Getting Started

It's 5 minutes after midnight on Friday 21st August 2009 and Mr Magrahi arrived home in Libya a few hours ago. Today is the first day of the rest of my life and the first day of my blog. I am celebrating that I have retired from education after 40 years...and 3 of these years were served in Libya. It will be interesting for me to see if I can keep up this blog, having tried unsuccessfully in the past to keep a diary.
This has been an interesting and varied summer so far, busy in the B&B, and wonderful visits from family and friends but the summer is drawing to a close and it is time to decide how I will spend the rest of my life. Will it be a case of strings of days filled with nothing more than housework, cooking, reading and of course blogging? Or will I find some other purposes? Will I find another job? Will I finally write my bestseller? Or even just my life story for my children? Will I knit countless jumpers? Will I become a better gardener? Who knows but it will be interesting seeing what develops.
Two things are certain though. We, Richard and I, will do more travelling here and abroad. Visits to friends and family who live in other parts of the UK. Visits to Debbie and Claire and their families in USA and Norway. And travel for the sake of travel to see new places and to revisit places where we have lived before. And secondly as long as my feet will stand it (excuse the pun) I will keep on dancing. The Castleton Dancers are going from strength to strength and gaining appreciation here in Braemar. The £21,000 that we have so far raised for good causes is quite phenomenal and we are very proud. Working together over the last few weeks to bring together a performance containing 3 original compositions for Prince Charles and Camilla next week has been very rewarding. Let's hope we have many more opportunities ahead.