The workshop went well and it was great to meet colleagues who had come over from the US as well as the local IBM team. On the final night we took some pics outside Burj Kharifa, the world’s tallest building.
Then I flew from the land with no history to England. The old roses smelt overwhelmingly sweet and juicy after the desert of Dubai.
I headed into the South Bank office and finally met my colleague @DelphRB in person! Then started my two week holiday (with just the odd sneaky-work-email-peek).
One week of holiday has zoomed by:- I finished Seth Godin’s ‘Tribes’. Bloomin marvellous. Deserves a separate post but, well, I’m in holiday mode.
- Had a great discussion on the many places that could do with improved 'change management' including small businesses, a monastery(!), not for profits and of course large enterprises.
- Sent my Gran off to heaven with much sadness, but a lovely funeral and a huge pink sunset.
- Breakfasted with some hilarious people who were re-enacting 'Allo 'Allo! and couldn’t stop laughing for long enough for us to understand the explanations of their crazy antics.
- Reunited with all ‘the gals’ from school for the first time in four and a half years! Checked out the New Forest; pubs, beach, pubs, moor, ponies, pubs, cycle routes, pubs…
- Caught up with an old friend from primary school in Cheltenham and a newer (only 12 yrs?!) friend from Oxfordshire. Wrote poetry in my head inspired by the landscape on the scenic drive from one to the other and Classic FM. Glorious.
- Finally got around to meeting up with very good friends from Sydney who Ben & I have been meaning to catch up with for months – they happen to be in London. I took them to the top of Richmond Hill (incl. the true top: King Henry the Eighth’s mound, from which you can see St Pauls 10 miles in the distance).
- Spent some lovely time with my various family members.
Only a week of hols to go – off to Exmoor today to get my ‘proper job’ (that must be said with a Devon accent) fix of the English countryside (i.e. the green coloured stuff. The parts of England I’ve been to so far have been uncharacteristically dry and yellow).
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