Day 2875 (13/11/2017)

A very cold start to the day and I had to scrape the ice off of my wife's car.

Unfortunately there was as much ice on the inside as the outside.

Then time for a smoothie.
 

 

Then lots of work to do and then off to the hypnotherapist, which was quite interesting.

Day 2873 & 2874 (11 & 12/11/2017)

A weekend and another lie-in then some nice fruit & pancakes for breakfast at lunchtime.

Then time to catch-up with work.

Did a nice 3 bird roast on Sunday.

 

Day 2872 (10/11/2017)

I had a lie-in after the previous evening long drive and then had to go straight to the Doctors as they had offered my a flu jab, so I assume I am now officially old :-(

Then lots of work to do during the day before driving up to Bristol in the evening to meet up with some of the boys (old men) from the van for a quiz night to raise money for a school in Henleaze.

As part of it fish & chips were included :-)

Day 2871 (09/11/2017)

It was nice to have a bit of a lie-in before getting to Leeds University, where they had reserved mne a parking space, like an important person.

When he said about having lunch in the canteen I stupidly said its OK, I will just have a sandwich and a cold drink, then saw they were serving some lovely curry :-(

As well as giving a talk I had agreed to be interviewed but I ended up doing several interviews, which is risky as I always say what I'm thinking and rarely censor myself that much.

 

The talk was very well received but had my wife known they were going to take so many photos of me she would have insisted I wear a different shirt.

Then a very long drive home.

Day 2870 (08/11/2017)

Wednesday and I had a very nice smoothie to start the day.

I had quite a bit of work to do, then a long drive to Leeds, as I have to give a talk to journalism students on Thursday.

Day 2869 (07/11/2017)

Tuesday morning and we had a nice breakfast, which needed to be made into a face.

Most of the day was spent doing some work and in the evening I went to see a Hypnotherapist, who I had seen many years ago when she was training.

It was an interesting first session, where we discussed many things which effect my life. Basically its this chimps fault but if I ever see him I will probably eat him :-)

Day 2868 (06/11/2017)

Monday and back to work and back on the smoothies but no bananas or spinach.

In the afternoon we went for a game of badminton and I lost 3 - 0 again.

On the way back I got Thomas to drive. I think he will need a few more short journeys before he is confident enough to be let loose by himself.

Day 2866 & 2867 (04 & 05/11/2017)

A busy weekend, with loads of work stuff to catch-up.

In the evening I tried another Jamie recipe, with fennel.

Chilli and cherry tomatoes.

Crab (I added prawns as well).

And spaghetti.

It was quite tasty, as were the profiteroles (which I didn't make) which we had for afters .

Sunday I had breakfast with Mum & Dad and then in the evening we met up with Gary & Elaine at the Chinese for his birthday.

 

 

 

 

 

My wife certainly enjoyed herself :-)

Then back to ours for a cup of tea. Gary didn't want a birthday cake, so we put a candle in a little cake for him instead.

Day 2865 (03/11/2017)

A busy day in the office catching up after being out for most of the week but I had to have a hair cut.

 

In the later afternoon we went to Bridgwater to put fresh flowers on Kim's grave, on what would have been her birthday.

Even after all of these years, I and am sure all of my family, still miss her so much. I wish she was here to share everything that is happening with our family.

A bit of a mixed day for work, with a bit of a knock back from the bank (which we can overcome but means I just have to bankroll things in the short term) but some really positive results from a demonstration of some software we have produced.

Fingers crossed that this time next year life and work will be very different.

Day 2864 (02/11/2017)

Another early ish morning as I had things to do before driving to Birmingham to do a presentation.

Where I was speaking was right next door to these lovely people.

I arrived just in time for lunch :-)

Then I had time to sort out my presentation.

Apart from a little problem with my laptop freezing at one point, everything seemed to go well and the feedback was quite good.

Then a drive home in the rush hour and the fog :-(

Day 2863 (01/11/2017)

First of November already, so a new Kylie calendar picture.

Then off to a meeting with the bank manager for work and then to the Holiday Inn for some more meetings. Thankfully we had time for a nice sausage bap before the meeting started.

After our meeting I thought I would soon be able to drop Richard back at the train station but it took a little long to get everything sorted, so I ordered a few snacks to keep us going.

Day 2862 (31/10/2017)

Up early to do some work and have a nice breakfast before collecting my business partner from the train station for a few meetings in Taunton. But before a meeting with our accountant we had time for a bit of lunch at The Worlds End.

I wasn't as hungry as Richard, so just went for a very nice Steak & Watercress roll.

The meeting with the accountant went well and he made a few very interesting & useful suggestions.

Then after more time chatting at The Worlds End we went for a curry.

 

Then home and as it was Halloween there were a few sweets left for me to munch on (no-one calls at our house but my lovely wife always buy a selection just in case).