Hi everybody, has been a while since we updated here, so I’ll do a Christmas Special post with a bit of what we’ve been up to.

• I (gra) am slowly working my way to 100 pushups, I’m in week three now, so maybe half way there.
• We spent a fairly quiet Christmas at home this year, with one friend staying over, briskly walking at Stanmer Park and then spending the day with friends for Xmas Dinner then coming back to ours for Desert and Monopoly.  Brighton and Hove Monopoly, nonetheless.   But why is Preston Park where Whitechapel Road used to be, £60.  What?
• Our big Christmas present that came early, is Olive Tapenade Gravy Sutherland the puppy.  Or Olive for short.  She’s a dream most of the time and occasionally a woof-woof-land-shark-pooping-machine.  Just like a baby.  We are back to broken night’s sleep on and off.  She’s a total darling.  Puppy photo below.  She needs a fair bit of exercise, so this gets us out into the winter sunshine a bit, down at the Withdean Puppy Park.
  

• Nodestone (our business) goes from strength… I’m more and more involved with web development CO2-reduction measurement, calculation and reporting, especially when it is online and social.  I need to write more about this and will do over at nodestone over the next few weeks.  The times are changing. CO2 measurement is becoming important, as are the need for all of us to start changing our behaviour to live in a new, low carbon kind of way.
• Bea is having a well-earned holiday for a couple of weeks after breaking up from school the week before Christmas.  Poor kids, they really end up dragging their heels around towards the end of term as the days get shorter and they get more and more tired.  She’s nearly eight!
• Lib’s just had her birthday.  We went to a creative retreat for the weekend with lovely friends.   It was an excellent way to celebrate really.  We danced and sang and painted and watched the sun come up, welcoming it back after the longest night on Dec 20.  We are looking forward to the days getting longer even if it is still cold for a couple of months.

Lots more to say, but that’ll do for now.  Bea and I are off to the Booth museum to sketch skulls and bones.