Holiday!
Afer a very busy run up to the holidays we are finally here!
I hope I have managed to see you or contact you before my departure from the UK, but it was all rather hectic.
My month started with a team meeting on the Monday, a fruitless trip to ENT for a follow up appoinment for my son (there was no-one to see him so we were sent away), a small but fun home show on Thursday all topped off with a trip to North Yorkshire (so far away from London!) through the floods and terrible weather, for a beautiful wedding on a gloriously sunny day on Saturday afternoon. Back home on Sunday more exhausted than ever!
Three more hospital appointments this week and it feels as though we are back to the bad old days, but they are soon all over. Training on Wednesday on Skype for other Pampered Chef consultants, and a birthday dinner for my nephew on Thursday. Lunch to say goodbye to a good friend on Friday and a 25th wedding anniversary party "bollywood style" on Saturday.
A fabulous cooking show on Monday and the host is going to join my team after the holidays. Another very happy host with lots of free products and business to start for just £70. I know she'll make a great consultant and hopefully team leader too.
Thursday to Saturday were full on Pampered Chef days. Masses of training, lots of networking, maybe a few too many drinks had by some and some ridiculous pricing from the Hilton NEC. A glass of fizzy water and a cointreau set me back nearly £15! No wonder we try to bring our own booze, yet what we want to do is spend time in company and that means coping with the Hilton prices! Other than that, the conference was, as ever, fabulous. We have some great new products on the horizon, I will add pictures as we go along.
Son's birthday party on Sunday, the olympic torch to watch on Monday, then a cooking show on Tuesday. I met some great ladies (and one gent!), coped with making choux pastry, my host gave herself an electric shock and fused the oven, so the curry was even later than usual, but yummy. Pimms in the trifle bowl went down a storm. Three bookings, wow they want me back! Another cooking show on Wednesday a totally new group of people, ladies only this time, and two bookings from here. It is such a buzz when people want to see you again.
Thursday morning 9am (actually nearer 9.30am) we left home for the long drive down towards Toulouse. How I did the packing (badly) I have no idea - we have nearly everything we need. Now to learn to wind down and relax!
