hurrah, england have beaten the windies again!

i'm just back at work after a lovely week at home working on our house; we now have a dining room, yipee and nearly a study (we have no computer at home whilst all this is going on). its been interesting having no computer - it meant that it was easier to take the break from work as i couldn't check my emails, but i did miss it a bit - this might be cos we were at home, not sunningourselves on a beach somewhere.

highlights of the week include climbing pen-y-fan and corn du on monday in perfect weather (warm and sunny lower down, cloudy and cool higher up when we were all hot!) and whilst the Boy was paddling in a small lake half way up the discovery that leeches exist in the wild in this country; specifically in that lake - the Boy moves fast when he needs to! a lovely dinner monday night, megan may's dedication on sunday, sleeping a lot, and feeling really naughty when, being rather tired after working hard all week, i took sunday morning off from church and lay in bed.

my new job: its at bristol uni, in the department of archaeology, and i've really looking forward to it. i'll be able to walk to work, do more interesting things, (i am going to be departmental secretary and pa to the head of department), and the department seemed lovely. have i mentioned i'm looking forward to it?

it was hard coming back to work today, i was dreading it a bit, but on the whole it was about as i thought it would be - the people i expected to be pleased for me were, the others weren't, but they've had a week to calm down about it now. it probably helps that there were more staff ructions just before the weekend, to take the heat off me. i am now counting down the days:
18 working days to go.

|