I know, I know... I have been beyond crap at blogging this year. I promise it will improve as the year progresses! I seem to have some form of writer's block at the moment, but I can feel in my water that things will improve on this front soon (heh... like *anyone* is seriously bothered!).
Anyway... so what has been going on? Errrrr.... nothing very exciting really! Mark and I haven't done an awful lot of late. It was my Dad's 60th a couple of weeks back, and we had a lovely evening out for it in a proper 'bistro' a la 1976... a lovely little taverna style restaurant in Kessingland of all places (the tiny village next to Lowestoft, where all of my paternal grandfather's family originate from - a kind of one horse, multiple webbed finger kinda town). I had deleious pork belly for starter (in honour of my own!), and a lamb shank for main... so a real meat fest for me! The others had delicious fish dishes - which we all supped over the chinati bottles with candles stuck in them. It was great! On the Sunday we went for a lovely walk around Walberswick and Southwold - really blew the cobwebs away (and the cream tea really helped!).
I seem to have fallen off the wagon in terms of the gym, so this last weekend (on Valentine's) Lynn dragged me out for a bracing walk around Thetford Forest - absolutely gorgeous! We had a delicious lunch in the 'lifestyle shops' in Elvedon (I treated myself to several kilos of fudge from the deli there), and stopped for hot chocolate and cake in High Lodge in the forest... a lovely day. In the evening Mark treated me to a delicious chinese, and bought me some flowers and choccies... who said that romance is dead (even if he did admit that they were the last bunch they had left in Tescos that evening... heh). On Sunday I met my friend Louise for yet more eating and shopping - we had a fabulous day wandering around Cambridge looking for clothes, and chatting in various eateries and drinkeries (?)... seemed such a shame to go back to work on Monday!
Anyway... had better focus on some work! Can I first though wish Marta, the trickiest Spaniard I know, a happy happy belated birthday for Sunday - I hope your husband and beautiful little daughter spoilt you rotten...
I am also really really happy to congratulate Jamie and Adele on the birth of little Angus - a tiny brother for Ella. He is absolutely gorgeous - and no wonder you had such a tiny, cute little bump! He is a tiddler (just 5lb 130z)... well done!
Speak soon - hopefully I will pull my finger out and have something interesting to say quite soon...
Lots of Love
Hayls
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