New job

It has been sooo long since I last wrote, but then I have been ever so busy. So many things have changed. I have a new job, http://www.breakthroughcentre.org.uk/, and have been kept busy there, including traveling to many conferences. One of these was to Amsterdam, so I had the chance to visit my soulmate Ellis and her menagerie.

As a holiday this year - I visited Le Manoir aux Quater Saisons'; Raymond Blanc's 2 Michelin starred restaurant for lunch. Sadly, I was a bit disappointed. Have eaten better in France in restaurants that only have 1 star or even none from Michelin. Maybe, and I hope, it was just a bad day. Now I have to see what Gordon Ramsay's is like.

Although I had no holiday in the summer, I did go to Israel in the spring. That was an emotional, educational and beautiful week.

Zoo

Went to London Zoo today - it was really good, actually. Here is one of the many photos I took.

Car Crash

I had a momentary loss of concentration this Monday – now I put it down to the fact that I was coming down with flu – and managed to crash my car into a tree – badly.

As I was parking, a man was working on the nurses home in front of my work, and I just could not stop looking at what he was up to. The car, being an automatic, continued slowly to roll on. I wanted to step on the break and instead … yea, you guessed it – stepped on the accelerator. Then I panicked and could not find the break and stepped again on the accelerator. Scrunch. The front of the car was very badly damaged. My pride was damaged, the tree was damages and my bank account was terribly damaged.

New Year Snow

Well it is the New Year and we have had our first snow - what excitement! After the tornadoes and more recent hurricanes, I woke up to utter stillness and quiet. Outside it was pristinely white. Pity that it has nearly all disappeared now. The cats could not quite believe what has happened to their outside world. But they both samples walking in the snow, although their expedition did not last long.