it is nearly a month since I have written on this blog, far to long a gap really. So what are my excuses:
New job - all the commuting takes it out of you.
Facebook - well it’s a bit of fun!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - action packed from the start and difficult to put down.
… and getting stuffed in the cricket yesterday 
So the start of my new job duly arrived and I headed of Leeds as a new commuter. The novelty of commuting soon wore off, however I am getting better at the Sudoku. Arriving in the Resilience team in the aftermath of the floods was a baptism, but at least it got me stuck in. It is now 4 weeks since I joined and things haven’t settled yet, mainly because the lessons learnt exercise is in full swing and FMD decided to come back (or was set free?), it is also the holiday season!
To help relieve the tedium of life I joined the world of Facebook, which is a bit more dynamic than a blog. However, friends seem to insist on adding photos of me in a pub … a most unnatural state for me - okay I know that’s not true. I miss having the Black Lung outside the office, especially as the weather was nice last week.
I didn’t make it to the bookshop at midnight on the Saturday to buy my copy of Harry Potter, Saturday afternoon was soon enough. However, it was a good read and hard to leave alone. I remember cycling into the Minster on Sunday morning and seeing two people sat in bus stops reading the book. The final book is possibly the best of the series and covered a lot of ground. It didn’t have a lot of back story to get through although there were plenty of bits that made you question events in previous books - until the end, where Rowling tied all the knots and Harry …… well you will have to read it.
Lastly, Civil Service seconds travelled all the way to Goole with 9 men and got stuffed. I made an 8 or 9 ball duck. Two Sheds bowled 11 overs and made 17 …. He might be a little stiff today!
Well it has started raining again so I can’t mow the lawn 
Just need the Hobbit to make his next move on the Facebook chess site!