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Another year... hope it's all great for all of you.

I am currently charging up my new phone.. which I am joined at the hip with currently.. I LOVE it... Then I am going to download all the party photos I took last night at my neighbours house!

We had one poor lady who had FAR FAR too much to drink.. which kind of put the rest of us off drinking mostly.. so we had a pretty sober new year... which is fine as far as I am concerned, because apart from feeling a bit tired - we all got to bed at 4am - I feel pretty OK today.

Hope you all had a nice new year, whatever you did.

Happy New Year, everyone! May it be filled with socks, love, a good health, happiness and loads of Nish.



I celebrated at the bass drummer's house with a few band people. There were 14 of us and we had a great time. I stayed sober as well because I had to drive myself home but we nevertheless had fun playing board games and cards. Of course, we played from old to new on the street, cheered on by the neighbours. I was home at 4:30 am. LOL.

Any new year's resolutions? Mine are to loose another 10kg/20pounds to get to my goal weight, get into a shape that fits a person my age and not a granny, improve the status of my savings account, try to be less easily annoyed by silly things and upgrade my knowledge of the English language.

Lizzie

Happy New Year to you all.
T had a (well-paying) jazz gig so I stayed in and watched my Snowcake dvd (new 2-disc version with lots of extras) however Bill and I discovered the dog had got out of the catflap about 8.30pm and was not in the garden! . I had the tv on but Bill said that there had already been a load of fireworks locally so I set off with torch, treats and lead. I crossed the road to the woods but no sign but as I re-entered the estate I heard a rustling in the hedge of the first house and there she was! We kept her in the kitchen for the rest of the night but she was still terrified at midnight. Went to bed about 1pm then some stupid sods at 1.15pm decided to let off more fireworks in the valley which woke us up again. T came in about twenty mins later as I was just going off to sleep! Oh well I let the dog out at 8.30am then went back to bed 'til 11.30am!!

I need to resolve to get down three or four pounds to my lowest weight again but not much chance to start 'til Monday! Hope this year will be happier than last but not counting on it!

What make of phone did you get Row?

SD & I had a fairly quiet New Year's eve. We walked down to a chinese restaurant and had a lovely meal there and a few drinks (no revolving table in this chinese so no chance to do any damage lol)

Then we staggered back home and had some more drinks and saw the New Year in watching Jools Holland.

Yesterday we went for a long walk in the fields at the back of my house as part of our New Year keep fit campaign. We also went to see what they had in the sales in Next & Marks & Spencer - what a load of rubbish!

Happy New Year everyone
xx

Some of the younger members of my family did quite well in the Next sale, got there at 5am on the first day

My DH received a 7 series DVD set of the Brittas Empire for Christmas and we saw in the New Year with the first six episodes

I wanted to go to the sales tomorrow too but I'm going to play at a funeral instead. The shops are open on Sunday too though so perhaps I might still go and have a peek unless I go in the afternoon.

Had my first day at my new job and the contrast can't be any bigger. I feel so good there and the contact with my direct boss is wonderful. So I can only hope it continues this way.

Lizzie

Great news Lizzie!

My phone is a Samsung Tocco Lise. Here's it's photo.. Although mine is pale pink!



It's a touch screen one.. and has all sorts of fun things you can do with it.. although none of them are particularly useful.. ! LOL.. they are fun..

Has anyone else been experiencing this snowy weather? It's very deep in the Shires, deep enough to build a snowman.
SD and I went for a walk over the field last night and ended up having a snowball fight! (I won :))

The roads are very icy though so I decided I should stay at home int he warm all day today

I don't make resolutions, I never keep to them.

I want to continue to shed those extra pounds, I'd like to lose another 14 if possible and then I'll be happy (probably).

We had a little bit of snow but thankfully it had gone by early yesterday afternoon. I hate the stuff, I hate being cold and I'm trying to nudge the husband into looking into moving somewhere warmer. Even if we don't move until after he retires, I can't see myself living out my days in England.

Florida perhaps?

We had about an inch or so yesterday.. brrrrr it's flippin cold tho.. Ollie made a snow cat yesterday (as you do) and it's still there on my garden table... two days later! The canal in Woking is frozen solid. Ollie and I went for a cold walk this afternoon, so that he could poke at it with sticks and throw stones on it! LOL!

I hope you're all keeping warm. Does anyone else remember winters always used to be like this? Or is it just me?

Comicforce wrote:Florida perhaps?

I hope you're all keeping warm. Does anyone else remember winters always used to be like this? Or is it just me?

Haha sure sign you're getting old girl!! Actually there were some very severe winters in the early 80's as I recall. Loads of us at work went skating on Lodge Pond in the lunch break at the Forestry Commission. (Somebody had a joblot of army boots with skates attached that he brought in). When I told T he "forbade" me to do it again so you can guess what I did the next day! Nothing to beat skating outside with that hiss and crack of the ice.

Frensham Pond is frozen, I went this afternoon to take some pix.

cleeketycleek wrote:Haha sure sign you're getting old girl!! Actually there were some very severe winters in the early 80's as I recall. Loads of us at work went skating on Lodge Pond in the lunch break at the Forestry Commission. (Somebody had a joblot of army boots with skates attached that he brought in). When I told T he "forbade" me to do it again so you can guess what I did the next day! Nothing to beat skating outside with that hiss and crack of the ice.

Frensham Pond is frozen, I went this afternoon to take some pix.

Lovely photo Sue. And actually I am getting old.. but keep quiet about it, I am sure there is someone somewhere who doesn't know yet! Yes I do remember having to dig my car out of a snow drift in the 80's.... although if I keep saying things like that people might guess I suppose! LOL..

We've driven to Kenilworth today, as you do, so that we could take Ollie to the Dore Centre. He had his follow up assessment after we went last August! He is doing OK.. they say.. and I have an email address where I can email the lady who saw him today, which is good. Ollie was VERY anti-going, but says he enjoyed it.. what can you do with kids?! the trip was very cold, specially in our little car, that takes about three months to warm up.. but it did it eventually after 2.5 hours... in time for it to cool down again for the return journey...

It's back to school for Ollie tomorrow, which he is delighted about, as I imagine you can guess... but actually he isn't too upset, I think he is missing his friends by now.. Also he has a new classroom (built since the summer) to go into.. so he has stuff he wants to go for.

Anyway nothing much else to report from Woking, other than Andy attempting to burn the kitchen down the other night! I heard him go into the kitchen after dinner, swear.. and then there was banging.. I ran out to find he'd left the plastic collander on top of the STILL lit gas!! We had smoke, flames, and dripping hot plastic everywhere!!! Fortunately nothing too much damaged after I threw a wet tea towel over it.. he was standing there panicking! Except the loss of one pan, and one collander... it could have been SO much worse...

Stay warm folks...

You've only had a little bit of snow? We had a lot of snow falling down in the night from Sunday to Monday and it's still around! Not all of it of course but my resolution to go to work with high heels has already fallen down because of the weather. In fact, we've just had a night with temperature dropping to minus 17, yes seventeen, degrees celsius! We usually have some low minus figures but never this deep. Through the week, the temperature didn't even go into the positives during the day! Unfortunately, I had to go to work or I would've gone out to take some pictures. Might still do that this weekend though because it still freezes.

Unlike Fairy, I looooooooooooooooooooooove snow so I don't mind it too much.

Lizzie, still loving her new job.

SO I totally failed at life and posted in the old thread. I lose. So I shall copy and paste it here! A Belated Happy New Year to you Ladies!! I'm so sorry that it's been so long since I've been on properly. I got bogged down with finals and final projects and then Christmas and my birthday attacked my life and I didn't have a spare moment. I was too busy trying not to plot mass murder against my family and a few of my friends. Luckily it's calmed down quite a bit and in extra fun new I finally got a laptop!! I've been dying for one and I had enough money after my Christmas to get one so I figured "damnit, I'm 20 now I'm getting one!" I also got a brand new digital camera seeing as how mine killed it's shutter and it would've way more expensive to get it fixed than to just get a new one. So I bought a shiny new camera and I looove it. I took some great pictures of my friends at a little get together we had last week. Check 'em out!
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This is one of my best friends Nicole aka Yellowlight (I love her dearly but she zones out sometimes and is just slow on the uptake, hence Yellowlight)

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Here we have Corryn and Jill. I've known both of them since nearly forever

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And here's me and Nicole, displaying one of the many fun things my camera can do. I can take all the color out of the frame BEFORE taking a photo except for the one I want.

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Me and Corryn of course!

Oh and as for those of you who got snow, you lucky bastards! I wish I had snow. We had terrible winds last night that blew what little snow we had all away. Now it's just cold and windy is which just makes me cranky. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas & New Year's. I know I did. I got the first three series of Doctor Who and the 1st and 2nd series of Torchwood along with several books. I've barely left my room! .

I don't think it counts as failing at life sweety.. LOL.. But Happy New year to you too! Bit late now, seeing as it's the middle of January.. but better late than never..

Great photos there ! Love the colour change one.. and ever so nice to see a photo of you!

Well It's been a day or so.. and I am really back at work now.. and busy busy busy... nobody seems to have told Woking that there is a credit crunch on, and we're being swamped with properties and sales! Good news I guess... Maybe it means that the low interest rates are having an effect....? Of course it could just be a big first month after Christmas rush.. but fingers crossed..

Hope you're all having a good start to the year.