Canterbury - 30th March, 2006

This is the night before:

1. The end of term for the boys.
2. The last night in our camp site self catering unit.
3. We (Daddy and the boys) leave to drive to Chamonix to ski for a week.
4. We exchange on 2 more properties.
5. We have had our first property in Canterbury for exactly a month.

Phew. It's all go around here. Julie has been in her new job (see: www.kran.org.uk) for 2 weeks now. She has her first event with them next Thursday. She was slightly perturbed today when a woman at another meeting she went to, explained that she (the woman not Juie) was not allowed to make home made cakes as she has not got her Basic Hygiene Level One Certificate. Now isn't that the best excuse in the book. Julie hasn't got one either but 5,000 people must have sampled her baking by now (she did 500 at one go for a wedding!). This kind of attitude unfortunately is all too prevalent in the quasi-governmental, Guardian Jobs page types of jobs that everyone has around here and especially everyone who works in any type of social service like Julie is doing now. She is going to have to bite alot of her tongue.

Work is at full tilt on the first of our serviced apartments (see: www.canterburyservicedapartments.co.uk). All the walls have required re-plastering, we are doing 2 new bathrooms, 1 new kitchen and new carpet and decorations throughout. We have our first customers moving into both apartments on 23rd April and I even have a tentative booking for another property which we are yet to complete on. We have amazed and encouraged at the response we have had so far.

I am going skiiing with my brother in law and his boys and Julian and Sammy. We are driving to Chamonix. The boys are really excited as they loved skiiing in the U.S. last year (oh my was it that long ago?) and they know that their cousins have never been on skis before and will therefore not be able to keep up with them for the first few days.