Author: Tina

Mid November, and it sure gets dark early here now. Come 4 pm and it feels like it’s time to sit down and veg for a while. Last weekend was a lovely weekend, and having just had a few days of rain everything had greened up, and the trees seemed to be at their best.…

Eventually getting round to an update – while travelling again! Summer is finally leaving us, judging by the colour of the leaves on the trees and the cool of the early morning air. The fall is beautiful this year in the UK, due to the long hot summer (and autumn, so far). We still have…

The hot hot summer is rolling on here, and all without air conditioning! It is getting to the point here where we are considering investing in something called the portable AC unit – sounds interesting, though I don’t think it’s the personal, backpack type yet? Shouldn’t complain though, as this appears to be likely one…

It’s been months since I posted anything here, and I see that we are all flagging when I look at the others’ diaries. So here goes. Christina was over here with Mike for 10 days just after Easter. We had a great time, though really hectic, as we tried to see all of England, including…

Having had my family all telling everyone how busy I am, I thought I had better catch up a little myself. My new job entails managing all of the UK projects for the signalling division of Bombardier Transportation. In addition to the UK projects I also kept Taiwan (though I did appoint someone to replace…

This is Christina updating for Dad. He’s really busy, that’s why he hasn’t updated in quite a while! Spending a day in Sweden here, a few days in England there and off to Germany for a night… and building things in the house while he’s at home. Just so everyone knows 🙂

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! January the 6th, and back at work today. The traffic was horrendous this morning, and there was no heating in the building at work (basement floods). Despite all the people on the road, there were very few at work – maybe got stuck in traffic and went home? Great start to…

I managed to escape back to Taiwan the day after Trish came out of hospital. If you are reading her diary you will understand why. It’s turning cold here in Taiwan too – seems everywhere I go is like that now (must be something to do with the seasons). As you can imagine, I am…

Sweden is now turning cold, and having been here since Monday all I have seen is light snow, grey skies and VERY early darkness (3:30 pm), though the snow is not sticking so it’s not even pretty at this point. And to think, last week I was in Taiwan and 25ºC weather, with a quick…