Reflections

Thank you so much to everyone that has enquired re: my Dad... I will get back to you all, but all I can say is that he is fine. Doing pretty well - bit of swelling etc., but nothing too major. He is restored back to his grumpy old self - so all is well ;-)

We have been up to lots, but nothing of any real note! I spent several evenings last week creating a website for my friends Chris and Francesca. Mark can't always understand my motives for doing arduous things for other people, without any gain for myself (not that he really noticed this one). I did however really enjoy the challenge, and of course... I actually enjoy doing things for other people because I can. I haven't ever constructed a website from scratch without using FrontPage or the like, and while I still actually had some help (a friend gave me a starting point to build on) I like to think that perhaps I could rely on someone else to do the same sort of thing for me - help me out with something I simply don't have a clue how to start. Perhaps I am a little too optimistic at times! ;-) Anyway... it means that if I ever need anything thatched, Chris and Fran owe me one... perhaps a new wig for those post-gym moments?

Mark and I celebrated our 4th anniversary last week - and lets just say that we overdid it a little. A simple meal out at our fave local restaurant (The Phoenix in Histon). It turned into a couple of drinks in a pub, then the meal (washed down with wine), then a few drinks in another local hostelry, and home - to drink and put the world to rights (until silly-o-clock)... Its comforting to know that we can still do that after four years, since that is how we more or less started out some four years ago - when he took me to Benstead Marshes for our first date. My Mum still berates me for agreeing to meet a strange man on a marsh - little does she know that he actually picked me up at my house. Heh....

Other than that, not alot to report. Histon FC are doing pretty well, and have for the first time in their history topped Cambridge United in the league tables - something to celebrate!! ;-) Not bad for a village team! ;-)

I had some very sad news yesterday actually... a guy I went to school with, who I was in touch with a few years ago when I lived in Norwich, died at the weekend. Stuart Kiddle - he struck me as a complete hedonist, but an extremely caring soul and a hard worker. He died of a heart attack, bought on by an asthma attack apparently. I guess it puts all my other little worries in life into perspective... my condolences go to his friends and family... far too young. I know that I didn't know him *that* well, but for some reason it has shocked me to the core.

Anyway... on that sorrowful little note, I will sign off. Perhaps I will have something nicer to say later in the week!

Love and Peace
Hayley
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