Back to reality....

Back to work tomorrow, and back to some proper blogging as well. Hasn't been much in the way of 'Unions and Politics' on this blog over the last couple of weeks - they've taken a bit of a festive back seat to the 'and more' stuff instead, but back to business as usual this week.

But before that I thought I'd give you a bit of a taste of our festive highs and lows...

The highs

• The kids' faces on Christmas morning
• The fact they still believe in Father Christmas
• Vicky doing her James Herriot bit with the remaining goldfish
• Taking Joe to watch Everton and they actually win (3-1 today against Charlton - 3 goals count 'em, 3!)
• Christmas Day - our house in the morning, Vicky's mums in the afternoon, my mum and dad's in the evening and completely and surprisingly stress free
• New Years Eve - quiet but great
• Blackberry breaking down (for Vicky)

The Lows

• Goldfish fatalities
• Everton vs Liverpool on the 28th (have blocked it out already)
• Our local swimming pool being shut on the 29th of December - Welcome to the brave new world of public services....you can shop till you drop from Boxing Day onwards but don't expect your local sports centre to be open during the School Holidays, after all surely no one actually wants to take their kids swimming then, they want to go 9-5 during the school term times don't they?
• Crawling down the M6 in the middle of a snow storm
• Blackberry breaking down (for me)

Hope you all had a great Xmas and New Year - please keep reading in 2006!