Hello and welcome back! After a shockingly long and unexplainable absense, here I am, finally back in the sunny world of my blog! And not that I want to encourage any of you… [You know who you are, Mum, Dad, Beth, Naomi, and everyone else who's told me to write 
] but thanks for all the pokes and prods!
So here I am, sitting in cropped trousers and a t shirt, with the sun shining outside, wondering if this really is Salford. Is this, I ask myself, really the same place where 2 weeks ago, I discovered that my trusted trainers, which withstood the dizzying heights of Table Mountain, are incapable of surviving a Salford downpour? Is this sun drenched corner of God’s beautiful world really the same place where I told my family to bring me up more jumpers and my walking boots last week? So anyway, here I am, topping up my tan and feeling much more at home in the sun!
So what’s been going on in the crazy and recently silent world of Nicolaland? It’s only now as I try and figure out in what order to put down all my updates that I again pledge to be better at blogging. I will try not to get this far behind again! Well I think that my news, along with the general goings on here in Salford deserve their own entries, which I will post now. But until then, I’ll leave you with this thought…
Isn’t it truly incredible that God has provided us with such a beautiful place to live, such inspirational and wonderful people to share it with, as well as giving us hope and excitement for an amazing eternity?
You’re Mum informed me that you had finally got back on-line. A whole month up there can obviously pass by extremely quickly. Despite the absence of communication with the outside southern world; here at school you routinely get a mention in the staffroom and it is great to hear that the Sun has come back out for you. It puts a damp squib on the phase that it is ‘Grim up North’.
Nicola’s very adept at post cloning!
Something new at last. But is it on twice????????
You must be feeling really guitly. Any crumble left?????????