(bea)just been checking in with the blogging community and have discovered that kristen and joshua have a blog which is cool. i never got to meet them when i was in the states but andy fell in love with them, much in the same way as we both fell in love with trish and danny.

the weekend has been a weird on! saturday was one of the best days i've had for ages and ages - andy and i went to meadowhall to do a mystery shopper visit and also to soak up the atmosphere of pre-christmas stress, babies getting fed up, women dragging men around and the like - fortunately we were unsuccessful and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! on our way home we got kidnapped by James Bond and spent two and a half hours with him at the cinema - not the most difficult of kidnappings! then we went to ant and carolines's which was ace.

sunday started off great with me joining a gym and then going to a rowing class with rach - hard work and i can feel it in my back today! we then had a LUSH lunch back at ours and then things went a bit wrong - marriage is so much harder than people let you in on. BUT... people love us so much and that is amazing - the support that i discovered last night when i went to our celebration was wonderful - i felt really encouraged. andy and i managed to let the sun go down on our anger and hurt but it was all sorted by the time we went to bed (the issues are still there but we were in places of forgiveness and comforting each other).

i got the tram to work today - still very exciting!

only four more weeks of term left including this one - then the party really begins. for those who read about my worries of war breaking out and my cousing being sent away - abigail has told me that the weather isn't good at the moment so war is unlikely - apparently they will wait till spring (!?!)