…and I haven’t blogged in November yet. The problem is where do I start ? There seems so much to say, and I don’t know where to begin. Lets start with the little one first and go from there…

Ellie

Well she is now out of plaster. A visit to the hospital last week showed the elbow is healing, and it was decided to leave the plaster off. So, some progress. The boots we ordered Ellie for her birthday finally turned up, and she was pleased with them.

Robbie

Rob came home for the weekend just gone, he enjoyed home comforts and home food for the weekend. The uni course seems to be going quite well, and he has made some friends and seems to be enjoying it. I picked him up Friday lunchtime and he was looking quite hairy ! Tricia gave him a hair cut, and trimmed his beard for him, so when he went back Sunday evening he looked a little tidier

Nikki

Nikki is in Igls Austria where she will be making her GB debut on Thursday, at about 2pm. She has been in ‘bobschool’ for the last week, and did a number of practice runs which sound like they went quite well. Fingers crossed they do well. Tomorrow Nikki is 22…. and I am not quite sure where all the time has gone.

Tricia

Tricia has been busy producing cakes, chutneys and a new line called ‘medler jelly’… Medlers don’t smell too good when being boiled up, so I am glad it has all finished… but the end result tastes great. Tricia is off to Cardiff with Wendy and Deb this weekend.

Me

Back to work after a relaxing week off last week. I enjoyed a couple of days in Hay on Wye in the second hand bookshops, on the Monday I spent seven hours just in the bookshops… for me a pleasant and relaxing few days.

We have finally got the heating sorted out… after we had the hot water tank replaced some time back, the heating stopped working… boiler man came out and sorted it out… but we then noticed that whilst the radiators would come on, the water in the tank wasn’t being heated, and also that the thermostat which we control the heating with didn’t seem to operate. So, out came boiler man again… its all sorted now though.

Saturday night we had some friends round to celebrate a few birthdays. A terrific evening… but I was tired in the end. I had done a few hours on the bike earlier in the day, and the fresh air and late evening caught up with me. Now these are what you call birthday cake candles!