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Back to school with yet another time change
When John started school this year he only went to noon which wasn’t too bad as it gave us a sensible break before needing to go back for James at 2.30pm. However, they changed that to a 1.30pm finish for John the week before the holidays which...
Boy does travelling take it out of you!
We were on the go from our afternoon departure from our place in France right through to 4am on Sunday morning which was as tiring as it sounds. Worse actually as thanks to the pretty stormy weather during the crossing I was the only one that wasn...
My Dad
My Dad died a year ago today so I thought it would be appropriate to write a little about him a year on from then. People still ask me if I miss him. The funny thing is that I don’t. I’ve thought about why that is off and on over the last...
Gee what a tiring trip…
By the time you read this, we should be well on the way to our place in France (scheduled posts are wonderful!) and pretty much totally exhausted. The plan is that on Saturday morning we’ll have gone from Belfast to Rosslare to catch the LD Lin...
Isn’t is it annoying the way thieves trash your place as well as stealing stuff?
Sadly, we’ve just heard the news that some ******** have broken into our house in France and trashed the place. What seems pretty much a cert is that the things that they took (seemingly less than a dozen things in total although we need to do ...
OK, so everyone’s disgusted, but what if Vanessa George is found not guilty because of that disgust?
The problem with really high profile cases such as Vanessa George’s seems likely to be is that the very high level of publically expressed opinions can mean that the court case can be thrown out. To avoid that what usually happens is that a rep...
When Vanessa George can get away with child pornography, what’s the point of the Criminal Records Bureau check?
When we got back from France it wasn’t long before James was set to go on a school outing and the school were asking for parents to volunteer to come along to help with looking after the children. So, we volunteered or rather we tried to becaus...
Gaining weight on a weight-loss programme!
Now that we’ve really started to ramp up the exercise aspect of our weight-loss programme we’re at the point where we’re hitting the buffers on the actual weight loss since the muscle that we’re building is heavier than the fa...
We’ve finally gotten going on the gym
It wasn’t that we’ve been putting off joining a gym for the last couple of months but rather that we’ve been both working up our exercise programme and checking out the prices/facilities on offer locally. Our first thought was to he...
The Arnold & Wendy diet plan
As you may know we’ve been gradually ramping up our weight loss programme over the last couple of months and are just about to step it up another gear. What we’ve been doing so far is to reduce our sugar and salt intake by changing our di...
At last a decision on our new TV
After considerable debate we decided against what seemed like the best bargain around, namely the 37″ LG2000 essentially because it’s out of stock locally, can take up to a week to arrive with anything up to £60 delivery charge and it...
Don’t burn your bridges when you leave work to emmigrate…
Although we set off for France with the intention of spending the rest of our lives here, in practice I left on a career break which left open the chance of me returning to work at any time up to five years from my departure from work way back on Feb...
Slowing down for Christmas
We’re in the midst of our customary Christmas closing and generally lazing around at the moment. Boxing Day brought us our first serious bought of snow for several years and for a while it was looking like we’d be snowed in for quite a wh...
