Category: away from the desk

  • 5 days to go…

    What is it about cardboard boxes that makes them hang about forever. I have tried to empty them, yet more seem to appear out of nowhere. Grumbling aside – (don’t get me started on the weather… it’s called Holywell cloud apparently.) it is good to be settled in one place for a while at least,…

  • No internet…

    Well, no internet, no phone, nothing… Ahh bliss… Until you discover the joys of the local library. The last few weeks were pretty much a rollercoaster, emotional and moving speed. Dashing up and down between Cardiff and Holywell as if it were just down the road, popping into Amelia Farm to say goodbye was difficult,…

  • What a difference a decade makes!

    Or there abouts… Went to Legoland with the kids a few days ago, we did this when we had just got married, no kids then though!! It was as if there was something missing then, we even got out of the car and noticed that everyone else had children and commented that we were missing…

  • To serve, or not to serve

    Naah, none of that religious pish today…. Been down Cardiff Bay for lunch darlings. It is a bit like that, but the worst bit was the pub. You know bar – order drinks – sit drink / eat, leave. Well no… ‘We’re not doing bar service today, would you like to take a seat?’ Normally…

  • Christmas thoughts

    We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing! (Source unknown)

  • Out with the old

    It is never as strange as you might seem leaving a place of work and then going back to it the very next week to continue what you were supposed to leave. Everyone says goodbye, you get the card and (actually a very nice bottle of whisky) and off you toddle. Strange then when you…