Archive - April, 2009

Dementor, dementor…

April 28 0 Comments Category: General

Yes, I admit it, I’m a bit of a Harry Potter fan as a quick glance at my recently played tunes on Last.fm will demonstrate. So it made me laugh at work today when I mentioned (& Tweeted) …. that that I was feeling somewhat drained, and my colleague piped up that that he felt [...]

Kicker Practice at MK SNO!zone

April 27 0 Comments Category: All, Photos, Snowboarding, Sponsors

We headed up to MK SNO!zone last Friday to make use of my “sponsored rider” pass for the first time and I was pleased to find they had a nice kicker out. It was the perfect shape for practicing spins and working on my technique (i.e. grabbing the board rather than flayling wildly in the [...]

Exciting Times

April 27 0 Comments Category: General

Work’s pretty hectic at the moment, I’ve been working as a consultant for NHS Employers since November and over the last couple of months we’ve had a couple of pretty big milestones in our team.  Firstly the concept that we’ve been working on was signed off by the Directors and the Trustees, and secondly, we [...]

Welcome Sputnik….you rock!

April 27 0 Comments Category: Snowboarding, Sponsors

Just a quick post to say a huge thank you to Anna at Sputnik snowboard shop in Marlow for being my second sponsor. I regularly shop at Sputnik, in fact it’s where I buy most of my kit from so it’s great to be officially associated with them….All I need to do now is decide [...]

Release the Stress

April 27 0 Comments Category: General

It’s Monday and as usual I’m on the train to work ready for a pretty hectic week. Last week we published a Request For Information as part of the procurement process we’re going through to find a strategic partner as part of the project I’m working on. So in addition to sending out RFI packs [...]

Brits 2009 Slide Show

April 25 0 Comments Category: Competition, Photos, Snowboarding

Here’s a selection of the shots taken by Jools Smith out in Laax and the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships.  These are mostly snowboarders as the 2 competitions run in seperate parts of the mountain making it difficult to cover both well.