It’s snowing ? Hard to believe I know, but Nikki was due to race today, and it was cancelled beacuse there was too much snow. As my brother Mark observed … ‘mmmm. Winter sport cancelled due to snow, can’t wait for the cricket to be cancelled this year due to sun’. Made me smile. Nikki seems to be having a whale of a time in St Moritz. She has had a cold, but has got in plenty of bob work in the morning and been going up mountains in the afternoon. We have ‘skyped’ the last few evenings to keep in touch, and skype on the ipad is so much better and easier than on the pc.

Robbie went back to Northampton on Friday. Uni starts again on Monday… Friday evening he put a reflection on facebook…’Permanent grey clouded overcast, the scream of a 16 year old single mother in the distance, the sound of a mumbling drunken homeless man, the constant ambulance sirens… I must be back in Northampton!’… which sums up his view of Northampton.

Before he left Rob helped Ellie get started on a school project… building a castle. As with most things Rob gets involved with it has to be ‘epic’, and so the castle isn’t small. They constructed it out of cardboard, Ellie then used paper and paste to add to it, she spray painted it grey on Saturday and put the finishing touched to it today. Now there is the small challenge of getting it into school !

Ellie went back to school on Wednesday, and has slipped straight back in. I was back at work reluctantly on Tuesday. Whilst like most people I would rather be enormously wealthy and not work, I am not and so have to work. I am pretty happy at BP, and whilst it has ups and downs I pretty much enjoy it… going back to work on Tuesday was not what I wanted however. But, we get on with these things.

Tricia has removed all signs of Christmas, and it feels like it never happened! It is just the three of us in the house again for a while. This week all the usual activities kick off… Ellie is doing netball after school tomorrow, then will help Tricia with Brownies after. On Tuesday evening Tricia starts the fitness class she runs again, and Ellie is at Guides. Wednesday evening Ellie has dance, Tricia goes weight training, I pick up Ellie, then we both go to rehearsal for the village play. Thursday evening Tricia coaches at Aylesbury athletics club, Friday Ellie has dance and then we both have a rehearsal. Phew.

Thankfully Sat and Sun don’t have too much planned… yet.

 I spoke with my brother Steve in the week after reading this on his facebook, ‘So a day spent at the University College hospital for neurology detected the existence of a brain….. And a day spent doing other tests in the same place has detected blood flowing freely through it all unobstructed……. pity the radiographer injecting dye into me failed to tell me that a side effect of the dye is a sudden feeling that you have parted company with the contents of your bladder when actually, you haven’t really parted company with the contents of your bladder….. scary or what !!!

He has been having a series of tests … and the results indicate that not only does he have a brain, the blood is flowing nicely round his body. Pity that his foot op has been delayed though…

Here are a couple of pics of Nikki, one up a peak with two other members of the ladies squad, and one with the men.

Doesn’t look like hard work to me