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The Frydman 2007 round up

December 21st, 2007

Here’s the official summary of the year from Dan and Alison:

We’re well.  We celebrated eight and a half years of marriage a couple of nights ago…and ten years of being together (back in April).  This last year has mostly been about continuity for us, although quite a lot of changes in other areas.

We’ve been in our home in the north of Edinburgh for over three years now.  This year we got a reworked bathroom, thanks to the hard work of Olly and Artur, which we’re enjoying a lot.  Hopefully next year we’ll do a few changes in the kitchen, and then most of our plans for alterations to the flat are complete.

Dan continues to develop his web company, Inigo, and has seen his client group change and grow.  He’s also had some staff changes, and the company moved to new premises in Leith back in the spring. 

I continue to work with language assistants, as I have for the last few years.  We’ve had some major staff changes this year, with various colleagues moving on, some to promotions, others to new organisations.  Thankfully our new colleagues have also now started, and we have some extra people working in international education, which is making the workload easier.  The organisation is also changing the way it works, focusing on fewer projects but ones of a larger scale, and we’re just starting to see how that affects our daily activities. 

We continue to enjoy our travels, some with work and some for ourselves.  This year included a trip to Paris for work, which we added some holiday time to beforehand.  We returned to Poland for the first time in several years, and I had the opportunity to show Dan where I used work outside Warsaw, as well as seeing lots of changes in the capital itself.  We continued on to Zakopane, the main alpine area in Poland, and did some walking in the Tatras National Park.

Our main break was around the time of Dan’s birthday.  We stayed in a small town called Eze, between Nice and Monaco, and managed to explore all three places.  We then went on to visit our friends Rachel and David, near Milan.

This year has been one of loss, with the deaths of several friends and family, as well as departures at work for me.  However, there have also been lots of new arrivals, in Edinburgh and elsewhere, and we’ve enjoyed some good time with friends and their young families.  We’ve also been able to spend time with my parents, and Dan’s mum and granny in London.

I finished my counselling course back in the spring.  It’s not easy doing essays as well as working, but I found it good to combine thinking and practical skills.  I also started doing more creative writing - mostly writing this blog, and starting exploring other ideas.  Dan continues to be involved in the Africa Fund, a development charity connected with our church, and I sing with the worship team there every few weeks.   

We hope this note finds you well, and wish you all the best for the coming year.

With love,

Dan and Alison  

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