New Post for a long while

Don't know if the above title makes much sense or is good grammatical English, however there you go.

Here's a quick update to the last year of no blogging, due to several things, one of which was apathy to write stuff. The other was losing my login details.

Anyway, during 2008 I left my home of marital bliss and was forced (at great difficulty) into a temporary flat while I continued to bid on homes that, to the best part, I had no chance of winning - such frustrating systems leaving me depressed and very annoyed.

I finally won a bungalow and moved in during August of 2008. Unfortunately the housing society saw fit that this was a "new tenancy" despite being one since about 1985, and put me on probation. I obviously then lost all my security of tenancy - caused in the most part by politics and paperwork.

My next challenge was getting Virgin to accept that "cable" was available for installation - despite their computer post code search saying "no". After having my account deleted at my old address and losing all my emails and internet facilities, (the whole point of transferring cable systems to my new address so that i wouldn't) I finally found Barry Walker who visited me, could see sense and sorted the problem out. Within a short time, cable had been fitted and I was up and running.

Christmas came and went - 2009 was here at last.

During February I attended the healthy wiltshire awards and won the first prize in the individual category. This was for teaching tai chi classes.

My classes started to expand and increase, so much so I had to reduce my work hours in my day job. By the summer, I was convinced that i should be self-employed and moving towards this dream happened in part during September as a result of the DWP putting the project under pressure due to performance issues (caused by a lack of jobs). With changes afoot I put plans in place to make the leap to teaching full time, and this happened in October.

More to come....