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HAPPY HOLIDAYS

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Debbie and I are off to Florida for our Christmas and New Years to see my daughters, so this might be the last post on Delovesto for 2009.

By the time we get back, our blog will see it’s first anniversary, as we registered it at the end of December 2008. Things have come a long way in the last year, with our dreams of living together finally taking shape as I moved back to the UK at the end of July.

2009 has definitely seen a lot of changes for us.  My moving over to the UK is no doubt the most significant, but Debbie becoming a Grandmother for the first time in July was also a major event, as was our moving house in October and my finally finding a job in October.

The Delovesto memberships have been growing, and 2010 will I hope see an explosion in the amount of traffic that we get to our site, as well as the number of articles that we write on various topics.

My latest project on here, unknown to most visitors so far I am sure, is to start creating a series of Shopping pages where people can access sites that we ourselves use, both here in the UK as well in the USA to buy things online.  By shopping using the links on our pages, not only can you be sure of buying great products at great prices, you also help to support us as we earn a small amount of commission on each order placed.

Debbie and I both wish you all a Very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever holidays you are celebrating, and wish you a very successful and profitable New Year for 2010.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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For New Years Eve we thought about going out somewhere, maybe a pub, but then we are often quite happy to head up to bed before midnight, and pubs on New Years Eve are full of loud drunken people in groups; it’s not so much fun for a couple on their own.   And so we decided to stay in, catch up on the web and watch television.  Boring maybe, but for us it was the best decision.

While I was working on putting the finishing touches together on this, our new blog, Debbie was catching up on the soaps and repeats of Only Fools And Horses.

Then somehow we ended up watching several episodes of shows about Haunted Britain, one about caves where the Hell Fire Club used to meet was quite creepy at times.  And then at Five To Midnight we switched channels to watch the New Year Celebrations in London.   Since I have spend my New Years in the USA since 1993, I have been out of touch with the celebrations somewhat, other than seeing the ball drop in Times Square in New York, which doesn’t quite have the same appeal to me.  This year, however, not only did I get to listen to Big Ben chime in the New Year, the firework display that was centred around the London Eye on the Embankment was spectacular.   I have seen some impressive firework displays before around the world, but this was so dazzling and bright it overloaded the television cameras at times and it went on for a full 15 minutes.   It’s just sad of course to think of the many thousands of pounds it cost, but it was a truly brilliant display.

Today being New Years Day we didn’t just want to do nothing.  We laid in quite late, blogged around a while, then about midday grabbed a bit to eat and went out to wash the car.  It had got quite dirty with all the rain in the last couple of months, and I was going to do it for Debbie earlier in the week, but it was absolutely frigid outside.  Today was milder though.  Still cold but bearable.  So we washed the car, then decided to go for a walk along the river.  The way we went took us for a good 3 mile trek along the river bank and up and around various woods and fields.  We passed several pubs along the way, and the smell of the food made us really hungry, but we pressed on regardless.  It was really nice, and helped us work up quite an appetite, which we satisfied with a nice warming Cottage Pie when we got back.

Right now we are just sitting catching up on all the HAPPY NEW YEAR messages on all the sites we subscribe to, and will maybe have an early night.  Maybe…