22nd of August, twenty-oh-six
Oh 'nads, where to restart after lawd-knows-how-many-months 'recess'?
Yup, oi've been plenty slack of late and this good ol' blog of mine has suffered somewhat. Actually, that's something of a lie, I haven't been very slack at all, I've been running around like a mad cycling weirdo from A to B, then back to A, with numerous detours to C through Z and beyond along the way.
Gonna take this rehabilitation slowly, one section at a time, gradually drip-feeding in news and anecdotes as and when I have a mo here and there. Let's get some news out of the way first of all:
Back in London - Oh yes, I've moved back to the leafy (dried up) 'burbs of West London with much time spent in the greenlands down Sahf with Emily.
Interruption - Emily - Blimey, she's very cool! I'm a very, very lucky chap :-)
Resumption - Back in London - I spend lots and lots of time commuting between UB, SM, SE and until recently, EC. Newsworthy events of late have been:
Jury Service - I was randomly called up to fulfil one of my public duties and rocked up at the hotest court in the land with about ten hundred other randomly confused would-be-jurors at the beginning of July. Spent a week not being randomly selected for juries until I was finally amongst a sporting twelve. We had a long and complicated murder trial to sit through - it was pretty nasty - before we retired to be randomly locked in a room for a week to deliberate. 'Lucky' me got to be the jury foreman so had to keep the rabble of (it must be said, pretty cool) fellow jurors on course. Eventually we reached our verdists. Then I got to do one of the most nerve-racking things little me's ever done; deliver the verdicts to the court. Not pleasant.
Anyway, it's over now and all the time it took up has been returned to me to spend as I see fit.
Wedding - Luke & Sarah got married a couple of weeks ago! Hearty congratulations to them :-) It was a really beautiful event and I enjoyed myself a lot. (My slightly querky transport & accomodation will be recounted in 'Bicycling' v soon...)
Time's ticking away and it's time to go to work. Oh yeah...
Work - Rather obviously no longer at the mighty G-lands as the commute from Greenford to Shinfield would be somewhat prolonged so my year there ended with the end of the tennancy on my Reading penthouse apartment. So I'm... back at Evans! Unbelivably I'm working back at The Cut but crucially not as a sales assistant again (I could never handle that again) but this time in the workshop as a mechanic. Finally, a job I look forward to going to. Let's see how it goes...
Emily - Have I mentioned just how grrrrreat Emily is and how wonderfully happy she makes me? She's a good laugh too :-))))
Tha's enough for now, methinks, I'll be back...
