Peter’s Hospital Diary

And the title says it all! Monday and Tuesday were fairly normal, but on Wednesday evening, Roo had a party for 30 of her friends as they are all leaving school and going on to 6th form college. Luckily the rain held off, as they were in the garden. We did have a gazebo up and that would have provided some shelter had it rained… However it was a late night for them – and as they were nattering into the night, for us too! I was up early on Thursday for a meeting in Bristol, collected at 7:15. Luckily I wasn’t driving so I could (and did!) doze most of the way there. A good meeting and I was back fairly early in the afternoon.

Friday was my last day at work before we go on holiday. It was a quiet day, so we strolled across to a local snackery were one of my work colleagues treated me to a bacon and egg roll! Thank you Jayne!

Last night (Friday) was the Summer Ball at work. We took Vicki and Tom, Katie and Rachael and had a great time. We were lucky(ish) in that although we had torrential rain in the afternoon, the rain held off in the evening. It was cool, but we all had a good time and stayed pretty much to the end at 2am! I managed the food (apart from the spicy stuff – it was a cold buffet) although my tongue was a bit sore this morning. We did take some photographs and when I have sorted through them, I will put them on the gallery.

And tomorrow we are off to France! It was a late start this morning – kicked off by the postman delivering THE book! (That which I need not name!) Since then we have taken things quietly, getting clothes together etc. We have a little shopping to do, then it is off at 6 ish tomorrow morning to get the high speed ferry to Caen and drive down to the Dordogne. I am planning on taking the laptop with me so I will be updating the blog and maybe post the odd photo! This is the first time we have been away for a couple of years – so another step in getting my life back – I am really looking forward to it!

Finally, on the tech side, I have finished tweaking the computer and the file systems are now all on logical volumes (this means that I can resize them more easily when they are on line). The final stage took a bit of working out, but I learned a lot while working out how to do it!

So Onwards and Upwards!