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2009 rewind?
That is basically what I want to do. Re-start 2009. The whole experience was not all bad by any means - New Years Day was seen in with friends in the leafy SW London town of Worcester Park, where a Chinese takeaway and a bit of booze made the prospect of 2009 seem pretty good. Some joint birthday celebrations were also an early high light. The venue was a restaurant near the Market Place in Kingston-upon-Thames that was owned by irritating mockney cockerney Jamie Oliver. Just in case you didn't know, he is a celebrity chef here in the UK, whose main claim to fame is berating the nutritional contents of school dinners, and appearing in twee commercials for a well known supermarket chain. The fame of the restaurants patron definitely proved to be a selling point - it turned out that the restaurant didn't have to make bookings for parties under eight people. The queues at the door were already forming at six thirty pm on a very cold Saturday evening, and I was told by a member of staff that it would take two hours to get in with a group of six people. Behind me in the queue was an attractive Canadian lady who came up with a neat idea - book for eight people in advance, and just claim that two of them couldn't make it when you turned up. Oh for the benefit of hindsight. The food turned out to be good though - I completely demolished the squid starter and the steak, and still had room for some pudding. Some Napkin shenanigans helped make up for the long wait to get in. The flies in the ointment are mainly due to my return to work. I came back after a months break to find that my security clearance (which is needed to allow me to work on site) had expired, so the happy hours spent urgently filling in and processing forms meant that my workload, which was already high, was mounting up exponentially. I was also told that I would have to fill in yet more forms for the annual review process, which as you can guess, is about as exciting as watching grass grow. My first day back at work also revealed a car problem - the main headlights on my Rover had gone, which meant more time was spent on the phone to insurance companies and garages to organise a date for the repair. Looking on the positive side, things can only get better. Have a healthy and happy New Year!
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