Purple Grasshopper

Well I have been a busy bee the last few weeks.

I’ve finally completed all of my core training at work. Three one day courses in three weeks. Okay so that doesn’t sound like much but when you factor in travel time it makes for very long days. Now that I’m done with all of the core training I can start on the elective ones such as, fire marshal training, dealing with the media, all kinds of good things coming my way.

Winter has finally arrived here in the past few days. The Met Office was predicting blizzards from Russia late last week. Seems they hit with force Sunday night in the south, London was pretty much closed on Monday morning with no bus service or underground service. But up this way in the northwest, it was just like being at home. Wonderful snow all around me and not a flake in site! At least that was my thought Sunday night.

How wrong I was! I woke up on Monday morning to a dusting of snow. Or what most people called here Oh My God SNOW!!! Now normally I go to lunch on Mondays with my friend John, we meet up in Liverpool, go to a pub have good food catch up for an hour. Then he goes back to work and I come back home.

Not yesterday, I was smart and stayed at home, tucked up and warm. It was a good thing too since it started to snow again about 1pm then snowed again for a couple hours more around 4pm. The last snow storm dumped enough snow on us to stick. Thankfully Mal got what we call the good bus, which means that he didn’t have to do the mile walk from the nearest town Liscard.

Today when we woke up all the snow had melted. So very typical of here! But it was nice while it lasted. We both had the day off work because our new fridge was being delivered. We slept in a bit and then got busy getting the kitchen ready. Before now we had what I’ve always called, one of those executive fridges. You know the ones that have no freezer and fit under a counter top. There was never anyway to have it full of a weeks worth of food unless you wanted to play Tetris every time you wanted to put something in or take something out of the blasted thing. The freezer is right next to it and is also an under the counter top deal. And it’s not frost free. So to have a ‘real’ fridge and freezer all in one makes me feel like I’ve joined the 21st century in many ways. Now to just get the rest of the kitchen sorted!

We have both registered for an Open University course in digital photography which starts in May. I’m very excited about this, my first ever University class! So once that starts in May I’ll have to start working out how to juggle that, the job course work I’ll still be doing and juggling a social life!

I’m tired just thinking about it!