The weather is still dreadful. This afternoon it just poured and poured so no walkies. Also loads of work on as I do a complete revamp of one of the websites which I maintain. http://luxuryhandles.co.uk is going to look beautiful and hopefully do another substantial increase in turnover for Master Lock and Safe. All this means training, at least for me, is on hold with just 15 weeks to go!
The remaining tickets become available on Feb. 19th and last week we received our 'credencia', the passport that needs to be stamped daily to prove that we are actually walking the Camino and not getting the bus! Heading up to Ambleside at the end of February with Sue & Dave to (hopefully) do some walking, but I'll have to try and do something before then otherwise I'll never keep up with Dave!
El Camino de Santiago de Compostela
Sunday 31 January 2016
Rain, rain and more rain!
Wednesday 20 January 2016
My New Bluetooth Keyboard
I've just received a rather dinky folding bluetooth keyboard from those tax avoiders at Amazon. I thought that if I was going to blog while we were walking the Camino, I really needed a keyboard and at 25 squid, this looks ideal. Problem No. 1 is I can't find the pound sign, but the keyboard itself is great.
Blogging on the phone looks fairly straightforward too, although you only appear to be able to put images in the blog at the beginning. So, all in all, pretty good for the price.
Now, I wonder if I can post this to Facebook?
Friday 15 January 2016
18 Weeks to go!!!!!!
Another milestone last weekend when we booked our return flights. Got a great deal with Iberia Express. Santiago to Madrid to Manchester for £65 each. Just need two more train tickets now and they become available next month.
Also got a rather wonderful app for my phone on which you can plan your route, get links to the hostel websites, and see what facilities are where. It's called Camino Pilgrim, it's free and it looks pretty good to use in conjunction with the guide book.
January's not been a good month for British icons. Lemmy, Bowie and Alan Rickman all dying in a 2 week period is a bit much really. I did, however, wonder what David Bowie would have thought about the plight of Syrian refugees being pushed to 2nd place on the BBC news by a long piece on his death. I suspect he would have thought it was a case of scrambled priorities, as I did.
While on the subject of news, I saw our illustrious Minister of Transport (can't remember the non-entities name) announcing that the A591 in Cumbria wouldn't be back in use until May after it fell into a river during the floods at Christmas. I can't help thinking that the government don't appreciate that getting about in the Lake District can be quite tricky even when all the roads are open what with mountains and lakes in the way and Heaven knows what the effects on tourism will be. We're going up to the Lakes for a couple of days in late February, so we'll be doing our bit for the local economy.
Also got a rather wonderful app for my phone on which you can plan your route, get links to the hostel websites, and see what facilities are where. It's called Camino Pilgrim, it's free and it looks pretty good to use in conjunction with the guide book.
January's not been a good month for British icons. Lemmy, Bowie and Alan Rickman all dying in a 2 week period is a bit much really. I did, however, wonder what David Bowie would have thought about the plight of Syrian refugees being pushed to 2nd place on the BBC news by a long piece on his death. I suspect he would have thought it was a case of scrambled priorities, as I did.
While on the subject of news, I saw our illustrious Minister of Transport (can't remember the non-entities name) announcing that the A591 in Cumbria wouldn't be back in use until May after it fell into a river during the floods at Christmas. I can't help thinking that the government don't appreciate that getting about in the Lake District can be quite tricky even when all the roads are open what with mountains and lakes in the way and Heaven knows what the effects on tourism will be. We're going up to the Lakes for a couple of days in late February, so we'll be doing our bit for the local economy.
Friday 1 January 2016
Happy New Year
New Years day is a day to look back and look forward. Not at the same time obviously. Looking back while moving forward could also be dangerous.......... better have a drink!
2015 was a year of mixed emotions. Lovely holidays and time spent with good friends and with my brilliant family. Juergen Klopp. The loss of loved ones, worrying diagnoses and some dreadful happenings around the world. 2015 also brought its share of, as we like to call them on Merseyside, daft gets and arseholes. All in all, I suppose it was a pretty normal year. 2015 was, of course, the year I started a blog and actually continued with it past the third post. It was the year of the Paris attacks. It was the year Brendan Rogers told me, for the last time, that my football team were 'outstanding', despite what I had just seen. It was the year our stewarding team at church actually became a team and pulled together and supported one another. A year when work hit and then exceded (just) targets. And I'm sure I could list loads of other things that happened.
And so we move forward into 2016. 20 weeks today we will be starting our Camino from Logrono (we think). 360miles ish. On January 3rd we will be lunching with my 2 sons and their wives at Northcote Manor in what may just become a tradition. Grandson Nick won't be joining us this year as he is skiing with school, which is a shame. New, higher targets will be set for work ( I expect). As for the rest, well, we just don't know what the future holds and for that, I thank God. The last thing I need at this stage of the year, is a list of stuff to worry about or anticipate. The thing I do have is hope. I hope we finish our Camino. I hope the staff at Northcote don't burn the roasties. I hope the good friends and brilliant family remain so and that the daft gets cast off their daft getdom (only got a small amount of hope for that last one). I hope Herr Klopp does the business at Anfield. I really, really hope we get to live in a more peaceful world than of late and that our politicians can think creatively about actions which might solve some of the world's problems rather than just reduce them to rubble.
Happy New Year to all and thanks for reading the blog. Please feel free to comment, criticise or slag off as you feel appropriate
2015 was a year of mixed emotions. Lovely holidays and time spent with good friends and with my brilliant family. Juergen Klopp. The loss of loved ones, worrying diagnoses and some dreadful happenings around the world. 2015 also brought its share of, as we like to call them on Merseyside, daft gets and arseholes. All in all, I suppose it was a pretty normal year. 2015 was, of course, the year I started a blog and actually continued with it past the third post. It was the year of the Paris attacks. It was the year Brendan Rogers told me, for the last time, that my football team were 'outstanding', despite what I had just seen. It was the year our stewarding team at church actually became a team and pulled together and supported one another. A year when work hit and then exceded (just) targets. And I'm sure I could list loads of other things that happened.
And so we move forward into 2016. 20 weeks today we will be starting our Camino from Logrono (we think). 360miles ish. On January 3rd we will be lunching with my 2 sons and their wives at Northcote Manor in what may just become a tradition. Grandson Nick won't be joining us this year as he is skiing with school, which is a shame. New, higher targets will be set for work ( I expect). As for the rest, well, we just don't know what the future holds and for that, I thank God. The last thing I need at this stage of the year, is a list of stuff to worry about or anticipate. The thing I do have is hope. I hope we finish our Camino. I hope the staff at Northcote don't burn the roasties. I hope the good friends and brilliant family remain so and that the daft gets cast off their daft getdom (only got a small amount of hope for that last one). I hope Herr Klopp does the business at Anfield. I really, really hope we get to live in a more peaceful world than of late and that our politicians can think creatively about actions which might solve some of the world's problems rather than just reduce them to rubble.
Happy New Year to all and thanks for reading the blog. Please feel free to comment, criticise or slag off as you feel appropriate
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