All a bit of a blur really. Had a hell of a sleepless night worrying about wind. Woke up thinking that the forecasts were all wrong and the wind speed would have dropped. But indeed the opposite had happened. Spoke to James and we arranged to go out together and he would come out with me if it was gusty. Drove to Staverton and boy was it windy. Went out with him for twenty minutes and did some pickup and set-down practice. Picked up my very nervous passengers and off we went towards the Severn bridge. Crossed it and found the magic field with, ‘Marry me?’ written in Hungarian. Passed over it twice and then flew back up the M5 to Staverton. A great success. Jamie got a new position at work, so we went to the Swan to celebrate. I had Pigeon. It was interesting.

Today was a bit lazy. Fixed the fence. Walked the dog. Watched the fireworks and had a bath. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind weekend to be honest.

Can’t complain about work, it’s been a strange week, but there was very good news at the end of it. Rain this morning, but sun at lunchtime. Walked Sasha. Walked to the gym, did Pump, walked home. Checked all the forecasts, I think tomorrows special flight will have to be cancelled due to the high winds. Shame, but it was the one thing that was beyond my control.

I wasn’t overly in the mood today, but to be honest, all was very quiet. Wether this is what its going to become or just the calm before a major shit storm I cannot tell. Nice day but bitterly cold. Walked Sasha. Went for a run. Then spent the evening in a back of a Ford Mondeo squeezed up next to two teachers. We all had phones, one of us had two phones. The driver was a lady called Mia, we had a lot of fun, didn’t get home until half midnight, very hungry.

Started a little late, not in the mood. Spent a long time talking to various people. Only work really done today was finding a bug in the two fish encryption and then deciding it’s far too bloody slow in debug. Walked Sasha early, weather nice but very chilly. Then waited in for a new telly to arrive (it’s a company TV, HDR/4K all that guff). Had a text two days ago to say it would arrive between 14:00 and 21:00, already a vast delivery window. I was a bit peed off as I couldn’t go to Pump, but thankfully Jamie turned up early so I shot off. Was expecting it to be there when I got back but no sign. Had a call at nine thirty to say they were twenty minutes away. Anyway, arrived now, I’ll look at it at the weekend.

Another very odd day at work. It’s all a bit eerie at the moment. I failed completely on the task I was doing. Must have spent the best part of seventy hours on it, most of it in my own time. Deleted the lot, moved on. Doing something very different now, fairly straightforward in comparison. Gone very cold today, complete contrast to yesterday. Walked Sasha. Went for a run this evening. Evolved a shit load of Pokemon and powered up a few more. Sent some time on the Jaguar website spec’ing up a car, just for fun.

I’m just not going into what happened in work today. I’ll just say it was quite a shock. I spent all day fighting matrices and miserably failing. It was a beautiful day though, oddly the same weather as halloween last yeah. It was a year ago today I was queuing outside the tattooists. Sasha had a nice long walk. Walked to the gym, did Combat, walked home. Did more work. One hell of a day to be honest.

Started this morning with Jamie making me breakfast. Took Sasha out for a spin and then drove to Staverton. Took Lisa, Andy and Jamie out in the R44. Flight was fine, pick up and set down was crap. Then went out and did my LPC (license proficiency check) in the R22, all good, passed, good for another year. Now making a very hot curry. A good day.

Jamie got his way, a deposit was made. We then got up and went to Tesco’s. I bought fishcakes, which are now in the oven. Had a quick lunch and then headed into ton solo. It’s still double candy, so made the most of it just walking around. Picked up a couple of pumpkin carving kits. Came home, made a coffee and made a start. I think I had mine finished (Pokeball) in about an hour and a half. Had a shower. Jamie is still doing his now. I was quite pleased with my first ever effort (I blame my mother). Lots of flying to do tomorrow.

Started this morning fine. Basically I’ve spent the best part of twelve hours trying to crack a temporal aliasing problem, and I still haven’t. Walked Sasha. Walked to the gym, did Pump, walked home. Can’t really say much more about the day other than it was very very frustrating.

So work was fun again. Basically spent the whole day tracing an orientation quaternion. Found it at eleven o’clock at night. Walked Sasha, weather was okay. Went for a run. Worked lots. Jamie said we should have sex, I said not to be silly it wasn’t even November yet. He said I should make an advanced deposit, which is one way of putting it. At least I didn’t say that I’d like to make an early withdrawal. Would be nice if he went a day without coughing and wheezing, it’s a tad off-putting.