Author: jane

I tried another recipe from the Low fat, Low Sugar cook book today, and made some oatcakes. They taste okay, but I had a real problem rolling them out as almost everytime I put the rolling pin on the mixture, it broke up into pieces. Anyone got any ideas how to prevent this happening? Or happen to have an email address for Rose Elliot (the author)?

I accepted a job offer today. I’m going to be working for a small company in Portslade doing internet/intranet stuff and I start on the 7th of January. Hurrah!

Unfortunately, the news isn’t as good for most of the other guys that I was made redundant with. There don’t seem to be many jobs around at the moment, and there seem to be agencies listing jobs that don’t exist, or agencies that won’t give you more details about a job before you send them your cv – all a bit suspicious.

For the record, here is a list of the job sites I’ve been using, ranked with the best at the top:

• jobserve – always has a lot on offer (not all of them exist though)
• gojobsite – again has a lot on offer, and there isn’t much cross over with jobserve
• wired sussex – doesn’t have much on offer, but it is all local (to me anyways)
• monster – allows you to create an online cv so potential employers can find out more about you
• planetrecruit – not a bad site, but seems to have many of the same jobs as gojobsite, and I prefer the gojobsite layout

We bought and dressed our Christmas tree last weekend. I’ve never had a real Christmas tree before (in fact, I’ve never owned a tree before as this is the first year that I’ll be spending Christmas at my house rather than at my folks’) and so it’s all quite exciting (okay, not really exciting but different anyways).

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It’s not all that easy to tell from this picture, but the tree is only about 1.5 feet tall. We bought one in a pot in the hope that we can convince it to live.

Hmmm, our server is currently experiencing some technical issues, like seeing the internet… so, if you’ve tried to view our site over the last couple of days, sorry… Normal service will be resumed shortly – I hope!

It took me ages to get the blog below to publish. It was complaining of an ftp error, saying that the connection didn’t exist (which it did). Big thanks go to Onno Zweers of the Netherlands for coming up with a solution to the problem.

We bought a new recipe book a couple of weeks ago, and it’s full or really tasty recipes, and they’re healthy too. The recipes are designed to be low fat and low sugar, and best of all tasty. We’ve tried 5 or 6 recipes so far, and only one of them was slightly dissapointing, the others have been great.

BBC2 have been showing the draw for the Japan and Korea World Cup in 2002. They really padded the show out, with musicians, and singers, and the like all doing their turns but eventually, they got around to doing the draw. Here is England’s group:

Group F

1. Argentina
2. Nigeria
3. England
4. Sweden

And England’s matches are going to be:

2 June 7.30am England v Sweden at Saitama
7 June 12.30pm Argentina v England at Sapporo
12 June 7.30am Nigeria v England at Osaka

Well, I survived 3 rounds of redundancies, but the 4th was just too much to hope for, and so I was made redundant on Monday along with 26 others (of those 10 were voluntary). I’d been there for 2 years, so at least I’m entitled to the government statutory payment of 240GBP for each of those years. Wow! I’m rich.

So, I’m not being asked to work my notice, and so am getting to spend more time in Brighton. I spent Tuesday sleeping and generally mooching around the house. On Wednesday I went into London to meet up with some friends for lunch, visited the office and cleared up my work pc, and went to see my Financial Advisor (who still managed to con some money out of me – incredible). Yesterday I started doing some technical playing (big thanks to Paul for lending me his laptop for a while) – php and mysql. And today I’ve met up with another redundant person this morning to discuss some work we might do together, and then I had lunch with one of the survivors in a lovely pub in Brighton (The George in Trafalgar Street – only serves vegetarian food, and the quality of that food is great) before she dragged me around some of the antique shops in the North Laines.

All in all, it ended as a far better week than it began.

I’ve just been to StarWars.com and watched the trailer for the new film. It looks like a forbidden romance (jedi’s aren’t allowed to love apparently) and that the creation of Darth Vader is underway. Watch it…

We’ve bought each other Mountain bikes for Christmas. We bought them at The Bike Chain in Brighton, and have had them now for 10 days or so. Yesterday we went on our first “proper” ride on them (previously we’ve been on a couple of rides along the seafront, but nothing more exciting that). We cycled through Brighton to Stanmer Park, through Stanmer Park and stopped at a little shop/cafe for a refuel of water before heading off along the downs (being passed by lots and lots of cars). We then headed off downhill towards Rottingdean and stopped at the seafront for a little while before cycling along the cliffs until we got back to Brighton. In total just under 15 miles and we arrived home exhausted. It was good fun though, especially the cycling downhill to Rottingdean bit…