Happy New Year to my blogging family!
You may feel I have abandoned you as not written in a
while but that is far from the reality, life has just been too much going on
with “fundraising” “marathon training” “buying a house” “creating our own
show-house” at a time of year when Patient Flow is at its most prominent in the
health service! My poor creative brain had to have a back-seat in order to make
practical headway in every area mentioned and then of course we had to remember
to fit in Christmas particularly all the tradition required for a visit by the
big guy in order to meet Dylan’s expectations! Joyful Pressure!
Christmas for us was in the caravan. I’m using few words
just sharing our celebrations through my video clips and pictures, hope you
enjoy family events both with our wider family and intermit in the caravan
ending the year at a local party dancing the evening away, try and stay to the
end.
I have had a bit of London fun too over the past few
weeks. I found ‘Borough Market’, a cosmopolitan food extravagance of
multi-linked markets selling anything food, both local Londoners cuisine to
fine and exquisite culinary delicacies. Turned into interesting Christmas
present trips. Early December I met up with my friend Angie and we treated
ourselves to a ‘Shard’ experience, enjoying a fine wine and cocktail perusing a
phenomenal view of London at night. We were above Charing Cross train station,
looking across at London Bridge across the Thames, what do you think?
Rather excitingly the project I am being employed to
manage was entered for a national competition led by Health Service Journal
and we got through to the finalists. The evening was held at an international
hotel close to the O2, so just 20 mins up the road from where I stay if there
had not been a collision in the Blackwall Tunnel. OMG what a traffic jam for a
car full of ladies in their posh frocks. Arrived just before the compare
started – Lenny Henry – he was fabulous taking the ‘Michael’ out of the very
long, uninspiring names of health groups, projects etc, very funny. Our team
did not win and we all lost interest in the continued proceedings, had a boogie
and made the most of the drinks, Lenny was the high light!
As a family with our lifetime friends Val and Matthew we
enjoyed a trip to the Royal Albert Hall to see Jools Holland. Exposed to live
orchestral ‘Blues’ and ‘Boogie-Woogie’ was really quite a magnificent sound in
the RAH added to the enormity of the pleasure, had us on the edge of our seats.
The trip around London was good fun on a bright sunny day, took in a few sites
whilst enjoying coffee one of them being snowdrops in November! Dylan was
delighted to place his ‘Norfolk Stone’ at the traffic lights on Bayswater Road
to find it had gone on our return, mission accomplished!
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| Peter Pan statue in Kensington Park. |
I was delighted to be invited to ORCHIDS Fighting Male Cancer Christmas reception off Oxford Street, an opportunity to meet all those assciated with the 21 yrs old charity. I spent most of the evening enjoying the company of a fellow London Marathon runner achieving self encouragement together. Training continues to be progressing although had a bit of a set back with a throat infection, but will pick up shortly. Fundraising also progressing, all donations are greatly recieved so if you would like to support me please access my London Marathon donation page, as follows,
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fightingmalecancer
