Posts Tagged "Caption"

What are we doing with our lives?

Posted by Ian and Steve on Nov 23, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

Submitted by guest blogger Keith Beechener.

A few days ago I was doing my daily browse through all the usual online suspects (email, social networking, forums) and came across this disturbing statistic.  Facebook’s active users spend 700 billion minutes per month on the site. If we look at Facebook’s own statistics we can work out that every one of their 800 million users spends an average of

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Learning at Work Day 2011

Posted by Ian and Steve on May 20, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

Yesterday we supported the UK’s Learning at Work Day by offering 4 of our Useful Guides for free. In fact they are still free until the end of May. Already we have had over 1,000 downloads.
If you would like to see what our Useful Guides are like go to www.pansophix.com/lawd-2011.html and you’ll be able to download A Useful Guide to Managing Meetings, A Useful Guide to Managing Teams, A Useful Guide to Minute Taking and A Useful Guide to Networking.
We are also offering 50% discount on any of our other Useful Guides. Just go to www.pansophix.co.uk and enter the Discount Code LAWD2011 at the checkout.
The offer expires at midnight on 31 May.

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Teamwork on a tandem …

Posted by Ian and Steve on Apr 22, 2011 in Uncategorised | 0 comments

The last time we were out on our tandem I started to realise that Anne and I were developing as a team. We bought the tandem before Christmas, having hired it on 3 separate occasions from the company that subsequently sold it to us when they closed down their cycle hire business.

Our first trip was rather ragged. I was telling Anne that we were stopping, that we were going to free wheel, that I was about to change gear, etc etc. We had no sense of what the other was doing.

If you haven’t ridden a tandem you may not realise that the front and rear pedals are linked together. You can only pedal at the same speed as your co-rider. By definition you are synchronised. An observer sees perfect team work!

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Plan B! What Plan B?

Posted by Ian and Steve on Apr 20, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

On Sunday we went out on our tandem. It was a gorgeous day and the plan was simple. Cycle to the marina, enjoy a picnic lunch and cycle home via a different route.

I packed the panniers. Lunch, hot and cold drinks, fleeces, in case it was cold by the river, tools in case we needed to adjust something on the bike, puncture outfit and tyre levers in case … You get the idea – we were fully prepared.

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A Tale of Two Daves … Dave II

Posted by Ian and Steve on Mar 1, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

We always look forward to our recording sessions. We are fortunate to know a recording engineer called Dave who knows his stuff but also plays the drums (and we are short of a drummer) and he has had significant playing experience.

As a relative novice band it was invaluable for us to have someone like Dave to act as coach, mentor and advisor.

Unfortunately this week our vocalist, Janet, had suffered a complete loss of voice on the Friday, the day before our session.

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