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Thursday, 16th September 2010
Posted by Judith on 16 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Archery, Trying, but failing, to fly, Work
More work, more bad weather. By the afternoon the weather had improved and hang gliders started to fly on the Long Mynd. We decided to head up there, taking all the toys with us so we had some flexibility. Once on the hill, we could see big showers around, so we didn’t even stop, but headed on down to the archery field in Stretton. As soon as we arrived the heavens opened and we had to shelter in the club house.
The archery session was good, but Geoff’s hang glider has to stay out for the night to dry off.
Wednesday, 15th September 2010
Posted by Judith on 15 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Howling gale today. Rain and generally rubbish weather. So we did more work and more prep for leaving, which involved one of our least favourite activities: shopping. We managed to go round half a dozen shops in Shrewsbury and then go to a shopping centre as well. We were very brave!
And I realised that we actually lead a fairly mundane life in comparison to some of our friends. Here’s what Johnny got up to this summer.
Tuesday, 14th September 2010
Posted by Judith on 14 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Work
A mega day of work. Meetings from 9.30am til lunchtime, and then intensively working on our conferences. My programme is finally shaping up and I may have a former Miss Black Deaf America as one of my speakers. Brains and beauty! Her proposed topic is on ‘who controls the Deaf community’, so I am hoping it will elicit a lot of discussion. I’m still on tenterhooks waiting for a really famous person in the deaf world to get back to me about being a keynote presenter and if he says yes, it’ll be an amazing coup for us.
The evening was spent doing more prep for going away. We have a house sitter, so lots of tidying in the garden and rather than emptying the freezer we now have more apple juice than we’ll be able to drink before we go. Is there a cocktail with apple juice? I might have to invent one…
Monday, 13th September 2010
Posted by Judith on 13 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Work
I woke up very early today and left the house at 5.40am to take my brother in law to the airport, so he could get to work in Limerick on time. Once at Stanstead I was able to get home via a much faster route, avoiding the M25 entirely. I was back home at 11am, but feeling shattered and with a very upset stomach, which hasn’t yet settled. Damned dulse!
Geoff was working all day and I did bits and bobs, as well as a bit of snoozing. The weather is really autumnal with strong winds and rain. Not as bad as in Scotland though. I heard all about it from my uncle Bruce. Happy birthday again!
Friday, 10th September 2010
Posted by Judith on 10 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Rubbish weather and a good job too. I have so much work to do for the next Supporting Deaf People conference. Today was a knuckle down day and I have the initial round of publicity done and already have the first six delegates. Tomorrow more work on the programme and presenters. Geoff was busy working on his conference and then went out to prune the apple tree. He brought in about 10kg of apples, most of which I have juiced, but then I ran out of receptacles. We’ll be drinking the stuff for weeks!
Tuesday, 7th September 2010
Posted by Geoff on 08 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Geoff writes: a wet day – very wet at times – giving us the opportunity to catch up on work.
Saturday, 21st August 2010 (UK)
Posted by Geoff on 21 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Work
Geoff writes: Well, not too windy today to fly, that’s the good news. But the bad is that it was cloudy with frequent rain. Whereas in the Peaks, apparently, it was sunny but too windy. Oh well, that’s Britain for you. So today was a work day for me. But an improving forecast over the next few days, and tomorrow might be good at the Mynd, if not too windy.