Yesterday was the day of one of our aikido organisation's grading courses. What happens is everyone who wants to sit a grading gets together for a couple of hours of training, working solely on their grading syllabus before there is a chance to grade. These courses are every six weeks or so (though the next course is in September due to Doshu coming to the UK next month and a course in Luxemburg in July) and are generally held at a different dojo each time. This time it was the turn of a club near ...
So far this year we've had the coldest winter on record with the last of the snow only about 6 weeks ago in some places then heavy frost in parts of the country last week and the week before and now we have summer. Spring seems to have lasted all of 3 weeks. 20C here at 9am today and it must have been around 25C around lunchtime. Yesterday was the same but it didn't stop me from hitting the dojo for an hour of aikido. Car was an oven though! First week of work went fine with very ...
After nearly two years on the dole (Jobseekers Allowance) I have finally found employment. Working as an IT tech for a local furniture reuse company 25 hours a week means £145 a week in my pocket instead of the measly £50 you get on the dole. I'll also be helping to teach people who've never used a computer before to use them and building their confidence. Strangely, many years ago I did two weeks work experience in a similar role and thought it was boring. Now I'm doing it and getting paid for ...
Well folks, my first big task has been chosen and chosen well. It is a full rewrite and reformat of all the site FAQs and documentation for all of the new features of the new, improved Trackpads. By the end of it I hope that everyone will be able to comfortably make best use of the site. A brief list of the areas I'm aiming to cover: Reputation and Thanks Buddy and Ignore Lists Thread and Forum Subscriptions Private Messaging Posting Tbucks and Store "What Goes ...
Its always good to start a new blog with an introduction for those who don't know me so here goes. As you can guess from my username, my name is Anth. My parents insist on calling me "Anthony" but you know what parents are like for doing things like that. I'm 23 years old, from County Durham in the north east of England (yes, I'm a Limey but no, I'm not a Geordie - I'm a Pit Yacker) and currently unemployed with no military experience. If I have no military past, what brings ...
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