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And the year continues

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:29:14 +0100

Hey there, it is July now. I have not been sucessful in retaining a job in our re-structure. Unfortunately there are also no jobs available at this time either with the rest of the restructure about to happen as well. Still I have bought a few extra months and I am hopefull that I will get something before being forced to leave.

On a different note, I have been accepted onto the Collage course I have applied for. I am starting an ITEC diploma course in Holistic Massage in September. I have done a couple of 'general interest' courses over the past few month and they have gone really well. I am really looking forwards to the re-training. It will be a massive amount though!!!

They do say that all the Stress comes together though.Whilst I have started the re-training and have had to re-apply for my job, we have also had problems with Harley. He got attacked wilst in school by another pupil using a craft knife. It was disgusting the way that the school handled things. They felt that it was not really an issue and massively trivialised things. we have faught them all the way and I think they realise now that it WAS a big deal, however they are just not going to admit it. Still the main thig is that Harley was not hurt physically. He has been emotionally affected, but seems nicely on the way to recovery. It took several weeks before the school started to do something about it and now the school head rather than Headmaster is involved, it is being dealt with. It just re-affirms why I hate schools.

Karl has just finished his exams. He is doing really well. It is amazing how different the kids are! He is looking set to get better results thsan Daryl. However Daryl is just intent on 'partying' rather than taking his life seriously.

And the year continues

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:50:20 +0100

Well, I did say that it was unlikely that I would do many posts and a 2-3 month interval is probably more that I would have expected.

The year continues and we are now very nearly into March. In the next couple of weeks I will be going through a selection process to reapply for my job. Hopefully that will go well and I'll get what I go for, If not I guess it will be time to start thinking of a plan 'B'. I have some ideas and am working towards that, but any re-training will not be possible overnigh, so quite a bit of thinking to do.

Kath and I are trying to wind down a bit and take our minds off of things. we have been out for a meal at the OXO tower recently. Luckily I got that paid for as a bonus from work and was a really good evening. We had some great food and drink and then went for a trip on the London Eye (again). We have a few other things in plan - Meals with friends, a fish pedicure and so on. Hopefully these will all be good enjoyable, relaxing things.

Anyway, enough for now. I'll try and post again in the not too distant future.

"Iiiiiiittttttsssss Christmas!"

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:08:01 +0100

OK, so I haven't bothered posting much wfor a while now. To be honest I cant really be that bothered. However Christmas is fast approaching and I would like to wish anybody who has bothered to read this a very mart Christmas. I hope that you get everything that your heart desires and manage to take it easy over the Christmas break!

Great weather

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:16:32 +0100

Wow, what great weather we are having at the moment. I have definately taking advanage of the sunny weather.

Geoff and Penille are over to visit this weekend, so we are having a B-B-Q this weekend and I have plans to consume a decent amont of alcohol to compliement the good food. We have found a great ribs recipe and have already done the pre-cooking and made the sauce, so it should come together well without too much hastle.

Hope everyone enjoy's the weekend.

Added link

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:47:58 +0100

Hi,

I have added a link to the web pages that Harley has made.

Stewart's Blog - 10/06/2010

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:17:09 +0100

Hi all,

I really can't imagine that there will be many entries on this Blog as I have never really been that much of a diary keeper. But in the spirit of thing's I thought I would at least start one off.

The reason for the web site redesign is that we were rather bored of the slow internet connection speed we had. It wasn't really the fault of our ISP, but just the distance we are from the exchange. Then along came BT INFINITY, their new Fibre service.

We used to struggle to get a 500kb service, but now we are fortunate enough to have the Fibre distribution cabinet at the end of the road and we get the full 40mb service. The conversations with BT said that they were offering 21mb and the engineer who installed it did say that he had never seen an online checker go above 20, but I personally observed the readings on his handheld line checker that he plugged in and we are indeed getting the full 40mb service (although only showing 21mb on the online checkers). Having said that I would really debate that most people will notice any difference between 4mb and 21mb anyway, let alone 40mb. I'll tell you what though, loading the pictures up for the Family Snaps page was sure quick. NICE!!!!

With the swap over I lost the web space that I had. So have found Yola as a free webspace provider. Obviously they want you to subscribe to a better package, but I thought i'd give the basic 'free' package a go. It's a little restricting, but to be honest I have been quite impressed. It gives me about 1gb storeage on this site (and I can have upto 5 of them) and I am only around 30mb in so far. So that's not bad at all really!

(btw - I have still got my own domain registered and pointing it at Yola / BT so the WWW and email addresses have not changed)

Anyway. Hope you enjoy looking around and we'll speak soon :)

Stewart