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Breakfast in the tent in the rain

Breakfast in my MSR Hubba tent, MSR titanium mug, Alpkit Kraku stove, Platypus roll up bottle making fresh camp coffee
Breakfast today, fresh coffee, Polish black currant jam and peanut butter sandwiches – separately not mixed!

It has been raining most of the night here at Kelvedon Hatch. I was lucky last night I decided to get in to my tent and watch a video on my iPad so I was settled in before the rain started – if I had stayed in the car I would have got wet.

So this morning it it breakfast in the tent, which is – whilst I write this – filled with the smell of fresh coffee. Who cares about a bit of rain.

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Remote Working – My office today…

I have come away this weekend as Octagon has a number of weekend projects scheduled over the coming weeks; but I also have some presentations to work on. So for today this is my office.

Remote working Octagon Technology - St Neots Camping and Caravan Club Site

Remote Working

Not only does remote working mean that our team can work from home, or client sites, or from the local wifi cafe. But especially for Diana and myself we can access our systems and information whilst we are away on holiday.

Read Octagon’s article about remote working which includes top tips and advice on how you can benefit from it.

On my agenda today:

  • Email and team scheduling using our secure hosted exchange
  • Collecting photos and other information for the presentations
  • Preparing the slides on my iPad using Microsoft PowerPoint connected to our OneDrive whilst writing my speaking notes using OneNote on my iPod
  • Phone meetings with both Kamila and Martin
  • A walk along the river into St Neots to find a good tea shop

 

Phone brackets and charging point in my MX-5

Whilst remote working to keep everything charged I have a USB charge plug in my MX-5 that supplies both 1A, for my phone and iPod and 2.1A for my iPad.

When the phone is in this bracket it is easy to use it as a personal hotspot so my wifi enabled devices can get on the Internet, this saves multiple SIM card costs.

Add to these my collection of tech gadgets, cables, brackets and chargers, a multi-coloured pen and a hard cover A5 notebook and I have everything with me to work away from home.

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