At 9.00am everyday at the AWE a man would announce through the P.A system the time, the day and the date before testing the nuclear air raid siren which would send a chill through my body even though it was just a dummy run and it happened every morning. This announcement also signalled when Anne would ask for any office joviality to end and for working in silence to begin. Of course any real work I had to do ...
I arrived on my first day at Aldermaston (or "behind the wire" as it was affectionately known) full of trepidation. I had to go through my security procedures at the main gate, then I was handed a plastic pass on a chain which I was to show to heavily armed policemen on arrival and departure. I was informed by Russell my immediate boss that he had found me the right mix of people to work with in A6 rather than the old fuddy duddies in F6.1, ...
My recent, and thankfully successful quest for part-time work to prop up my ailing business forced me to do something I hadn't done since 1994. Write a CV. Bloody hell it was difficult remembering dates and job titles, but I got there in the end. After leaving school in 1984 fully equipped with a bleak looking list of qualifications and an assessment from a careers adviser that suggested the Army, Barclays bank or an apprenticeship at ...
I have bought a new laptop this week from Dell (not the one from Only Fools and Horses). Ooh it's lovely, it's called a Vostro 1015 all sleek and black and with lots of new gadgets such as Windows 7 plus an Intel Celeron inside, whatever that means. It is also Energy efficient with a 15.6" display, flexible connectivity, excellent battery life (how long is excellent?) integrated graphics and a 5-in-1 Media card reader. I have also had ...
Because this week is the most depressing week of the year according to fuck knows who, I decided that I would spend a bit of time on the Internet looking at potential holidays with my two lads this summer as a way of cheering me up. I didn't actually need cheering up to be honest, but I felt a bit left out that everyone else was supposed to be so miserable, so I put on my "The Queen is Dead" CD by The Smiths and I looked out of the window ...