Monday, January 5, 2009
Zavvi
Back in the office today for the first time in nearly two and a half weeks. I woke at 5.30 to snow showers and (literally) freezing temperatures. Having said that, there was remarkably no problem on the train down to London. Although we've all been physically unwell over Christmas I do think it's...
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Absolution
I watched a DVD of last year's Muse concert with Ivan yesterday and have described it here: Music and Lyrics Fenlyrics is a new blog of mine, recalling songs that have influenced me in one way or another. I know it's a cliche but music really is the best kind of diary for me and I hope this will...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Happy New Year
to all on Blogit and particularly those who regularly read and comment on my posts. I'm afraid our entire family - apart from middle son, Christian - has had flu, dry coughs and other cold symptoms throughout the Christmas break. We even had to get the ambulance out to Ivan on Boxing Day as he was...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Coughs and sneezes
Thanks for all your nice comments! I'ts been a long few days. This time last week I'd have been looking forward to precisely that - a long few days away from the pressures of the workplace. However, we never, ever truly count out blessings until something bad happens and we realise that actually...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Flu
I'm sorry not to have written for a while. We had our 'Directors' Christmas Lunch' on Monday - which actually wasn't too bad. We went to a French restaurant near Marylebone and had a tasting menu so were able to sample a wide range of dishes. The food was absolutely delicious but I wasn't able to...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Relaxing weekend
It's been a relaxing weekend on the whole. Susan's mother was staying with us for a few days last week but went back to Liverpool this morning. She's not easy to have around. She does her best not to get in the way and tries to help but ends up being in the way and unhelpful. The major problem is...
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Not Christmas yet
We bought some new Christmas tree lights about three weeks ago. Last year's were blinking on and off; the only problem was that they weren't supposed to blink at all. So, we threw them out and bought new ones. These new lights were beautiful but obviously felt it wasn't really their time to shine...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
You look as though you need a hug
As regular readers will know, my wife runs a Ballet School. It is run on a community basis and very different to your archetypal dance schools which tend to focus on charging for expensive uniform, making participation in shows compulsory and charging for costumes, and insisting children take exams...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Snow in 1947
I was reading in one of the London papers yesterday that 1947 was our worst winter ever (or since records began which are, of course, very different but who or how can they be disputed?) in terms of snow in England. Apparently it snowed every day for three months. I thought back to the winters from...
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Year End
I'm so sorry not to have written for a few days. We are frantically busy at work trying to sort out our year end accounts. What that really means is we're trying to get all of our invoicing sorted in the 2008 budget as the 2009 budget is much tighter and therefore we need to store our nuts away for...
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