half term

Before I write much we do have plans for some pics to go up, forgive us the pic part of this program is not the easiest to navigate:( Let me tell you a bit of what life has been like for us in the last week or so. First of all it has been half-term which means that all kids are off school, and life in general has less of a rush to it, less meetings, less traffic (sort of, we'll come onto that) less of the normalcy that a week is, if there is a normal. You would think all of that would translate into a load of free time and non-business and to some extent it wasn't as busy but where does the time go, I'm sure we all ask that sometimes. I had about 9-10 smaller projects going on, none that pressed to much, all that took a bit of thinking and some creativity, all of which were quite enjoyable to do. You know what it's like when there is something huge to accomplish you get right to it and go for it, when there are smaller less imposing projects they tend to get pushed off and not addressed as quickly. But throughout the week the numerous projects were completed, we had another very successful panto practice (will blog about sometime) a very interesting Alpha Saturday and today we played Killer Bunnies so ya it's been good around here.
There is a saying that the English always talk about the weather, that's because the weather is often worth talking about. This week on Wednesday we woke up to a layer of ice on the car, as we drove toward Oakley all the cars had measurable snow caked on them, as we reached Oakley it was a white-winter-wonderland, what a surprise snow in October, snow at all! I picked up Chris to go for a coffee in the town centre of Basingstoke and a trip that usually takes 15 minutes from his house took an hour or so. The roads were jammed and packed, they were like slow moving parking lots. Not because of cautious driving only, there had been loads of accidents that closed roads, and ice/snow that closed roads as well. It was a traffic headache except we weren't in a huge hurry, it was half-term you know, sometimes life is lived best in less, in half-term, slow moving speed, I'm sure it will crank up as soon as tomorrow as we stare meetings from morning to late evening, but hey that's life, we'll enjoy it all anyhow!
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