Changes Update

Well blow me down - seven days after being advised that I am no longer of interest to my old employer I have a new job.

Its a contract in Central London (booo to all the extra travel) that means I'll be aprox 2.5 times better off than I was before.

This needs some processing. There I was feeling a bit sorry for myself feeling a bit hard done by - and it appears that actually the buggers have done me a HUGE financial favour.

Changes

Well bearing in mind the rule about work and blogging - I have parted company with my now previous employer.

My face no longer fits, so I have been encouraged to find something new.

So here I sit pondering my future, wondering if what's just happened is an opportunity, or if not how to make it one. I recently wrote that it is our desire to return to the USA specifically Chicago. I am hoping that whatever new opportunity I can find will lead me in that direction.

That would after all be surely FATE in action.

I sit here writing feeling very uncertain about what comes next - but certain that I will make the best of a changing situation.

Operation Limey Return

During my professional career, it has been my pleasure to work in a number of foreign places - Hong Kong, Tulsa OK, Frankfurt and Chicago.

Of all the places I have visited it is Chicago that has captured my heart.

The places, the people, the attitudes, the restaurants all reached out in that unique Chi-town fashion, grabbed my heart with both hands ... And then attempted to throttle it.

I have been back in the UK with Mrs Limey and Mini Limey for 2 1/2 years now and yet still I find myself missing the place and most especially its people.

It is worth pointing out here that usually I am rubbish at keeping in touch with past colleagues and friends - and yet against the odds I am still in touch with my friends from Chicago.

So Operation Limey Return starts here. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but somehow; some way we need to return to Chicago and make it our permanent home.

There - it's recorded on the web now so I can't back away and pretend I never said it.. Everybody knows, after all that everything written on the web is absolutely TRUE.

New Bond - Times Online

Now this is an export to be proud of.... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1825992,00.html I wonder if all spies look this classy in the CIA ?

I'm ready for my photo Mr DeMille!

This is a genuine candid moment captured by a friend at a recent Saturday lunch.

Mini Limey had wandered off and came back with the friends tatty old fishing hat as you see it here.

Limey frustrations

Can anybody suggest where in the UK I can buy Thanksgiving cards.

Having a number of friends in Chicago I thought I would plan ahead and purchase a couple of cards. I visited my local Hallmark shop and was advised by the dopey assistant that Hallmark did not make Thanksgiving cards.

So that's all right then.

Bloggers block

I have read recently about a number of writers that have gone dry during the creation of a book. I am not a writer, but seem to have lost the ability to find anything at all interesting to blog in the last few weeks.

According to Dooce.com - THOU SHALT NOT WRITE ABOUT WORK ON THE INTERNET. This much I understand as I have no desire to annoy my employer. So the fact that the last two weeks has been completely mad due to an impending project completion is completely off limits to my blog - including the amusing anecdotes about that evening when I.....

Due to the workload I have not seen as much of my family as I would like. So there is another source of inspiration removed. So what on earth can I write about ?

Thinking here whilst I drivel on the screen - that considering I have nothing to say - I still seem to be managing to write something