Wednesday, January 16, 2008

A BIG Chuff Chart

When Adrian from Wales assesses a Duke of Edinburgh's Award expedition group, he goes through their expedition hour-by-hour asking them for their morale rating out of 10, and joins all the morale ratings together to make a graph called a Chuff Chart. If we did that for our work so far, we'd get a sine wave:

- Friday would be increasing (yup, seems like the work is possible)
- Monday would reach the high point at lunch (seem to have done quite a bit in a short time) ...
- ... and drop again towards end of day (lots of distractions in afternoon).
- Today (Tuesday) kept going down, with the low point at lunch time (reviewing what we achieved yesterday with Richard and realising a chunk needed changing) ...
- ... and finished much higher again (having achieved the changes and moved forwards again).

Went for a fairly basic "Pasta n Sauce" option at the italian restaurant this evening. Of course - much bigger than we could eat, with a salad swimming in dressing, and practically a whole loaf of free bread supplied for free, plus free refils of the lemonade. We could not even contemplate the thought of the biggest pudding you've ever seen, which we saw going across to some other tables (I can hear you asking already "Was she the one holding the tray?". How rude of you). It's an obscene waste of food, and dispite best efforts, we're having trouble finding British sized portions. Graham even mistook Meena's pear yesterday for a mango it was so big.

Radio Solent had a phone-in recently where people called in to list "items beginning with F that you could buy in a supermarket", with things like "Fine sugar" being accepted. So I've decided to list "things that are usually big in America beginning with F":
- Food portions
- Fruit
- Free bread and lemonade
- Fathers, mothers and children, their houses, and workplaces.
- Freeways, and most other roads and vehicles we've seen.
- Fish (especially when served in a restaurant).

If you think of any others, Feel Free to add them.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Tee hee ;)
One of my new colleagues wants to put on weight, maybe she should come over.
Did Radio Solent REALLY have that topic as a phone-in??????

Kevin X Brown said...

Yes, they did.