Tuesday 28 October 2008

Oww Poor Richard

So I've played my first football match of the year, this momentous event happened last week and true to form I proceeded to remove the skin from my elbow and knee and leave it spread liberally across the floor. I was helped by Steve the Irish guy with a judicious shove in the back, or maybe I'm just clumsy and old, who can tell :)

Sunday 12 October 2008

Go Ian!!

As a bloke I would like to congratulate Ian on getting Lorna pregnant, and wish him well with all the complaining and whining he's going to get over the following years. Just remember ladies pregnancy not easy on blokes either.

Cheers

BF

Dirty slacker husband

And the date of the 20th of October was chosen as a feast day and there was much rejoicing and the world was a better place.
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Ok so I've been in work for all of 4 months now and now I'm going down to 20 hours per week.So let's try and answer some of the big questions here.
1: What's all that about
1a: How did I wangle that.
2: When's the divorce

1: I've recently come to the end of my probation period with Focus and they have said they're happy with me and want me to stay on. While we were on holiday Jacqui and I talked a lot about what we wanted and what would be good for us. We agreed that it was better for us when I wasn't working and that we would like to go back to that situation where I was doing all the stuff that made our lives better when we were both at home.

So I went to Focus when I got back and said all this to my boss, fully expecting to be leaving work that week or very soon after. Then the buggers go and offer me a part-time role!!! This suits us really well, an ideal situation we think, so we've sorted out the details and we're both really positive about what this means for us.

1a: It's Jacqui who has the work permit and if she leaves work we get deported.

2: Hopefully never he says, shamelessly fishing for brownie points.

So there you have it I am now both working and a slacker and we'll see how it all works out.

Regards

BF

So if we're not dead what have we been doing?

Okay we may have slipped a smidgen in updating the blog but we're both still functioning and we saw a large chunk of you on our fairly recent trip across the pond. And a very nice trip back to blighty it was, very cool seeing friends and family and my dad's 60th birthday was a really nice focal point for the whole thing.

So in summary since the end of August we have:

Finished planning our trip to England
Been to England
Travelled Back to Canada
Recovered from exhausting trip to England.

Since we've been back we've been to our first Canadian Football game (free executive tickets woohoo:), I've been working down in Calgary for a bit and Jacqui's been working her hands raw catching up with the surprise mountain of work at ISL.

Last Friday was a welcome rest for both of us, Jacqui and a dozen or so other harpies went to see Canadians with questionable English accents assault Pride and Prejudice. And she said it was good fun and well worth doing. While I made my excuses and went out with John and Ian for drinks and the most expensive steak meal I've ever had, and it was truly wonderful. The restaurant's in an old bank in downtown Edmonton, we were in the normal seats but we did see a group of people eating in the privacy of the vault, pretty cool!

And that brings us neatly up to Thanksgiving weekend here in Canadia. Jacqui and I have been cleaning the house up as we have friends coming over tomorrow (Monday, it's a Bank Holiday here) for a turkey meal and quite probably one or two drinks, it's the Canadian way we feel obliged :)

Anyway Thanks for reading the fairly long post and we hope you're all lovely.

Cheers

BF&WBF xxxxx

We're not dead yet

This is just a quick post and it's been seperated from the main post to make sure you guys see it.

We had a really nice time back in England and it was really great to see you all again.

Thankyou soo much for those of you we stayed with and special thanks to Jacky and Duncan and Jacqui's parents for ferrying us about, it made it all possible.