Hello

I was reminded this week by my good friend Meredith that I've been remiss in keeping up with the blog. I didn't actually realise that it's been so long since I've posted - the longest since I actually started writing the blog.

What's happened? Winter - was long and cold and miserable - so nothing much actually happened. Where we live has a lot to do with it. It's a lovely old building, big rooms, good facilities, but no double glazing and heating that worked in only about 20% of the space. Coming from a country like South Africa, we are naive about this kind of thing and didn't even notice when we took on the place! That has changed and we are in the process of resolving the problem. There will definitely be a move in the near future.

What else? Starting 2 new jobs in mid February - why make it easy on myself? Which added to the busyness of life. Those have settled down now, excluding days like last Thursday where not one train was running in to London Victoria and getting around involved standing for 5 hours on trains and tubes and mid summer heat.

A trip to Turkey took up a fair bit of time. Such good swimming! But on my way home, I left my camera in the car at the airport. Fortunately it wasn't lost and will make it's way back to me via South Africa, but only at the end of the year. I do have another small camera and I had downloaded a few snaps from the holiday, so there will be a post sometime soon, I hope. Fortunately I did upload a couple of photos to the cloud.

We are now well in to summer and have finally discovered the beach. Only been here 3 years, and yesterday was the 3rd swim in the sea. The beach is all wrong though - pebbles. That's taken a bit of getting used to.

So you see, life has been happening.  But I'm back.