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Thoughts on trees #10 A tree nearly killed me once; we were canoeing down a river in Wales and went one by one through some white water. Around the corner a tree had fallen down across the river and one by one we got stuck under it until the next person in line knocked us free. I was last in line and there was no-one to…

Thoughts on trees #9 We recently took my daughter to a local park where fallen trees have been converted to tree stump stools or tree trunk benches and she was amazed by this and went home to redesign her bedroom to have a fairy tree trunk bed

Thoughts on trees #8 Having a daughter, and recently moving to a larger flat, we are now going to have to have the discussion about whether or not to have a real tree for Christmas

Thoughts on trees #7 Now I have a child of my own I have had to get over the constant desire to stand by the tree that she is climbing ready to catch her if she falls

Thoughts on trees #6 We had to stop climbing the cherry tree when a particularly heavy cousin came to visit and on his attempt to climb the tree, the branch that we as children could reach broke off the tree and both branch and cousin left dents in the grass.

Thoughts on trees #5 After moving to England there was a cherry tree in the garden that we used to climb as children

Thoughts on trees #4 We moved from New Zealand to the UK when I was about 7, it took me years before I understood why there were no Pohutukawas flowering at Christmas

Thoughts on trees #3 On my travels I have seen many different types of trees, one of my favourites was Mangroves and I had the opportunity in New Zealand to walk along a raised walkway between the trees then canoe back through the waterways surrounding them

Thoughts on trees #2 I now have a Lego Bonsai tree to replace ones that didn't survive

Thoughts on trees #1 Some years ago I had Bonsai trees which I grew successfully for years, but then I had a month long work trip and asked a friend to look after them at his house, when I cam back they were covered in Aphids and only lasted another 6 months.

The cross-functional / cross-department teams I work with often have multiple Sprint Goals depending on which team members are focussing on data, analytics, devops, reporting, website, communications etc. and rather than trying to list those in the static Sprint Goal field provided by Jira I've created 2 custom field types…

I've got way to many silly / crazy stunts to list them all, so here's one I hadn't thought of for a while: Back in my university days I wanted be an engineer so I could join the Royal Engineers, basically so I could blow things up! I achieved the blowing things up ambition happily cutting down telegraph poles and crushing…

My favourite hat is my baseball cap from Prostate Cancer UK's March for Men: Followed by my other Prostate Cancer UK baseball cap:

Having done a number of Project Management courses in the past (PMP, Prince2, Agile, etc.) I'm looking this year at honing my knowledge into specific areas; Evidence Based Management and Value Stream Management to help with heading in a more strategic direction at the moment.

When I was about 10 or 11 we used to go to a hot springs water park near Auckland, which was basically just a lot of small swimming pools fed by natural hot springs that started off at the bottom of the water park as a cool paddling pool for babies / toddlers and got progressively warmer in each pool as you went up the…

I use different emojis depending on the context, but 3 I use often are: 👀 - I've read your message / comment; usually used for comments in Jira to show that I've seen it - I prefer this over 👍 as it doesn't imply that I agree with you, this is especially important as a recent legal case in Canada ruled that acknowledging a…

@Ronald Bergmann Sycamore Gap used to look like this: You could get incredible views of it depending on the Northern Lights etc. But following an act of vandalism (for which two men are going on trial in December this year), this happened:

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As Shawn Doyle says, we're like a rugby team; we're all aiming in the same direction but with the external partner's team trying to knock us over, and some are running faster than others while the rest keep giving each other big hugs.

@Monique vdB do you have an update on how we're doing so far?

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@Barbara Szczesniak next time someone asks you if we do fireworks in the UK, you can tell them that we do have fireworks on 'Treason Day', but we do it on November 5th: Remember, remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.

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That reminds me, it's my sister's birthday! When she was born the US embassy sent her a birthday card.

I guess there must be a 'like limit' in place as I keep hitting it!

I used to work for a company where we were the global experts in the field (as well as being the only ones with a transportable test set up), so I spent many weeks doing certification tests of aircraft in places like Brazil, the US, Canada, China and Japan. Unfortunately our workations tended to be 10 hours a day with 1-2…

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