To anyone I"ve missed a belated Happy New Year to you all. So it"s time to start planning for the year ahead and it"s been a mixed start. Having worked through much of the festive spell, I tried to get into the spirit of things by joining in with Tombola and Raffle ticket buying in our contact centre. With the former I had the equivalent of a bad beat, when staring down bottles of whisky, various wines and many other wonderful goodies, I picked the winning ticket for........a jar of cranberry sauce and a jar of caramelised onions
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I redressed the balance in the raffle though by winning a bottle of champagne
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Unfortunately gonna miss the APAT team event at Luton at the end of January but thankfully have a nice weekend to look forward to for our birthdays at the end of February in this lovely setting
http://www.lake-hotel.com/gallery.aspxSammy is gonna be 3 years old on 28th January, meaning his warranty and all the perks of that will now be gone
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The dreaded MOT will now be an annual sweat. Worse still, I"ve only gone and lost my insurance stuff and have no idea who my policy was with
![Cheesy :D](https://www.apat.com/forum/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
Not a major problem at the moment you"d think as it runs till the end of May, but I"ve no idea whether or not I have breakdown cover just in case wee Sammy decides to throw a sicky once his warranty expires. I"m sure there are a couple of teachers in our wonderful community who would happily pass me a dunce hat for that one
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Hope things are all running smoothly for you all, best wishes for 2013, good luck to everyone playing in Luton and a huge "run good" to those who"ll be going for the Edinburgh UKIPT.