Well its many months since I did an update and quite a lot has happened, a lot personal which will not report here, but we have been around a bit in Somerset and and also visiting family in Devon.
For Christmas the family ie four adults and four grandchildren were here for the 24th of December which was only shortly after our son Michael had a serious operation which thankfully went extremely well and when writing this he is back to normal thank heavens. All of the grandchildren including Archie the last to arrive are all well and growing and enjoying schools, brownies and beavers whilst some are doing church bell ringing and others playing rugby.
I spoke to a friend yesterday who has just returned from Holland on the same ferry that we had trouble with last year and maybe , or not as the case may be , they have recently adopted the first on, first off policy that I suggested last year in my letter of complaint last year. It would have been nice if they had told me about this.
Some sad news from earlier this week that my ex Boss in K+N who was responsible for me joining the company passed away rather quickly during a visit to Thailand and his holiday home. He was a great people leader a really good boss who always supported me against quite some opposition and will be a great loss to his wife and two children who still reside in Hong Kong. May he rest in peace.
At last years party for my 80th Birthday my friends contributed for aa night in a nice hotel in the new forest which we visited just over a week ago. Its a very nice hotel with a restaurant of high reputation offering most nouveu cusine which means extremely well prepared contents but smaller quantities. With my food restrictions it did not work to well for me but that was my fault as I should have told them in advance. The biggest issue was standing in the shower the next morning playing with all the knobs and levers trying to get some hot water for at least five minutes then climbing out the shower and checking with reception who said YES we were aware but we are trying to fix it. Why they didn't contact the residents in advance I really don't understand, ahh you cans the staff anymore.
Well we have had some extremely cold weather over the last few months and even last night it was mins 4 Centigrade but at least the sun was shining and so it does not seem so bad. We have booked to fly to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands for a few days very soon and looking forward to some sun as this year we had already decided we would not do our usual two months in Florida for a change.
Well the next blogs will come from our our trip to Lanzarote and hoping the sun is still shining although earlier this week they experienced snow and ice for a twenty four period which was a bit of a shock to the system for the locals.
On, ON as they say
