Now its 2006- and what will this year bring ?
Yes a time another time to reflect on the year past and yet also to look ahead. What will we all being doing this time next year......

The lead up to the end of 2005 for me.



I made a visit to my favorite city, Chiacgo .
There was plenty of snow and nice and cold.
Living in Houston one needs to travel to experience the seasons.




Houston had its cool moments and again there was talk of snow, when something unusual happens once it is always the expectation that is will happen again. It opens that air of possibility in peoples minds, yet last years snow on Christmas eve the first for 50 years was likely a once every 50 years event. Yes and we missed it last year and when so cold at one point it soon warmed up again this year. Oh well.

We spent Christmas at home this year, webcamming family and friends in England.
Last years trip to the Bahamas convinced everyone that we should stay home this year. It was a good decision, but not a relaxing one, what with cooking dinner laying table, clearing up , setting up computers and wirless connections building the table tennis table and all done whilst full of food and alchohol proved very exhausting.








We invited friends round for Boxing day (The day after Christmas), and again on New Years eve where we set off numerous fireworks and ate and drank plenty.
Jon performed once again at 8.30pm New Years eve, at 'Wired' and a number of us took time out to go and watch his band, ' One Bird Powerline'. http://obpband.com
Fireworks this year were almost professional grade, and some smaller ones for the kids to set off. Expenditure was great and the benefits of investing in some mega fireworks paid off with some amazing displays and a few close calls when some big ones exploded close to the ground.