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Vic’s sister Ali arrived from Canada yesterday in time for the family wedding on Saturday.  Vic and her sister are very close so of course she was very happy to see her and couldn’t wait to meet her at the railway station.

Last night, as a bit of a treat, the Foreshaw girls went to see My Fair Lady and thoroughly enjoyed themselves Ali kept nodding off after the 8 hour flight but kept on jerking herself back to the land of the living much to the amusement of Vic and Janet!

Here’s a couple of pictures of me and Ali taken with my Clie (hence the crapness!)

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At last I got my second lot of slides back – and they are crap 🙁  For a while they couldn’t find them and I was just ready to give them a right bollocking when they looked where they shouldn’t have been and found them………..

This is about the only one I like – It’s of Westminster Abbey reflected in the bonnet (hood) of a car parked outside.

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Another long weekend gone and my frustration with 56k dial up is growing 🙁

Vic’s Mum (Janet) turned up safe and sound on Saturday morning much to Vic’s delight.  The rest of Saturday was basically spent chilling out and trying to keep Janet awake

On Sunday morning we took Janet into central London to meet up with most of the super six for brunch at Providores. Then it was off up to Colchester for Janet to meet some of her 8 brothers and sisters! and a birthday party that most of them attended. They were, of course, very excited to see her and the red wine mixed with jet lag made for an amusing spectacle   As it was a long weekend we didn’t have to come back and spent Sunday night at Colin and Gills with the trip home only happening after a scrummy roast beef dinner early on Monday evening- yum!

It’s Tuesday now and Vic has the week off to spend with her Mum. I’m staying out of the way as much as possible as she has things planned for almost every day this week and I’m more than happy to leave them to it. Vic’s sister Ali also turns up from Canada on Thursday so it’ll be me and the three Foreshaw girls…………..

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Friday lunchtime – had breakfast? check, caught up on emails? check, cleaned guest bathroom to within an inch of it’s life? check

Vic’s Mum, Janet, is arriving in the UK from New Zealand tomorrow and Vic is understandably very excited.  It’s a long way from NZ.  How long? you ask:

? 1 hour flight Wellington to Auckland

? About 4 hours at Auckland for check-in, security etc

? 12 hour flight from Auckland to Los Angeles

? 2 hours in LA

? Another 12 hour flight from LA to London

? About 3 hours from touchdown to our house

So yeah it’s quite a long trip :dead:

Vic and I have been on a bit of a cleaning frenzy over the last couple of days. I’m not a big fan of cleaning but Vic gets very exact when people visit.  I think it’s mainly a girl thing…..

PS: Bloody shop screwed up my second lot of slides.  I took two films in at the same time to be developed and got a phonecall about a week later to say they were ready.  On picking them up I was told that only one had been finished and that the lab said that the other one would be ready the next day. I went in the next day only to be told that they couldn’t find my film. They called the lab and were told that it wouldn’t be ready until next Tuesday!!  How on earth can two films taken in on the same day be sent back almost a week apart? Bastards! 🙁

Given that it’s a 45 minute trip each way this is really turning out to be a pain in the arse!  Another problem is that all the shops seem to send slide film away to the same lab (big Kodak one somewhere) so taking my films to another shop isn’t going to help. The only option I have is to take it to a pro lab and pay twice as much 🙁

Bah humbug……

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My first day between jobs was very relaxing thank you very much

I had lunch with Vic and Claire then went and picked up the first of two slide films I had developed and scanned.  The slides are really nice and sharp but the scans are absolute crap 🙁  (I really should buy a scanner)

There were a couple that I took specifically for The Mirror Project – click on the “But wait…..” link if you want to have a look

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The meeting with my manager (sales director) went really well today

We met up with the operations director and went to a small pub in the countryside.  I handed over all my company owned equipment and paperwork, ran through my accounts and then we settled down for a chat and a bite to eat (they even bought me lunch!) The meeting ended up being almost two hours long and was very amicable.

All in all a good day :vbg:

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I resigned from my job today. 

It took them 10 minutes for them to stop my access to the systems which wasn’t too shabby   I am getting together with my manager tomorrow to give him my resignation letter and to hand over all my company possessions.

I felt bad because of all the time and money they had spent on me over the last ten months but there are things happening there that make it too unstable for my liking.  After all I’m soon to be a family man

I have another job lined up and just have to agree on a start date which will probably be at the end of my “gardening leave”

A new day dawns………………….

Another weekend over and nothing to show for it.

Vic and I basically did nothing besides stay as cool as possible.  Although the temperature was less than the forecast (31/88 instead of 33/91) it was still pretty hot!  Vic isn’t feeling the heat as badly as in the first trimester but it’s still not up there on the list of her favourite things

SA beat Australia in the final game of the tri-nations tournament which makes the All Blacks the Tri-nations champs! GO THE AB’s :vbg:

And that’s about it. To be honest it was really nice to chill out and I felt very close to Vic this weekend. Her Mum turns up from NZ next weekend for a family wedding so I think it will be the last quiet weekend we have for a while!