My goodness! Has it really been that long?!

Hello my dear friends,

I decided to sit down and do some blogging tonight - I had not realised just how few I had actually posted this year - two!!! Shameful.

It has been a busy year, I don't exactly know where it has all gone, other than working hard in one form or another - keeping house, publishing & part time jobs - not necessarily inthat order I hasten to add. The housework seems to come at the bottom of the pile for some reason - can't think why that would be!

Well, business has been ticking over for the past year. We bought it pretty much a year ago this month. We're about to put out our second title, and am working on a third, and looking at a few other different things to consider too - after having come back from The Frankfurt BookFair. My goodness me, what an experience! I do these crazy things and wonder how I manage! I survived my first trip to Germany, all by myself. I'd been stressing for a couple of weeks about how I was going to get around without knowing a single word of german - not knowing the transport system and being in a hotel, seemingly miles away from anywhere of any considerable life! Well, I surprised myself, managed to use public transport from the airport to the hotel, (which was in the middle of nowhere), and got into central Frankfurt and managed to find my way back to the hotel - eventually!! (I got onto the right bus - but it was going in the wrong direction!)

These kinds of things are always tiring at the best of times, but add to this the exhibition centre that takes half an hour to get from the entrance to the back end - then it's really knackering!

Suffice it to say, it was a good experience, once that I will plan for better next year, and will try to learn a little more german by then too!

Our little boy has now turned three - my time is flying so fast - seems like only last year he was born. My eldest will be 22 this year - and that's even more scary, and middle one is 20. Why is it that you don't really feel (in your head anyway) that you are any older than your early 20's or something, but your physical side kind of lets you down a bit?!

This month the physical side has certainly let me down! All that stressing about getting to Frenkfurt caused my skin to break out in some kind of rash - which is irritating as hell - constantly itching. Two weeks later it's still going on. I've never had anything to this extent before - I'm definitely gettingolder!

Another year has nearly gone, Christmas is looming in just a few weeks now as opposed to months, with no money, and debts mounting it's going to end up as very much back to basics! Home made presents I think will be order of the day - unless I can find myself a part time job between now & then that I can work around nursery, and the business! Easy one might think - but not so. It's rather hard for a mum to work part time these days! Temporary jobs seem to be full time. Part time jobs are permanents ones and never fall on the right day or times I can actually work! I think I may end up just selling the contents of our house - or rather the contents of our loft which has expanded somewhat over the last few years - loads of baby clothes & old computer bits etc etc., I'm sure there will be someone somewhere who will want something!

Well, I have a couple of other blogs I need to update - so I will come back again - soon!! I must become more disciplined and update this poor old blog more frequently.

Thank you for dropping by. :)

PaulineA