Job Progress!

Hello All,

Well, it seems today that I've finally made some progress on the job front. I had an appointment at a temp agency here in Worksop, and after filling out about 12 different forms, I am officially on the call list! Fingers crossed that I get called soon, and often and I'll be able to feel more like a productive member of society!

In other news, it finally snowed here a few days ago. We got about 15cm in a few hours, so everyone was outside at 9pm playing in it. Tom and I had a snowball fight since the snow was perfect for it. You could literally just scoop it up into an insta-snowball and then fling it of course. Monty loves the snow as well, and Tom and I had an enjoyable 5 minutes watching him play with a snow-covered cardboard box in the back garden. He sniffed at it at first, which knocked some snow off and startled him. This prompted biting the box, then picking it up and violently shaking it back and forth. This then resulted in the box hitting him in the back, which scared him more and made him jump up and spin around to see what happened, while still shaking the box. Hilarious! Most of that snow is now melted, but there are concerns in the news that this is going to be the "coldest February since 1986" with the coldest part of the country (North Yorkshire) reaching a bone chilling -11ºC.... ha ha! Anyway, they think we're going to get some more snow over the next few days, which is exciting for me, but not so much for everyone else. The roads don't get ploughed, only salted and gritted, so the compact snow becomes that crappy kind of ice that makes little English cars with little English tires slide all over the place. There's also the potential for the trains to stop running if it snows too much or gets too cold and freezes the lines. Ahh! It's amazing what a couple of decades without much snow can do to a place.

Anyway, I think that's all for now. Not too much else happening around here, except that it's Valentine's Day and Tom's birthday next week! Exciting stuff, but I need to figure out what to make him for a birthday treat since he's not a fan of sweet baked-goods. Anyone have any ideas?

Ta ta for now!

Ash