My colleague at work was looking up her retirement age today so I stupidly thought i'd look up mine. BIG mistake - the only positive thing of the whole experience was that I wasn't stupid enough to look on a Monday, if I had, I'm not sure i'd be here writing about it now but probably squished under a bus somewhere.

So, it really is very quiet here. I'm not around much these days and, it seems, nobody else is either. I've given up trying to rejig the site - there's not a lot of point really - and at the same time, I can't take it down. It's in limbo. A quick death and a 404 page would probably be the kindest thing by far, but there's nine years of rubbish piled up here. It would take about nine minutes before my own misty-eyed nostalgia made me bring it all back again, in some kind of tragically new and improved form.

Well...we've moved and i'm back in the world of the interweb but Tim isn't. He's poorlysick bless him.

I didn't realise how much i would miss the internet - it's awful! I can't do anything - check my bank balance, pay bills, say hello! Anyway, i'm back at work now and that's that really!

Well it's back to rubbish old work today, which means I'm in a hell of a bad mood, and the christmas deccies are coming down from here immediately! If I can't have any fun anymore, I don't see why bouncy santa should.

It's been a funny old christmas - lots of fun but not enough relaxing, and way way too short. I'd give anything for another week off now, and I know Lisa would too - just a bit of time to not be socialising or drinking or eating or back at the miserable office.

We're just going to have to wind down (and back up again) as quick as we can though, because January should, if we're lucky, be a very busy month in the current Cook household - because we're hoping that household will be on the move.

I am having such a crap morning. First of all I realise my tax disk hasn't arrived that I ordered on 19/11 and is due in my car tomorrow! So I've rung the DVLstupidloadofuselesstwatsA and they are sending out a duplicate for it. Apparently if I get caught by the police it's up to their discretion as to whether they charge me or not for not having a tax disk. The WORST thing is though, it's my fault as i should have realised sooner it hadn't come but i forgot. I can't remember too much of my law A level but don't think forgetfulness is any kind of defence for lack of a taxdisk. I'll probably be imprisoned or something to make an example of me