{"id":620,"date":"2008-01-18T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/tough-day-at-the-office\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T16:43:36","slug":"tough-day-at-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/01\/tough-day-at-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Day at the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a tough day at the office yesterday&#8230; Started work at 4am and worked until 10.30am, stopping to help get Morgan off to nursery and Anna off to work, then the fun began. A good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/diary\/diary.php?action=viewentrydetails&amp;diaryid=7688&amp;diaryuser=justal\" title=\"Windsurfing in Wales\">windsurf session<\/a> off the beach here at Ynyslas. The windsurfing itself was good, lots of wind and some decent waves, and then the weather got interetsing too. First the sky went very dark indeed and we were surrounded by thunder and lightning (I got off the water as a 4m carbon mast is likely to attract the lightning and I don&#8217;t fancy finding out what happens if it hits it whilst I&#8217;m attached!), then some really strange looking dark clouds swriled overhead and we were hit by a massive hailstorm, then the wind dropped off, so I packed up and headed home.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I got home the sun came out and the wind picked up again &#8211; typical. A little more work, collected Morgan from nursery and went to watch the cranes at the estuary where they are doing some directional drilling to install a new electricity link beneath the estuary.. I&#8217;m not 100% sure what the cable is for and if it will affect our electricity supply, but we&#8217;ve been having more than our fair share of power cuts again recently (common at this time of year), so some improvement wouldn&#8217;t go amiss.<\/p>\n<p>I then psyched myself up to brave the weather and go out for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/diary\/diary.php?action=viewentrydetails&amp;diaryid=7691&amp;diaryuser=justal\" title=\"Night riding on my mountain bike\">night ride on my mountain bike<\/a>. Only a short one, but it was good to do it. 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