Warm and Dry

We started our holiday by going to Legoland. We started off our Tussaud Annual Pass Tickets. It was fantastic. Uncle Randolph and Grandmama joined us for the day. Arthur really seemed to have a wonderful time. It was quite funny he had fallen asleep when we arrived and he did not want to wake up!! But then he had a wonderful time.

Friday 13th is unlucky for some but generally not for me.

Today we travelled from the Isle of Man to Luton and unusually nothing much went wrong!! It was lovely to all travel together on holiday. I love true family holidays and this one is particularly special.

 

Wow, Owen and I got engaged 10 years ago today. Isn’t that romantic. I remember playing a game, “where do you think you will be in 10 years time…”. I would have hoped to be here but I honestly cannot say that I could have envisioned life today the way it is.

Truthfully, I am living a better life than I could have ever hoped for. Thank you Owen for so many wonderful years together. May we have 10 times more!!

I cannot believe it but it has been 17 years to the day since I left school. Doesn’t time fly. Would I go back to school? Believe it or not…. it is still a big NO!!

In all honestly I love my life now. Arthur is my life and he exceeds all expectations.

I really miss Ballet. And when we work on The Ballet Shop, I really get nostalgic. We recently uploaded a new blog to the site and have update the site with a new colour scheme. It is still a work in progress but it is really coming along nicely.

It is such a pity that I have not found a Ballet class for adults here in IOM.

Arthur and I had to travel back to IOM. After we picked up the grandparents from Heathrow, we headed off to Gatwick. I have truely begun to hate Gatwick airport. They are the most useless airport around. The reason they are still 1 hand baggage allowance is because they are not coping. Now if they were not so silly that they still insist on removing peoples shoes, belts, jackets, laptops from laptop bags, put liquid items into transparent bags? etc etc. They even make you remove an infants shoes! Honestly how much could you hide in a toddlers pair of shoes?

If I had a choice, I simply would use another airport but living in IOM, it complicates matters. C’est la vie!

I think I really miss my regular blogging.

Thinking about it, perhaps it is not my blogging that I miss but I miss my regular life. I miss being at home and curling up with my husband, I miss the cups of tea he makes for me, I miss Arthur going to bed at 8pm, I miss….

Need I go on? I cannot wait to get back home.

Keeping up with everything is really not easy. There is Arthur’s website, my website, my surveys, my PPP, TON and who knows what! To top it off, trying to sort out Viola at the same time. Not easy in the least.

C’est la vie!

We have the pool area and adjoining rooms in Viola avenue and they need some structural work. We have been thinking or simply rebuilding the rooms as it means we have our minds at rest. So we started off by getting quotes. That alone was hard enough. You would be surprised how many people have answering machines and how many do not call back. What is the point.

So we started getting quotes. Then we thought for our protection, so the cost does not suddenly go up when they think they are milking a cash cow, we told them that we were going to have to refinance with mortgage loans. We thought that as long as they thought they were dealing with loans then they won’t add on “unexpected” costs. So we needed a change in quote and suddenly, the quote was £10k more than anticipated. Interesting!