Caroline Returns to England...

2006-05-25T15:44:00.000+01:00

As usual, time flies, so thought I’d better write a new post before the end of May!! Now, what have I been up to since the end of March? This could be a mammoth blog!ShaggingWell, the Shag workshop was fun, but exhausting – fast music, and lots of hopping around!! Have got the hang of the basics though, and fairly easy to do a bit during freestyle dancing…Feet problemsMy feet were hurting a lot

2006-03-24T17:25:00.000Z

Ooh - everyone else is blogging!!Well it's a quiet afternoon (that'll set the phones ringing now!!) so I was just having a look at the other blogs and am feeling like the worst blogger! Both the Claire's have current postings, as does Kate....so the guilt is enough for me to write a post myself!Time is whizzing by as ever, helped by the fact that I spend at least 3 nights a week dancing, so am

2006-02-02T21:04:00.000Z

Happy 2006!Well it's February already, so I thought I'd better post an update....I'm now starting to get settled into Chichester (or Chi as us locals call it!), and more importantly am in the flat with Laura! Eric finally left at 5pm on Thursday 5th Feb and I just had time to move my bags in before heading off to Val D'Isere for a week's skiing on the Friday... whilst I was away mum, dad & laura

2005-11-15T10:05:00.000Z

Autumn UpdateWell, I've been back in the UK for a whole 7 weeks now, and there's been plenty going on! The first big event was the birth of my neice, Megan, on 1st October. Then came the decision to end my Adventures in France: Life always seems greener on the other side of the fence, and whilst I had a fantastic time during the past 2 years, it gets a bit disheartening to live out of a suitcase

2005-09-23T21:16:00.000+01:00

My last blog from the Loire…Well, can you believe it? My time here is almost over, so this will be my last blog from Chisseaux, Loire.September has been a pretty busy month. We’ve had lots of guests, and a visit from Gerwyn’s mum, who came out for the weekend at the start of the month. She taught me how to bake Welsh cakes, so I now have yet another scrummy cake to add to my repertoire of

2005-08-30T20:28:00.000+01:00

Happy Birthday Laura!Yes, it’s 30th August already, which means my not so little sister is now officially in her late 20’s!! Happy Birthday Laura!!Yet again it’s been ages since I wrote, so here’s what I’ve been up to:I got prickly heat in the middle of August – and pity anyone who gets it – as it drives you mad! You get a nettle like rash appearing randomly, and insanely itchy. This latter

2005-08-15T21:44:00.000+01:00

A neglected blog!Yet again it’s been ages since I wrote – no valid excuse, so I won’t bore you with pathetic little ones!! So what have I been up to?Well, my email problems got sorted: it was just G’s firewall on his laptop being over protective! Was glad about this as I was getting panicky about losing everyone’s addresses!!Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the 7th time – and now will

2005-07-27T21:57:00.000+01:00

E-mail ProblemsI can't access my hotmail account at the moment - I was logged on on Friday and somehow it seems to have locked up - not sure how long I will have to wait for them (hotmail help) to unlock it! In the meantime, I'm e-mail-less!!

2005-07-17T20:55:00.000+01:00

Bastille DayWe headed into Montrichard and saw the local parade – firemen, policemen and the local band – doing the tour of the town, along with the fire vehicles, and then up to the square for parade duty and a minute silence for London. We then had a good look at the whole cow that was being spit roasted opposite the Mairie for lunch! They’d started cooking it at midnight to make sure it was

2005-07-13T21:30:00.000+01:00

Almost another week has gone by!Katy and Claire arrived on Friday and passed the first hurdle: driving from the airport to Vouvray in the hire car – I was very impressed to see Katy driving! We met at Les Chalands restaurant in Vouvray for lunch – would recommend that place to anyone who’s passing – Jacques and Sylvie are lovely!! Gerwyn then went to collect guests, so Kate, Claire and I did a

2005-07-07T20:59:00.000+01:00

Laura & Jane’s visit…It’s been a pretty hectic few days with Laura and Jane visiting us: we started off with a local mussels festival on Sunday afternoon, at which we saw a famous accordion player – I hasten to add we only knew she is famous because the compere mentioned it, plus she played a piece which she explained she had composed herself and said we might recognise from the radio!! Jane and

2005-07-01T19:44:00.000+01:00

Reading corner:Um….not a lot been going on in reading corner this week – don’t think I’ve opened a book! Have had various visitors this weekCharlie and Tina from the UK office have been out, so we’ve met up with them a couple of times… and

2005-06-30T21:21:00.000+01:00

Missing Blog?Thought I saved a blog entry fro 19-25 June, but obviously not! So ... what was I doing that week? Um, it was very hot, I remember that, but I did manage to do quite a few little bike rides: either before 8am or after 9pm though, as any other time of day was just too hot!! We spent Friday in Amboise - market, chateau and Clos Luce (where Leonardo da Vinci spent the last 3 years of

2005-06-19T20:55:00.000+01:00

Reading corner:Read Murphy’s Revenge by Colin Bateman (has been dramatized on TV) and Barney Thomson & The Face of DeathBoo-yaka-sha!!It appears that the Staines Possee have made their way across the channel as Ali G was spotted just north of Loches on Saturday – well actually it was a sign “Allee G d’Amboise" but it made us giggle!! Apparently the abbreviation referred to the Allee St Georges D

2005-06-12T22:23:00.000+01:00

Reading corner:Well, it’s been just under a week since I last wrote, and that’s partly because I’ve been devouring books! I quickly finished The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson, which I really enjoyed, and have also read All fun and games, until someone looses and eye, by Christopher Brookmyre – and again really enjoyed that! There’s a few more books left in the house, and Gerwyn has placed an

2005-06-06T20:47:00.000+01:00

Just another manic Monday....Well, not to start with it wasn’t! Gerwyn had a lie in whilst I was woken up by the bin men at 6am (you see you just can’t escape them anywhere!!) and then had to contend with my stomach complaining about goodness knows what (probably too much rich food and wine!) for the next couple of hours, before eventually getting out of bed! We then headed out on the hunt for a

2005-06-05T23:00:00.000+01:00

This is what it’s all about!Saturday evening we had an hour to kill before dinner, so I decided we were going for a bike ride… Gerwyn initially wasn’t too keen, but I pointed out that he’d been lying on the sofa reading/sleeping whilst I’d gone to the station to get guests, and he couldn’t lie on the sofa for the next hour too! So we hopped on our bikes and set off… we had a lovely ride up the

2005-06-03T21:48:00.000+01:00

Well I suppose I’d better do some work….Apparently I am meant to be doing work whilst out in France. The fact that “apparently” has appeared in this sentence is good, because it must mean that I have chilled out at last and am just ambling through each day, rather than thinking “work, work, work”, which is what I tend to do!I have to say, up until now, we have had things relatively easy, despite

2005-06-01T21:00:00.000+01:00

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.....Well actually, we've been. We had a few free hours after lunch today and went to "Beauval Zoo Parc". It is a very important zoo in France, participating in over 60 EU projects relating to animal welfare, conservation, breeding etc. They had a safari section with big cats, elephants, giraffe, rhino etc, and Australian area with Kangaroo, wallaby, koala... birds

2005-05-30T20:57:00.000+01:00

Wine tasting…We had some more wine to pick up for guests today, and decided to take the opportunity to actually do a visit ourselves! We went to Vouvray and were shown inside a “cave” which goes 3 km into the hillside, having had the limestone dug out of it in the 15th century to be used to construct the chateaux, and now remains at a constant 12°: perfect temperature for storing wine! We were

2005-05-29T22:00:00.000+01:00

Strange German Laws…We were just sitting outside, enjoying a brunch of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon (belated birthday breakfast for G), having had a lie in then gone for a short bike ride, when Judith’s mobile beeped a text message – Her "other half" had been in Salzburg, seeing the rep there, and was en route to Alsace but had been stopped by the German police for driving with a trailer on

2005-05-29T20:52:00.000+01:00

Gerwyn’s birthday and some visitors….It was Gerwyn’s birthday on Saturday. Our regional manager Judith arrived on Friday afternoon to stay with us til Monday, to see how we are doing, and before going on to see the reps in Brittany. Unfortunately for Gerwyn, Saturday was rather busy with welcome briefings, a bags-run, and a de-briefing… but in the end it has turned into a pleasant weekend…. The

2005-05-27T20:50:00.000+01:00

Missent to Iran!!!I received a very well travelled birthday card today – Malcolm & Margaret had sent me a birthday card, which was date stamped in Addlestone on 3rd May….. despite the perfectly clear address stating France, it arrived 24 days later, with the words “missent to Iran” stamped on the front, and a franking mark of Tehran on the back!!!

2005-05-26T22:55:00.000+01:00

Phew! What a scorcher!!Well, summer has finally arrived in the Loire - after an unseasonally cool start, we are now getting temperatures of over 30 C, and so had our first dip in the neighbouring hotel pool - unfortunately our little gite does not have it's own pool, but it's not far to the hotel and we can use theirs whenever we want! I have to say, about 3.30pm, once our morning work is done

2005-05-22T20:57:00.000+01:00

Douze points for...... Greece!!Yes, it's that time of year again - Eurovision! And how bizarre to miss out on Terry's commentary. We saw the last few songs and then stayed up for the voting - rather tedious as we'd not realised that so many countries were now voting - I presume about half having had their songs knocked out in the semi-finals (thank god for small mercies - otherwise Eurovision

2005-05-22T20:52:00.000+01:00

A Tour of Tours!We had a free day on Saturday, having done bike prep and only having to take departing guests to the station at 9.15am, so we decided to take advantage of this and head into Tours….having checked the Rough Guide, there wasn’t much we really wanted to see – didn’t fancy the museums – so we decided just to enjoy the “day out” and wander. We headed for the cathedral, only to find a

2005-05-19T22:25:00.000+01:00

Paul Ross has got engaged!!Paul Ross, best man at my wedding, has got engaged to Maria - congratulations!! Paul has been across the pond for a wee while now, and has probably replaced his scottish accent for a dodgy yank one!! Hopefully this lass will keep him on the straight and narrow!!

2005-05-19T22:15:00.000+01:00

Balloon-tastic!!Having forgot about rescheduling the balloon flight, we kept seeing them, and the other night as we were sat indoors having just finished dinner, I heard this noise, and thought - a balloon! - as I looked out of the window it came right over the top of the house! We knew it was going to be a nice morning the following day, so jumped on our bikes and tried to follow it to the

2005-05-16T21:52:00.000+01:00

Crikey - it's still here!!Yes despite months and months of neglect, my blog is still here for the world to view. I was truely pathetic during my second ski season, and completly failed to update my blog, even once! So perhaps now that I am 30, and therefore mature and sensible (well, yes, I think that was always me really!), I will be true to my blog and update it regularly....I'm going to start

2004-11-19T17:29:00.000Z

One more week to go, One more week to go.... Yes, can you believe it, a week tomorrow I will be flying out to the ski resort....so that's one more week in the UK, 3 more days at work, 1 more weekend during which I can fight with the hordes of shoppers all trying to do their Christmas shopping but rather selfishly not realising that I'm leaving the country so HAVE to get everything bought this

2004-11-15T13:43:00.000Z

Another week goes by... So, what have I been up to this week? Well, Friday night the girlies (me, Claire H & Claire P) went out to the Tapas bar in Weybridge for Claire H's 30th (- which is today, and later she is going to see Christian Slater (swoon, swoon) in the west end.....) Tapas were yummy, and I even ate, and almost liked, kidneys!! Must be grown up!! On Saturday I went to see Sharon &

2004-11-09T13:02:00.000Z

Reflexology update.... Yesterday I went on the practical part of my reflexology course - it was actually really good and gave me more confidence, so I may be wanting to borrow the odd pair of feet!! I'm not fully trained yet, but have no fear.....

2004-11-09T12:51:00.000Z

A busy few weeks... Well, it has been busy, as ever, catching up with various people as it's now not long til I head back to the slopes... Had a groovy halloween party at a work colleague's house, and got dressed up with a spider theme - a kind of self-help therapy, but I was more scared by the plastic spiders she had dotted around the house that you didn't notice until you were about to put

2004-10-25T13:53:00.000+01:00

Katy's birthday.... Just had a lovely weekend for Kate's birthday: shopping in Guildford on Sat - I think I bought more than Katy!! And Laura joined us for a leisurely lunch in pizza express. Then down to the Minnow in the evening and back to Kate & Dunc's for chocolate cake and games.....we had a good laugh: TonyTed, Fred, Fred First, Claribelle, Duchess, Hunky Dunc and Kate...... And it was

2004-10-22T17:55:00.000+01:00

Where does the time go??? I can't believe that my last entry was at the end of September, and now it's late October already - what have I been doing? where has the time gone?? Let me think... Gerwyn's nephew was 3 on 2nd October, so we went round to see him in Walton, and went to a local fun fair.... Henry kept crying when he went on the rides - he was ok, until they started moving!! Gerwyn

2004-09-30T13:25:00.000+01:00

Full qualified hairdresser - ok, that's not exactly true.... You will remember me saying about my hairdressing course, well I've now had 2 lessons (hence the bit above not being entirely true, or infact anything remotely like the truth!!).... however, this past Tuesday Tony very kindly and bravely offered to be my first model, and was subjected to a hair cut - which, even if I do say so myself,

2004-09-30T13:18:00.000+01:00

Billy Connelly at the Hammersmith Apollo.... Well, me, G, Kate & Dunc went "up to town" last night and had the pleasure of seeing Billy Connelly live at the Hammersmith Apollo - he was, as you'd expect, very funny, and there were a couple of occasions when I, like most other people, were just crying with laughter! He did a good 2 1/2 hrs without a break, which was pretty impressive, and I just

2004-09-20T14:02:00.000+01:00

2 weeks later.... Well, it's already been 2 weeks since my last blog - how time flies! I'm really going to have to get better with this updating malarky!! So what can I tell you? As usual, I've mostly been working.... I did get over to see G in lovely Swindon on the 11th, but then we went down to Hamble on the south coast near Southampton to see G's brother, sister-in-law and their little boy

2004-09-06T13:44:00.000+01:00

A Hectic Weekend! Well, September is upon us, and it was a pretty hectic weekend - off to Swindon to Gerwyn's on Friday night, after rush hour traffic, then up to the NEC in Birmingham to an overseas property exhibition - so many things to think about, it's a bit difficult to know where to begin! It did give us some ideas about investing, but we definitely need to do more research! Then out in

2004-09-02T13:47:00.000+01:00

Ok - now I'm up to date!! The question is, can I keep it that way? Only time will tell! But right now I've got to get back to work...

2004-09-02T13:46:00.000+01:00

August Celine and Albert came over to stay and we had a very posh meal out at Foxhills, where many of the waiters were French, which made life easier for Albert, who really doesn’t speak much English…. Eric tried though!! You had to be there!!We did the tourist thing for the weekend – Windsor on Friday, Brighton on Saturday and Stone Henge/Avebury on Sunday, with Celine and Albert spending time

2004-09-02T13:40:00.000+01:00

July July was mainly work, DIY… although Laura and I did have a weekend of car booting to try and get rid of our junk – didn’t do too badly either!! I went to see Jools Holland live in Westernbirt Arboretum (open air, near Swindon) with G and some of his friends… it was really good, and we had a pic-nic and luckily the weather was good, so it was quite civilized really!

2004-09-02T13:39:00.000+01:00

June Suzanne and Mia were down in Addlestone at the beginning of June, so I had a chance to catch up with them before heading off to France for the weekend to see Celine (my pen friend from a school exchange when I was 12!) getting married to Albert…. I got the ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe on Friday afternoon, and then drove down to St Lo, arriving early evening. I had dinner with the family

2004-09-02T13:37:00.000+01:00

May May was spent working at Delta… It was also, as you will all well know, my birthday, and Gerwyn treated me to a night up in London and we went to see Jail House Rock, which was really good! Other than that, there were a lot of evenings out, catching up with people, and weekends spent at Swindon decorating Gerwyn’s flat… It was Gerwyn’s birthday on the 28th, so we went to see a guy called

2004-08-20T07:57:00.000+01:00

Oooh! I feel quite clever!! I've managed to remove the part of my template that was causing the problem without totally destroying the rest of my blog! Hoorah!! Next, I will tackle adding proper comments that actually work... however you will have to wait (again) as I have to start work now.... I will endeavour to write again next week, but for now it's off to work, and then up to

2004-08-20T07:48:00.000+01:00

Ok, so I've now worked out that this link to the other web site is not my fault!! (it's happening to a log of blogs that have a certain type of "comments" set up) Just have to work out how to fix it now....

2004-08-18T07:58:00.000+01:00

Oh dear.... my blog is still pointing to sparclinux.... some techie website....so I'll stop writing now, as you can't even read it!!

2004-08-18T07:55:00.000+01:00

Hello!! Well, as ever, it's been an age since I last updated this, and in fact if you can actually see this, you're doing well, as recently my blog seems to have been forwarding to some totally unrelated web site... I wonder if I create this new post, whether that will stop this happening.....

2004-06-25T13:54:00.000+01:00

Hummm.... will the comments appear??

2004-06-25T13:35:00.000+01:00

Hello! Yes I am still alive, just with even less access to the internet than when I was in France!! And it's been so long that they've changed the format of Blogger! AAgghh! But still, so far so good... I am now back at Avaya, having been enticed by more money than Delta and a temp contract through until the end of November!! It's the end of my second week and I am really enjoying being back here

2004-04-25T23:08:00.000+01:00

Back in Blighty.... Bonjour mes amis... oops, no, have to stick to English, and remember to drive on the left side of the road.... yes, I'm back, and having a bit of a mad dash as I start work at Delta in Addlestone on Tuesday, so just enough time to do several loads of washing, unpack all my summer/work clothes that I stored in the loft, realise that I've developped more of a CGB (chalet girl's

2004-04-11T16:51:00.000+01:00

The Final Countdown!! Well, can you believe it , 1 week to go!! The last guests have arrived, the last transfer from Lyon into resort has been completed!! And what a way to end... we had 20-30cm of snow on Tuesday night: more like February than April! It then continued to snow on Wednesday, and being day off I decided to follow Gerwyn and the Bon Coin massive off piste, along with the other

2004-03-26T11:37:00.000Z

Hello again, Well this is almost getting to be frequent updates!! I've just tried hotmail and yet again, can't get on, so that either means there's a problem with the server or someone's sent me an attachment and it's too hard for poor hotmail to open it!! There's been a total change in the weather this week.... following last week's hot spring sunshine, we're now back to snow and just below

2004-03-18T17:27:00.000Z

I survived Snow Blades!! Well, Barbara (the other resort mananger) mentioned the word snow blades down the pub last night, so the challenge was taken up and we survived!! For those of you who don't know, snow blades are just very short skis that attach to your ski boots in a slightly different way, and don't come off if you fall (potentially bad!), and you whizz around the mountain on them with

2004-03-15T18:43:00.000Z

I love skiing!! Hello all, yes I've made it to the internet cafe again, after far too long, but I've had quite a lot of guest injuries to deal with so I've actually been doing quite a lot of work over the past 2 weeks - shock horror, not real work!!! Anyway, spring has arrived and I've had a gorgeous day today....out all day skiing in sunshine, clear blue skies and ridiculously warm temperatures

2004-02-29T20:11:00.000Z

February 29th.... Well, thought I'd make an entry today, as it's not often we get a Feb 29th....in fact I need to wish Jonathon Marshall a happy birthday as he's a Feb 29th baby... and for Duncan for yesterday, and for Dad tomorrow. It's been absolutely freezing here the past couple of days... something like -20° to -30°.... seriously cold!!!! I had a bit of a naf transfer today as well...

2004-02-22T20:50:00.000Z

It's a girl!! Congratulations to Suzanne and Chris on the birth of their daughter Mia, who according to my sources (mum and dad) arrived at 8am this morning weighing 7lbs and 2ozs....Chris hasn't yet updated their web site, but I'm sure that's the last thing on his mind at the moment... if anyone has any updates, keep me posted!!

2004-02-16T16:48:00.000Z

Hello again Bloggers.... Hi all. Still having a good time... since I last wrote I have done a Parapente flight.... this involved voluntarily jumping off the side of a mountain!!! Luckily the parachute did it's job, as did the instructor, and I had a fab 10 minutes floating over La Plagne... definitely worth a go! Tonight it's the Playstation Big Air event at La Plagne, which basically means

2004-02-08T18:06:00.000Z

A neglected Blog.... Hello all, yes I am still alive, I've just been absolutely rubbish at getting ånywhere near an internet cafe to update my blog!! Well all is going really well - we had a gorgeous week last week, really sunny and temperatures like spring not February! I'm even starting to get a bit of a skiers tan, ie sunglasses marks! Panda eyes here we come! But the snow has returned, thank

2004-01-23T21:06:00.000Z

Dodgy French Keyboards.... I'm in a different pub tonight and there is only a French keyboard, so if I stqrt typing like I zqs on qn English keyboqrd you zill stqrt to notice thqt the q is where the a is, qnd the z is zhere the w nor,qllly is; qnd so,e other stuff hqs ,oved qbout too; so itùs ,qking it q bit hqrd to understqnd zhqt on eqrth Iù, zriting::::: Now if I slow down a bit and watch the

2004-01-22T21:00:00.000Z

Radio Ga Ga... inspiration please! Hello again, I'm back already! I've found a local pub with internet connection, so this may become a more regular occurance!! Didn't get round to Parapenting the other day - several crisis, and then when I finally headed out it was cancelled as there were paying clients who wanted to go!! Who would have thought!! Anyhow, am meant to be doing Taxi Bob on

2004-01-18T20:21:00.000Z

Bon soir mes amies... Hi guys, I'm back.... and have just seen Mum and Dad and Tim off back to the UK after an interesting week....Well done to mum & dad for surviving rain, yes rain, on Monday and Tuesday.... 1800 looked more like a river than a ski resort, yet they still made it to class whilst I retired to my room and read a book (Man and Boy by Tony Parsons, v good!).....then it all turned to

2004-01-05T16:25:00.000Z

Bobs away! Hello again. I'm in the pub and have found one with an internet connection that works! Had great plans to spend about an hour on the web yesterday and the network was down!! Anyway, what's the latest gossip from La Plagne? Well, on Saturday I did a bobsleigh run.... La Plagne had a Bob built for the 1992 Olympics, costing 32 million, and still costs 5 000 per day ( can you tell I'm

2003-12-28T17:07:00.000Z

OK, so the updates may not be very frequent..... Hi again, I've managed to make it down to the internet cafe. Unfortunately opening times do not really coincide with my free time, so updates may be a bit sporadic!!! On the positive side (well, for me anyway) it's snowing!! It snowed last sunday and was then ridiculously cold (-20!) but we have still needed snow, and it's finally arrived....just

2003-12-20T17:05:00.000Z

I've found the internet cafe!!! Hi guys, well I've finally found the time to get to the internet cafe.... the resort only opened on the 13th, so until now a lot has been open, and I've been quite busy too.... I've managed to get out skiing twice, and have even found a black run, but am not too sure about that at the moment!!! We've had snow yesterday, which was really needed and are expecting

2003-11-25T23:01:00.000Z

Last update from Blighty... Only a couple more days left in the UK, so it might be a while til I get back to the blog, or to my e-mail....I'm not missing Avaya at all, which is fab, although it is a bit weird not having anything to stress about! But then I did have a slight leak in the car (from the rear left light unit), so that gave me something to focus my stress on.... and now that's gone

2003-11-17T21:04:00.000Z

Votes please..... Well, I've finally taken some time to attempt to change the colours on my blog, so that Duncan doesn't get confused as to whether he's on mine or Claire H's (and yes, I admit it, Claire chose the Orange colour scheme first....) Now it is pretty tricky trying to get the colours and match them and change every single bit.... so let me know what you reckon......

2003-11-11T17:45:00.000Z

Oh! I've been trying to change my template with dodgy results... hopefully all is back to normal now....

2003-11-11T17:24:00.000Z

They're back.... This is rather strange, the comments now show again, but other changes I made don't......technology!

2003-11-11T09:17:00.000Z

Where have my comments gone???!!!

2003-11-10T08:22:00.000Z

Well considering my blog is called My adventures in France, that slightly contradicts my quiz result.... but it was quite a good quiz.... Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves.....

2003-11-10T08:20:00.000Z

I am 82.5% British, just likeMr BeanShy to the point of ridicule, you've probably never been out of the UK.Take the Brit Quiz atdarrenlondon.tripod.com/britquiz1.htmQuiz written by Daz

2003-11-07T08:12:00.000Z

Another new blogger... Apparently my little sister Laura has made herself a blog.... the blogs are going to take over the world!! Unfortunately she didn't tell me what the address is, so hopefully she can add a comment add let us all know..... Also, she didn't pay any attention to my traffic news yesterday, even though she read it, and called me at 7.15pm to ask if there was still a problem as

2003-11-06T11:24:00.000Z

Thoughts for today.... I was feeling in a "writing" mood this morning on my drive to work... but have not had time until now...they need to invent a dictaphone that I can speak into, and automatically download to this page - that would be clever wouldn't it! I was thinking on my drive to work how beautiful the autumn colours are this year... I go down Rowtown, round W Byfleet, via Old Woking &

2003-11-05T16:29:00.000Z

Hoorah for Dunc!! Well Lisa has spotted it already, but my Comments are working! And I will be good and fully admit that this is down to Duncan.... having imposed on him already to go round and make use of his cross-trainer to get some exercise, I was then cheeky enough to get him to fix my comments for me.... I'd copied them to the wrong place, but that was following instructions from the web

2003-11-03T15:59:00.000Z

Am working on the comments.....

2003-11-03T12:27:00.000Z

Monday Morning.. Well it's Monday again, but only 2 and a half weeks left at Avaya...it really is starting to feel much closer now. Considering that I've known about the Ski job since the end of June, there's been a long wait, and it's always seemed like the distant future! I've been trying to do my shopping gradually, so that I don't give my credit card a shock (Duncan thinks this is typical

2003-10-31T17:16:00.000Z

Link to Kate & Dunc's web site DOES work Not sure what happened there... must have been a glitch on the internet when I tried.... thanks Claire P for letting me know it works...

2003-10-31T16:49:00.000Z

Slightly less chuffed For some reason the link to Kate & Dunc's site won't work.... is it because it's not a blogspot?... any suggestions welcome

2003-10-31T16:41:00.000Z

Dead Chuffed!! Hi all. I'm dead chuffed with myself as I've just worked out how to create links to other people's blogs... fingers crossed that it works!!

2003-10-30T17:06:00.000Z

I'm wearing shoes!! Yes, breaking news, I've been wearing shoes today - proper shoes: not flipflops!! For the first time in 4 weeks, since I had my ganglion removed from my left heel, I've been able to put on a proper pair of shoes....it is still a little bit uncomfortable to walk, and admittedly I did chose a loose pair of shoes, but considering my forthcoming career change and need to squeeze

2003-10-30T12:37:00.000Z

Blogged Off!! Hello again. I was rather blogged off yesterday, as I had all these wonderful ideas of smartening up my blog, but it took me ages to even work out how to get back to this page to enter a new post! I'm just a bit slow with this web stuff!! Give me a telephone server or voicemail system any day!! Well I've obviously now figured out how to get back to my blog.... that's enough

2003-10-28T14:20:00.000Z

It's me again.... I think I've now managed to make this site visible to everyone - well that would help wouldn't it!! Just have to work out how to put up Links to other blogs, and do comments....any help gratefully received!!

2003-10-28T12:50:00.000Z

Hi, Welcome to my new Blog..... as everyone else has one, I thought I should get one too....