Well , here we are, another year gone by, and we are already half way through the first decade of the 21st century.
It has been a bit of an “odd” week for me, as I have been at work up to Friday. And this “missing” week between Christmas and New Year always feel a little strange, a little weird. Its as though some thing has passed and we are are still waiting for something else to come.
If you in the UK, you will know how the weather has been, although, as I look out our living room window to my side, you could almost believe that there hadn’t been any snow at all. I am in that lucky time in our house at the moment – I am the only one awake (As I type it is 07:30 a.m.)
As I have commented on before, once the kids are up, I have to find something else to do (You know – washing up, hoovering , dusting – 
I should stop being so cynical, but it can be a struggle to get certain people in the house to do some chores to help everyone else out – that’s Teenagers for you !!!
As I have made mentioned of before – I already know one (or two) of the things that will happen this year already, and one of them becomes active, I believe, today.
My division within BT plc becomes a self sufficient company in its own right – OpenReach. Some people are already slating this as political manoeuvring, some parts of our Business environment are keeping eerily quiet – I have No Choice but to go along with it – I have to much of my life invested in BT (Post Office telephones as it was when I joined) to leave without something extreme happening.
We shall have to wait and see.
I’m still waiting for the letter (or call), to go into the hospital for surgery on my elbow – see if we can get that squared up and sorted – it will be nice to be able to feel my fingers all the time.
Our Liam begins the year with his very first GCSE exam – the one for ICT. I don’t really think he is to happy about that – but he will have to deal with it and then get on with the rest of the school year.
Laura is also moving towards a new phase in her school life. She is now into her last few months before moving onto Secondary School. Come May, she will be subject to the barrage of SAT tests they throw at kids of this age in the UK, to see where they sit in the structure of their new school. The only concern i have at the moment is that we are not 100% sure of which school she will be going to.
We actually fall into the catchment area for a School that is over 3Km’s away (across at least 4 nasty roads), but we would like her to go to the same school as Liam (we had the same process to go through to get him into the School of our choice) The School of choice has always had a policy of trying the “envelope” the Junior Schools around it’s boarders – but we are still waiting to be told.
Anyway – Have a Happy, and Merry, New Year, full of joy, good health and wealth, and I will see you all again, sometime in 2006
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