Goodbye summer - hello autumn!

The schools starting back after the long summer break really signals to me the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, but this year it seems that that mother nature agrees with me, with tree leaves turning red, conkers falling and the blackberries nearly over!

Summer holidays invariably reduce my stress levels enormously (despite the stress of packing!) and the ensuing four weeks, with less hours at work, really make me relax and go with the flow. Notwithstanding the need to go slow, I managed to pack in rather a lot this summer, with a visit from a nephew, numberous trips to the cinema, several museum trips, a number of visits to swimming pools, a couple of concerts a few meals out etc..

Now I find myself home alone (sob!) I've managed to have a spring clean, learned how to create a customised search engine using Google and added it to my iGoogle page (thanks to my ten-year old for help with customising my Google page) and added another book to my librarything catalogue! Wow! Cataloguing, blogging and now using Google creatively - whatever next! Better get on and update that wiki next!

See you round!

And counting ...

Holidays are looming! Looming only in the sense that there is the stressful act of packing to go through first before the relaxation of the holiday. And, all that work to do so that one can disappear off for a couple of weeks with a clear enough conscience that everything that needed to be done has been done and that nothing, but nothing can possibly go wrong while you're away!

I'm hoping when I get back that I will have a bit more time to catalogue my book collection on www.librarything.com . So far I have only managed to list 3 books from my vast collection, but finding the time to do it isn't easy. Also, I'm hoping to develop the work wiki a bit more. Strangely, that only has 3 pages on it at the moment. I say strangely, as 3 seems to be cropping up rather a lot at but I'm sure I have no idea if that's significant or not!

Still not quite decided about the purpose of this blog, but I'm sure I'll get there in the end.

stjerome