Where did January go? I don’t seem to have drawn breath and tomorrow it will be February. Christmas was to be got through rather than celebrated – I can be massively anti-social at times and this was one of them, though it was good to spend the time in Norfolk for the first time.
The highlight of the festive season was winning a totally random ‘white rabbits’ competition with a very old boyfriend… it happens once a month and has been going on, with the odd gap, for over 25 years. New Year’s Eve was the ‘big’ one and to his intense annoyance I pipped him at the post – girl power 🙂
Things then perked up even more with a trip to Malaga, chaperoning my flying godson. It was so good to see blue sky and feast on some delicious tapas after the filthy weather we’d had here. Tom got some flying in and I eventually cracked the basics of navigating the town – with no help from an intermittent sat nav in the hire car (on day one I had to resort to paying a taxi driver Eu5 so that I could follow him back to the hotel!)
On my return it was finally D-Day – or more accurately G-Day. Whilst I was due to start riding George in December he had one last attempt at self-harm, shattering that dream. We are now back in action, albeit only walking for a few weeks. I have barely stopped smiling since – even when he does his unexploded time bomb impersonation.
Work has really kicked off; meetings with Musketeer about Burnham Market International, trips to web clients Piggy French and Oliver Townend, and a potential new press officer job meeting in the Midlands. Neil came up trumps when we had a short-notice e-commerce website to do – Luminosity, headed up by my GPC ‘boss’ Andrea, launched its Hi Viz business at BETA to great acclaim.
More new websites and web re-designs are in the pipeline for February and before I know it the eventing season will have started. It’s a good thing that kick boxing classes have started again – fitness levels need upping!