Catching up

It has been a lovely evening as I have been out with deliveries to my kleeneze customers, most of whom I have not seen for 6 months. There has been a lot of news to catch up with.
Two couples have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. Such lovely news to counterbalance all the less jolly stuff on the news.
It makes me look forwards to getting back to kleeneze later in the year.

Getting back into the swing

Having come back into my blog today I realise it is almost a year since I last wrote anything. Shame on me.

I will try harder in 2012. Although it is no excuse I have been rather busy lately, as I took on a fixed term contract to do some Speech and Language Therapy back in the NH of S for a while. I wanted to refresh my skills in some areas that I had not had much practise at for a few years, so I can keep my options open for the future.

It has been an interesting time, and I can see how services and morale have both taken a dip since I was last 'in the system'.  Parts of it have been fun and I have met some lovely people.  The journey to and from work 4 times a week has taken its toll though, and as I reach the end of a week's holiday just relaxing at home, I am aware of how tired and fed up I have become with it.

Still, this is not a moan...I have returned to the blog in order to just start recording what is happening in my life and in the life of the world each day. I notice that stories and threads seem to move on so quickly and it would be interesting to look back later and see how it all has evolved. So I suppose this is just a journal entry, by any other name and it will just be stuff I observe and nothing very earth shattering.

One thing I have enjoyed this week is getting back to the cataloguing and starting to plan Jamie and I's recruitment activity again. I have really missed the fresh air, regular exercise and keeping in touch with our customers who are lovely folk that I have got to know over the last few years. Luckily I still bump into many of them in town and in the coffee shop, so still get some news. 

Jamie and I are exploring the world of tablet pcs as he is writing some Apps for people that have communication and cognitive difficulties, and it would be helpful to be able to show them on both phones and tablets, so watch this space for more on that.

The news this week have been dominated by trouble in Africa and a sunken cruise ship off Italy's coastline. Also the stricken tanker off Tauranga's coast, which is dear to my heart, has now broken up, and a dutch teenager is nearing the end of a solo sail round the world that caused so much controversy when she started.  She is only 16 years old, and it does cause me to wonder what she will do next and what kind of life she will lead as she is clearly an extraordinary person.

We have chicken and bacon pie tonight...the first one I have made for ages and I am very much looking forwards to it.  I have only just started feeling ready for food again after my first visit to zazabazaar in Bristol yesterday, where I had what you would call a 'good feed'. Spend most of yesterday sleeping it off.