Some last minute Christmas shopping in Caerphilly.
Re-configured and relocated the wireless and broadband network components and telephone lines.
Category Archives: Daily Life
A dreary Sunday
We all visited Cefn-Y-Parc cemetery this morning with Steve and Biggie who were over from Hong Kong. It was the first time that Rachel, Chris, Steve and Biggie had all seen Jame’s headstone. It was quite emotional.
Lunch with Rachel and Tiegan at the Hollybush, Chris missed out as he travelled back to Norwich with Steve and Biggie, another excellent lunch, unfortunately it’s changing hands in the new year 🙁
A cold Saturday
A fairly quiet day, still needed to install some extra software on my desktop!
Rachel, Tiegan and Chris are staying with us this evening, they arrived from Norwich around 7 o’clock this evening.
Take away from the local Indian this evening.
Another trip into Cardiff
Called in at Piccadilly Albums to collect an order of Image Book albums, Mandy is running the show single handedly today and it was very busy!
For a number of years I’ve been invited to a Christmas ‘nibbles, drinks and networking’ session at the Cardiff office of Right Coutts management consultants. Nice to see some familiar and new faces again this year.
I had a wander around the shopping centre, quite busy but the traffic in and out of the city was really heavy. The 40 mph speed restriction on the north bound section of the A470 between Cardiff and Nantgarw has been lifted, it looks like they’ve nearly finished the road works.
Had a telephone call from Jennie, who I met with at the end of last month, to say that she’s booking me for her wedding next year in Cardiff City Hall and she’s posting the cheque and the contract.
A quiet Wednesday
Another fairly quiet day. A little more work installing software on the pc, I keep finding programs that I’ve been using on the notebook that haven’t been configured for the desktop.
No Welsh class this evening, quite strange being at home on a Wednesday evening.
A cold Tuesday
Prepared a large set of print files to send to the lab for printing, probably the last batch before Christmas.
Trip to the village to post letters and the order to the lab.
Shopping at Tesco, Talbot Green this evening.
Watched the concluding episode of Secret Smile on television, Jill Baker who is the sister of Richard Baker, my boss when I worked at the Principality Building Society, was in the cast.
A bright cold Monday
An outpatient appointment first thing this morning, adjustments to my digital hearing aid.
Into Pontypridd this affternoon for mainly window shopping and then called in to see my cousin Glen at his garage in Graigwen.
A quiet and relaxing work free day.
A bright Sunday
Took the girls to the Hollybush for Sunday lunch, everyone had roast beef but with a mix of desserts, Claire had just custard, Gill had cheescake and I had the apple pie and custard.
We then strolled around the corner to visit my mum, here’s a photo of Claire, Mum and Gill.
Claire and Gill left at around 4:30 for the long drive back to RAF Marham.
A trip to The Bay
A late lunch at Harry Ramsdens and then a leisurely stroll around, visiting the Millennium Centre, passing the new Assembly building which is still under construction and taking in the changes since we were there last.
A snap of Gill with statues, Gill is a F1 fan, in case you can’t tell from the jacket!
A few more snaps of Cardiff Bay at dusk.
A relaxing evening watching old British comedy on the television.
A trip to the Museum of Welsh Life
We went to the Museum of Welsh Life at Saint Fagans on the outskirts of Cardiff. It’s a fascinating place with buildings from around Wales having been dismantled and transported there and re-built and restored. It was very quiet there apart from a few visitors and a small number of school groups. It requires a full day to see everything, it’s also a good opportunity for me to practice a little Welsh as all the staff speak the language fluently.
David called in, ran out of petrol and once again ‘borrowed’ the contents of my petrol can!
Claire made a carrot cake, here’s a photo of Gill and Claire ‘secretly scoffing’ the excess topping.
Apparently bacon tastes great with the carrot cake topping 🙁 as a result Claire has to cook more bacon, photographic evidence that she can cook!
