October - and the temperature has dropped!!!

Ok, so it's been a while, I know, I know ;-) I've been busy!!! I've read a couple of books that I'll need to catch up on, actually, I can think of two but I suspect there might be at least one more! So, it's Saturday morning and I've been up since 06:45 waitnig for a delivery van. The new 3 piecve suite is coming this mornnig and I'm super-excited. I left the family home with just the horrible sofa bed and as I suspected I was going to moving form rented house to rented house for a few years (and I was strapped for cash) I did not buy a suite. Well, now I have my own palace and I not supporting my ex-wife so heavily I finally made the purchase and now i'm sat here like an expectant father. The other sensible thing I did in the last couple of weeks was take out some redundancy insurance. As the pharmaceutical industry in this country contracts rapidly I doubt I'd be able to find another job quite so well paid (actually, anything like so well paid) but if I can make it through to Xmas past the deferall period then I would qualify for a high enough monthly return to be able to get buy for a year. Actually the thought of a year off is rather nice!!! Hopefully things will be fine though. Our new global head of R&D came to visit us this summer and seemed very impressed. He likes the idea of doing research in the UK and has actually asked to submit a (small) expansion plan. On top of that we have just had one chmeist hand in her notice and we were immediately granted permission to rpelace her. Beyond that it's travelling time again. Tomorrow evening I'm back on a plane to Tokyo for a week of fun!!!! Hopefully there won't be a problem.