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Apologies for the delay in this appearing in iTunes and for podcast clients due to a technical hitch (thanks Daniel for alerting us).

Not sure if the next podcast will be Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or Boxing day but next two will be our “reviews of the year”. First podcast was on 30th December 2005. What we have done, what we achieved, what we have not achieved, what was not expected, the highs and the lows.

Please send us your comments for the next two podcasts. Email us or record audio and send it to us.

We do not have broadband :( Aliant website shows next door has high speed but we don’t. Aliant say its due to available ports not distance.

We may even play some moments from previous podcasts.

We will also look forward to the 12 months ahead and see what we hope to achieve.

> College update – its finished for the year with exams Thursday and Friday. Next semester – different modules, different hours. Integrated Pest Management. Integrated Plant Health. Computing module.
- Driving.

> Work update – Christmas rush, very busy in both. Tiger balm helping my back – done in by bad ergonomics. Day off today! 50 hours next week. Being talked about.

“Only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”

> Christmas – probably just the 4 of us, although we may have a friend over some of the time, who may otherwise be on her own (and she has a dog). We usually have a quiet Christmas.

- Candle from my grandmother.
- Will probably have some very happy moments but also some sad ones.

- Miss our friends and family. Although we may not have seen them at Christmas, I think it will make us feel a long way away.

AJ doesn’t feel the distance. Matt does miss our past life although job helps a lot.

Matt witters about change, loss, confidence, and making choices. We have long term goals and some of the short term necessities are just that – short term.

AJ misses Radio 4. Matt really misses broadband (and A4 paper)

Bad things
Matt – rude eco Nazis – please be nice to supermarket staff!
AJ – TV series suddenly stopping mid series

Good things
AJ – on holiday for two and a half weeks
Matt – people are nice

New Frappr person - Jonathan from Annapolis Royal.