I love it when it snows! I am such a big kid!

Posted 12:43 01 May 2007 in Milton Keynes / Home

Tuesday 6th February

I went for a meeting and a dinner with the head guys at Lenovo at their offices in Basingstoke. Lenovo are one of the sponsors for the Olympics and haven’t really done much publicity to promote this.  It is now that they have decided to push this and are looking for an ambassador for them to advertise this fact.  Through my B&Q sponsorship, I was recommended as a potential ambassador and so this evening I met up with Brian and Ian from the company to chat and get to know each other.

The dinner was lovely and the guys are really great!  I had a really fun time and hopefully they will choose me for the role.  Lenovo are a computer company and I was trying my best to talk all technology and look really clued up, but I think in the end I just gave up and said that I was still learning all that stuff!  I really expected to Brian and Ian to be in the more mature age region and be a little bit quiet, but they were far from that! 

Brian didn’t like sport whatsoever, but he has the most amazing charismatic voice and could tell stories that really captured you in.  And Ian is a rugby guy who was still limping from a rugby injury and had been to watch the 6 Nations at the weekend and he loved his sport.  So combined, these two had me relaxed in their company and we will see each other at the Sports Industry Awards where I am getting the feeling it will be a drunken meeting!

Woke up to snow!! Yippee!!  I love it when it snows!  I am such a big kid! 

There was about 10 inches in Milton Keynes – I am sure we had the most out of England!  I couldn’t get my car out of my road so there was no choice except to enjoy the snow!  Ed and I walked to Natalie Munt’s house and on the way got completely soaked as we had to throw snow at each other all the way!  Then I rugby tackled him which seemed like a good idea at the time, but after I got all the snow out from down my jumper, my hair and from out of my socks, I was feeling a bit cold!  Natalie made tea and brownies and that warmed us up.

It was the first time I had seen her since she had had her wisdom teeth out and her face was swollen up really badly, particularly on her right side!  She did look a bit funny and I did laugh a little bit but she was still in a lot of pain so I stopped laughing.  I think people have been calling her Desperate Dan and I did feel a bit sorry for her….! 

She was in a lot of pain and I think she underestimated the operation of removing wisdom teeth.

On the news they were talking about the snow constantly and they were saying how Luton and Stansted airports were closed and lots of flights were being cancelled.  This was not good news as Ed and I were going to Marrakech the next day!  Our flight was due to leave at 6am on the Friday so we were glued to the TV to see what was happening with the Luton airport situation….