Cape Town - Almost Forgotten - now published!

As you can see from the above our book is now published now we have to market it and will be sending it to loads of bookstores in the next few weeks.

Cape Town - Almost Forgotten

The cover of our book - slightly different in that our names have been moved to the bottom - but this is basically what it will look like!

And time marches on . . .

I just don't know where the time goes - can't believe that Bayden is 5 months old already which means it's 5 months since we saw him last - we miss Marianne, Bob and Bayden so much and only hope that some time in the future we will all be together again on a more permanent basis.
Anyway so much has happened since I last "wrote" on here.
At the end of August we went to Inverness by train - we had a wonderful 4 days away - the train trip was long to say the least - as long as flying to Calgary! - but it was great. We stayed in a hotel not too far from the city centre so we could walk in and out as we wanted. We did the boat trip on Loch Ness and the only monster I saw was Alfred carrying some coffee out of the cabin on the boat! The scenery is spectacular and that whole trip is to be recommended to everyone. It was such a good rest as well - no work, no car - just great to be away from it all.

Nick and Natalie have just come back from visiting Marianne, Bob and Bayden and their photos look great. We will be seeing them on Saturday as they are coming up for my birthday. We are going out to dinner at this restaurant called Imperial Bento - it is a Chinese/Japanese/Malaysian restaurant - expensive but great! Last time we went there we had such a great time - started off the evening at 7 and finally got home at 12.30 - I had too much wine and couldn't remember even getting home! It was good fun and the food is amazing.

Our book on Cape Town - called Cape Town Almost Forgotten is awaiting printing - it's all been proofed, the cover done, isbn no. put on etc. etc. and is looking good - we should have it back this week and then will have to do some marketing. Fortunately working for a publishing company I have had some good tips and they will be doing some of it for me. I spoke to the Managing Director the other day and he has given me this amazingly thick book to read all about marketing your book! Anyway - it is looking good and we are happy with it. We were trying to get a photo of the Doll's House restaurant to include but this arrived after it went to press so now will have to go in the revised edition some time in the future - if we get permission to use the pic, that is!

Anway that's it from me for now - oh and the other bit of brilliant news is that after 2 years Alfred's mom has finally moved out - the parting was not too sweet but essential from our point of view and life is now normal again.

(I will add more photos next time - hopefully it won't take me another 4 months!)

Finally . . .

Well here I am a few weeks after Marianne set this up for me and I'm finally putting some words into cyberspace.
Needless to say we are very proud grandparents of Bayden who is absolutely gorgeous - not that I'm biased or anything! We miss Marianne, Bob and Bayden heaps but hopefully one day we'll be together again - somewhere in the world!
Looks like Nick and Natalie will be moving to the States sometime in the next few years so once they're gone won't be much left for us here in England, but I'm not ready to give my job up just yet so we shall have to see how things go. No doubt the call of the family will be strong and we will head off to Canada, but it will mean starting over again - but then again we are well experienced and sending ourselves and our belongings off to distant shores having done it so many times before - I have packing down to a fine art and sorting things out is a breeze!
Well my lunch break has come to an end so will have to add to this later.