So....

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Seems like its been a while since I last posted anything of interest on here, so lets have a go at an informative update.

Hmm seems like it was last year when I last posted anything other than a meme! So, whats happened since then.

Well obviously there was a new year, and as Andy was celebrating that in Bristol with his idiot public schoolboy 'friends', Jamie and I had the house to ourselves. Which was lovely - we just relaxed and drank wine and chilled out and had fun. I managed to destroy the nail on my right thumb while excavating ice from the ice tray for the champagne bucket, which was exceedingly painful, and Mr Fidget got all scared by the combination of fireworks outside and on the telly, so he came upstairs and hid in the quilt with me and Jamie for a while, which was very cute.

On New Year's Day we went for a cycle down the river, and nearly drowned (well thats a slight exaggeration, we got to Sonning and were going to go further, but the path is very close to the edge and the river had flooded, so we had to turn back). I did take some lovely photos of the flooding, but my camera somehow wiped them all when I was transferring pics to the computer, and I lost them.

Have been back in work since then, which is going alright. My application to register with the ACCA went through without a hitch, so as soon as I get my documentation through in the post, I can sign up for my first three accounting exams, which will take place in June.

The weekend just gone was a very exciting one, as it was the 5th round of the Heineken Cup (the European Rugby Union tournament), in which both my team (the Scarlets) and Jamie's team (the Osprey's) both had high hopes of being able to qualify. As my team were playing away in Ireland, we couldn't go to the match, so we watched it on the telly. To be honest, in spite of the amazing game and brilliant 5-point win my team managed to pull off, the weather conditions were so bad I'm glad we weren't there! However, it means that they have definately qualified for the quarter finals (yay!) with one game left to play. So next Sunday we're off to Llanelli to see them beat London Irish again (having already seen them do it once, when they came to Reading in October last year).
Yesterday though, we drove down to Swansea to watch the Osprey's take on the pink-clad Parisiennes of Stade Francais. It was make or break for the Ospreys, as anything less than a win means qualification for the quarter finals is unlikely, as going into the match, Stade were a point ahead of the Ospreys, and have an easy 5-points-guaranteed match to end the pool stages, whereas the Ospreys have to face last year's Guiness Premiership champions Sale. Very exciting match, although there were many errors. with 5 mins to go, we were convinced the Ospreys were going to sneak the win, as they were 3 points in front and defending very well. However, silly mistakes can happen, and they gave away a penalty, and the Frenchies managed to kick the goal from the halfway line (it was very impressive). Which meant the game ended in a draw. 22-22. Which is bad news for the Ospreys chances at qualification, as Stade have now definately won the group, unless Calvisano manage to pull of an amazing game, and deny them the win or the bonus point! All very exciting.

Today, I have very little to get on with in work (the majority of the tasks I have to do rely on the system updating overnight, and for various reasons it has repeatedly been failing of late, and it failed to update on Friday night), and my immediate supervisor Mark is on holiday in Egypt with Shelley, who is the only other person here who has work I can do, as I'm taking over a lot of the things she does.

Which means I have spent the majority of the morning rearranging my desk and making it look pretty.

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Hope to see you Friday!!