Happy New Year

OK, so I have done my usual and completely flagged on the posting. This always happens, because life gets in the way and all of a sudden it has been almost three months since I wrote and I've thought about it maybe twice before getting distracted by something else.

Also I confess to having the memory of an ADHD afflicted goldfish.

Since October, I have:

- Got over my three-week newlywed flu.
- Celebrated our 1-month wedding anniversary with a training course in Birmingham on Business Interruption Insurance
- Celebrated our 2-month wedding anniversary with a cheap and poorly microwaved meal at the local hotel/restaurant, but at least we also shared a good bottle of wine to make up for it
- Completed my second half term as a brownie leader, making me 1/3rd of the way through my first year
- Made some inroads into a quilt project I first bought fabric for over three years ago
- Completed a cross stitch sampler to wish everyone a "Merry Fucking Christmas". It has hung by the front door this whole Festive season
- Completed the Elephant Cushion cross stitch kit I got for my birthday
- Had through from the photographer the CD of our wedding photos. They are gorgeous
- Moved house

Yeah, we finally decided that there was not much sense in us staying on the edge of the national park, when there is no work for Chris, and I spend the best part of three hours a day travelling to and from work. We have moved to a gorgeous house with double glazing, central heating, a shower, and enough space downstairs that Chris's disabled parents can come visit us. I now spend less than a hour getting to work, and am home by six in the evening. It's heaven.

There is a good college less than 5 miles away, and Chris plans to go back to education in September. The house even has a big enough room for a dining table, so (thanks to a freecycle dining table) we can actually have people for dinner and use those cut crystal tumblers. Haha!

We had a housewarming barbecue on New Year's Eve, having only moved in on the 12th December, and only cleared the old house completely on the 23rd. I managed to have time off between Christmas and New Year to make the house presentable, and we had a really great time.