No more working shift!!

Woo hoo! My days of working shift are nearly at an end! :D
As of Monday I will be moving to a different section/lab within the respiratory laboratory and I will be working days.

It has all come about so quickly. I only went and spoke to the lab manager on Thursday last week about not wanting to work shift any more.

It's an answer to prayer!

Weekend away.

James and I went on a church ‘weekend away’ at Ashburnham Place this last weekend. It felt like the first time in a long while that we’ve been able to just stop and relax. I think it was a much needed break.



We went down on the Friday morning, making a bit of an outing of the trip there.


We stopped off at Leeds Castle (in Kent) for a picnic lunch and then on to the town of Battle in the afternoon. We did the tourist thing and went and checked out Battle Abbey and walked around the site of the Battle of Hastings.


The weather was fabulous on the Friday ... a bit of a 'heatwave' by UK standards and by Sunday we were back to normal again with the rain moving in.

There was a strong emphasis on socializing over the weekend and we had quite a bit of free time to park off and relax... so that's just what I did... a bit of reading and a fair amount of walking around the wonderful surroundings.

Carrying on...

It’s been quite a while since I last wrote on my blog. I haven’t felt motivated to do much of anything the last month or so. It’s been an emotional roller-coaster, but things are starting to reach some semblance of ‘normality’. We’re finally at a place where James & I can start enjoying our life together, looking forward and planning for the future.

I’m so thankful to have James in my life. Things have been a bit of a nightmare since we got back from honeymoon, but he has been such a support to me - a veritable pillar of strength. When my Mom passed away, just over a month ago, it felt as though the world stopped. Everybody else carries on with ‘life’, but for the family, time stands still.

It’s strange how we seem to think that things like this happen to other people and other families and never to us or ours. There are all the unanswered 'why?'s and emotional upheaval ... and then, eventually, we pick up the pieces and carry on ... left with the memories. Good or bad, we decide.