If it's Sunday it must be Milton Keynes
So after the bright lights of Reading two weeks ago, I'm off on another week-long training jolly next week, this time to SimCity Milton Keynes.
It's weird, I've not been on a training course in years, but just recently I seem to be doing nothing but. This is partly due to a new Axis of Evil that the NHS has formed with Microsoft. The deal they've made means that we get lots of "free" training in Microsoft apps. In the Milton Keynes training camps we're taught to use weapons of MS distruction and indoctrinated to hate Linux users.
I'm not complaining though! Free training and a lavish expenses budget for the week.
Well, I say lavish.
The NHS guidelines for overnight accomodation expenses were written a couple of decades ago and have steadfastly ignored any subsequent inflation. So much so that these days they just about cover a largish-cardboard box under a flyover.
I was ringing around motels in the Milton Keynes area, trying to find anywhere that wouldn't require me to fork out my own cash to make up the difference, when I suddenly remembered: I'd stayed in a cheap hotel near Milton Keynes loads of times!
I emailed my training colleague to let him know I'd found a place, sub £50 a night, convenient for the training centre.
I waited until he'd booked it before I told him the "bad" news.
Yep, it's the Campanile, scene of many an Angelic Christmas bash, and a few hundred yards away from the biggest LGBT club in Middle England, "Pink Punters". :-)
I've packed Becky, I've yet to decide whether she'll make an outing, but it seems a shame not to. My work colleague knows about Becky, so it won't be a total surprise!
If anyone fancies joining me let me know, but be warned I might be joined by a slightly non-plussed workmate.
It's weird, I've not been on a training course in years, but just recently I seem to be doing nothing but. This is partly due to a new Axis of Evil that the NHS has formed with Microsoft. The deal they've made means that we get lots of "free" training in Microsoft apps. In the Milton Keynes training camps we're taught to use weapons of MS distruction and indoctrinated to hate Linux users.
I'm not complaining though! Free training and a lavish expenses budget for the week.
Well, I say lavish.
The NHS guidelines for overnight accomodation expenses were written a couple of decades ago and have steadfastly ignored any subsequent inflation. So much so that these days they just about cover a largish-cardboard box under a flyover.
I was ringing around motels in the Milton Keynes area, trying to find anywhere that wouldn't require me to fork out my own cash to make up the difference, when I suddenly remembered: I'd stayed in a cheap hotel near Milton Keynes loads of times!
I emailed my training colleague to let him know I'd found a place, sub £50 a night, convenient for the training centre.
I waited until he'd booked it before I told him the "bad" news.
Yep, it's the Campanile, scene of many an Angelic Christmas bash, and a few hundred yards away from the biggest LGBT club in Middle England, "Pink Punters". :-)
I've packed Becky, I've yet to decide whether she'll make an outing, but it seems a shame not to. My work colleague knows about Becky, so it won't be a total surprise!
If anyone fancies joining me let me know, but be warned I might be joined by a slightly non-plussed workmate.
I still have nightmares about the tomato & gravy incident!!!
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