Field notes

Notes from packs we have actually bound

These pieces stay with counters, probes, cell lists and review chairs. They are not essays about productivity.

Westminster and the London skyline on a clear day

13 April 2026

What belongs in an Ofcom-facing quality annex

A regulator annex is not a marketing chart pack. Here is the short list we actually bind when a UK operator asks for a quality note that will sit beside a complaints narrative.

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Engineer in a plant setting reviewing equipment

2 May 2026

Reconciling OSS counters with probe samples

Counters and probes disagree for honest reasons. A monthly pack that pretends they are the same number will collapse in the review.

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Hands reviewing printed financial and statistical tables

10 June 2026

How we treat missing PM files in a monthly pack

Late or absent performance-management files are ordinary. Pretending the month is complete is not. This is the rule set we print in the appendix.

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Notebook and pen on a desk during writing work

1 July 2026

Drop-call rate and retainability: which chart the board needs

Boards keep asking for drop rate. Contracts often pay on retainability. Mixing the two in one slide is how a quarterly briefing goes sideways.

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Open farmland under a wide sky in northern England

27 July 2026

Preparing a rural Yorkshire cell group for an SLA review

A cluster that includes the hills around Emley will not look like a Leeds urban dump. Here is how we prepare the exception list before the account team sits down.

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