Hi gang - nice to be back again - so what have I missed? have been working anything upto 70 hours a week for the last few months and therefore, have not been on hardly at all. I thought I would give you a brief inkling about what happened last weekend to carol and I and it may make you smile - just as a starter.
Saturday morning we drove 200 or so miles to a hotel called "Celtic Manor" in Newport in Wales - check out their web site!!! Anyway, it was a work function and awards weekend where I was to receive my award for a system I created for the company.
The hotel is 5 ***** and stunning and we had an incredible room, looking over the golf course with balcony. Time to get dressed and go down for the champagne reception, my wife looked incredible and I was there in dinner jacket and dickie bow looking a 100 per cent idiot. Please bear in mind i am a yorkshireman - jeans, t shirts and flat caps - not dinner jackets. Carol took some photos and I guess I did look good even if I say it myself looking out accross the greens.
Anyway, the presentations went on, the evening went well, long speaches from the md etc and finally, the live band. This was pure racket and not my scene at all so at 23.30 we left as the room seemed to thud with the base echoing away in our heads.
So we went upstairs into the reception where it was quiet and took in the cool air and the surroundings. There was a sound of a piano playing and a man singing in the bar area which was stunning and there were lots of people sat talking and having a drink. I was holding my wife's hand and I kissed her head as we held each other close and for the first time, I realised we were slowly dancing and we continued doing so in the warmth of the hotel and the pianists voice and playing.
When the gent stopped singing, we were still gently swaying (still in the reception/bar area and Carol looked up at me. .. and she was crying and just said to me that I will never know how much she loves me.
My heart melted and the whole weekend was incredible. Forget the award I got, forget the champagne, it was a weekend with my wife in a five star hotel and with someone I adore. It was also our 8th wedding anniversary on that same day and I could not have enjoyed it any more had I tried. Are men supposed to be this way and feel for someone you really love? maybe its me cracking up.
Well thats the first of a lot of stuff that happened - no, you will not see the photos of me in a DJ so dont ask! well you may if someone could post one for me later. Just dont laugh!
Hope I have not missed too much - I missed you all though - still on drugs etc and working long hours but I now finally have some time to myself.
Nice to be back.
K
Saturday morning we drove 200 or so miles to a hotel called "Celtic Manor" in Newport in Wales - check out their web site!!! Anyway, it was a work function and awards weekend where I was to receive my award for a system I created for the company.
The hotel is 5 ***** and stunning and we had an incredible room, looking over the golf course with balcony. Time to get dressed and go down for the champagne reception, my wife looked incredible and I was there in dinner jacket and dickie bow looking a 100 per cent idiot. Please bear in mind i am a yorkshireman - jeans, t shirts and flat caps - not dinner jackets. Carol took some photos and I guess I did look good even if I say it myself looking out accross the greens.
Anyway, the presentations went on, the evening went well, long speaches from the md etc and finally, the live band. This was pure racket and not my scene at all so at 23.30 we left as the room seemed to thud with the base echoing away in our heads.
So we went upstairs into the reception where it was quiet and took in the cool air and the surroundings. There was a sound of a piano playing and a man singing in the bar area which was stunning and there were lots of people sat talking and having a drink. I was holding my wife's hand and I kissed her head as we held each other close and for the first time, I realised we were slowly dancing and we continued doing so in the warmth of the hotel and the pianists voice and playing.
When the gent stopped singing, we were still gently swaying (still in the reception/bar area and Carol looked up at me. .. and she was crying and just said to me that I will never know how much she loves me.
My heart melted and the whole weekend was incredible. Forget the award I got, forget the champagne, it was a weekend with my wife in a five star hotel and with someone I adore. It was also our 8th wedding anniversary on that same day and I could not have enjoyed it any more had I tried. Are men supposed to be this way and feel for someone you really love? maybe its me cracking up.
Well thats the first of a lot of stuff that happened - no, you will not see the photos of me in a DJ so dont ask! well you may if someone could post one for me later. Just dont laugh!
Hope I have not missed too much - I missed you all though - still on drugs etc and working long hours but I now finally have some time to myself.
Nice to be back.
K
