Life is a little busy at the moment - I feel like I've got headless chicken syndrome right now! Never mind. nothing bad happening - just lots on. No news on the house yet. The market seems to be a bit stop-start down here. A flurry then nothing then another flurry etc. Fingers crossed someone will come and buy it soon!

Work is manic at the moment - waaaay too many politics going on down here - people treading on whoever they can to try and jockey for position in a new structure. It's hard just trying to keep your head down and get on with the day job when all around are trying to sink you. I just have to sit back and have faith that it'll all come right in the end. There's not much more I can do really. But it doesn't make for pleasant working conditions. **sigh**

I had a long weekend last weekend up in Stafford for my friend Zoe's hen do. It was fun seeing everyone although slightly wearing! We had an awful lot of 'activities' to do - including 'Go Ape'. Have you ever tried it? If not - don't! Hanging from a bit of wire while trying to balance on a rope that's swinging around at 70 ft up in the air between 2 trees isn't that much fun - trust me on this.

We've got a new cat - Mr Bobbins - he's a year old, grey, and really quite cute. When I eventually get round to it i'll upload some pictures. (Need to co-ordinate wires, camera and laptop in the same place at hte same time for that - it'll happen eventually!) He seems to be fine with George (the rabbit) as well - to be honest I think in a fight my money would be on George anyway!

What else? Mum came down for easter and we had a really nice time. It was good to spend some proper time together and I think she enjoyed the lack of pace of life here in Cornwall! We'll do everything dreckly. ;-)

We popped up to Kirsty's a couple of weekends ago as well - I had to co-ordinate taking over the caravan business from Dad while he & Lynn are sunning themselves in the Carribean (you really can go off some people...) and it was a good excuse to go and see her as well. Fabulous food and relaxing company all round!

Not sure what else I can report on - this is probably enough waffle for now.

Sx

Moving on

Well - what a long time since I last updated this! I hadn't actually realised how long it is since I was on here. So what's new in my world?

Well - I finally put the house on the market today. It's quite liberating knowing I can finally move on properly. It's been a long time coming. Anthony and I are looking to move to Helston - we've got friends over there and it'll be nice for us to get somewhere together properly. We're going to rent for now - but just to give us time to work out exactly where we want to be. Fingers crossed it sells nice and quickly! At least the agents all think the market here in St Ives is fairly lively at the moment which is lucky.

Work is a little hectic at the moment - we change organisation tomorrow - the county and six district councils cease to exist at midnight tonight and as of tomorrow we're all one big Cornwall Council covering the whole county. It's OK at the moment, but when the key people you work with have been applying for their own jobs it creates certain tensions and mean that people aren't necessarily focussed on getting things done (understandably!). Hopefully it will start to settle down soon.

No other real news really - Mum's coming down for easter weekend so it'll be nice to see her, and we're in stratford at the end of May for my friend Zoe's wedding. Not much else going on really!

Hope everyone's doing OK.

Sx

A certain sense of freedom

Well - that's all folks! It's all done. I'm officially a divorcee. I'm going to be gradually changing my name back on official things - although that may take a while. So if you're sending anything I am once again Miss Moore from today. Which is quite exciting.

The other part of this is that we're now on a mission to get this house on the market - aiming for mid March at the latest once we've done various cosmetic things to the house.

So I'm typing this today with a certain sense of freedom, a new start, and moving forward into a new phase in my life. (and obviously the odd glass of suitable alcoholic beverage to accompany such an occasion!)

:-))

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone. Just a quick note to say I hope you have a great 2009, and had a good christmas and all that milarky. Ours was good - pretty chilled out - we didn't do a lot. It's been nice having a week and a half off work though - much needed!

Anyway - Happy New Year and I hope it's a good one for you.

Sx

Isn't time flying! Mid November already. Bizarre. Well I've got lots of things going on in my life at the moment so this is a bit of a news snippet update!

Firstly there's Anthony's bike project. Think Scrapheap Challenge with more time, less people, and less scrapyard - but just as much improvisation and lateral thinking on getting things to work / fit! And the Enduro's he's planning on doing when it's all done involve lots of mud and stuff. Looks far too much like hard work to me!

Then there's my new little sideline. I am now a newly qualified Ann Summers Party organiser! Oh yes! It's a good laugh, gets me out of the house, earning some cash, and meeting lots of new people. It's all just good fun really.

Work is pretty horrendous politics-wise at the moment. We're going through massive re-structuring so everything's up in the air and people are playing for power and position at the moment. I still enjoy my day job, just not the politics. It makes it all pretty stressful. I'm hoping I still have a job I enjoy doing come 1st April, but watch this space. (I'll have something - I just don't have a lot of control over what that might be due to other people's game playing / power struggles. Sigh.)

The divorce goes to court on Friday this week - all very straightforward and nothing to contest / argue about - so hopefully that will go through. We need to wait another 6 weeks-ish after that to finalise it all, but it's going through quicker than we expected. We're both pretty happy about that though - we've both really moved on and are living new lives now.

The only complicated bit in all of that is the house. A year ago it was going to be easy, but then this crunchy thing happened and sticking the house on the market now seems somewhat... err... suicidal frankly! Not sure how we work that one out but we'll get there.

I think that's it from me. Oh - and if anyone's wondering about christmas, I'm afraid i'm being antisocial and staying in Cornwall this year! Well - not that antisocial - we're going to Anthony's family for a few days. The usual excesses of alcohol and food will of course be observed....

Some more holiday pictures from Linslade.

This goose was stretching his wings after munching bread out of my hand.

And this pair were displaying beautifully - sadly always just before the camera went, but they're still quite pretty.

And this is a picture of the rabble on the last night! Clockwise from the front left are: Anthony, me, Sara, Sue, Clive, Jen & Ray. Tony (my fellow joint master-lock-keeper) is sneakily behind the camera.

I'm back! The holiday was fabulous. A completely chilled out few days in great company. I've actually got loads of pictures now to post, but here's one for now. We spent a day on a narrow boat on the Grand Union canal - not something I'd have thought I'd enjoy but actually it was an amazing day. Joint master lock-keeper extraordinaire here! ;-)

This was the canal as we were heading back to where the boat came from - the colours on the trees were amazing and we were really lucky with the weather. I'm feeling very chilled out and relaxed now - it's amazing how much of a difference just a few days away can make.

Unfortunately we got home to find the rabbit vanished - and a rather telling tunnel leading out of the back corner of the hutch. However just looking out of the back door late this morning, there he was noncholantly sitting there as if nothing had happened. Hey ho!

More pics may follow when I get myself organised.