Been busy…

So – I haven’t blogged recently.

I have been having to work more for work to meet a project deadline, and so some nights I have either been staying late in the office, or working from home which isn’t as bad. Either way, I have managed to clock up lots of time-in-lieu, and so I am currently ‘spending’ some of that time accrued this week, which is the up-side to doing it.

Also, the last weekend or so, as I have been away on a Stag Do in Spain, no less. One of the lads on the stag do co-owns a place in Cazorla in Spain, and so it was the place to have the bash! The windy streets of the town of Cazorla kept us all on our toes, and probably helped to walk off most of the beer consumed over the weekend. (Cheers to Ian for that, by the way - much appreciated.)

In total, seven of us went (two dads, the groom, myself and three others) and all seven returned safely without prosecution or hospitalisation of any kind, as I think I was expecting before we went.

The weekend itself was great – totally non-touristy, and so we even had to explain in broken-pigeon-English to the locals why one of us, namely the groom, was dressed in a pink spandex legs and a matching tutu. (Isn’t ebay a wonderful place!)

Anyway, reason I mention this stag-do, is because it was the first time I have been away from Jack and Claire – we pretty much moved Claire and Jack out of our house and into her parent’s house for the long weekend, and the amount of baby-related fodder that needed taking was crazy. Everything that could be taken, was. Literally. The boot on our new car was put through it’s paces, as things were rammed in there.

I know her parents were there to help her out, but I did feel bad for abandoning her when Jack is still quite young and a handful at times. Claire even admitted that she now looks forward to me coming home at night after work, as it’s a time when she doesn’t have to sing ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’ to keep Jack entertained when he starts to flag. So me not being there obviously has an impact on her, but also that I haven’t seen my little baby for a few days. (I am reading into this and see the fact that prior to Jack not being here, Claire didn’t look forward to me coming home… thanks, wife!)

At my old job where I was the IT Manager for an international sports event management company, part of the job was to go away on the weekend projects and not only oversee the IT side of things, but I would also pitch in and help the work of setting up to be done, as well as helping to drink all the beers afterwards. Anyway, the least I’d be away was around 4/5 days at a time, and part of the reason to leave there and work where I do currently, is because of the time away from home and from Claire, which takes its toll after a while. Now with a baby in the frame, there’s another face in the back of my head.