How many rolling-pins ?

It has been a few weeks since I have put fingers to laptop for a blog entry. Whilst I have all the excuses needed for not getting around to it, it also feels difficult to get back into the swing of writing something that is interesting and that I am interested in.

With all that in mind, it's now nearly the end of September and another Autumn approaches. I actually quite like September, and whilst it is not my favourite month of he year, it is a good interesting month with lots happening. This month has certainly contained a lot of interesting happenings.

After we got back from our fun packed holiday in France, I was straight into dedicating 2 weeks of my life to Jury service. Out of the 2 weeks I had to make myself available I was only actually in attendance for 1 day. That was the first day when everyone had to attend and register for expenses etc. I arrived bang on time and was ushered into a room containing all my jury peers. there were around 40 people in total. We sat there like school children and had our names called out on the register and then we spent the rest of the morning giving in our expenses forms. Ofcourse there was lots of whispered complaining about everything happening too slowly, and that the food/drink expenses were not sufficient, but I suppose that's Human nature. After the morning of paperwork and form filling, things picked up in the afternoon. There were two trials presented in the afternoon, but I was not selected at random and missed out on both of them. I left the court early at around 4pm on the first day and was told to ring the phone line at 4.30pm to see if I was needed for the next day.

I dutifully rang the phone line everyday for the next week and a bit, but was never needed back. Quite unforfilling really, but at least it meant that I could attend all my work based commitments. Work based commitments such as having my phone stolen in Manchester, when I should of been in a court room in Stafford. Curse you justice!

Other interesting things that have happened this month include:

Patrick's 1st day at school

Cocktails in Stoke on a sunny Saturday afternoon with Chris

Seeing Dave Gorman in concert

Presenting at a Power & Lifting Seminar in London

Winning a bottle of champagne at a freight forwarders event (and having someone drink it for me)

Dad's 60th brithday

Visiting Co. Wexford for the day

Attending a black tie casino event

Missing out on a golf day, but still making the evening dinner and presentation

All in all it's been a pretty busy and tiring month. I'm not complaining about it, but I suppose it's down to all things in moderation. Whilst this month has been busy for me, there has also been the sad deaths of a number of famous and interesting people. Les Paul, Keith Floyd and Patrick Swayzee. Now that would be an interesting dinner party.

Looking forward to October and my 36th birthday