Souvenirs

Just spotted this great post on the Flickr Blog

Wife Stripping

Well with a title like that I expect this post will have a few hits, but it was a manic night last night. The decorator said he was coming a few days early so we ended up having to accelerate the prep. work. Some of the plaster came away during the day, so I had to replaster some of the wall and then carry on stripping the wallpaper. Finished at about 10pm last night, but there is still a bit more to do tonight. Obviously, as it was Florence's room we had to set her up in the living room to sleep, which meant no PC use.

34 Today

Its been the best birthday I've had for years today. Normally I open the presents with the kids (if I'm at home) then its just business as usual. Today I took the day off. I did the present opening thing, then off they went to school & my Mum's and Tasha & I spent the day together. We went into Derby and went to all the shops you can't go to with kids, and had lunch at Pizza Express from the new Italia del Nord menu. Had a bottle of wine then went and did some more mooching. On the way home got a phone call from the garage - my car was ready (after extensive work to rear suspension, front roll bars, front brakes, cam belt, service & MOT = £720). Ouch.

Got home and Dad had bought some really good fire works, so we let them off.

So here it is....

Its 12th November, the night before my birthday and I've just heard the first playing of Merry Christmas by Slade. This coupled with the Christmas decorations that were up in Llandudno makes it seem that Christmas gets ever closer. Perhaps we need Thanks Giving in the calendar, to distract us from Christmas.

Busy weekend, but very productive. Tomorrow not going into work.

New beginings

Well I'm now a director of a company - which is nice! Decided to stop pratting about and be dynamic about the whole situation and get things done.

After reading Mark's post I realised that I've just been journalling with my last few posts, which is great if you lead an interesting life. Quality is the key.

The recent podcasts by Merlin Mann & David Allen over at 43 Folders have been a big inspiration and using the wikibot thing has really sorted my GTD and got it back into shape. I have regained my trusted system - and I think mark has too.

Great to chat again tonight and really looking forward to the meetup at Christmas.

PS - Merlin likes moo too

Weird Science

Two bits of weird science.
1. There is a direct relationship between the amount of alcohol consumed and the number of sausage & egg McMuffins required the following morning to ease the hangover.
2. Florence ialways catches a sickness bug about this time of year. Normally she misses out on one of her friends birthdays, but this time we've had to cancel her own.

Saw Steve Dunn at lunchtime, was great to catch up with him (and the last of the Cov gossip!). Lots of good advise about limited companies (cheers Steve)

Had a great Friday night with fireworks supplied by Colin, cake by Tasha and danger by Martin & myself. Tasha cooked a big pot of chilli too. Maea came over and it was really good to see her with Florence again.

Saturday (Florence's birthday) was busy, after she opened her presents, she went off to ballet - then straight to a go-karting party! In the evening Tasha & I went to the mellows annual dinner dance. Had too much vodka (hance the mcmuffins) and then was up in the night a few times with Florence - tiredness setting in now, but Mum & Dad are over shortly to deliver presents for Florence.

Chester Return

Got back from a well deserved break to Chester. After a little annoyance of the roof (that we resently had repaired) leaking, we had a fantastic time. A quick repair was made using a tarpauline which seemed to do the trick for the rest of the week.

We went to the zoo - one of the best ones I've been to, the kids loved it. Loads of really good enclosures. We also did the blue planet aquarium which was the first time I've been to one of the walk-through tunnels. Cheshire Oaks (and the credit card) took a bit of a hammering, but we got some good buys - and managed to start the Christmas shopping. We also decided to take the short trip into North Wales and go to Llandudno (and we got our fix of fish & chips on the beach!)

Used the time to sort my GTD out a bit and caught up on some missed Podcasts - generally quite productive.