What became of 2007?
This year has been one's Annus Changius Maximus!!
Having spent some time living apart, the year started with Debs and I moving back in together in a flat in Clapham. It was our first time living down in South West London and we loved it. It has a very different feel to where we have lived before (Belsize Park, Highgate and Canary Wharf) with a great selection of parks and more restaurants than you can shake a stick at!! I wished we'd found it years ago when prices might have been affordable as they are just ridiculous now!! It helped that we were in the nicest part of Clapham however as you don't have to travel far to find the grotty bits - the case with most of London!!
February saw the annual onset of general malaise - lamented by the insane, that would make me?? The standard questions regarding the direction of your career etc set in, however once the winter blues were blown away I found myself pretty happy with career etc. I was working with a good bunch of guys (bar the odd gremlin) and mostly enjoying the work I was doing.
In April the seeds were sown for where I found myself now. Having not had a decent long holiday for two years - since our last round the world trip - we had just a week in the Lake District. It was pretty obvious that a week was not enough and two weeks wasn't going to satiate the desire to see the world. It would be a long time before we would see any blooms but the seeds got a good watering over the next few months!! The decision was pretty much made by the time the week long (being generous) British summer had come to a wet and windy end in August!
More change in August as Deborah and I got engaged after over 8 years!! It was a spontaneous thing, in the rain on a boat on the Thames and thus completely unprepared. There wasn't even any sign of a ring though Deborah quickly fixed that the next week dragging me down to Hatton Gardens!
October of course led to our biggest change as we both packed in our jobs and headed off for a year travelling around the world. So far we have only seen Thailand, Laos and Vietnam but we are loving it. Not every day is good but one of the best bits of advice I got before leaving was not to expect that (thanks Sis). Good days massively outweigh the bad!! Arguments have been kept pretty low - a good sign given we still have 10 months living in each others pockets, but the odd day doing our own thing helps keep us sane. We're trying to make sure we see the real culture so avoiding the tourist trail where we can and using as much public transport as possible. However, we are tourists after all so it's not always possible.
That's it in a nutshell and on reflection, the year has been pretty darn good!!
Having spent some time living apart, the year started with Debs and I moving back in together in a flat in Clapham. It was our first time living down in South West London and we loved it. It has a very different feel to where we have lived before (Belsize Park, Highgate and Canary Wharf) with a great selection of parks and more restaurants than you can shake a stick at!! I wished we'd found it years ago when prices might have been affordable as they are just ridiculous now!! It helped that we were in the nicest part of Clapham however as you don't have to travel far to find the grotty bits - the case with most of London!!
February saw the annual onset of general malaise - lamented by the insane, that would make me?? The standard questions regarding the direction of your career etc set in, however once the winter blues were blown away I found myself pretty happy with career etc. I was working with a good bunch of guys (bar the odd gremlin) and mostly enjoying the work I was doing.
In April the seeds were sown for where I found myself now. Having not had a decent long holiday for two years - since our last round the world trip - we had just a week in the Lake District. It was pretty obvious that a week was not enough and two weeks wasn't going to satiate the desire to see the world. It would be a long time before we would see any blooms but the seeds got a good watering over the next few months!! The decision was pretty much made by the time the week long (being generous) British summer had come to a wet and windy end in August!
More change in August as Deborah and I got engaged after over 8 years!! It was a spontaneous thing, in the rain on a boat on the Thames and thus completely unprepared. There wasn't even any sign of a ring though Deborah quickly fixed that the next week dragging me down to Hatton Gardens!
October of course led to our biggest change as we both packed in our jobs and headed off for a year travelling around the world. So far we have only seen Thailand, Laos and Vietnam but we are loving it. Not every day is good but one of the best bits of advice I got before leaving was not to expect that (thanks Sis). Good days massively outweigh the bad!! Arguments have been kept pretty low - a good sign given we still have 10 months living in each others pockets, but the odd day doing our own thing helps keep us sane. We're trying to make sure we see the real culture so avoiding the tourist trail where we can and using as much public transport as possible. However, we are tourists after all so it's not always possible.
That's it in a nutshell and on reflection, the year has been pretty darn good!!
