New life - part 3 - new woman

So, I posted a while ago about new life parts 1 and 2 which were house and car. What would have really made a big difference would have been a new lady in my life. I have to say that I even when I wrote those posts a while back, I had a pretty good idea what was coming. I first meet Kate in February, when we had coffee together, we were in touch a lot by different methods over the next few weeks but with her being away and me being away in California it was Easter Sunday before we found the time to meet again. We went for a picnic by the river at St Ives. it was sunny, we got on like a house on fire and she was is so very beautiful I just wanted to reach across and kiss her, but I was n't confident enough! We had a great time and chatting later, with my little 5 year old tucked up in bed but the teenagers around, I cheekily invited myself to her place. At first she declined but then came back to me and said I should come. We had our first kiss that evening and it's been wonderful ever since.

She is stunningly beautiful, with a wonderful warm and caring heart. She's very bright, a great mum, confident within herself and does n't need consistent external reinforcement. She is leveled and consistent with no sparodic spuing of emotions. She's quite a bit younger than me which actually works really well as she has a couple of kids 5 and 8 who, as of yesterday get on well with mine. We seem to have similar traits and outlooks on life as well so I'm hoping for a wonderful future. I have to say that I've scrutinised her pretty hard as well, given some of the bad realtionships I've had in the last couple of years and how I've missed the obvious and early signs that should have sent me running, but there is nothing. Six months in and I do not have one single minor concern. Every aspect of our relationship is just amazing.

Now that we are 6 months in, we had a grand meeting of the kids day yesterday and that went just as well as could have been hoped. Everybody got on really well.

So bring it on. With a house sale and finalisation of the divorce just around the corner, a fantastic new life is beginning. I am so very very excited, like I thought I could never be again :-)

And memories of that wonderful afternoon by the river, in St Ives under the sun? She had a great time but was just waiting and waiting for me to reach across and kiss her, lol.

Life's a beach ... !!

So a week in Newquay with 2 sons, 1 daughter, 1 son's GF and Mum. What a nice time we had. The weather was pretty kind with some days with sunny spells and some overcast days but no real rain to speak. Even on the overcast days when we were doing other stuff we did comment that it was warm enough to be on the beach. On saying that we had a couple of lovely lazy days on the beach with the sun coming out form time-to-time, enough so on the first beach day that Tom and Beth got a little sunburn !!!

The Honda was packed a little tight but it never missed a beat and got us down there cruising effortlessly at 80 mph and without requiring an ocean tanker of crude oil (it's certainly no Land Rover!!) We had pushed the boat out and rented a lovely house for the week which was within walking distance of the town centre and the closest beaches. We cooked together, ate together, we cleaned together and enjoyed pretty much everything together. On the overcast days we went to the zoo, the aqaurium, the pirate musuem and did a bit of shopping. I really like the surf-wear they have down there so spent a small fortune on clothes. I even found the time to read a couple of novels, Koontz and Coburn; very good.

As I said, a great time was had by all, and I got a new profile picture fo FB ;-)