Some life changes....

Not kept this up in the last year or so....decided that the value was in anonymity and not sure what I would write without the cloak allowing me to abuse all and sundry. But, actually, my life's gone through a few changes recently, so I thought I'd jot them down...

1) I changed jobs: After 10 years with KBR (Halliburton) I sensed a general staleness, mouldiness even, and sought a new challenge. So I now work for Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) and jolly pleased I am about it too. There's a sanity about Atkins which I think is mostly about an English Exec and a focus on profit through strategy. It's all rather refreshing, exciting, challenging etc etc. And obviously I now earn megabucks more....well, no actually, but that wasn't the point of moving on. My CV is much happier for it and so am I.

2) I had another daughter, Harriet. Hatty, Etty, Harry, whatever. Three weeks early, on the 25th June 2006. So early that we weren't particularly ready and Al had only just stopped working, pleased her no end. Hatty was induced, which was all rather odd - we turned up at the hospital with an appointment to have a baby. And 10 hours later, we had one.

All very civilised, Al was even kind enough to have an epidural so I could watch England-Ecuador. Still vaguely shell-shocked and struggling to come terms with having a family, rather than a daughter to be honest. Rather delighted though. Clearly my focus was on having a healthy child and I was going to be very happy regardless of whether it was a girl or a boy.

But, actually, if you'd told me I could have two children and offered me a choice... I'd have had two girls. Since that's what I've got, I'm a very happy chap.