Thoughts on LibDems' Leadership Contest

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HODIE LASSVS SVM

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cras laborare ad Aquae Sulis ibo tum meum genitorem et meam genetricem Bristolii videbo.

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Thoughts on 1st working week of the year coming to an end, Christmas tree on 5/6th Jan & Deaf-Blogs.com.

January Blues

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Festive celebrations now behind us - 2006 begins with January, in my opinion the most depressing month of the whole year :(

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2006!

Back home yesterday from France where we've been spending our New Year's celebrations. It was absoluting dead in Dijon on New Year's Eve. It seemed that the French, or Dijoneses, don't do New Year with a bang as we do in England but Martin and I had romantic candlelit dinner followed by a stroll around Dijon ending at the main city square before the stroke of midnight. As soon midnight was struck, the Dijoneses appeared from nowhere to wish everyone 'Bonne Année'! It was then when I popped the question to Martin - who was very surprised and did not expected it at all. Delightfully he accepted :)

After Dijon we stopped over in Lille - a terrific place to shop and we certainly shall be coming back soon to shop there for a weekend :) Got home yesterday and went over to Alex and Mike's - had lovely homemade pizza together (Alex does mean wholemeal pizzas!) and watched The Jerry Springer Opera DVD (the one I bought Martin for Christmas) - the DVD was so good - laughed so much and we all want to see it live this year!

Good start to 2006 - may it continue for the rest of the year!

I did it again!!!

We've been to the gym last night and guess what????

I've lost another 4lb - 12lb in total in the last three and half
weeks!!!! Martin also lost 4lb too :) even though he said he cannot
see the difference (but I can). Getting personal trainer is the best
thing we have ever done - she looks at everything about us - our
lifestyles and eating habits - she then gives us advices on how to
improve without doing any drastic changes...

Am feeling much lighter and am walking much faster - feeling much
more energetic than I was a month ago. Gym has changed our lives for
good - just hope that we can keep it up though!

I did it!!!!!

Been going to gym since Sept and began to have Personal Trainer few
weeks ago with Martin for an hour once a week.

The result is showing as I've lost 8lb in two weeks! I feel terrific!
Our Personal Trainer is not there to supervise how much activities we do
in the gym but she is there to supervise our whole lifestyle and our
eating habits through looking at our food diary.

Gym now is pure maths for me - the machine tells me how much calories
I've lost and I can work out how much calories I've lost through gym per
week - and I watch how much I eat - these two go hands in hands and its
finally working for me now. Years of fad dieting are now gone - its
pure effort - watch what you eat and exercise!

Feeling good about myself now and I hope I can keep up with the momentum :)

It's been a while...

...since I wrote anything in my blog!

Ireland: it was fantastic - really enjoyed the Dingle Penisula and
Dingle town. Kerry was particularly beautiful especially off the beaten
track through the mountain passes. Cashel and Kilkenny - cute. Dublin
was fantastic! Loved pint of Guinness at the end of our Guinness tour :)

Its been work work work since we got back and I've got exams coming up
(next Fri - 14th Oct) *gulp* For me I finished my course when I did my
final assignment and can't bring myself to revise for the exams. I
suppose I will do some revision tomorrow and next week.

Autumn has started - its pitch dark at 8pm here. Sad that long sunlit
hours are gone - but I love crispy autumn air with sunshine - so cold
you cannot feel the sun. Christmas is coming up too - can't wait :)
but we can't start planning for Christmas until Hallowe'en is celebrated!

SW Ireland

Visited Mizen Head yesterday - the most south western Ireland! Camping at Ballylickey near Bantry in County Cork. Either today or tomorrow off to County Kerry - yay!

Ireland!

Boarded finally on ferry at Pembroke Dock - our Irish holiday begins! So so looking forward to relaxing for the next two weeks roaming the Emerald Isle!

Holidays are here (well almost!)

Today was my last working day before the holidays! Yay!

I can't say how much I'm so looking forward to our Irish trip - its been
a while since we both had proper holiday! India was a lovely holiday
but it was more of an expedition rather than holiday (we indeed had
holiday from our work!) Sicily was lovely but Martin and I were ill
during some of the holiday! Now we're having a restful and relaxing
holiday this time and hopefully the emerald countryside will soothe us
and forget everything about our work! :)

However, having said that, I have endless of errands to do before our
hols - ho hum!

Locked out!

Here I am - writing this email using my mobile phone. It's so fortunate that I put my mobile in my pocket as have just locked myself out - barefoot! All because i was doing something good ie putting rubbish out!

Just texted Martin and he'll be on his way to let me in again. So funny that it happened after we had this discussion just last night about getting our keys cut for our dear friends in Hemel should we ever lock ourselves out! Talking about cruel fate!

August - wet or dry?

The weather has been very interchangeable in the last month - fingers crossed for dry and warm weather for August AND Sept in Ireland!!

A huge project which I'm involved at work is soon coming to an end - I'm so grateful for this project for giving me opportunity to develop/learn and to gain confidence even more in my own abilities. However at the same time I'm looking forward to the end of this project and take a well-deserved holiday! Our holiday cannot come any quicker - still three weeks away *groan*

At least the weather is bright outside and I'm making a good progress with my study and not forgetting I'm reading a rather good book called "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. Three weeks shall fly past and before I know it, we'll be on our way to Ireland!! :)

My birthday in Yorkshire

Had really lovely day yesterday. Martin joined me at York in the evening (he got the train from ALDC conference in Leeds). Last night we dined at co-operative Spanish/Latin cafe which we totally recommend! Today we visited Fountains Abbey - it was so breath-taking! Have added a picture here.

We will definitely be coming back here again soon! We're in car now - Martin's driving the 2nd leg of our journey home!

York Minster

Old York! Old York!

York is cute, quaint, and beautiful! Can't believe I haven't been here before today! Can see myself visiting this city again and again! So many alleys radiating off the streets which lead to small secret treasures of the city! Just been to Richard III museum and the Treasurer's House. Now contemplating my next move! :)

Greetings from Yorkshire!

Drove up to Leeds as soon Martin finished work and the car serviced! Well I didn't drive all the way up - Martin did the most of the way!

Martin is now fast asleep - knackered from motorway driving and I'm here writing this entry (managed to find a wireless service - three quid for
30 mins. Expensive I know but I don't care!)

Tomorrow Martin's off to ALDC Conference (Association of Liberal
Democrats Councillors) in Pudsey - I'll be dropping him off tomorrow
morning there and then drive to York where I shall be on a shopping
spree!!! Its my birthday weekend and it's a perfect excuse :) Martin
will meet me up later in York and we'll go out for a birthday dinner.

Martin gave me his present to me this afternoon - there wasn't any point hiding a huge packaging in our car! Its a DVD recorder with HDD - 80GB
meaning I can record up to 227 hours on its hard drive - cool or what?
I'm so over the moon - but the downside is that I can't use it until we
drive back home on Sunday - heheh :)

Gonna sleep now - night night