Day 2536 (07/12/2016)

I had a bit of a cough last night but woke up full of a cold :-(

Thankfully it wasn't icy or too cold today as we were having our old patio doors, which hadn't opened for years, with a new set of french doors.

So there was obviously a big gap in the wall for a while but it seemed to OK.

 

The worse thing was the smell of the cleaning fluid they used (imaging a glue sniffer on industrial thinners), which meant when they were finished I still had to have the patio doors open for a while.

They are very nice and much better than what was there before.

Did a nice meatballs & spaghetti for dinner.

Day 2535 (06/12/2016)

Another busy day in the office but I got quite a bit of the distance learning package together.

In the afternoon I had a trip to the tip and to the car wash.

Day 2534 (05/12/2016)

Busy in the office with loads of stuff to do but started the day with a nice porridge and mixed fruit.

Day 2532 & 2533 (03 & 04/12/2016)

Up early to try and get to grips with loads of work I have to catch up on in the office.

On Sunday I had to tidy the garden up a bit as we are having new patio doors fitted this week. So the wheelie bin was full of leaves.

I also put the gnomes away but got out the giant Christmas gnome.

Did a very nice roast beef for dinner.

Day 2531 (02/12/2016)

Back in my office with loads to do but the most important thing was to do my Kylie calendar.

In the morning I had to go to the Doctors as the joints of my index & middle fingers are now really painful and difficult to bend. The Doctor decided it was unlikely to be an infection but may be joint or age related but I have to have loads of blood tests but can't get in until next Friday to have it taken.

At lunchtime I had a haircut, which I wanted but didn't desperately need.

Loads of work to catch-up on in the office.

Made a quick but very tasty prawn spaghetti dish in the evening.

Day 2530 (01/12/2016)

It was a very early start to make sure I got to the venue on time.

Originally I was told it was starting at 7:30am and I had to talk for 15minutes but when I got there it had changed to starting at 8:00am and I had to talk for about 35minutes and then take questions.

The talk went really well and afterwards I had a nice chat to the solicitors who had booked me to do it. Hopefully we will get lots more work as a result.

As a thank-you they give me a €100 voucher to spend at the airport. I thought I would be nice and buy my wife some nice toiletries but what I should have done is bought the worlds biggest bar or Toblerone.

After landing back in Bristol it was really foggy, all the way home, with a strange translucent white light. It was almost horror film like.

When I got home I had to have a sleep so didn't get around to doing any work.

Day 2529 (30/11/2016)

I got up early to do some work before going to Dublin later.

I offered to deice my wife's car in the morning as it was very cold and frosty.

 

In the afternoon I was packing for Dublin and realised that nearly all of my clothes were in the wash and I had one shirt and one pair of pants to take with me, which was slightly annoying.

I caught the plane from Bristol and then ended up stuck in traffic in Dublin. So I didn't arrive at the hotel until around 7pm.

I wasn't able to relax straightaway as I had to deal with a few staff issues. Running a business is so full time. I can't wait until we have more staff, so we can be a bit more flexible with them and for our managers to run the company. We will then have very little to do but just count our money. OK, I dreaming but it might be like that in a year.

The room was OK but for some reasons they had put me in a room with 3 beds in.

Had a nice steak dinner for room service.

Day 2528 (29/11/2016)

A slight variation in the porridge this morning and still feeling rough.

Day 2527 (28/11/2016)

I felt well enough to start eating, having some porridge, with Almond milk.

It was a horrible 3 days of being ill but it nicely kick started my new diet.

Doing a bit of work but still feeling weak.

Day 2525 & 2526 (26 & 27/11/2016)

Saturday I felt a bit better but spent the day lieing on the couch feeling awful.

On the Sunday I was well enough to sit at my desk and catch up on the urgent work that needed to be in.

I didn't feel like eating so just kept drinking water & lucozade.

Day 2524 (25/11/2016)

I had loads to do but basically spent the day being really sick and sat on the loo.

The rest of the time I was dying in bed.

I felt really awful and when my wife came home and asked if I needed anything I just asked her to kill me but she wouldn't. How cruel of her.

Day 2523 (24/11/2016)

The day after Kelly / Lee's birthday and the kids (OK they are technically adults) came over to the hotel for breakfast.

In the afternoon we spent time visiting Kelly / Lee's doggy friends (& their owner).

In the evening we went out for a burger which seemed OK at the time.

 

And then the trip was over and we had to drop Thomas off at the train station and then drive home.

Unfortunately during the drive home I started to feel quite ill.

Day 2522 (23/11/2016)

It is Kelly / Lee's 25th Birthday, how the years have flown by. After breakfast we went round to see Kelly / Lee to open cards and presents.

Then we had a bit of lunch in Rottingdean.

Then we went out and had some cocktails whilst waiting for Thomas to join us.

We went for a Mexican in the end which was nice.

Then back to Kelly / Lee's for a Custard Cream Birthday Cake.

Day 2521 (22/11/2016)

We had a fairly relaxed morning, although it was a bit of a rush in the end to get to Rottingdean before Kelly / Lee finished at Uni and got home.

In the evening we went out for a pizza.

 

Day 2520 (21/11/2016)

I had to go to a meeting in the Walsall, which was a pain but was informative.

Defiantly the best part of the day was the bacon, turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich.

Day 2518 & 2519 (19 & 20/11/2016)

It was a busy weekend, trying to catch up in my office.

My wife was visiting her mum on the Saturday and it was not until late in the afternoon did I remember that we had tickets to see a comedian in the evening at The Brewhouse. I decided not to say anything until the Sunday.

Had a nice dinner on Sunday, starting with scallops and then had some very nice pork chops.

 

 

Day 2517 (18/11/2016)

Busy catching up with stuff in the office.