Update

We're looking forward to a relaxing four day long Easter weekend. Wish every weekend was this long!

Ally's new job has been finalised so we are very happy about that and she is determined to enjoy her last few days of freedom. She starts on April Fools day but hopefully that's just a co-incidence!

Work is going ok. I spent a couple of days this week in Brussels and the meetings went well. Our new team member at work, Tom, starts on Tuesday next week so holding fingers he'll blow us away with his brilliance. He certainly looks to have the goods in his CV and from his interviews.

Ally and I are off to play some tennis this afternoon and tomorrow we're playing with the idea of going camping (depending on the weather and it's by no means summr yet.) Alternatively, we've been invited round to Amanda and Johnathon for Easter lunch with the family on Sunday which sounds nice and warm.

We've been watching a couple of movies. Festen (The celebration) was a strikingly original Danish movie and Battleship Potemkin was an iconic 1920's Russian classic that was a little hard to sit through (ah the joys of counting down the Top 250 IMDB list).

We've become a little addicted to a bevy of reality TV programs recently. There's Master Chef, (attempting to find the UK's most talented new chef), and The Apprentice (14 ambitious youngsers battling it out to impress a cantankerous celebrity multi-millionaire and win a six figure salary) and Blame the Parents (showing just how atrociously kids can behave and the often equally awful behaviour of their luckless parents.) What was life like before reality TV!

Ally has caught my recent bug for non fiction hand has been attacking Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and Michael Cook's "A Brief History of the Human Race". Our conversations at the moment are a smattering of learned observations about evolution and history - peppered by reminisces from our reality TV moments. I've been reading Robyn's well recommended "101 things to do before you die" which is delightfully tongue in cheek.

Now that the weather is improving, hopefully we'll get out more!

With that, I'll sign off. Ally has just finished toasting some hot cross buns and I'm off to tuck in. Hope you all have a lovely Easter.