Preparing for this that and the other

John has been feverishly working away on his book. Today is the deadline. Some of the appendix need doing but on the whole it's done. We did not see much of him over the past few days as he did some of the writing at work after hours and over the weekend.

The after work meeting at Juliet's work was to set goals for the coming year based on the recent work place assessment. She thinks that some of the changes will be good.

I set Nik the task of researching East Anglia to see what he could come up with for us to visit. He had a surprisingly good time (he thought) and made a decent list of places to visit. He's interested in nature stuff so this should be fun.

Juliet did some research for places to visit in Wales and Ireland. However after thinking about it we are kind of going off the idea of Ireland this time round. We shall see how we feel closer to the time.

The pioneer trek is next week and we have been busy putting clothes together. We found some items at the thrift store that we were able to adapt i.e. two men's shirts, a dress to make into a skirt. We also made a bonnet and apron. Still have a few more items to make but I reckon if we tackle one or two items per day they should all get done in time.

Elisabeth comes home at the end of next week so we're looking forward to that. It's also her birthday this month so we shall have to think of something nice to do.