Thursday, December 21, 2006

A year on....

It's been 12 months since we signed the Bahamas deal and things in my life were turned upside down. On the 20th of December 2005 we started to plan how we were going to sell 300 plots of land on Long Island and how we were going to apply for permission to build a Marina and 18 hole golf course... seems a long time ago now, we have 50 plots left and the application is with the government.

Then on the anniversay spookily the lodger completes on his new house purchase and I get a call from Nico to say he's been selected to go play for England in the 1 day Internationals cricket... What a day! I cooked chilli for 8 of us and we toasted everyones good fortunes with buckets of red wine.

I've got a stinking cold today and I'm travelling back from Andorra to sunny Athertsone. Can't wait to see my bears though. They won't mind if I'm snuffling when I get home.

For anyone reading my blog I'd just like to wish you a very Merry Cristmas and a prosperous New Year. Thanks for bothering to take an interest in my life :)

Thursday, December 14, 2006

How lucky?

I watch once more in awe March of the Penguins this evening. I must admit to a very soft spot for the penguins. Watching makes me realise what a blessed life we live. We don't have to endure any of the hardships that these wonderful creatures do. The fathers have to look after the eggs for 4 months without food and suffer the worst blizzards, waiting for the mothers to make the 70 mile journey back to them with food. Nature never ceases to amaze me.

One day I want to visit the land of the penguins....

Thursday, December 07, 2006

The Post Birthday Aftermath

So I'm now 39 years and into the final countdown to the big 40. What does all this mean? Well one thing is for certain I'm not as good with alcohol as I was at 29, it takes longer to recover after a big night out and I look forward to nights in almost as much as nights out.

Did I tell you all how amazing George was? OMG he was awesome! He gets better and better as he gets older. It was nice to hear him talk with such passion about his life and loves and the blow up 40ft high George W with a British bulldog sucking at his crotch was a total hoot!

The big day was celebrated by going out to lunch with Mum & Dad and Me-me (friend who's between jobs at the minute) at a local restaurant which overlooks a fishing lake. Food was great and Mum & Dad were happy to be a part of my day. I just love the fact that I can enjoy time with them both. The rest of the day was getting the Chrissie decorations in ready for putting up the tree then out with my mates in the evening. The original plan was to all go skating in Birmingham at the outdoor rink put up for Christmas in Centenary Square but it poured with rain so that idea was abandoned in favour of a few glasses of vino in the local in front of the open fire.

So that leads us here to another year in the life of a lyndyloo...
The Christmas tree is up, I've done some Chrissie prezzie shopping so I'm going to wrap some up and write some cards... I feel quite festive!

Monday, December 04, 2006

One Sleep To Go

The company Christmas "do" was on Friday. I took the lodger to be safe and boy was that a good move! We set out from my house, me, him, my work mate and my friend Lou at 6.00 after a quick home made Cosmopolitan (which was very lovely) and went into Leicester to the hotel that Curly & San were staying at so that we could dump the car. We had a drink in the bar and Curly (who I've worked with for 19 years & who is one of my bestest mates) presented me with a beautiful Mont Blanc pen for my birthday! I was gob smacked! What a gorgeous prezzie... then he explained that after all it was going to be a big birthday and I realised that Sandra had got her years mixed up and for some reason thought I would be 40 tomorrow!!! "Not to worry" says Curly, "by this time next year we can think of something even better."

At this point the evening was going swimmingly... The taxi was late picking us up to go to the "do" we got there just in time to sit down at the table (luckily no-one had started eating yet) and the rest of the gang were already seated. The food was good (amazing as it was mass catered for 500 people) and the banter was great.

Goodness knows what happened between 8 and 10.30 but by 11pm I had crashed and burned, made friends with the ladies toilets and had to be rescued by the lodger! Fell asleep on the stairs in the foyer before falling asleep in the taxi and then falling asleep as soon as I got home.

Thank goodness I was with friends. I sufferred on Saturday, my hangover was nasty, my team lost 4-1 and I was there to witness it so I stayed in to watch Mr Ramprakash on Saturday night and drank lots of Pepsi Max.

Sunday I went to the golf range with the lodger and John (who works with us and had stayed for the weekend) and hit a few golf balls before going out for lunch and then having a chilled out afternoon/evening. I haven't been near to alcohol since Friday but with the birthday looming large it may be expected of me tomorrow... we'll see.

It's George Michael tonight and I can't wait.... I'll tell you all about it.....