posted on 26 April 2007 12:08
by
Ejc
Have been terribly remiss...... but v busy
Time flies when you're having fun, and that is what life is here. We are now the proud owners of half a dozen chickens whose eggs are even better than our small flock in the UK, 2 pigmy goats both neutered males as pets and debating about whether if we took a lamb for fattening we could actually a) do the deed, b) eat the meat. We also now have probably one of the most multicoloured cats alive, but she is very sweet and for a tiny lass make a huge amount of noise she is also excellent at ctaching lizards which she promptly brings me in the office where usually lizard & tail part company and I then have to spend time in the evning when it gets cooler trying to retrieve the lizard and for release outside the next day; our walls have a motley collecting of lizards living on them with tails in various stages of re-gowth. We're also looking at a long held dream of owning a dog....... probably in the autumn sometime.
Work has been constant, although not too busy, spending alot of time getting fully up to speed on all our standard operating processes etc which has meant some evening sessions as I've joined teleconfetrencves in the states for training. But all of that is about to change with several huge projects in the horizen so I'll be chasing my tail shortly getting them off the ground - but I love the excitiment a new big project brings - all the planning and running the what-if sessions. It is wonderful to be able to check e-mail before breakfast in my jammies and if I'm expecting something important from the States to be able to log in during the evening.
The TGV & public transport in Paris is also a revelation being efficient, on time and far less expensive than I thought so I can get door to door to the Paris office in about 3 hours, which is about the mength of time I sometimes sat on the M25 when trying to commute about 50 odd miles rather than the several hundred here.
Its strange I still keep having to pinch myself to believe we're really here, life is all that we imagined. Hubby is working hard in the garden, and his, how can I politiely put it, beer belly has gone he has really rather fanciable muscle definition coming back and even though he doesn't tan well, has gone a wonderful colour and our veg patch is full of growing stuff. Unfortunately for me, sitting at the computer is not a great way to loose eight so while huuby has become svelt, I am still the slightly cuddly person I was before, so really thing that a bicycle may be the anwser so we can go on days out by bike at the weekend rather than in the car. Years back when I worked for the NHS as a midwife I did my rounds on a bike and rode miles each day rain or shine, except one memorable Christmas day when hubby offered to drive me but since he kept being invited in and being plied with drinks by the proud ne parents I ended up driving home.Still that was probably the last time I rode a bike, so I'm hoping it's a skill that will come back easily and that I can find a bike with a comfy saddle - not one of those skinny hard things so many bikes seem to have. That probably means a trip to the local Decathlon this weekend to try a few out......