Happy New Year!!!

Well, all the festivities are nearly over and it'll be back to work again in less than 24 hours. I hope you had a good one. Darren's son Jordan has been with us for the last week - it's always nice to have a young person around over Christmas. It's been a busy week too! We collected him last Saturday, taking in Preston v Colchester at Deepdale on the way. Christmas Day we went out to a pub for lunch. We spent a lot of the week playing on Guitar Hero on PS2 (truly excellent game btw). On Wednesday we went to Newcastle for panto. It wasn't the big professional one, but a smaller scale version of Dick Whittington. It was very, very good - I haven't been to panto for years!

Darren's parents came up on Friday to take Jordan home. Preston were playing at Sunderland on Saturday, so being season ticket holders it fell nicely for us all to go there (watching a match as an away supporter is much more fun!) They left on Sunday and the flat seems much quieter now. Peaceful. Jordan's a lovely lad but kids are hard work aren't they? I marvel at all parents who look after their children full time - I don't think motherhood's really for me!

So finally it's 2007. Last night me and Darren went to a local restaurant, Krimos. It really is the most fantastic food. We'd scoured the country for the bottle of bubbly which was recently voted as the best, so we came back for midnight to toast the new year in, catch the end of Jools Holland's Hootenanny and watch the fireworks going off around the North Sea coast that is our balcony view.

This should be a life-changing year for us. After two years of talking we're finally going on our worldwide travels in July. That's my main reason for starting this blog, so that family and friends can keep up-to-date with my adventures. I'm getting seriously impatient itchy feet now!

I'm also starting a new job tomorrow. The company I was temping for had to let me go - I suppose that's temp life for you. So a quick hello to everyone at Expamet who made my move oop North so much easier!!!

And Happy New Year to anyone who reads this. The years are whipping by so quickly nowadays (is that a sign of getting old?), I don't want to waste a minute of it. Hopefully this is the years that my life really starts to get exciting!!!