Unattended Moments

I haven’t updated for ages, mainly because I started a new job in November, which meant being very busy getting the old job into a fit state to hand over to someone else, and then even more busy learning the new job while also keeping any eye on the old one until there was someone to take it over. This is what comes of going on secondment but staying in the same building. My old office and the new one are about as far apart as they can get, so at least I am keeping fit running up and down stairs… The secondment will last until the end of May, after which it is not yet clear what will happen. By then I should have some idea of whether I would want to carry on if the person who was doing the job before doesn’t come back.

Not much in the way of updates around the site, though I have added some photos from a visit to Rothbury in October, which was a last day out in Northumberland before the Sunday bus from Gateshead stopped running for the winter. We walked up to Sharp’s Folly, which is just a short way out of the town. See blue sky in the first photo!

I’m sure there were other things that I wanted to write about, but now that I am actually typing my mind has gone blank. Just want to show off a pendant which I found while wandering around the Metrocentre on Saturday.  We were there to see the remake of the Day the Earth Stood Still, which gave an environmental twist to the story in place of the original’s cold war setting.  It was interesting to see and had some good moments, but I think I prefer the original.  Back to the pendant - I could not resist the dolphins:

The stone is Andean Opal.

That’s it for now, except to wish you a very merry Christmas / happy holiday, and a happy 2009 - though with two weeks holiday I may even get around to posting again before the new year. Cannot promise anything though, as I am looking forward to being busy with family over Christmas.