Hello to my beautiful family and friends once again xxxx Brrrrrrrrr is all I can say at the moment, we are experiencing a bit a cool snap, only the start of it I keep getting told by the locals! You definately need your coat on outside and be equipped with scarf and possibly gloves, if not this week, most certainly next week. I have experienced three mornings now where Jack has visited and made me bloody late for work! Don't get too excited girls and boys, it wasn't the type of excitement I was hoping for! That of getting out to the car and discovering a thick film of ice on all the windows :( good old Jack Frost in fine form! I now have the tools of the trade, snow/ice scraper tick, ice defroster spray tick, cloth to wipe window down on the inside tick lol god have to get downstairs a good ten minutes earlier now. Out at the shops today, bought the salt, so I can actually get out the door when it snows lol
It's been a good week work wise, learning more and more each week, the staff are starting to enjoy a bit of banter with the Aussie in the office :) they try and take off my accent lol Ali the young guy is probably the best lol, I think they get surprised when I come out with little ditties sometimes or saying they haven't heard before, can see them having a bit of a giggle :) we all work in an open plan office, so we all see each other including the boss, everyone seems to totally relax as soon as she leaves the room, it will be very relaxed then when she is on leave for three weeks after next Friday just before my birthday, so it will be interesting to see how I cope with all the admin and the staff on my own :) be a nice challenge.
This week not a whole lot happened mid week, the weather started getting very crisp as I said, the rain eased up a bit for me to get in a couple of nice long walks during my lunch hour, I went with the young girls one day Louise and Lizzie who is a young girl from Wales, or on the border of Wales, she has just started with us and I had to do the induction with her, little did she know that I had only started 4 weeks prior to her! Although she did find out that I was only new there too, she thought I had been there a long time :) Louise is a lovely woman I should say, she is a bit older than Lizzie but not my age. We all went for the walk together and had many discussions about travel, which we all seem to have in common. Lizzie recently came back from Vietnam, where she was teaching English as a second Language and she had been a couple of other places on Malaysia as well but I can't remember where. When our work contract finishes, she intents to go for a stint in Japan. Louise has travelled a lot too, I had a nice chat with her about Astrology and Numerology, which she didn't know much about, but seemed interested in,
Friday came around slowly this week :( I have been rather tired this week, my health hasn't been wonderful, the diabetes is out of control and I have been doing all the right things, so not sure what the sister/doc will suggest. The sister did say that I may have to go on insulin, means injections :( just want to get is sorted soon, might stop me from feeling tired, headachy and hungry all week! Not all too bad that I wasn't able to finish off work and head home and get changed to go into Wells for the Christmas Carnival :) I was waiting for my neighbour to get home, we were going to go in together, but she was held up in traffic, so I went in as it was going to be hard to find a parking spot. I was so chuffed with myself, I passed hundreds of people walking into the centre of town and I kept driving thinking, hopefully there will be a spot for me, and then suddenly there was a spot right near the Cathedral, yayyyyyy. I think the Carnival is mostly for the young kids, it reminded me of Channel 7 Christmas Carnival, still remember Helen having to dance her way around the entire city block, poor little thing she was exhausted. It was the days of her doing her Calisthenics and I was so proud of her, she loved it when she was a little tacker :) anyway here are some of the floats of the Carnival, quite different to at home, lots of witches, ghosts and the like lol aliens, all sorts lol
Freddy's Back, seemed like the fastest ride ever, although when I took the photo, it didn't look like it was moving at all!
Vampire Desire? Lol
These girls must have been freezing their tushes off!
Who you gonna call?
Still haven't worked out what these were?
Ok so now that I have almost got frostbite and I can't feel my fingers, I think I will quit while I'm ahead. There is quite crowd here, so I'm going to try and squeeze my way through all the crowd and start to head back, past the Cathedral back to my car before everyone else does! I'm so cold and hungry. Brrrrr I go past one of the caravans and buy a hot choc and a hot sausage and some chips not much option here :( so nice to finally get home and into the central heating :)
Sat morning is up and out around 11pm with my neighbour, we're off to Dobbies Garden Centre, we are going to get our cars washed there in and out for a £10 while we visit the shop which is fabulous at the moment, full of Christmas everything! We wandered around, had our lunch there, bought a few Christmas things and bought some stuff for the snow and ice.
Here is one of the amazing displays they had, all the bears where singing and playing an instrument :)
I just love all the Christmas stuff out at the moment, one could spend an absolute fortune, but to me it's really just about spending time with family and friends. It's going to be quieter than normal this Christmas, but it will be the second time I have experienced Christmas in the northern hemisphere :)
Well lovely people I shall leave you for another week and as I sit here watching "the Last of The Summer Wine" oh dear I have to say I have a real chuckle watching this show, it's all your real old legend British humour at it's best. Which reminds me Rani and I cracked up in the shop today, when we saw a take of a 50 shades of grey except it was 50 Sheds of Grey, a erotic take off for the modern male who loves his shed :) talk about hilarious! If only I had a male to buy it for for Christmas, don't think my son would appreciate it from his mum lol oh well!
Until next post, love to you all xxxx
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