Dancing
To Brockley today to speak at a lunchtime meeting of the Greenwich, Lewisham and Bexley Chamber of Commerce. Lovely people and loads of interest in the work of the Career Academy Foundation. But the meeting was more noteable for its location than my speech. It was held at the legendary Rivoli Ballroom. Stepping out of…
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Goodbye Sneeze
Today Sneeze died. She was one of my mum’s two terriers. She was a smashing little dog with bags of character. Even my father, a man who really didn’t like small dogs, grew to love her in the years before he died. One day, Sneeze went missing in the village. Dad, distraught, went out to…
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The last long run before Sunday week…
This morning I did my normal Sunday morning circuit three times and it took me four hours. I’ve just checked the mileage and this means that this morning I ran just over 22 miles. 5 training gels and two litres of water left me feeling exhausted and a bit dehydrated, but a trip to Sainsburys…
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Birthday greetings
Today is the UK Career Academy Foundation’s fifth birthday. The day started with a presentation to business representatives at Newham College with Stephen Timms MP (with a brilliant roleplay perfromed by Career Academy students) and ended with a piece of birthday cake at our staff meeting in Canary Wharf. And yesterday was our youngest member…
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India photos
One of our group, Andrew Linfoot from Australia, is managing a web archive of all the photos we’ve taken on the visit. Access this by visiting http://picasaweb.google.com/andrew.linfoot .
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Presenting our findings
We used the analogy of fireflies in the dark as the basis of our presentation, describing each of the community entrepreneurs that we met as a different firefly. Each member of the team presented and we used video footage as well as photographs to illustrate what we’d seen. We ended the presentation with a poem…
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A week of surprises
The week of travelling all over the north of India is now over and we’re now working on our fifteen minute presentation which we give either tomorrow or the day after to the Princess Royal and the rest of the conference. Our group has seen a lot. Reforestation of mining areas, the installation of electricity…