I'm home !

Well, after 6 years living and working in London, I've now returned home to the East Midlands. I can't tell you how good it is to be back in the countryside away from the pollution and filth that's always present on the streets of our capital. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy most of my time in London, mainly because of the great people I worked with down there, but it's no place to live.

Now I'm working at the University of Derby as an IT Researcher and I really believe it's the job I was born to do (cheesy I know !!!). I actually get paid to research new technologies and design solutions for people - something I've been doing for people for years as a sideline to my day to day work. I'm just finishing my first week here and it already feels like the best move I've ever made !

Probably the best thing about moving out of the capital though is the fact that I no longer have to take stinking, slow public transport to work. Being able to get into your car, turn the music up and put the windows down (when it's not raining of course !) is something I've missed for so long. I'm driving my dad's car at the moment (a rather old and clunky P reg Peugeot 106 diesel), but the plan is to replace it in the next few months with a shiny (kind of) second hand car of my own. So in the space of a month, I've gone from spending two hours on buses each day to get to and from work, to 1 hour in a car each day - and that's door to door !