It really does not feel like the week before Christmas, not sure why but it could have something to do with Mel and I being too busy with other stuff to put up a tree and make the house feel festive this year. As we won't be spending Christmas at home it seemed a waste of time - time we did not really have with lots of work on. There are also tubes of filler and tins of paint dotted around the place ready and waiting to be used on the walls/ceiling/carpet! over the next few weeks.
This past weekend was nice, I spent all day Saturday preparing the spare room for painting. The hard work on the ceiling and walls is almost done, then for the easy job of slapping the paint on. I think we are going for a couple of shades of yellow but we've not found the right ones yet! Then I have to paint all the furniture cream, I've gone off pine and need to cover it up quick! Then we headed to Mels brother Jasons for roast lunch on Sunday which was nice.
This week is relatively quiet with only one Christmas party left, I am looking forward to some extra days off to get things done around the house next week though. New Year should be a big one with 30-40 of us going to The Foreign Office in Tunbridge Wells for a private party.
Have a great Christmas all and a Happy New Year! See you in 2008!
Tim
Monday, 17 December 2007
Friday, 7 December 2007
Slack posting... lots of work on!
It's been a while since my last post, with a busy few weeks gone by. Apologies to those (mostly abroad) who regularly visit for a catch up.
A few highlights for this week have been a trip to GBK for lunch, finally getting to see Transformers the movie (which I really enjoyed) and catching up with my cousin Naomi for lunch at a cool new Mexican place called Wahaca in Covent Garden.
The rest of my time has been spent either working at Yahoo!, working on my new touch rugby competition (in Brighton), working on business planning for tryasport.com (you see a pattern of working here) or going to the gym. But then it is winter and pretty wet and cold in London so time is best used indoors. Soon I will start working on the house too (which I have 3 days off between Christmas and New Year to do) so I can finally tidy up a few rooms that need some TLC.
My business partner and I think we will be ready very soon to gather some feedback from friends who are into sport on many ideas we've been developing for tryasport.com (which name may change due to recent changes in strategy). When we are, you will all be the first to know!
One thing I am very much looking forward to is the boxing match between Hatton and Mayweather. I am not usually into boxing at all but have got caught up in all the hype on this one and really hope little Hatton manages to hold his ground and knock Mayweather out! It's a 4am start to catch the fight Sunday morning though, ouch!
Thoughts go out to all those who've got Christmas shopping still to do, should have done it in Nov when the majority of people are still thinking about it!
Cheers
Tim
A few highlights for this week have been a trip to GBK for lunch, finally getting to see Transformers the movie (which I really enjoyed) and catching up with my cousin Naomi for lunch at a cool new Mexican place called Wahaca in Covent Garden.
The rest of my time has been spent either working at Yahoo!, working on my new touch rugby competition (in Brighton), working on business planning for tryasport.com (you see a pattern of working here) or going to the gym. But then it is winter and pretty wet and cold in London so time is best used indoors. Soon I will start working on the house too (which I have 3 days off between Christmas and New Year to do) so I can finally tidy up a few rooms that need some TLC.
My business partner and I think we will be ready very soon to gather some feedback from friends who are into sport on many ideas we've been developing for tryasport.com (which name may change due to recent changes in strategy). When we are, you will all be the first to know!
One thing I am very much looking forward to is the boxing match between Hatton and Mayweather. I am not usually into boxing at all but have got caught up in all the hype on this one and really hope little Hatton manages to hold his ground and knock Mayweather out! It's a 4am start to catch the fight Sunday morning though, ouch!
Thoughts go out to all those who've got Christmas shopping still to do, should have done it in Nov when the majority of people are still thinking about it!
Cheers
Tim
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Brain drained but I have the tickets
All I can say is, lucky it's the end of a pay week! My brain is drained and I feel unusually tired, but the weekend is here.
It was set for a busy one with plenty of work at Yahoo! as we launched the very cool Places feature and Paypal payment to Flickr.
I also started initial planning for a new touch rugby competition in another south-east England city with, in my opinion lots of potential. touchrugby.com (the franchiser of my company Tonbridge Royals) signed a deal with Premier Rugby last year who own and run the English Rugby Premiership, this opens up huge opportunities to work with the biggest clubs in England on endorsing touch rugby. As if one competition was not enough to take up my spare time!
We had another planning meeting for my business idea, and since that my brain has been working overtime on some exciting new ideas on the direction we may take. I think we are getting closer to pinning down the features of the website we would want to launch with, should we go ahead - but I know only too well that rushing into a business idea is not the way to go nor the way I want to do it.
To top all that off, I purchased tickets to Harlequins RFC playing Saracens on 22nd Dec at home, Linkin Park playing in February at the O2 and Foo Fighters playing in June at Wembley (my first visit) too. Wow, very excited about all 3 but especially the 2 music gigs, I've been waiting to see LP for a long time and was very lucky to get FF tickets which sold out fast!
Now it's the weekend, and it should be a relatively booze free and relaxing one which is nice I must say. I can't afford to drink now anyway!
Cheers
Tim
It was set for a busy one with plenty of work at Yahoo! as we launched the very cool Places feature and Paypal payment to Flickr.
I also started initial planning for a new touch rugby competition in another south-east England city with, in my opinion lots of potential. touchrugby.com (the franchiser of my company Tonbridge Royals) signed a deal with Premier Rugby last year who own and run the English Rugby Premiership, this opens up huge opportunities to work with the biggest clubs in England on endorsing touch rugby. As if one competition was not enough to take up my spare time!
We had another planning meeting for my business idea, and since that my brain has been working overtime on some exciting new ideas on the direction we may take. I think we are getting closer to pinning down the features of the website we would want to launch with, should we go ahead - but I know only too well that rushing into a business idea is not the way to go nor the way I want to do it.
To top all that off, I purchased tickets to Harlequins RFC playing Saracens on 22nd Dec at home, Linkin Park playing in February at the O2 and Foo Fighters playing in June at Wembley (my first visit) too. Wow, very excited about all 3 but especially the 2 music gigs, I've been waiting to see LP for a long time and was very lucky to get FF tickets which sold out fast!
Now it's the weekend, and it should be a relatively booze free and relaxing one which is nice I must say. I can't afford to drink now anyway!
Cheers
Tim
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Heineken Cup Rugby at Harlequins
Well another weekend has been and gone but it was a nice, fairly relaxing one. On Saturday I went to watch Harlequins v Cardiff at the Twickenham Stoop (the very same ground I took a touch rugby team to play at a competition on - very lucky to have played on such a great ground). The game itself was fairly error ridden but definitely worth the watch and of course the Guinness was not bad either! I went along with my good friend Ben, who like me prefers rugby to football by a long shot. I also discovered that chavs exist even in Richmond, having had the pleasure of hearing one bleating on the packed train carriage on the way back to central London after the game.
Sunday was chilly, but that did not stop Mel and I getting out on the mountain bikes to do the 8 mile Tonbridge - Penshurst ride. We made it round in good time and beat the rain which set in later in the afternoon. By that time we were well and truly in Compasses pub in Tunbridge Wells with a drink in hand! After a nice roast beef dinner, and a chat to my best man Tavis back in NZ another weekend was over and it was to head for bed - ready for another working week to begin!
Photos of the rugby match and cycle should be streaming randomly on the Flickr module to the right of this post or you can see them all on my Flickr site here.
I think this week is going to be a good one, just a feeling I have today!
Tim
Sunday was chilly, but that did not stop Mel and I getting out on the mountain bikes to do the 8 mile Tonbridge - Penshurst ride. We made it round in good time and beat the rain which set in later in the afternoon. By that time we were well and truly in Compasses pub in Tunbridge Wells with a drink in hand! After a nice roast beef dinner, and a chat to my best man Tavis back in NZ another weekend was over and it was to head for bed - ready for another working week to begin!
Photos of the rugby match and cycle should be streaming randomly on the Flickr module to the right of this post or you can see them all on my Flickr site here.
I think this week is going to be a good one, just a feeling I have today!
Tim
Monday, 12 November 2007
Monday moanday
Where did the weekend go. Although seemingly longer than the two previous weekends which involved late nights for 30th birthday parties this last weekend still dashed by! It was great to get out for some drinks with work mates on Friday night, not something we do often enough. Sticking to Guinness was a good bet and meant no headache in the morning.
Mel and I had lunch with good friends Sonja and Alan who are a couple of weeks away from their first babies due date. It was great to see them so close to a pretty big event in their lives!
We then headed for Mel's brothers place to visit him and his family. They were all good, his daughter growing up fast and almost walking - good luck when that happens JJ!
Sunday was nice, had a long chat to mum which included her explaining how someone managed to crash through her high wooden fence and plant their car into the corner of her bathroom! Then a quick game of touch rugby around midday and a stroll into Tunbridge Wells to pick up a DVD. We ended up getting 300 which I personally enjoyed a lot and have been wanting to see for a while. I might even buy it so I can watch it again! Mel's choice next time I guess, although she seemed to enjoy 300 as well.
Now another Monday is here, I hate them - really I do!
Tim
Mel and I had lunch with good friends Sonja and Alan who are a couple of weeks away from their first babies due date. It was great to see them so close to a pretty big event in their lives!
We then headed for Mel's brothers place to visit him and his family. They were all good, his daughter growing up fast and almost walking - good luck when that happens JJ!
Sunday was nice, had a long chat to mum which included her explaining how someone managed to crash through her high wooden fence and plant their car into the corner of her bathroom! Then a quick game of touch rugby around midday and a stroll into Tunbridge Wells to pick up a DVD. We ended up getting 300 which I personally enjoyed a lot and have been wanting to see for a while. I might even buy it so I can watch it again! Mel's choice next time I guess, although she seemed to enjoy 300 as well.
Now another Monday is here, I hate them - really I do!
Tim
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Bubble burst!
It's been another quick working week so far. Not a lot of interesting things have happened yet. Having spent most of my spare time over the past few weeks thinking about new business opportunities around Sport, I discovered a very good website which pretty much does exactly what I wanted to - bang goes the original idea thing. On a positive note, at least I know it's possible and that it's also probably worthwhile but is there room for one more! They only set up a year ago and could be bought (I mean caught!).
I will ponder this thought for a few days and make a decision if it's best to can this idea and move onto another or take them on with a bigger, better site that has more features to connect people with sport (the overall objective)...
Some great news from my mate Todd Buckland in NZ, he will be over for New Year and we should get to catch up which will be nice. Todd and I studied together, he was much more clever in class than me but helped me a lot - must have been those cheap haircuts I gave him at the time!
Tim
I will ponder this thought for a few days and make a decision if it's best to can this idea and move onto another or take them on with a bigger, better site that has more features to connect people with sport (the overall objective)...
Some great news from my mate Todd Buckland in NZ, he will be over for New Year and we should get to catch up which will be nice. Todd and I studied together, he was much more clever in class than me but helped me a lot - must have been those cheap haircuts I gave him at the time!
Tim
Monday, 5 November 2007
Hangover solved with GBK
It's been a 'quick' weekend, it always seems to be when you have a big night out on the Saturday. Yesterday I went to an event at Olympia for people interested in start ups, there was a wealth of information and a dragons den type stage where you had a chance to pitch your idea to a panel of successful business people and get their feedback on whether they thought the idea would work. My ideas are way to raw to try myself but it was fun watching others. Some interesting ideas, it seems there are a huge number of people out there wanting to start a business but perhaps don't have the knowledge or money to do so on their own.
Anyway I started on the Guinness at 4pm in a pub near Olympia station, reading a book (The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up 2008 by Sara Williams) that I had picked up from the start up event. I then continued on the Guinness in The Walkabout in Covent Garden to watch some of the Great Britain v NZ league test. After a few pints I finally made my way to Lucie's 30th birthday party near Mansion House station which was a great laugh involving countless more Guinness - you see the pattern here.
Today I am very hungover. I made it out of bed at 11am, only to eat some breakfast then head back to bed for a few hours. Very unlike me. Very glad the head has stopped pounding now.
The highlights of the day have to be meeting Blaine and Lisa's new daughter Lana (who was very cute) and having a GBK kiwiburger + lime shake for dinner (sorry for the comparison Blaine & Lisa).
Back to bed now having just watched Wild Hogs, which was surprisingly good and funny.
Tim
Anyway I started on the Guinness at 4pm in a pub near Olympia station, reading a book (The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up 2008 by Sara Williams) that I had picked up from the start up event. I then continued on the Guinness in The Walkabout in Covent Garden to watch some of the Great Britain v NZ league test. After a few pints I finally made my way to Lucie's 30th birthday party near Mansion House station which was a great laugh involving countless more Guinness - you see the pattern here.
Today I am very hungover. I made it out of bed at 11am, only to eat some breakfast then head back to bed for a few hours. Very unlike me. Very glad the head has stopped pounding now.
The highlights of the day have to be meeting Blaine and Lisa's new daughter Lana (who was very cute) and having a GBK kiwiburger + lime shake for dinner (sorry for the comparison Blaine & Lisa).
Back to bed now having just watched Wild Hogs, which was surprisingly good and funny.
Tim
Friday, 2 November 2007
Post # 1, what to say...
Welcome...
It seems hard to know what to write for post number one! As it states in my profile, I wanted to set up this blog to publish to my friends and family (esp back home in NZ) what I am up to. They will know that if I cannot call from one week to the next and continue to be slack on individual emails, they can always check out this blog for the latest. It also seemed the perfect way to keep a long term log of day-to-day life, which could be cool to reflect on and show others in the future.
Today has been an unusual day, I met with a couple of mates last night with a similar passion for sport and we discussed a business opportunity I (and it turns out they to) have been thinking about for a while. My brain is now working overtime to figure out if it will work or not and just how to go about starting it up.
That's all for now...
Tim
It seems hard to know what to write for post number one! As it states in my profile, I wanted to set up this blog to publish to my friends and family (esp back home in NZ) what I am up to. They will know that if I cannot call from one week to the next and continue to be slack on individual emails, they can always check out this blog for the latest. It also seemed the perfect way to keep a long term log of day-to-day life, which could be cool to reflect on and show others in the future.
Today has been an unusual day, I met with a couple of mates last night with a similar passion for sport and we discussed a business opportunity I (and it turns out they to) have been thinking about for a while. My brain is now working overtime to figure out if it will work or not and just how to go about starting it up.
That's all for now...
Tim
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