>Yeah, I’ve finally admitted that I never get round to updating this blog. Sad but true.
These days you’ll find my daily happenings on my Twitter feed. This feed, along with other collected posts, videos, pictures etc are now collated into my Tumblr blog.
If you want to keep up with my latest news, head over to one of these places. I’ll be winding this blog up and archiving it soon.
Thanks for reading
Richard
>Saw this on YouTube…a really funny combination of the French Taunter from MOnty Pyhton and the Holy Grail and the “Dalek” episode from Dr Who series 1.
Made me laugh out loud..
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Made it back from my German excursion ok on Friday. It was great to be back – I was so pleased to see everyone. This traveling lark certainly doesn’t get any easier.
Saturday we went down to see my sister to have a party for my nephew Daniel. He’s 2 today and is really growing up. He’s into cars and trains – just like Joe at his age. I managed to get a rare few minutes with him on my own this time, which was lovely. Normally I take a back seat and let the kids all play, but I spent a few moments making up a Thomas the Tank Engine story for him all about his birthday. It was a nice time to connect with him – he’s such a sweet boy. And Christopher, his brother, just never stops smiling – such a happy boy.
Sunday it was down to Lincoln for the christening of Lisa’s nephew’s little girl. The service was at 1pm and, oddly enough, there was a disco afterwards. It felt a bit strange having a disco so early in the afternoon, but generally good fun was had by all. The kids all loved it – especially Joe, who showed just how confident he is in himself by being up and dancing pretty much all night. Molly had great fun throwing herself about as usual (why do dancefloors seem to ignite everyone’s desire to slide on their knees?). And Rosie managed to relax from her teenager posing to eventually join in the fun.
And now I’m heading over to Wales – Caerphilly to be precise. For the week. Bugger.
I’m sure I’ll get used to being away again, but I really hate leaving everyone behind.
But at least there’s one thing -I’m staying in a hotel in Cardiff so I may spot some aliens falling from the rift 
) Maybe I’ll stalk the streets at night seeing if I bump into the filming of Torchwood series 2…
I’ll be contacting the paper today to get our house in the classifieds. We’re going to put it in privately for a couple of weeks to see how we get on – Healing is a really popular place to live so we might just be able to save ourselves up to £5000 in estate agents fees, which would be very useful. At the christening party several people were telling us of a poll they had seen in the paper – apparently the UK came out at number 36 in the list of “Best places to live”. Which country came in at number 1?……yup, it was France! More proof, if any was needed, that what we are doing is a good idea.
>Oh it’s okay, calm down…I made it to Munich in the end. I arrived in the hotel about midnight on Tuesday/Wednesday. That was quite a journey…
The hotel is nice enough – a good sized room, although the pillows on the bed are a strange square style, and are not the comfiest ones I’ve ever had. I wake up each morning with one wrapped round my face – most disconcerting.
Had a lovely meal out courtesy of our new General Manager. He was over with some of the other management team to meet the folks from the German office and so extended the invitation to Stuart and I as well. We ended up at a very nice restaurant opposite the opera house in Munich. Menus available in English, thank goodness, as there was a lot of Game and other dodgy stuff on there that I may have stumbled upon. Ended up having some kind of pork, which was really lovely and dumplings – they really like their dumplings here!
Work has gone well and we got finished earlier than expected, so today we’re visiting the German office. I’ll be heading back to the airport at lunchtime – I’m so looking forward to getting home.
>Ah, yeah…slight hiccup in the travel plans. My flight to Munich was cancelled, so I managed to sneak on a connection via Vienna. Never thought I’d make it to the home of the Viennese Waltz, Viennese Whirls and Viennettas (um…possibly). But here I am. Sounds very nice, but, as usual, all I get to see is the inside of a departure lounge, so I might as well be in Doncaster as Vienna (
At least the enlightened Austrian folks have provided FREE wi-fi in the departure lounge, so that’s making the time go a bit quicker…oh, did I mention that my flight from Vienna to Munich has been delayed? Grrrr…. it’s going to be so late when I get in. I was hoping to get there in plenty of time to meet up with Stuart (PM also on this gig) for a chat about tomorrow, b ut it’s not to be. Ah well, at least I can add another European city to the list of places-I-have-visited-but-not-really.
Apparently it’s snowing in Munich and very cold, so it should look nice in the morning.
Right, well my battery is nearly shot, so best go. Fingers crossed I reach the hotel before tomorrow!
>Well, we’ve now had 3 valuations of our house by local estate agents. And it’s so confusing, as the 3 valuations differ by about £70,000!
I do wonder how 3 estate agents, all supposedly experts in the property market, can be so wildly different in their views. It’s not like the difference between £1 million and £1.07 million. Then I could understand it. £70,000 is a large proportion of the asking price for us and now we’re really confused how much the house is really worth. Looking at the market, I think we probably fall somewhere between the middle and the top of the range we have got, but it’s so hard to be sure.
So, just for good measure, we’re getting a fourth valuation done to see if we can settle on a good average. We need to get selling and quick!
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…the house-selling process has begun! This week we are getting valuations from the local estate agents – we’ve had 2 round so far, one was excellent, one was quite the opposite. We’ve got another coming round later in the week and then we’ll be going for it.
I figured out today that we actually have a lot more floor space than most of the other properties on the market in Healing for under £250,000, which is a real selling point for us. I really hope we get people in the door, as I think the house will sell itself from the inside. We have a great big kitchen – the heart of our home, and 4 double bedrooms – this is quite rare. There are lots of 4-bed places around, but most of them have at least one bedroom that is very small. All our bedrooms can take a double bed comfortably. We are in such a great area too…our road is nice and quiet, the back garden is very private and secluded, and it’s south-facing. I’m not exaggerating when I say that it has been known to be 10 degreed hotter in our back garden than in the front. It’s such a sun trap. I just hope we can find something in France that compares.
Bellac certainly seems to be the place to be. Several websites have picked it out as the up-and-coming place to live. Prices are still low and it remains fairly undiscovered. We have found several places with 4 bedrooms, an attic to convert and lots of land, for around 180,000 euros – about £120,000. Lets hope there’s still the same choice when we are in a position to buy. There certainly seems to be plenty going on in the area – tennis clubs, lakeside beaches, watersports, theatre, shopping… it’s quite hard to not get excited about it, though I know it’s way too early…there’s so much still to do and so much that could go wrong.
Work-wise it looks like I’m going to be travelling about a bit for the next few weeks. The project that I have been on for the last 4 months or so has paused for a few weeks, so I’m now going to do other stuff for a while. As of now, I’m going to Munich for 3 days, London for a day and Caerphilly (wales) for a week! It will come as quite a shock to us all I think, although it’s probably a good thing, as I’ll no doubt be away a lot when we finally get to France. Getting used to me being away more will be part of the process of accepting the change for all of us.
>It’s not all France on here you know…
For instance, check this out:
Possibly the greatest movie song of all time…?
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Yeah, it’s been ages, but it’s worth the wait.
At the end of 2006 I got the go-ahead from work that we can move to France! Yes, at last, finally, after almost 2 years of waiting, its finally going to happen. We still can’t quite believe it’s true, but it is. Like most people, we had pretty much given up hope of it ever coming off…but my new boss has been amazing and really pushed this through the company. Basically, the company are not relocating me (never expected they would), but they will allow me to remain in my current role, provided that I can maintain my present level of commitment to customers. So, I need to ensure I am near enough to an airport to get back to the UK as and when required. This is fine by me – it makes it easier for us all to get home, and, probably more importantly, for people to come out and visit us!
Me and Lisa are just ecstatic and it…we’ve dreamt about this for so long and finally it’s within our grasp. We’re not going into this blind however. We have spent the last 2 years thinking things through, planning in our mind how we’re going to go about it, where to go, what to do there, how things are going to work. There’s going to be so much to figure out still, but we’re well on the way.
And the kids are all really positive too. We felt they might be a bit reluctant, and I think Rosie was especially, at first. But since we’ve been discussing it more and pointing out all the good stuff we get out of it, not just the bad, I think she’s joined the other two in being really excited about it.
Reaction from our friends and family has been mixed – from great excitement to stony silence – but again, we expected that to some extent. Hopefully it will just take a little time for people to get used to the idea, and then they will all start to be very positive and supportive – I think we’ll really need that, especially for the children’s sake.
So…..what do we need to organise? Well
Selling the house
We are putting the house on the market, so if you want to buy a lovely 4-bedroom detached house in a quiet part of Healing, then let me know. We’re hoping that the extra work we have had done in the last few years will make a big difference and we’ll get lots of interest. I think it’s a good time to advertise as anyone buying now would be in in time for the new school year in September. Healing Comp have done really well in the exam league tables again – the highest state school in the area behind Toll bar – so hopefully that will get people wanting to move into the area. Seriously, if you know anyone who wants to move into Healing, leave a comment and I’ll get in touch.
Find a house in France
Of course, we will need somewhere to live! We were originally looking in the Charente-Maritime region, as we have spent many lovely holidays there and love the area. But, although there are 2 airports in the region, neither one fly to East Midlands, which would be the most convenient airport for folks back home to fly from. So we looked further afield, and back to an area that we looked at some time ago – the Limousin. This area remains pretty undiscovered, with prices still the lowest in France. This is ideal for us. Specifically there is a town called Bellac that seems to have the right combination of factors for us:
We are scouring the web to find houses and joining all the discussion forums we can to get the low-down on the area. We’re hoping to get out to France in half-term to have a scout round for places – should be exciting!
Learn the language
I really need to motivate myself to keep up my language studies. Although I will still be mainly working in the UK, or on English-speaking projects in the UK, life is going to be so much easier if I can improve my skills. So I am aiming to do a set amount each week from my Linguaphone course. Lisa is hoping to get on an Adult Education class this term, so she can get better too. After all, she’ll be having to cope with life during the week while I’m working in the UK, so it’s really important for her to be confident.
A million and one other things
There are really so many things to do I can’t think…I should start a list I guess, make use of my project management skills ). Like clearing out the loft, getting a french bank account, finding schools for the kids, getting a French car, organising Tax stuff, Insurances, removal agencies….so much to think of.
So there you go, that’s the big news.
Other stuff going on –
Disneyland Paris
Our Christmas present to the kids (and my parents) this year was a trip to Disneyland Paris. We’re going in the Easter Holidays, staying in a caravan park on the edge of Paris for 6 night and we’ll be in Disney for 3 days. And Kathryn and Sam are coming with Daniel and Christopher for a few days as well, so it will be really good to get everyone together, especially there. I’ve been to Disneyland in Florida with Mum and Dad years ago, so I’ve got a good idea how great it will be, but I don’t think the kids really appreciate what they’re in for. It will be magic.
Healing Hotspurs
Molly kicks off 2007 with Healing Hotspurs tomorrow – she has proved herself to be the star defender, and even a bit of a star goalie as well when required. The team are doing really well and riding high in the league. Here’s hoping the gale-force winds and torrential rain die down before Saturday, otherwise we’re in for another good soaking on the touchline!
Music
In the music department, The Phil did their Christmas Concert back in December – sadly I had a chest infection for ages so I missed a lot of rehearsals and therefore couldn’t take part in the concert. I was upset at not being able to do it, but glad that I got to be there, as it was fabulous – by far the best Christmas concert I have been to. Next up is the St Matthew’s Passion, not one I’ve heard of but it’s meant to be good. I’m hoping to take part in it again, but as usual it depends on the work situation. After all, it could be the last one we do.
Molly passed her grade 1 piano this month, which is great. We’re very proud of her.
In the piano concert which Heather, out piano teacher, holds each year, all three kids played something and all did very well. Special mention goes to Joe for getting up and playing the theme from Star Wars, after only having had about 3 lessons – he was brilliant!
School
Rosie continues to blossom at Healing school – she’s doing really well and had a great end-of-term report. It’s amazing the difference in her over just one term compared to how she was at the Primary – she just has so much more confidence now, it’s lovely to see.
Molly and Joe are also doing very well and just go from strength to strength.
Well, I think that’s about enough news for now, I’m determined to keep up to date, now I have something to write about, so keep coming back for more, and please leave a comment.
A bientot!
Richard
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Just stumbled upon Last.fm – a kind of social networking site based on music. Its pretty cool..you can download a plugin that “listens” to whatever music you’re currently playing and sends the details to the Last.fm site. They call this “scrobbling” for some bizare reason, but its pretty neat. In this way the site builds up a true picture of what music you like to listen to and can suggest other recomended artists. There are also discussion groups and obviously you can build up a “friends” list by searching for people with similar tastes as yourself. All pretty groovy. I’ve looked into some other networking sites before and couldn’t really be bothered to fill out all my likes, dislikes, rants and raves etc in order to find some comonality with other folks. But as this will sit there in the background doing all the hard work, this might just work out nicely.
You can see my profile here http://www.last.fm/user/aragornsbeard/. You’ll see there that I have been listening to Damien Rice’s new album “9″. Its another work of genius from the man, full of the same kind of beautiful, heart-renchingly wonderful songs as his previous album “O”. I love it and you will too.
I’m going to Guildford this afternoon…what a strange cathedral they have there….
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Well, I saw the first two episodes of Torchwood on BBC2 last night – wow, what a great programme. The whole family have enjoyed the new Doctor Who series, but this spin-off is definitely aimed at adults. It follows the character of Captain Jack Harkness as leader of the mysterious Torchwood organisation, who spend their time chasing down aliens from their base in Cardiff. Hmmm…Cardiff seems like an odd choice, but I’m sure there is a good reason for it (perhaps because Russell T Davies has a house there). Anyway, its a great show and I really enjoyed it – I had seen John Barrowman in Strictly Ice Dancing and on Maria and, perhaps obviously, felt he was slightly camp. It was good to see him in an acting role and lose that.
The supporting roles all seem to be very well cast and I’m intrigued to see where the characters will go with their stories. And the set is very impressive too. The Torchwood hub is under the Millennium Square in Cardiff and the set designers have done a great job of creating a believable underground-station-like HQ for them.
Check out the Torchwood site on bbc.co.uk/torchwood – its got some great behind-the-scenes clips, interviews with the cast etc, and a preview of the next episode.
Oh and did you know that Torchwood is an anagram of……Doctor Who?
Well now you do!
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Well that’s it, another musical ambition taken care of. Saturday saw the Grimsby Philharmonic concert where we performed Bob Chilcott’s “Songs and Cries of London Town” and Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”, something I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember.
It went really well. We were accompanied by the hugely talented pianists Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow, who also contributed 2 sections to the proceedings. Their choices of 3 Yiddish dances and Jupiter by Holst were just right – not too long and jolly enough to keep people interested.
To finish the first half, we performed “London Town”. This is a modern piece by Bob Chilcott that draws on traditional cries from old London, mixing them with poems by Dunbar and Wordsworth, while throwing in an arrangement of Oranges and Lemons for good measure. I think we all really enjoyed singing this one…the first and last movements are both very upbeat, accompanies by bongos and are very jolly. The middle section is very haunting, with some beautiful words. We were joined on stage by Sue’s Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir and when they sang “London Bells” it really sent a shiver down our backs.
After the break was the main attraction – Carmina Burana. For this we had a full percussion section on stage – timpani, snares, gongs, cymbals, tubular bells, xylophones, glockenspiels and even a triangle! This, added to the 2 pianos and the 2 choirs made the performance just as great as I always hoped it would be. Carmina has such a lot of good parts for the men, and I think on the night we really pulled it off. Reports were that our “In Taberna” was the best it has ever been. I think were were inspired by the baritone soloist there, who performed his “Ego sum Abbas” perfectly as a drunk spinning a yarn in a pub.
I thoroughly enjoyed the night and it was a great feeling to have achieved yet another goal in life. There are not many more left to do now, so I better get thinking of some more!
Here’s what the telegraph had to say about the night - A Combination of youth and experience delighted audiences at a musical event. I have to say I’m pretty disappointed in the report – no analysis of the programme or highlighting areas for special mention. Time and again the Phil suffers this fate – seemingly marginalised in a paper that prefers to focus on crime and sport. It’s such a shame as the Phil continues to produce fantastic concerts and we are so lucky to have Sue Hollingsworth as our musical director – she’s a world-class MD and could be doing far more important, higher paid things than putting us through our paces. But she does, and what a great job she does of it. We should really be celebrating this fact and the impact it is having not just on the Phil, but on music in the whole area.
The one good thing about the report was that it shows a wonderful young tenor in full flow…you can order your copies here at the Telegraph Photo Archive….I’ll even sign them for you ;o)
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listening to…
Razorlight, The Zutons, The Feeling, Keane, Radio 1: The Live Lounge, BBC Podcasts. All constantly on my playlist at the moment.
using…
Google Reader. This is an RSS reader (billed as “Your Inbox for the web”) from the lovely chaps at Google. Its really very nice indeed and I recommend it for anyone who regularly visits lots of news sites, blogs, podcasts etc. I used to spend time visiting dozens of different sites to keep up to date with stuff I was interested in. Now it all comes to me, nicely tagged and organised by Google Reader. I can even share articles that I think you might find interesting…there’s now a permanent link to these on the left-hand side – take a look.
surfing…
Lifehacker – tips on cool websites and downloads to make life easier, as well as life-tips to help you work and play better.
Digg – social bookmarking site bringing together links that it’s 330,000 members think are worth reading.
playing…
Air Monkey online.
Enter the Matrix on the PS2
waiting for…
Terry Wogans Janet & John Stories CD – These just crack me up, and all the money goes to Children in Need.
Lego Star Wars 2 – On Joe’s birthday list…let’s hope someone gets him it!
looking for…
An intensive French course – just got the nod from work that they will cough up for one, so I’m getting quotes.
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The BBC has a report from the 21st birthday party for Les Miserables here: BBC – Les Mis takes long-running crown. Click on the “Video and Audio News” link in the top right to see some clips of the show and an interview with Michael Ball.
On a related note, The Phantom of the Opera also notched up a birthday recently, reaching 20 years. Here are some photos from www.thephantomoftheopera.com – shame about the annoying background music, but you can turn it off. Don’t you just HATE sites that do that?
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Link to ABC News: ‘Shoot Me First,’ Amish Girl Said to Ask
Being a complete atheist, I often struggle with stories of people and their faith, but this latest article about the horrific Amish school shooting made me stop and think.
Apparently the eldest of the girls, only 13 herself, asked the gunman to shoot her first in an attempt to buy time for her schoolmates.
How incredible that in one room there were 2 extremes of humanity…one extreme evil, prepared to execute defenseless schoolchildren…the other an innocent young girl prepared to lay down her life for the sake of her friends.
What a world we live in.
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I remember the torture of sitting in the back of my Dad’s car when I was young, being forced to listen to this god-awful tape of some musical that he was mad about. Quite honestly I was pretty sick of it back then.
Now 20 years later and that same musical now plays in my car (no tapes anymore…) and ranks up there in my top 3 shows of all time. How times, and tastes, change…
This weekend, on October 8th, Les Miserables celebrates it’s 21st birthday and officially becomes the longest-running musical in the world. Quite an achievement for something based on a very long, hard-going book, first published in 1862. The show was recently voted the nation’s favourite in a poll by Radio 2, winning with 41% of the votes.
Our children have all grown up listening to it. We have some embarrassing video footage of Rosie and Lisa recreating that touching moment when Cosette pleads with Madame Thenardier “Please do not send me out alone, not in the darkness on my own”….only Rosie’s version ends with “out in the dumpers on my own”. LOL! Poor Rosie, though she was only about 4 at the time :o)
I have seen the show several times, but I never get bored of it. My next goal?….to go see it in Paris.
It may just happen!
>Well hello! Its been a while hasn’t it? Since March huh?….wow, that’s pretty bad of me. Ah well, here I am, back again, with something to say at last!
So what has been happening in my life just recently? Well…
Holiday
We had another fantastic holiday in France this year. We were in a gite in the dordogne and it was simply wonderful. Quite quiet, out of the way and maybe a little too remote, but we had an amazing time. We went to Bergerac – didn’t see John Nettles unfortunately, but DID see Cyrano. We visited La Dune du Pyla – the largest sand dune in europe…blimey it’s big. About 120 meters I believe. And we had our first boring but quick journey on the EuroTunnel. It was so different to going on the ferry (obviously, being under the water not on it….). We normally spend a very long uncomfortable 5/6 hours on the ferry, but this was 40 minutes sat in the car as we were whizzed under the Channel and deposited right on the motorway in Calais. A far better solution we felt.
Music
On the musical front, there have been no more big shows for me…no time any more to do those things. BUT, I have been getting to the Grimsby Phil quite a lot. In a few weeks we have our latest concert in which we are performing “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff’ and “Songs and Cries of London Town” by Bob Chilcott.
Carmina is a very famous work that has been used in many films and TV programs. The opening number “O Fortuna” is the most well known – back in the 70′s it was the theme to the Old Spice advert…these days it’s heard every Saturday night when we are introduced to the Judges on X-Factor. For me, Carmina is up there with Jesus Christ Superstar as something that I have dreamt of being part of one day and to have acheieved both of these goals within the last 2 years is pretty amazing.
Songs and Cries is a modern work which calls on traditional London cries, and poems by Dunbar and Wordsworth to create an exciting and beautiful work.
We recently went to see Starlight Express at the Grimsby Auditorium – what a great show that was. It’s one that we had never seen before, and indeed never really knew the music either, so it made a really nice change seeing something totally new. The singing was superb, and of course the skating and dancing was really impressive.
Moving to France
Well, I don’t want to say much on this subject, but I am very close to hopefully having some VERY positive news! I got a new boss at work a couple of months ago and he is really supportive…wheels are in motion that might just take us to France after all….watch this space!
Other stuff
Other things that have been happening….
Yesterday was my birthday! Yay! 35 at last…finally I am nearer 40 than 30, which is quite sad. And 35 is half-way to 70, which is really, really sad! But hey-ho, while there’s wine theres still hope for me ;o)
Rosie started at Healing comprehensive school in September…she’s doing really well and enjoying herself – lots of out-of-school clubs and things going on. We’re really pleased with how she’s getting on.
Molly and Joe are now officially Football mad. They both attend Healing Hotspurs football training, and Molly is even in the girls under 10s team. So far they have drawn 1-1 and last week they won 3-0! Molly is the star defender -following in her dad’s footsteps in the back four )
As a final note, I heartily reccomend checking out Andrew Lloyd Webbers new site. Its a personal site with lots of news, photos and information about what ALW is currently up to, including all the news about Connie in The Sound of Music. I had a conversation with the webmaster who was good enough to look through my blog, so you never know, Lord Andrew might even get to read all about my expoits in JCS! (Just in case…it starts here in May 2004, and runs up to November 2004…..well, you never know!)
>Had some problems with the site, so bear with me. normal service will be resumed asap.
>It’s a very lonely existence, this consulting lark…always on the move, trains, planes and automobiles. One thing I couldn’t do without during all this is my trusty mp3 player. It provides a soundtrack to a large portion of my life, so I thought I’d share it’s present contents with you. I don’t know what my selection says about me, but its seen me through some pretty long and arduous journeys, so it can’t be all that bad…
Click here to see the list on my MySpace site
>So I made it to Sweden eventually…4 hours later than expected. It was about 2:00am when I arrived in my hotel room, totally knackered and fed up. Oh and this was after finding out when I arrived at the hotel that they didn’t actually have a reservation for me. Bang went my preparation time. Not to worry tho as my 2 days went really well. Thankfully my journey home wasn’t quite so eventful and I’m now back in London, ready to head off to another customer first thing in the morning.
Sweden was a great place – it had snowed the night that I arrived and it was really thick – about 3ft in places. And the people there weere all really nice – all spoke very good english and were very friendly.
>Oh great. Well as if it wasn’t bad enough that i have to in away to sweden this week, now i have to contend with a bomb scare at heathrow. I was waiting in the security queue when suddenly we were all ushered out of the area and forced out of departures all together. Its now 10 minutes past my flights departure time and i have on idea what’s going on. No-one has told up anything. I don’t know if my flight is waiting or if it’s gone. And has my bag gone with it? What a nightmare this is.
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So this week i have been in cornwall…Truro to be precise. Its a lovely part of the world and its been a successful week. I didn’t feel like writing about it though, as all this travelling is really getting to me now. Its really killing me every time i have to leave lisa and the kids behind. I just don’t seem to have any time to catch up these days…I’m under such pressure to be doing billable work all the time. I don’t know how much longer i can keep this up…
Thankfully i am now on my way home. I left truro at 5.45am and i will get home at 2.30pm. Yes, thats nearly a whole 9 hours folks! Oh joy!
>Hello all once more. I’m on my travels again…today’s destination – Hannover in Germany. M journey started this morning on the train, then down to Gatwick to catch my flight at 19:50. It’s gonna be 22:30 by the time I arrive in Germany and its bloody cold over there at the moment. I really don’t feel like going this week, as Lisa’s still ill, the kids are all coming down with colds, and, quite frankly, I’m not too impressed with work at the moment anyway. But I guess it’s an experience, so I should try to enjoy it. I’ll try to take photos and post some on here.
>Of course, I forgot…in Wales they don’t have Channel 4, they have the dreadful S4C – welsh language station. How am I supposed to keep up with Celebrity Big Brother? It’s simply not fair There’s simply NOTHING on telly tonight, which means there’s nothing stopping me from working, which is a real problem. I should have brought my “Lost Series 1, part 1″ box set to keep me distracted…
