Uxbridge Idyll

I'm really not doing so well keeping up with this thing lately! Sorry!

Hmmm....where to start. I moved into the house in Uxbridge a short time ago, and I'm loving it! I have a lovely back garden and Barry has proved a dab hand with the gardening, so he is doing most of the upkeep! There is a stream out behind the garden that has a family of swans and lots of ducks. There are fish in the stream as well, and I've got myself a rod and reel and hope to catch supper sometime! The commute is much better than I thought and there is pretty much everything I need shopping-wise in the town. Barry and I love to eat outside and BBQ a lot as well. There is the occassional airplane overhead, but it is very peaceful for the most part.

Barry and I had a birthday/housewarming party the following weekend. It was a couple days before his birthday so we celebrated both at once. It was fun - lots of people came and everyone seemed to enjoy it. We BBQed and even though it was kinda drizzly and rainy, it was all good fun.

Barry has moved into Uxbridge with me as well. His housemate was moving out, so we just decided it made sense. He has a lot of stuff that he's accumulated over the years, so we're doing some car boot sales (kind of like a yard sale) to get rid of as much as we can. I do enjoy the car boot sales, and can never resist doing some shopping myself!!

Work is going ok, but I've been having a lot of back problems since we moved the office and I moved house, so I've started working from home a few days a week, and will probably take a few weeks off to rest my back, which means avoiding sitting, and walking and lying down a lot. Fortunately, the weather has been quite lovely over the last little while, so I've been lying out in the back yard and walking into town a fair bit. August was quite wet, so it's nice to have some sun in September. They are forecasting an "Indian Summer" and so far it's been good.

Barry and I are heading out to Berlin in a couple of weeks. We got super-duper cheap fares on Ryanair - £50 ($100) for the both of us! We're only there for 3 nights and Barry has booked us into a little B&B (called a Pension) run by a nice older lady. The reviews on it said that it's like staying with your great-aunt! We're renting a car from the airport so we can go where we want. Barry used to live in Berlin when he was in the army, back before the wall came down, so he's excited to see it now. I'm just excited to see it! I hear it's beautiful.

Well, I will close and apologize once again for my lack of blogging!!