It’s now just 2 days until our holiday in the Yorkshire Dales begins. I’m really looking forward to it. We will be staying in a holiday cottage just outside a small town called Hawes. The cottage is surrounded by mountains, so it should be a peaceful place with lots of beautiful scenery. Interestingly, we will only be a few miles away from the Lake District, which is where we went on holiday in 2004 and 2005, so we will probably visit a couple of times.
This means I probably won’t be able to update my blog for at least a couple of weeks (it’s fairly unlikely we will visit a cybercafe or library while we are on holiday).
Last Sunday it was Mum’s birthday, so my sister Suzanne organised a surprise barbecue round her house. It was really good, and Mum was really surprised as we had arranged for nearly all our close relatives to be there.
So, summer has arrived at last! It was very late this year, and for the last couple of months there has been severe flooding in parts of Northern and South-western England. We weren’t affected by any of the flooding, although we did have lots of heavy rain and cold weather. At times it felt more like March than July!
Yesterday we went to the beach for the first time this year. We went to Cromer then on to Overstrand. It was a lovely day. We had lunch in the restaurant of a hotel in Cromer (incidently, it was the same restaurant where Mum and Terry went on their first date together 6 years ago!) Then we sat on the beach for a couple of hours or so.
On Saturday the 18th of August, our holiday in the Yorkshire Dales begins. I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll be able to take nice photos of the local scenery.
This weekend I cooked some butterfly buns. I used vanilla essence for the buttercream, which tasted good.
At work I had my appraisal a couple of weeks ago. I received positive feedback from the people I work with. My manager said that I would soon be able to go on the 12-month consultant development plan, so I could well be a consultant by the time I’m 25. My CII course (which I mentioned in my previous entry) is still going well. I’ll have a study day this Friday, because I hope to get all the assignments for my current module completed before I go on holiday. Then when I come back from my holiday, I’ll be able to concentrate on revision. My first exam is being held in late September, although I haven’t been told the exact date yet.
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