Time is very much like a handful of sand and slips away all too quickly no matter how tightly you grip.

Nearly two months since my last entry and I have had no more parking tickets since I began “hiding” my car which shows just how Carmarthenshire County Council operates it car parks in Carmarthen.

Today I officially started my Christmas shopping, when I bought my first gift – well ordered it online actually to save a few pounds (buying locally the CD would have cost £9.97 online it was £6.99 and hopefully I will get cash back as well)

So since the last time I wrote –

* Met up with old school friend
* Weekend away with work colleagues

I will talk about the above in the next couple of weeks

I am sure that the news will be full of the events that happened in New York back in 2001, it becomes one of those moments that people will always remember what they were doing on that fateful day ten years ago.

It was a Tuesday and back then I was working part time and not working on Tuesday, I can remember sitting at the computer with the television on in the background when they reported that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers in New York. I was watching the news and at that time no one knew that it was a terrorist attack and I can remember thinking no wonder a plane hit the building as they were flying so close – I was watching live reports and could see a plane in the background approaching the second tower and hit it.

The rest of the afternoon was spent watching the confused news reports.

Well what summer we had has now passed that we enter September and the approach of autumn, over the next few weeks we shall see the leaves change colour before falling to the ground. The mornings will be crisp and the nights will start to draw in.

You’ve gotta love this time of year.

Rather annoyingly I went to my car on Tuesday morning to discover that some swine had stolen my car aerial. It is something that I have worried about happening in the past but as it is a screw on aerial there is not a great deal I can do about it and removing it every time would be to much hassle.

Anyway I drove to work with the intermittent radio signal and wondered how I was going to replace the aerial. I am sure that whoever took it had a similar car and needed a replacement rather than it just being some random incident.

Leaving work I notice that the passenger door on my car has been hit, I know it happened in the work car park as I had checked around the car earlier when I had noticed the aerial had gone. Spoke to security and the cameras don’t cover that section of the car park and the next day I did rather hope that I would get an email from the person who had damaged my car. No email but as the parking spaces are allocated to people I have been able to get the names of the people who had use of the space – I have been trying to see the same car parked so that I can check if for damage before confronting them.

However knowing my luck the car that hit mine would have been cleaned and any trace of my paint work removed by now. I think what makes it worse is the fact that when they hit my car they got out and inspected the damage to my car (I can tell as they had wiped the door)