Hey everyone, things have been pretty quiet on the travel and adventure front. I have been saving a little cash with the expectation of buying a place in the new year, focusing on work, the gym and just spending time with friends. I got a hair cut the other day, first one in about a year I think (see right). Next Friday, I am heading to a Guinness world record attempt for the largest blind date, after registering we get set up with someone on the night, see a movie then head to an after party...should be a good time out. Bit of a bunch of us going, so we should be able to escape if our dates go all bad.

The 'divorce', which I now call it, is slowly progressing…we finally agreed no arrangement would work out between us and we put the house on the market, it sold pretty quickly, so just have to wait for it to go through now…

Cheltenham and Chester
Not wanting to neglect those out of London, I headed out a couple of weeks ago to catch up with Steve and Jane at their new base in Cheltenham. It was just a good catch up in the little town. Helped them move into their new Cody (dog) friendly place and then just hung out. The most amusing thing is the amount of pressure Jane is putting on Steve to start a family - pressure he is resisting for now.
Few weeks later - I headed up to Chester by train to visit Sonh another old BKK friend to see Chester and again just catch up. Chester is a pretty little city, with a large amount of Tudor houses, markets and alleys. Walking around the city centre you come to a park, which happens to have cows in it, so I use the term 'city' loosely. She also has a dog, well its half a dog as it had to have half its tail amputated recently. But the size of Eliza the makes up for her tail deficiencies, a great dane.

Baby Olivia and Mates
A tad old, but with such good news I had to put it in. There is a new member to the extend family. Shanes and Bridgets little Olivia. Obviously got her good looks from Bridgets side of the family. Shane - looks like you will have to have two teams now, a rugby and a netball team!

Radford is now settled and working in Munch, still havn't managed to visit but with him living there, I will have to make the most of the living room couch. Tom and Kat are pretty established, good jobs, flat and life going well in the south of London. Corde is nearing the end of his time in the UK, heading back home at Christmas time - which is a shame as its been good having him over here.

Caught up with Simon when he came over for a few days on a quick tour with his misses. He is good and enjoying self employment as a an Eng. consultant. A couple of weeks later, Corde and I tagged along with Lisa and her flatmates to a Rollerdisco! With hundreds of people at various levels of skill on rollerskates, booze flowing freely, and slopes amongst other obstacles it was a great night of fun with many entertaining collision. No photos of that one I am afraid.

Christmas, and Happy New Year!
So you wont be hearing from me until after Xmas and New Years. I have got tickets to go to California to catch up with Nick and Jade for a few days in LA, but spending the majority (about two and a half weeks) of my time with Bonnie up on Mammoth Mountian ski field. Really looking forward to it, if I have access to a pc in the evenings I will keep you up to date, if not... Merry Xmas and have a great New Year!