Apologies for my absence

Apologies-I've been very busy since last August when I wrote my last blog. I spent one year on a CLAiT 2006/2007 course and gained five Certificates for each subject I took, plus one Certificate for having passed the first 3 exams and my Diploma for completing my course and passing all 5 exams. I am now a qualified Geek. You may have noticed my hair has turned grey! This (I suspect) is the result of the stress of it all.
And, for those of you who remember The Shed Saga, I have an update: The Lodge (summerhouse) was delivered and erected last November, before the first snow of winter-just as I predicted! My friend took up residence after it was officially opened by the local Undertaker (minus his top hat and somber expression.) I was invited to her "Welcome to my new Shed" celebration party, a late night affair full of dancing, singing, swearing and mayhem, enjoyed by her 30 friends and their guests. Until a miserable, cantankerous, stroppy neighbour knocked on the door to complain-and half the guests fell out into a heap in the garden. They looked exactly like the bit in The Chicken Run where the trainee-escapees jump off a roof onto a huge pile of other chickens. And that neighbour was the one at the bottom of this heap! Hooray! My friend's mother now sleeps in total silence but people over a mile away are still scratching their heads wondering 'What the hell was that noise?' I am considering buying my friend "A permanent cure for snoring" for Xmas.

bye for now.