Well folks it has been a long time since I updated this blog. Like most people nowadays time is a rare commodity.
As if to prove the point Val has just called me downstairs as she wanted to watch a film. This is a PIN protected channel. The box is not accepting the PIN. I have just tried and now it is locked for 15 minutes. We use this PIN all the time on this box and it has now decided it doesn't want to play. I will try the factory setting PIN in 15 minutes, but in the meantime Val's film rolls on without her!!
I will try to continue. As I said, time is something we just don't seem to have enough of.
Well, I am now doing something about it. I am lucky insomuch as the Inland Revenue, sorry HMRC recently changed the rule re pensions and working with the same employer. I can now partially retire and take my full pension. This is what I intend to do starting 10th August. I am reducing my working week to 21 hours over three days. Tues, Weds and Thurs. I missed out on Ted Heath's three day working week as the RAF didn't think it was a good idea! So I am having my very own.
I started leave last Wednesday so when I go back it is to a shortened week...pure bliss.
At the moment I am up at between 07.30 and 9.00, depending how I feel then the boys and I head out to Plymbridge woods. Lots of doggie walkers for me to talk to and dogs for the boys to play with. Today, at one point, we had six male Westies milling around - but all breeds are welcome.
I find we are out there for between 1 1/2 and 2 hours. The boys are a bit tired when we get back and have been lazing out the front in the sunshine. I get home and have breakies with a cuppa and the paper. iPod playing in the background completes the picture.
In keeping with the theme of this post Windows Explorer has decided to play up so I will try to publish this and return later!!
