IN and OUT

IN
Manufacturing- As its drawing to the end of the Global Manufacturing Festival, Manufacturing is in at right at the top of my IN list!

Uggs- I am currently living in mine, they are SO comfy. Have nothing more to say on the topic.

Hulluimi- one of my new discovery’s, along with Rice ilk in tea, and you can grill it. I must say I’m a fan.

Radio1- it seems weeks ago, but this time last week Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave started there 50hour radio stint. I loved every minute of it. It’s not an easy thing to do, it’s not just talking (although Dave was struggling with that towards the end) it is all the clips that need playing and the ‘mixing’ of the show. Fearne did her bit by wearing a swimming costume and helping to add over half a million to there total of nearly 2million. Well Done lads!
Here is a video of Fearne in here costume from the BBC Youtube channel.

Rugby- I was kindly invited by Smith Cooper to join them at the Nottingham V Bristol match. It was such a good afternoon, good company, good food and a good win! The match was really exciting and I’ve already been checking out the next matches at Sheffield.

OUT

VAT- Yay! It’s gone, all done sent off, round of applause for me. I am usually dashing round the last few days of the month, but it went off on Monday and I am more than a little chuffed (can you tell).

Head Colds- I’m fed up with this head cold, it will not shift and I’m sat snuffling around the office

Dry Skin- on a shallow note, I have been using Garnier intense 7day body lotion for the past week and a half and it’s a winner!

Bank cards- I managed to lose my bank card on a night out and the last few days have been very frustrating without my card, but it’s scary how much I rely on it. It’s nice to have my replacement, but we forget how much we depend on these little bits of plastic.

Global Manufacturing Festival

14th - 24th March 2011

Sheffield has had many events over the past few weeks to celebrate Global Manufacturing and Sheffield’s place in that. I was lucky enough to attend the Education and Business Leader Dinner at The Cutlers Hall. It was a fantastic event to help schools and business work together, discuss and plan towards making education and business work hand in hand to get our young people ‘work ready’. It was a really inspiring event and I met some really passionate head teacher’s and business leaders.

More recently I attended the ‘Get up to Speed Event’ at my favourite venue ‘The Blue Shed’. It was an afternoon and evening event that had some world class speakers and demonstrations. Along with Made in Sheffield, designed in Sheffield, Bloodhound SSC and many others, the event was open to the public and had a session particularly aimed at children and parents.

One of the most exciting speakers was the very talented Russ Danzey, I have known Russ for a few years now and even had the pleasure of speaking alongside him at a Pecha Kutach Event. In 2005 Russ won his first Cadet novice race and since then he is one of the UK’s up and coming young drivers KF2 Kart Formula 2, he competed in UK Series and was the youngest competitor to qualify for the European Championships. In 2010 after winning the John Surtees Scholarship Russ took the opportunity to step in to single seater cars and raced in Formula Young Guns taking first podium in only his third weekend of racing. He really is someone to keep an eye on and I caught up with Russ at the event and he told me a bit about his car and sponsors.

The Global Manufacturing Festival is a real platform for Sheffield to really show everyone what we do and why we are world-renowned!