January 26, 2012
Catch up time
So much for more regular blogging as I vowed in my last one (January 2011….). Oh well, quality not quantity (neither is guaranteed here though) I suppose.
Soooo, what has happened since then? Well….we are still in Spain, in spite of many a ‘Get me out of this hellhole back to bloody civilisation NOW!!!’ type tantrum. Will be four years in March. The house hasn’t suffered from the (well-documented here) damp and mould problems since that first winter, the builders have been paid off, and we are slowly working on the outside, terraces etc. The most important thing, however, is the THE HEATING FINALLY WORKS!!!! Yes, we finally dispensed with the services of Dumb & Dumber the Hopeless Plumbers and got the REAL people in. The ones who actually regularly install systems like ours and they SORTED it! OK, it cost us, but we now have a lovely warm house, all rooms. We put a couple of radiators in too, which make a difference. I’m now sitting in my toastie-warm living room. And it’s cold outside.
Work? After seven years, my work at iVillage is coming to an end next month. Their decision, not mine, although I haven’t enjoyed my work for the last year, for various reasons which I won’t go into. Yet. So I am once again on the job market. Not easy for an old bird like me who works from (a nice warm) home in the middle of nowhere in a foreign land. I have a small moderating job which I’ve been doing at weekends for the last year, and am increasing from next week, so I won’t starve. And something else in the pipeline which is yet to be confirmed.
OH is commuting to the UK more sometimes for nearly two weeks at a time, so I’m a effectively a single mum a lot of the time. Not great. But needs must and all that. Especially now.
We had a proper holiday this summer too! I took two WHOLE weeks off work (something I’ve never done before) and we drove to England and back, via various stop offs – Barcelona, Disneyland, San Sebastian (beautiful city but does it EVER not RAIN there?), Madrid – for the pilgrimage to Bernebeu, essential for my Real Madrid obssessed little boy- among others. Good time was had.
Have thought of a lot of other things to say while I’ve been writing this. More blog fodder then. Watch this space…..
