First real post of the new year

I can't believe that it's over half way through January and so much has happened. I thought that after last year things would be a lot quieter in 2012. Wrong; it was Sam's birthday yesterday, had a few drinks and a karaoke, neighbours asked us to keep it down as we were, and we were, being a bit too noisy. I had to face it, quarter to six on a late Sunday afternoon IS rather late so we sit things down. Shame, it was quite a good night, the lads were singing and I wasn't too shit (Charlotte was awesome though, jealous....;-) Other than that, so much more has happened, Pat has died, work is still shit and the arrangements for Shetland have been completed.

The sausage trail is really taking shape, Shetland is going to be great, especially after the new arrangements. I think that my co-travellers; Emma, Will and Beth, are somewhat concerned now that I have booked them onto a freight ship as opposed to the lush passenger ship they were expecting. However, it appears that we are the only passengers on the crossing and will have the lounge and meal all to ourselves, so we will see how different it actually is.

The Serbia trip is also taking shape, the sausage festival in Turija is the biggest in the country and habitually attempt to create the worlds longest sausage, in fact they managed to do this a couple of years ago but the representative from Guinness failed to show so the 2.5 kilometre sausage was merely a tasty treat.

Anyway, I need to get back into the swing of blogging.

Happy New Year all.