Busy weekend - ish

Well this weekend has been all about organising things and fitting in as many sensible bits and bobs that need doing before Christmas as possible...

First: Mortgage.
Our first two years were nearly up, and so was the mortgage product we bought had rearly ran out. Can you believe it? So we sat and went through all the financial stuff with our very nice branch manager, Alan Robbins. He remembered us from 2 years ago when we first bought our house, which was lovely!
In the end we plumped for a 10 year one, wow... we'll be 36 when that one is up, yikes! Anything could have happened, we could have kids, we could have moved house, we could even be living in the UK where the Euro is the currency! Factoring in all the risks we decided 10 years was the most sensible, even so. It struck me that this was possibly as big a decision as buying the house in the first place, almost as big as getting married will be in 2008!!!

And on that note, we went to see two venues with a view to planning the big day. One we wrote off entirely, the other looked promising. The one we wrote off was Studley castle, great potential but not quite there yet. The other, I'm keeping close to my chest ;)!
Today I signed up to The Organ Donor register online. A few months ago I sang at an organ donor celebration service and I recently heard about this site. I have signed dozens of those organ donor cards and then gone and lost them so I think this is a terrific site. I like the thought that I could be usful after I'm gone and it's so easy to sign up, I'd recommend it to anyone who's lost those cards like me, just follow the link:
https://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/registration/consent.jsp

Today, Sunday, I walked to church and back, and Alex played football. They drew 4-4, quite a good game by all accounts. Now we're off for sunday lunch with his parents - who we haven't seen for ages. Then I think Alex has a date with the Man U vrs Chelsea game at the Jug of Ale...
boys...!

I have been writing press releases now for 6 months or so for the Friends of Historic Kings Norton. I have been given management access to the website and I can update it with the press releases as I send them out. So if you want to read them just follow the link below.
aah, fame!

http://www.historickingsnorton.org.uk/news.php?id=167

pictures from the craft fair

Craft Fair and the weekend

Yesterday I went to the Westmead hotel with Laura and we boogied away - there was a band I think it was called Totally 80's. It was great!

Despite the fact that the lead male singer loved himself a bit, he did sounds absolutely great. And the girl singer was amazing! It was the first time I'd gone out and danced for ages, I met all of Laura's work mates, and they were loads of fun. Some people had really made an effort to get into the 80's feel, and there was a real party feel cause it was three people's birthday. Actually one bloke got a bit too much into the party mood.... we heard all these screams coming from the dance floor and when I looked there was drunk man without a shirt on, next thing we knew he was taking off his trousers! He was stood there in his briefs!!! Not pretty! yuk...

Ayer noche fui a un hotel donde trabaja mi amiga. Hacian una noche de musica de los 80. Fue estupendo, y baile un monton - algo que no he hecho en meses. Bueno, esto me parece. Nos dieron una comida, depues habia una banda y un dj. Lo unico malo (y muy de risa) fue cuando un hombre borracho empezo a sacar su ropa, solo se oia gritos!

Anyhoo, this morning was the Kings Norton Craft Fair. As press officer I was in attendance of course.
It was really good. We had 34 stands selling anything and everything hand-made, crafts, paintings, tapestries, glass, jewellery... it was great! We had over 500 visitors and all the money made goes towards the Restoration of the Saracen's Head and Old Grammar School. And it was all in the beautiful church - the church where I'm going to get married!!! So excited!

Esta manana tuvimos una feria en la iglesia, otra vez estabamos tratando de hacer mas dinero para la Restauracion de los edificios que estamos protegiendo en Kings Norton. Datan del siglo 14 y 15, mas o menos. Pues habia 34 exhibitores y fue un gran exito: hubo mas de 500 visitores! Por si acaso quieres ver mis narrativas oficiales estan puestos ahora en la pagina web, solo hay que apretar el vincula arriba - claro esta todo en ingles!

Me and Alex made the most of having our camera back and captured Pads- doesn't she look lovely?

Ahora que tenemos nuestro camera otra vez hemos sacado estas fotos de Pads. Me parece que ha crecido, es mas un adulto ahora que una nina - no es adorable?

Finally, I regularly get updates from the Lib Dems and they had this rather scary picture on their website. Is that a scary sight or what?
The Lib Dems are proposing a green tax to deal with the climate chaos that is a reality. If you want to sign their petition you can, follow the link:
Finalmente, vi este imagen en la pagina web del partido de los Liberal Democrats. Demuestra un futuro que me da miedo. Anado acqui un vinculo por si quieres ver los detalles de un planeado tax que proponen el partido, y si quieres dar tu apoyo puedes poner tus detalles.
http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/greentaxswitch&petition=success&id=48

More than a week

It's been a busy week as usual. At work we've been getting ready for an exhibition in Dubai, printing, stuffing and carting about absolutely loads of marketing literature for the trip. It all has to be boxed and weighed and all the paperwork done ready for customs in the United Arab Emirates... it's heavy, endless, hard work, but I'll feel good tomorrow when it's all done.
I've had 2 x 4 day weeks though so it's not too bad! Last weekend me and Alex spent the last 2 days of my holiday lazing about and being slovenly... it was great! But that all seems far far away. You know what it's like, return to work and any holiday seems hazy!
Anyway tomorrow (friday) I'm going out for a meal and cabaret night with Laura at the hotel she works at. I'm really looking forward to it. Then on saturday we have the craft fair at St Nicolas church on the Green, it should be good... I might be a little worn out after that!
On the plus side my camera is fixed so I'll soon have pics to post up.
Until then... hasta la vista!