Missing for a bit…
… owing to moving house, no internet at home until I get it sorted, and Life in General in the lead up to 19th December and a respite from work, I won’t be around much, if at all until after….. oh, you know when.
Countdown to moving day…
I was going to spent the afternoon raking up the last lot of leaves, but rain has stopped play, so I’ve begun packing, and organising myself. I’ve got the Chr….. those seasonal cards all ready for posting, with change of address notes ready to go in once I know what the new phone number is [...]
No, I wasn’t dreaming, it really happened…
With apologies to my Australian readers, I am now going to gloat and I shall be floating on a cloud for days now. Wearing a Scotland Rugby Shirt!! Scotland really did beat Australia… I didn’t dream it. I have, for some years, been describing my loyal and faithful support for Scottish Rugby Union, especially in [...]
What can happen in a year…
Oh my. I knew my life was going to be turned inside out and upside down this past year, I couldn’t imagine in how many different ways this has happened. This time last year, all I had done was make the basic decision. Things were going to change, as soon as I had fulfilled a [...]
I knew the date was a significant one…
For, lo, it has come to pass that Japes has had a wiblog for a whole year now! Thank you for reading my ramblings!
How very peculiar…
I got some news about work yesterday that I was pretty stunned by, though not entirely surprised about. It does put huge question marks over any long term employment in a field I was hoping I could move into…. But, after feeling really stunned all day, and coming home emotionally drained at all we’d been [...]
Bibles – from one Bookseller’s point of view.
You know it’s going to happen as soon as you are approached with the request, “I’m looking for a Large Print Bible..” and you smile, marshalling your best Customer Service manners, all ready. And within minutes, the expected request for Large Print, (but meaning Giant Print) small enough to fit in the best Sunday handbag, [...]
Calm, patience, coolness of temper…
are going to be required in vast quantities over the next few weeks! I think I can cautiously be certain I am going to stay put for at least the next year, and probably more. But… we have to get through the moving process first. I say “we” because I’m renting a dear little house [...]
Rollercoasters
It’s been a really roller coaster few days, and I think life’s almost back on an even keel again. I still need answers to questions, but somehow think I’m not going to get them. I still need to be sure I’m going to get the colossal muddle sorted… but I’m much surer than I was [...]
Success
Of all the things I hate about moving, finding someone new to cut my hair is pretty high on the list of the stress factors. It was decision time this week… and this weeks stress started with me going to the hairdresser I’d been to before, one of the walk-in chain variety, to discover they [...]