Definition perfection!

I'm not going to comment on the picture above except to say: definition perfection!

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It has been a really busy few days, Dave has gone to visit his mother as she is about move almost as far north as you can go before you meet Scotland, I visited my mother to watch the match on Saturday night and then I dashed back to be home in time to see Sunday's match and then was back at work today.

Our patient and quite brilliant book-keeper was with me today in work, sorting through the mountains of paper that I seem to be able to create in our 'paperless office'. She is doing an amazing job of translating my filing system into an ordered set of books. Thank you to Annette for having a seemingly endless smile and collection of kind and encouraging words.

When Dave is away, I always take the opportunity to eat my favourite dishes that Dave doesn't necessarily like very much, so this evening I have made baked haddock with a cracked black pepper and lemon sauce (very light and very tasty), with hardly cooked broccoli ~ yum!

I have also taken the opportunity to sift through the pile of 'stuff' that seems to have accumulated in front of our wardrobe. Now I know that when we put these essential items in the pile that we knew why we needed to hang on to them, but going through the bits and pieces I can think of no good reason to keep:

• one side of a duvet cover that I cut up a couple of years ago,
• the gathered frill that I removed from 1980's curtains when I gave them a revamp at least 6 months ago,
• 5 odd socks
• one pure wool cardigan that went into a hot wash and now looks like grey felt
• one broken hairdryer.

So I have put the fabric items into our recycling bags and put them out for collection in the morning and disposed of the hairdryer (removing the electrical lead first of course). I wonder why I only ever get these sorting out jobs done when Dave isn't here. It's not like he prevents me from tidying up!

It's only a couple more weeks until we get the keys to the new unit and start to move the business into its new home. We think it's going to take 2 weeks to create the shop space and move everything over the road, so hopefully we will be able to open the shop during the third week of November ~ just in time for everyone to come and do some Christmas shopping with us.

Dave and I are really looking forward to having a better office, packing area, display space and of course the new shop. It feels like it is going to be a very exciting end to 2007.

Oh no, my tea cup is empty... chat soon, Liz