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Rose’s work with Link Romania is developing, and she is enjoying all the new challenges. One thing she is working on is to improve their mailing lists and making sure that their email newsletters comply with best practice and both English and EU legislation designed to protect people from unsolicited mail.
If you would like to hear ocassional news from Rose’s work, please consider signing up to the Link Romania list. Traffic is very low, she promises! It would also help her get things right before she adds the current database of email addresses they have in the office. You can always opt-out easily, in the future. Thanks.
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Now we all know that Rose has iced a thousand cakes, and is ocassionally capable of giving an icy stare at her hubby, but here she is doing what she must do if she wants to drive to work instead of walk! No snow yet this winter in Worthing, but plenty of frosty mornings.
Ashleigh and Rose smile for the camera before tucking in to yet another one of Rose’s fabulous Christmas meals – it was just the three of us this year, so it felt a little bit ’small’ without having extra family around – but we had a great day.
A family in the town of Iasi, Romania, with their Christmas in ShoeboxesRose has just returned from a week in Romania, mostly in the town of Iasi (say ‘yash’ and you have said it right!) as part of a familiarisation and inspection tour with her work with Link Romania, a charity registered in the UK. There are a number of Christmas in a Shoebox campaigns these days, but I believe Link Romania was amongst the first, and for many years they have collected filled shoeboxes and delivered them to the poor in Romania. This year, 40,000 boxes have been sent (or are just about to go). It ends up being a large operation for a very small team of very dedicated volunteers and two paid staff – Rose being one of them.
Rose, in her deputation debut for Link Romania
Saturday, Rose was a bundle of nerves as she prepared to speak to an intimidating band of Durrington seniors, at a fund-raising event for Link Romania, where she works. The event was a quiz afternoon, which raised just more than £300 for helping the poor in Romania. Rose is also getting ready for a working trip to Romania next month.
Photo: BBC, from the television series Meerkat Manor
Whilst I am away on trips, Rose manages to get herself quite hooked on the fascinating antics of a few families of meerkats, who hang out somewhere in the Kalahari. It’s the sort of reality television that we like – honest – real – … right! Thoroughly entertaining, reading up on how the series is made has many interesting bits about the camera work but it does seem that the meerkats get pretty used to humans researching them and that not everything you see in the TV series is exactly how it really happened. Wikipedia has some good info. As an aside, in the UK and Canada version of the series, the narrator is actor Bill Nighy, whose roles amongst many has included that of Slartibartfast in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean.
So, I have spent the morning working from home today – trying to get uninterrupted time to finish a report from my last trip, before the next one rushes up from behind to bite me (as it will in two weeks time when I head off to Southern Africa gain). Our dining room table allows a view of the expansive back garden these Brits all have, and I saw them. The little thieving critters. Those foreign impostors on mud island soil. Flower haters. Nut munching.
Photo credit: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/031125.Swihart.squirrels.html
Grey squirrels, of course. Not so special because there are loads of them, but I haven’t seen any of them since Rose last fumed that those conniving little varmints had once again dug up her plant bulbs, just waiting now for next spring. Oh, and I did get the report completed – checking my blogs was my reward to myself.
This massive celebrating of Rose’s 50th hit day ten with (what Mark hopes, and what his bank insists is the last of) another fine meal out – this time with daughters Julie and Ashleigh, and their boyfriends – Ed and Liam. We ate Chinese, at a place called Opium Den ( I think) in Oxford, near the central bus station. Been there before, perhaps a year ago, when we were but tourists passing through. And so we finally got to meet Liam.
One Century Between Us – Mark & Rose enjoying Smart’s Circus
Our house is perhaps 300 meters as the crow flies (actually it is as the seagull flies here in Worthing) from Holmfield Park, the venue of the visiting circus. All week we have been able to hear the circus band playing during the shows. Part of celebrating Rose’s 50th birthday, was going to the circus – and so we walked there, got the candy floss and the popcorn, and had a really fun evening. Our ringside seats were the best, and we were as close as you could get to the action without being in the ring.
Photos taken with circus permission (we paid £1.00 for a camera ticket)
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