As we had work Christmas lunch on Friday, I left my car at work to collect over the weekend. When we went to pick it up on Sunday we discovered that they lock the gates to the car park…

As a result, Georgina and Jon gave me a lift to work this morning and got to see the office. Jon liked being at work and had to be bribed with the promise of a snack when he got home in order to persuade him to leave! I had a nasty shock when I left for home at the end of the day and discovered that the car wouldn’t start. A little bit of thought meant that I was sure the battery was ok (radio worked, along with headlights). I decided it was probably the immobiliser, and so I spent 5 mins opening and closing the car central locking with the radio buttons which seemed to work! *phew*

We don’t have a lot in the way of Christmas traditions here in the-allens household. One we do have is that we watch The Muppets Christmas Carol every year which marks the start of Christmas for us.

This year, Jon watched with us and seemed to enjoy the bits he paid attention to. Rather oddly he found the jolly giant Ghost of Christmas Present to be quite scary whilst he took the intimidating Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come in his stride.

Odd child.

is really hard to buy “interesting” presents for!

Company Christmas Lunch today and we had a good time! As I think I’ve mentioned, it’s not a big company, so there was 7 of us for lunch at the Monsoon restaurant. We had a good time though and worked our way through a sensible amount of drinks :)

A bad note today was that Georgina fainted whilst in town. Hopefully it’s a one-off like last time she was pregnant.

What’s up? The roads were empty on my way to work this morning! Has everyone but me gone on holiday for Christmas already?

So Ian Huntley is guilty of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. I’m glad that he didn’t get away with it. Given the news reports it seemed obvious that he was guilty, but it took the jury 4 days to decide. Clearly the evidence wasn’t as clear cut as the media seemed to be suggesting. In some ways, I’m glad that the jury took their time. It means that they weren’t swayed by media reporting and it can be seen that they made their own minds up. Good for them. Let’s hope that Mr Huntley isn’t let out of prison for a very very long time… his history would suggest that it would be bad.

Today was probably my most productive day so far at my new job.

Go me!

It’s official, Christmas is coming to the Allen household! Today was the day we put up the Christmas tree. Jon was really excited and really enjoyed himself helping Georgina to decorate it.

Picture coming when we get around to uploading it :)

My parents were up last night and so we took advantage of the free babysitting and went out for a meal. We went to the Copcut near Droitwich. It was a really nice meal with excellent service. I was a little cruel to Georgina as I had paté which she can’t have at the moment. It was very nice, as was the steak that followed!

Definitely back in the swing of work today! The morning went very quickly as I successfully got an app up and running much easier than I thought. The afternoon didn’t go so well. All our apps have been developed and deployed on Linux servers, but today we needed it running on a Windows box… hmm… did it work first time? of course not! does it work yet? of course not…

Guess what I’ll be working on tomorrow?