>How good to see you. How are you? Seriously??
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>Mary
>>How good to see you. How are you? Seriously??
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>>Mary
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> I'm fine thanks Mary, and how are you?
Recovering from an exhausting season. We've decided not to do more than one
tented event a month next year, we're getting too old and there's too much
to do between gigs to achieve in the one day a week left. We'd also like to
get the house tidied and clean(ish) so that there's room for folk to sit
down. We've also lost out on the garden by our absence, I've had to buy
vegetables!
While we love the social side of events and seeing our mates and we do need
some exposure (now, now, Dave, don't get excited) the website has taken off
and we can keep ticking over with orders from that without the associated
costs.
> Still sz free and having a great time.
That's very good news.
> I spend the weekdays teaching
> little brats or dealing with their equally spoiled parents (that's not
> part of the great time).
I know :-(
> I spend most weekends now racing a 42 foot yacht (and winning).
Oh! My hero <flutters eyelashes> ...
> Sadly
> it's not mine, I'm just one of the five crew. This explains why I've
> tumbled out of bed at this God-forsaken hour on a Sunday to look at the
> Met Office Inshore Waters forecast for an early start.
But you've had an extra hour!
> Strange thing
> is... this pursuit needs *teamwork* (not usually my greatest strength,
> but for some incomprehensible reason it's easy to produce it in this
> situation.)
I experience that too, on occasions I become very much second to the moving
force and do as I'm told or expected. I even enjoy it, not having overall
responsibility for everyone else is relaxing!
> And I spend the evenings either marking books, producing reams of
> unnecessary bureaucratic paperwork (hey, I must be awake if I can spell
> that without my spell-check interrupting!),
I wouldn't expect anything less -)
> and wondering whether I'm
> ever going to get this house tidy or finish the kitchen or bathroom, or
> get the final boxes of books in from the garage after a year of living
> here. All one sentence :)
Ah. I wrote what I did above before I got to this paragraph.
We've been here for forty years and I think there are still some boxes in
the loft. I'm having a Major Clearout.
When there's time ...
> Have a nice day. Time for a quick shower before I get covered in salt.
That sounds like the wrong way round. Enjoy your day, enjoy your life.
And that means everybody.
Thanks for posting, I was concerned that we hadn't heard from you because
you were so down a few months ago.
Mary
Hi Malcolm! Glad to hear that you're doing well!
Regards,
Hilary
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