Spring at Enigin
IT has been awhile since we posted here - hospital visits and operations delayed the original author from keeping up with this blog - but the good news is Ben Freeman is a lot better and is working as hard as ever, like a new start.
So a new start is here with me, Steve Hill, now writing this blog and as we begin to enjoy spring at last and looking forward to summer.
The weather in South West England, where Enigin are based, has been strange this year.
A cold, cold winter - with the area suffering from loads of snow, a rare event but two years in a row must show climate change is real.
Then in early April we were getting summer temperatures for 10 days, fantastic, sun, sea and sand all plentiful in Cornwall (Enigin’s home county) - but suddenly the following three weeks saw a return to winter! A slight exaggeration but it felt like it with some nights the temperature barely above freezing.
Now we are getting into the latter half of May and suddenly summers here again, with tempratures expected to hit 27 degrees celsius in some areas! Get the barbie out, the shorts and the swimming togs.
This is a beautiful area of the UK to live when the weather is so good - gorgeous countryside, wonderful coastline and sea air.
It makes the quality of life here very high and life is slower than being in the middle of London or New York - a lot slower. Now some people think that can affect the way business works, but no work is the same everywhere, constant pressure and deadlines.
I worked and lived in the Shetland Islands for four years, the most northerly island of the UK and a fourteen hour sea journey north form Aberdeen. Life there was very slow, we seemed to have 28 hours in a day, but when it came to work I could have been anywhere.
The beauty of Shetland and the West Country was that once work was done you don’t have a tedious and long commute but can soon be enjoying the area, particularly in this great weather - may spring continue like this in to a blazing summer.