We have emerged from winter, it is officially spring and it is also, since last weekend, British Summer Time (which reminds me that I need to reset my blog’s clock)! I seem to have lapsed in many ways during the winter, I have allowed myself to put on weight, and must sort myself out if my new summer clothes are not too small before I even buy them (and no I won’t be buying any kind of bigger size). I have become lazy when it comes to my blog, and haven’t really written anything particualrly interesting about my own life, or the job I do for ages. 3 or 4 posts written over the course of that time have pushed my traffic up massively, but I am not sure anyone would return to read my blog until I buck myself up. I also need to get myself doing more things outside of work, with a son hopefully going to university in the autumn I surely need to get  myself something more interesting to do than sitting on the sofa reading a book or watching TV. I need to get out more, I need to explore the environment more and I need to get more active. I also still wonder if I shouldn’t be looking for a new job, and indeed have one eye on the jobs market. Work though is really busy, commissioning has become quite a lot more interesting because actually we now have to do more in the way of managing performance and in turn we are being performance managed much more by the Strategic Health Authority. Maternity is an interesting area to be working with, since it is pretty high profile, there are targets to meet and those who use the service are not backwards in coming forwards if they are dissatisfied with what is on offer.

I know I’ve said it before, but this time I mean it; During April I am going to post daily. I am going to talk about my struggle with food, because I do struggle not to eat things I shouldn’t. I am going to talk about wine, because I think I like the taste of it too much and sometimes use it as either a reward for things going well or as some kind of treat when things have gone less well. I am going to try and talk about work, though as I have said before this is less easy when you are the only person doing a job in the whole county. But I am going to try. I also have somethings to say about how it feels to be a middle aged mother whose only child is going to leave home this year and who is going to need to learn about being a wife in a home with no children again. So here goes, this is April 1, you are no fool and neither am I!