It’s been a mis­er­able rainy day here. We’ve had glo­ri­ous weather here for weeks so I sup­pose I shouldn’t com­plain… espe­cially since it’s the north of Eng­land– it’s always rainy and mis­er­able here. Wal­ly­woo and I went to PC World on Sat­ur­day and picked up a wire­less modem. He worked on it all of Sun­day… [Con­tinue Reading]

I am mak­ing plans to come visit this sum­mer. The aim is to cel­e­brate Squidge’s birth­day sur­rounded by fam­ily and friends, so I will def­i­nitely be in MA the last week of June. Mark your cal­en­dars we’ll being hav­ing a good old fash­ioned Por­tuguese hoe­down!! Bring on the linguica!!

So I met w/ a nutri­tion­ist and a per­sonal trainer at my doc­tors office on Wednes­day. I’m try­ing to lose 20lbs and thought I should get checked out first. Great… super… won­der­ful. I’m going to the gym 3 days a week and try­ing to walk as much as pos­si­ble. Great… super… won­der­ful. I woke up… [Con­tinue Reading]

We went to a local park today to protest the planned build­ing of an 18 room house. The land was donated to the city as a memo­r­ial garden/park. The pro­posed build­ing is against the orig­i­nal covenant. The res­i­dence asso­ci­a­tion would like to block this, we agree so off we went ‘protest­ing’. Here are some pho­tos… [Con­tinue Reading]

I’m here I just don’t have the energy to post any­thing at the moment. I promise to post loads of pic­tures tomor­row. I hope all is well back home and that the weather is a bit more spring like. We went to 2 nearly new sales today and pur­chase loads of things for Squidge. Again… [Con­tinue Reading]

Not a good com­bi­na­tion. Last night I went out to wish my friend Bil­lie good luck and see you soon. She and her fam­ily are mov­ing to Wales. Her hus­band is Welsh and they’ve decided to move closer to his fam­ily. I had a great time but boy am I out of prac­tice. I was… [Con­tinue Reading]