Hi guys

We would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and all good wishes for 2010. Do hope you have enjoyed the festive season with family and that - in particular - Jacqui is feeling much better.

Haven't looked at the blog before sending this brief note as time has run away with us but will catch up next week. We were all together for Christmas day, with Emily returning on 28th - Ben goes back to Brum NYE - and we got together with P and A a couple of days ago.

Work beckons far too rapidly but at least we feel rested and ready for the fray.

Happy new year and love from us both.

Crikey what fun you guys are having .. medical capers (hope all is well now Jacqui), spiders and even the opportunity to shop at Woolies! ... and the end of term festivities seem even more exciting than a King Edwards' disco of the 1980s!

Anyway, you now appear to have a chance to catch up, draw breath and enjoy some R and R with Rich et al.

We'll be interested in seeing if anything happens as a result of thre paper you presented.

One more message before Christmas likely so will save Christmas greetings until later.

Be safe and love from us both

D and S xx

God evening from a wind swept Suffolk

Just caught up with the blog .. not being able to get stuck into a cottage pie on a Saturday evening must have been frustrating ... and how accurate is John's story telling?

Like you guys, there is a whiff of the end of term although still lots on and loads to do.

The Boy from PNG (Will Genia) featured again for the Wallabies against Ireland and is clearly a very good international player in the making. England woeful v Argentina though and next week the All Blacks!

What will you be eating on Christmas Day we wonder??

Trust remaining weeks of term and graduations etc go well.

Be safe and lots of love

D and S xx

Hi, Jacquie & John,

Thinking of you and reading your log. Still in awe at what you're doing.

I sent you an e-mail with my new address. Hope it arrived.

Stay well. xx

Good afternoon from Autumnal Melton,

Just had a look at the blog and photos .. nice pink tie John (and trendy little goatie!!) .. interested to note the fast sinking position of PHG on human index of deprivation and Jacqui's closing words ... it would seem major change would be needed in all aspects of daily life to make a real difference ... but without your efforts (and many others like you) one suspects the situation would be even more difficult... you will be making a difference to the lives of some... albeit that things are slow to move forward.

Half term seems to be going too fast here ..

Love from us both xx

Hi chaps, just had to drop you a line having read your moving story re the neighbours Pig! perhaps Letchworth isn't so bad then!

Good to see John sporting a Goatie would have been in good company earlier in the year when the Letchworth office lads attempted to grow them for charity!

I'd keep away from men brandishing large sticks and certainly be more suspicious of the neighbours activity from now on!

All the best from an overcast LGC

Cheers Steve L

Must say we thought you had scrubbed up well for the Governors's Do!!

A number of folk asked after you over the summer and again at our 30th W/A do just before term started .. so we were able to update them .. although this was before news broke of the disappearing jeans and coffee table!

Did you get to see any of the athletics from Berlin - Bolt quite brilliant!! No pun intended!

Hope all is well .. and be safe.

Love from us all

It's great to read your news . Theft is not confined to PNG. In July someone pinched my purse from my bag in the Oxfam shop and then last week Graham went to give blood and dropped his wallet. Un beknown to him a bloke picked it up and handed it to the man in front of him, who took it! And I though blood donors were altruistic...

There is no Indian summer here. It's quite cold and we're off to my godson's wedding in Cornwall this weekend. I've had to buy a jacket to go over the summer frock!

Thoughtg I'd better leave a note on the site. I know Melanie is still a reader as indeed I am. Sounds like the Bearde one and JR are still pushing the stone uphill. Strangely there is a sense that it runs back less far.

A little reminder: SFGC started ten years ago on 1 October. That's a history well worth living I think....

All good things R+C

The blog continues to make for interesting reading .. timetabling seems to be a global issue!!

Many Happy Returns John ... and do hope you were able to stay awake to enjoy the end of your meal!

Met up with Paul, Roger and Mike (Hunt) at a golf day last week ... an enjoyable day with Mike winning just about everything in site. All looking well and it was, as always, great to catch up with everyone. We are meeting up with P and A soon.

Summer hols seem to be going all too rapidly and it will not be too long before we are planning for a return to work.

Emily and Ben send their love.

Be safe. Lots of love from us both

Hi, hope your both well, sorry have only just learnt how to reply! All is going well at the mo and I take it mum has told u about baby on it's way, so looking forward to it's arrival. We will be able to send u pictures soon as we have digital camera. Hope kids are well and would love it if u gave my email address to kids as would love to keep in touch. Can u let me know when you think you maybe back in the UK as would love us all to get together..Take care love to u both and big kiss to u both.Peter,Joanna and Ella X

Hi John & Jac

Sounds like you are both still having a great time. I see you've become a fighter John fair play to you no one takes your bus fare!!! Think a few people could do with you in the bus que over here!!

Hope you are all ok and enjoyed your well earned holiday.

Take care and be safe

G xx