Fraser's blog

This blog is dormant. Indeed, the layout changed for some reason without me noticing - probably something to do with server maintenance by Marcus. Life's a bit too busy to blog at the moment and facebook's fine for keeping people up to date. For the record, I'm still in the UK, managing a multi-agency humanitarian supply chain project called HELIOS. So combining IT PM skills with my MSF experience and I get to work with fantastic motivated people across far too many time zones. You know how to find me on the net - most of my email addresses from the last decade or so still appear to work. If I escape to do some travelling or more field work I'll revive this blog... but for now, sleep tight!

Ok, just for Jo Soliday, here is the bi-annual update. Here is a picture of spring skiing in Switzerland. Or is it a rough sea near a production platform?

From my lack of postings you'll have guessed I'm not doing anything exciting at the moment, just earning money to pay the bills ( ...hopefully I'll escape at some point!)

Titlus near Engleberg March 2007

Well, a whole summer has been and gone, and what a summer it was!

This posting is really only to stop Wendy from changing the link to my blog to Dr "not that he ever updates it" Stephens. Unless dedicated, I think blogging is best when you doing something really exciting - a good example being Paul's Blog. So, I am alive, but nothing particularly exciting to report.

While huddled behind my trusty iBook, researching appropriate healthcare technologies, spring appears to have sprung. It is light until eight. I've missed two summers, so this is my first real experience of longer than six hour days since 2003.

Other news: Wendy's favourite bunny is back (it turned out that I had accidentally deleted from my server) along with her comments.

Can't complete with the Alsace or Scotland... this is all Bristol got this morning.

This is in response to a posting by Wendy.

7 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE
- Have a house with a bathroom big enough for an old
fashioned bath tub on legs.
- Get married a normal relationship.
- Know what I am doing more than a month in advance.
- Get fit again.
- Visit Hokkaido, South America, Angkor Wat... (the list is
quite long).
Take some time off Work and live a little.

7 THINGS I CANNOT DO
- Understand physics Women.
- Draw or paint.
- Say no to chocolate.
- Swim particularly far.
- Settle down.

7 THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO LONDON
Errrmmm.... can’t think of any. Oh yes:
- Visiting the few remaining friends who have yet to see the
light and escape.

THINGS I OFTEN SAY
- I don’t know!
- Milk chocolate? That’s not real chocolate.
- Fizzy beer? That’s not real beer.
- Suspension? Who needs suspension?
- I’m afraid that’s Windows for you - on the Mac it just works™

7 BOOKS THAT I LOVE
- The Poisonwood Bible.
- The Kite Runner.
- Bill Bryson’s non-travel books.
(and nothing by Dan Brown!).

7 MOVIES I WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
(not that I do, but I’m always happy to watch the following
again):
- Any Hayao Miyazaki.
- Any Nick Parks.
- (Almost) any Gilliam or Kubrick.
- Whale Rider.

In the Grauniad today is a bit about MSF in Burundi. Sandra and Linda visited MSF-B just before I left and we spent several hours together in the Java House at NBO looking like an inpromptu iBook owners-club meeting.

Just a link to spread around: www.you-are-here.be