TARRAGON & THYME

The firm that I work for introduced last year long service awards for long-standing members of staff.  Today we celebrated one of the Lawyers having worked for the firm for 40 years; another member of staff in the Accounts Department 25 years and three other lady colleagues 15 years.  I wasn't going to go to the awards as I had arrangements at lunch to meet with friends, but the firm celebrated in style and I was eventually persuaded by one of my colleagues to just go for a little while so I did.  It turned out that I also received an award for 15 years service withe firm and I was given a pretty bouquet of flowers and a bottle of Champagne (which I have popped up out of the way for Christmas Dinner - am a bit partial to Bucks Fizz at Christmas).  So it was a lovely surprise - who says nice things don't happen.  They certainly did for me today.

I have made a new found friend in a lady called Eve and have been helping her out on a regular basis teaching her how to use her computer showing her quick ways and sorting different loading bits and bobs on and generally teaching her and sorting her.  Bless her heart she has been so chuffed with my help she gave me this surprise card as a thank you.  I think it is lovely it is done in decoupage and apparently Eve used to do a lot of this kind of work at one time. Its little things like this that cheer you up and really make your day so thank you Eve.  I am going to frame this.

I received a lovely surprise yesterday from my OH. I have been struggling with a digital camera that doesn't have many pixels and have been very disappointed with some of the results I have received. Especially with my attempts at photographing the lady Moon who is so beautiful but who I haven't been able to capture with any success. I was however quite happy to carry on and do the best I could with what I have. Bless his heart he has bought me an all singing and dancing digital camera as he knows I enjoy my blogging and its his way of helping out, so I am hoping that after I have got to grips with how to use that the photos will speak for themselves. He also bought a digital card that should hold approximately 1500 photographs - now that really does give me something to go at. I am really all excited. I am really looking forward to getting to grips with this and some of the technology on my computer which I have thus far not used or got to grips with. I think I am a v...