Storm and snow.

As I mentioned in my last post we had been warned beforehand that we were in for a bad storm over the weekend. On Friday it hit us in the form of high winds, which did indeed cause a lot of material damage around the country. During Saturday we had sleet and the temperature had dropped considerably, the wind had died down over night and it was damp and cold just the right weather to catch a cold. On Sunday evening to our amazement it started to snow and in a matter of a few hours we had around 15 centimetres of snow. I intended to take some photos the next morning of the snowed countryside but to our surprise the temperature had risen during the night and the snow had nearly all melted.
On Tuesday I was at work and it was a day for me full of apprehensions because I had to present my project to my boss that I have been working on for the last six month (remembering that I only work two days a month). The project consists of completing maintenance handbooks for all of the company’s machines. I went about this task combining, photos and text into each handbook so that even the thickest of heads know what they are doing.
Ten past two was my appointment with my boss (not a easy chap to get on with) mostly when I present something he has always (up till now) made some radical changes. Mostly because of them I have in nine times out of ten to start from scratch again. This time was different he accepted my project without a change to it. To tell you the truth I couldn’t believe my ears when he said “ accepted” you see it has to conform with ISO 2000 and that’s were my worry’s were.

We had been invited to our neighbours 70th birthday celebration (he’s a English guy who lives across the road from us) it was to take place on Saturday in Düsseldorf in the English international library at one pm, it was a surprise party organised by his children. My wife was not all that keen on going (to many strange people for her liking) so I went by myself. I caught the bus into the city because it was the first Advent weekend and the Weihnachtsmarkt was open.
The city is then over run from Dutch people that come over with buses to visit the market, also I heard a lot of English being spoken this year as well. I was told that the British fly over for the day on cheap flights just to visit the Weihnachtsmarkt.
The birthday party wasn’t all that exciting, stayed a couple of hours had a beer or two and then caught the bus back home in time to watch the football on TV.
In the evening I had a link with my brother via Skype and like always it was a very enjoyable 75 minutes, he gave me one or two good tips regarding the computer (which he nearly always does) and the rest was a good old chin wag.
My brother no1broadstreet titled his last post “ Keeping up with the Jones’s” I myself have no intentions in keeping up with anybody, I have practised “Keeping up” that far too often in my life and have learnt a lesson through it. I have enough to do in keeping up with myself let alone with some one else.
The photo is taken from the grounds of the company were I work two days a month. There was snow there last Tuesday.
Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss