Quote of the day

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. Mary Renault

Interesting quote of the day

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A.A. Milne

Interesting Quote of the day

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water. Elspeth Huxley Her childhood on a coffee farm in colonial Kenya provided writer Elspeth Huxley (born July 23, 1907) with background for her memoir, The Flame Trees of Thika.

Friday thought for the day

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy. Émile Zola French writer Emile Zola (born April 2, 1840) was friends with artists like Cezanne and Manet, who both made him the subject of paintings, but when he wrote a novel about the artists and their bohemian lifestyle, The Masterpiece, Cezanne broke off their friendship.

Combining work and pleasure

I recently saw an update to LinkedIn for my old boss’s boss at HP, Francesco Serafini. It would appear he has ended up running a yachting company. Check out these beauties….. http://www.dominatoryachts.com/en/

Quote for the day

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett

Where has January 2014 gone?

Here I am sitting in the kitchen on Friday 31st January, realizing that the first month of the year has already passed. The month has seen: The New Year celebrations and back to the grind of work with a bang Flooding across the UK and the worst rain for a long time I had to […]

Obit for Steve

I was contacted by Kris Oldland from Field Service news for some words to ad to an article on Steve. These were the ones I wrote: There are few people that positive inspire you from the moment you meet them, Steve Downton was one of them. Having met Steve in the late 90’s when […]

Farewell to a friend

I heard via facebook yesterday that Steve Downton had passed away on the 19th January 2014 after a 10 year fight with cancer. I remember the first time I met Steve. It as just after the merger of HP & Compaq and my boss Dave Stubbs [ex-Digital] invited Steve into the Compaq/HP office in Reading. […]