Positive changes

Yes, I haven't posted for years! My blog sort of drifted into neglect and then, when I felt the urge to post, I realised I had lost the login details. Thanks to an email suggesting I migrate my blog to Google and instructions on how to do this, I am now able to resurrect this blog.

A lot has happened in the intervening years. We have been through ups and downs. We have two lovely children. My daughter is autistic but is getting a good and suitable education at a special educational needs school which she loves! My son has started at nursery which he has learned to love.

My health (Diabetes) has been through some tough times to the point where the doctor told me in February that they were thinking about putting me on a trial for a new type of insulin. While I had no objection to doing that, I felt the time was right for me to start to take control of things myself. I started a new job about the same time and I decided that one change deserves another. I drastically changed my eating habits and have been stepping up the level of exercise gradually. I now try and get some exercise every day if I can. As a result of these changes my diabetes is now uder much better control and I have managed to lose about 4 stone in weight!

Partly as a result of having more energy we have become much more active in the house. We have managed to clear the garage of most of the junk, much of which has been sitting there since we moved into the house 4 years ago. I now have a useable garage and have ambitions to do many projects in it in the future. It will also provide storage space for some of the stuff we have in the house that doesn't really need to be there but had nowhere else to go before.

The garden is slowly improving as well. It has had a few years of neglect but Rachel did great work weeding the raised beds and that gave us the impetous to try and sort out the rest. We are growing a load of vegetable with varying degrees of success. I'm really quite excited about that and look forward to trying our home grown potatoes, strawberries, onions, carrots, tomatoes etc.

In short, things are looking up and I hope that they will continue to do so.