31.01.10

Hmm.. how's this font working for you? I've always enjoyed comic sans MS.. such a friendly looking font! Anyways, Happy New Year everyone!

I've had a word for 2010 knocking around for a while now, long before it actually began.... RADIANT.

I Really do feel that 2010 will prove to be a 'Radiant' year. Of course, a lot of this is down to positive thinking, but I can really feel it already. Let's face it, nothing can be so grim as the start of 2009 so the law of averages had already dictated that we were already going to be off to a happier start! (-Mum, btw, despite her moods, spent 2009 responding well to treatment. 2010 sees the continual slog with still another 7 months on the herseptin to go but it's all looking good and, at last, the family can stand up with 2 fingers at the bloody evil disease and say 'Yep, you lost this one!')

January is all but wrapped up now and it's been a fun one. I've rekindled my love for the Kenneth Moor Theatre where the Hubz works. 2009's panto was just brilliant with an excellent cast and crew that really gelled, I've really enjoyed hanging around the place and being part of the fun. For several years, I kept my distance as 'it's never like the old days anymore' - back in the early days of Rob and I's 'courtship' you could never keep me away from the place -  back then, it was the same old faces each year and a fabulously social time but then people move on and move away. Consequent years were very hit and miss, that is, until now.

2010 will be interesting. The KMT's manager retires this year and it's all change at The Theatre. I can't say too much at the mo as I don't want to jinx anything but I'd love to be able to come back to you in a few months with some wonderful news!

Wether it's wise to make too many plans in advance, I don't know, but we do already have some plans in place for the year - these include a 2 week juant to Spain (yeah - we're predictable!) and my birthday, as usual, in The Cotswolds (hey, it's a wonderful tradition, why change it?!).

The de-cluttering we started last year with the house will continue and whatever 'touching up' and repair work needed will be sorted out in readiness for a move in 2011. This has been our intention for some time now. This house has served us well but it time to move on and, what with being in the Olympic belt, we're hoping to sell up for a tidy sum as house prices will increase the nearer it gets to The 2012 Olympics on our doorstep.

As to where we're moving to, well, so many thoughts have been banded about over the past few years that it's probably best to keep that option open right now. Would we re-visit our shelved plans of 2003 to move to Spain? Or maybe re-think 2008's ideals of relocating closer to The Cotswolds, to where my heart and soul already belong? Who knows.

My Cotswold dream has recently been fired up again as my Crystal Mentor, Jay, is upping sticks and moving to Oxfordshire with her partner. It's an excellent relocation in regards to her Hollistic work and, once again, has really got me thinking.

Anyway, enough of the future, living for today is kinda' how it's working right now. A wonderful January in the bag spent with a great bunch of people, faces old and new and, despite The UK's rather chilly and snow-swept start to the new decade, my heart is full of sushine and the smile on my face cannot be measured.

I am more than ready for 2010 and the joy it is going to bring.

Yep. Radiant, I can feel it in me bones!

...Oh, and Happy 10th Birthday to Blue Universe!