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Tea on the Southern Upland Way

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It froze last night! There was frost on the grass and ice on the windows of the MX-5 when I got up. My sleeping gear kept me warm throughout the night but it was chilly whilst I was having my breakfast.

After sorting some things for Octagon, which included driving out to get a better internet connection, I set off from Lauder to walk some more of the Southern Upland Way.

I came across this picnic table at just about the time for a tea break – great view, tucked away out of the wind and a sun trap.

Tea on the Southern Upland Way
Lightweight titanium Alpkit brew kit – Kraku stove, MytiMug 400 and a Snapwire spoon.

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Tea – Remote Working – OneNote

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Today’s photo is for an article Kamila is writing for Octagon about the way we are a company that fully embraces remote and home working.

Home working and remote working Octagon Technology Lincolnshire

The shot was not staged. I had stopped off in Octagon’s current favourite wifi cafe to write up some notes in Microsoft OneNote on my iPod Touch. Once synchronised other members of the Octagon team can quickly be using my notes.

Being able to work where ever I am is good for my time management. I can work on and share files in the cloud between meetings and appointments without wasting time travelling back to a fixed office.

Battery life

When working on the road, keeping things charged is always a priority. By using my iPod Touch it saves the battery life of my iPhone and iPad. The owners of this cafe have allowed me charge my phone whilst having lunch.

At Octagon we are helping our clients to take advantage of the benefits of home and remote working, saving money and creating a happy teams.

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IT Support today

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With some of our team on annual leave today I had to cover the support:

  • find and fix a network issue and then add a wifi point
  • supply a new larger monitor
  • add some new users to our hosted exchange servers
  • and carry out our regular server and backup checks, but I did that from my iPad over breakfast!

    • I also met with a client to finalise a project to replace a Windows 2003 server.

    Behind a computer

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    Networking Lunch @JocastasGroup @TheBNLincoln @OctagonT

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    Sausage and mash Jocastas Lincoln

    The Business Network Lincoln monthly lunch meeting

    Great networking event today – met up with old friends and made some new contacts.

    Kamila’s “Twenty Tips for Data Security” went down very well.

    As alway and excellent lunch served by Jenny and her team at Jocastas. Thank you.

    Sorry Stuart missed the bangers and mash – but pleased he phoned me so I could order them.

    Photo of the day had to be the sausages!

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    Tea today! @OctagonT @busclublincs @busclublincs @choosepurpleltd

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    Vintage tea advert

    I had an early meeting today with Nick from JK Sonics to organise some first aid training for the staff at Octagon and order some extra first aid supplies for my walking trips. I then went on to meet with Justin from Choose Purple to chat about our businesses.

    Tea today not coffee!

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