 | 2005 |  |
| The year that the Bright's of Grenoble turned 100 (think about it Remy and Clara at 8 and 5 Mike and Chantal at 21). December saw Remy with Pnuemonia and Clara breaking her arm, but every one's OK. When France turned to the Euro, Chantal didn't. A few years ago, the local epicier bet Chantal that she wouldn't get another French cheque by him. So after years of careful planning, Chantal supported by her aunt and mother ... failed. It was a flop, and the cheque is now pinned up in the shop ... |  | |||||||||||
| I started the year with a fair bit of travelling, back to Kiev a couple of times (the stadium below is where the Eurovision contest was held in May) and then to Warsaw a couple of times. I really enjoyed those trips being very unused to Eastern Europe. Warsaw was really cold, at about -15C. | ||||||||||||
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| We had snow late this year. On the day of the London Marathon I went to Reading by train - a nice spring day in London, a beautiful day in Paris, it was like Siberia in Grenoble - train line cut ... That was a very intense week as I managed to squeeze in 3 concerts ... lots of old 1970's groups (or tribute bands!). | ||||||||||||
 | Chantal, having left HP 2 years ago was looking around for a part time job, or her own business something to do with Horses. She came up with the idea of being "animal taxi" and quickly setup EquiTaxi . Business is slowly picking up and she's already had quite a few local or long-distance transports of horses (down to Toulouse, or to Italy for example). She's transported dogs, donkeys, horses so far. |  | ||||||||||
| My Uncle Dougs death at 59 was quite a shock, and still seems hard to believe. This encouraged me to get out of HP more at lunchtimes and got me running and cycling quite a bit. Unfortunately, when autumn arrived I've been finding it pretty tough - wild temperature swings, always seem to be fighting of colds. | ||||||||||||
 | Remy and Clara appeared in a show. It was a surprise to me for my Birthday. Glad to have these pictures which I grabbed from a video I took, as we got burgled the following weekend and the (new) camera was stolen. Mum and Keith came over for Remy and Clara's school fete. | |||||||||||
 | Clara turned 5 in July, and is in her last nursery school year. She's becoming quite studious playing with numbers (teaching herself multiplication) and letters and she does some really nice art work. |  | ||||||||||
Remy sprained his ankle twice more this year, but thankfully this hasn't happened since about March (oops - Chantal says it was June ...). We spent summer holidays in the SouthWest of France, close to Bayonne. Remy and I went climbing "Acrobranche style" on a couple of occasions. I was really impressed by Remy who was often keener than I was to keep going.  |  |  |  | |||||||||
| Marraine (Chantal's aunt turned 80) and a couple of months later Remy turned 8 and was the same height as Marraine! The Brights (Grenoble) turned 100 on 25th October (on Remy's 8th birthday, no comments for the other ages). Mike running again .... Mike stopped running again .... Mike's thinking about running again .... Sam's getting on a bit now (~ 13 years). On holiday he slept in a tent - even in South of France in August the weather isn't always that warm. We bought a new kennel at home hoping to retake control of the garage. Sam's starting to use it, but it's too cold now. Remy has been quite active this year (until we bought him a GameBoy that is). He earned a yellow/striped belt in Judo in May, started Fencing (martial art, not gardening) lessons at school. |
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| I changed jobs moving back to a more lab oriented role which I've been really pleased about. It's been tough going but I'm so pleased to be working in a technical area which is interesting (video streaming to mobile phones). Having fun with video, images, ... Managed to get in quite a few concerts again. I won't bore you with the details, but amongst some great concerts was a bad one by Coldplay (they were good the sound was dreadful!), and best concert of the year was definitely Susheela Raman . In fact I got in from the concert and booked online to see her in Lyon the following week ... Went to Montreux Jazz again and came back without my car as I lost my keys. Got it back a few days later though. HP announced large layoffs across Europe with France particulalry hard hit. I even went on strike for a day. The layoffs will be voluntary as previously, ... should be OK this time but computing is not the easy ride it once was. | ||||||||||||
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