Author: Matt Jukes

  • 8.7 …running on empty

    8.7 …running on empty

    I am really, really tired. My brain is like mush at this point but this trip has been completely amazing. Totally worth it – even if I am now trying to work out how I can fit in a holiday to recover from this. Due to this tiredness (and a requirement to write a couple…

  • 8.6 Oh Canada…week two

    8.6 Oh Canada…week two

    #jukesiesjaunt continues but I am currently a bit broken – a combination of booze, eating the wrong things, timezone related tiredness and if I’m honest running on fumes as far as being in Jukesie(tm) mode has shattered me – I am totally failing to make the most of Vancouver but have decided I really need…

  • 8.5 Oh Canada!

    8.5 Oh Canada!

    Blooming heck this has been quite the week. That was the plan of course – #jukesiesjaunt is – by design – an ambitious civic tech / digital gov tour but it has surpassed even my high expectations. It hasn’t been without its challenging moments – hotels particularly have been less than ideal. I only managed…

  • 8.4…demob happy/horrified

    8.4…demob happy/horrified

    This has been one of those short weeks that somehow feels like three times activity than space have been crammed in without much care as to the effect – a little like my packing for Canada really. It was just as well it was Bank Holiday Monday as my recovery for a day drinking session…

  • 8.3…darling buds of May

    8.3…darling buds of May

    This week has very much felt like the end of term or something – though not in the watching videos in class sort of way and more in the scrambling to finish assignments and mentally preparing for a lot of change after a bit of a break. I finished my project in Taunton – 3…