Up in the air
Hopefully Filip Filipov, director of business to business sales at Skyscanner, is making use of the company he is working for to get him some good travel deals.
In a blog post reflecting on 2015 the executive calculated he has taken 84 flights this year.
According to Mr Filipov that is around 300 hours in the air and 206,000 kilometres of flight, or five times around the equator.
He mulled: “When we add connection times, to/from airport and waiting there, it seems I have spent more than a full month in planes or at airports.”
Build it up
Congratulations to Andrew McQuillan from The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, who was recently named as the adult apprentice of the year.
Mr McQuillan started out as a driver and labourer at RZSS but became the first ever construction trade apprentice at the organisation when he was taken on to the carpentry and joinery programme almost two years ago.
There was no mention of whether judges were impressed by the 28-year-old’s ability to work under pressure while helping maintain the pens of hungry wild animals at Edinburgh Zoo.
Sharing the pain
The Twittersphere is already awash with nostalgic commemoration of England’s 50-year-old World Cup win. One obsessive plans to ‘retro live tweet’ the event, as it happened on the same days and times in 1966, over the next seven months. Scots may at least manage a wry smile at the hashtag #50yearsof hurt.
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