The reason that there have been no posts on my blog of late is that I am spending a fortnight working in the place which fast feels like it is becoming my second home; Wantage. Wantage, if you are fortunate enough never to have heard of it, is a small town somewhere in the hidden depths of Oxfordshire. Imagine the back of beyond, go beyond it, and Wantage is about thirty miles away. One of our major clients has a large plant there; they use materials which are rather exciting and dangerous, and so they have to locate themselves in towns which no one will mind if they accidentally wipe out with an industrial spillage.

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