2006

I didn't realise it had been so long since I'd posted.

Happy Christmas to everyone and in case I don't post again soon, happy new year.

Its been a fairly average year really with a couple of ups and downs. I'll have to have a look through my posts again but off the top of my head:

Ups

My new job which I started at the end of February. A welcome change from the absolute hell I was in at the time. The new people are mostly lovely especially my boss who I developed a major crush on after two months.

Booking my holiday for San Francisco and LA. Its been too long since I had a proper hol.

The works Xmas do at the ultra posh Hilton Hotel in Manchester.

Meeting the cast of Bad Girls even if the con itself was a bit shite.

Meeting some of my heroes at the Collectormania thing in Milton Keynes* especially Dempsey & Makepeace.

The trip to Cardiff to see filming locations for Dr Who and spotting the Tardis in someone's back garden, not realising until later that it was *the* Tardis.

The subsequent trip to Swansea for the Dr Who con but missing most of the con in favour of the lovely beach next door.

L & T's stag do in Blackpool and their Civil Partnership in Durham.

Paying off my student loan.

Acorn Antiques the Musical and meeting Victoria Wood

Assistant directing Educating Rita, it being a hit and my best mate winning a Bolton Evening News award for her role as Rita

Watching a footie match, paid for my work on corporate expenses and with my boss getting a bit girly and close with me. Mmmmmmm.

The birth of the Farrow babies.

Gigs - The marvellous KT Tunstall. (Dear god is that the only gig I've been to?)

Albums - Muse: Black Holes and Revelations, KT Tunstall: Acoustic Extravaganza and Keane: Under the Iron Sea.

TV - New Dr Who, Torchwood, so much CSI that I don't know what to do with it, more Bad Girls, the excellent Life on Mars, Lost.

Downs

The recent loss of a friend to kidney disease & heart problems, my best friend losing her mum to motor neurone disease and now another close friend has lost his dad to cancer. My thoughts and love are with them and their families.

My brother has been recently diagnosed diabetic and while he's started to get the idea he should be eating proper food not junk he's still not really buckled down to it. He's got another blood test tomorrow apparently. I'm hoping that it'll then finally sink in and/or the doctor will give him a kick up the arse.

My send off from my old job - or rather the lack of one.

The demise of Bad Girls. And the con being a bit shite.

*Milton Keynes - whatta soulless dump.

So actually having written it all down it seems that this year has had more ups than downs but some of the downs have been awful. I'm hoping 2007 will be a whole lot better for myself and for my friends.

So far in 2007 I've got my holiday to look forward to as well as various gigs - Keane & Eddi Reader in Feb/March and the Scissor Sisters in July and Rich Hall at some point if I could only remember when. I'm so looking forward to them. Oh and the play at the end of January. Which I'm very very nervous about.