High/low point of 2011

Coffeeholic:
High point. Watching how my boys have coped with it and they way they have progressed and grown their business to make their mum, and me, proud.

Simply beautiful and absolutely priceless. :smiley:

Ken.

Having good health this year after having pneumonia at the end of 2010 with 15 days in hospital on oxygen.If 2012 is ordinary that will do for me and my good lady :laughing: .
Cheers Dave.

High point, me a grandad with a beautiful little grandaughter. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Low, nothing compared to some of you guys, so i cant complain.

High - Passing my CE test

Not really any lows.

Looking forward to some positives to 2012 including full time work.

Coffeeholic:
Low point. My wife dying from Metastatic Breast Cancer on May 25th.

High point. Watching how my boys have coped with it and they way they have progressed and grown their business to make their mum, and me, proud.

Is someone chopping onions in here? My eyes are running… :wink:

Low Point - Company announcing redundancies for the first time in living memory, to be arranged and completed by Christmas.

High Point - Reaching my weight loss target of 5.5 stone, finding my MS has given me a second chance on the mobility front on account of being smaller, joining the Tees Rowing Club and discovering a whole new obsession and physical world to explore with my newly (if temporarily) re-abled body! :sunglasses:

High Point - acheaving the first step (c) in a lifetime of always gonna d it.

looking forward to in 2012 - gaining c+e and getting full time work away from these blood sucking agencys around my neck of the woods.

Low Point - My gran died on 23rd dec :cry:

High daughters wedding and kids at uni
Low continuing worsening bad health bad life threatening but inconvenient

Coffeeholic:
Low point. My wife dying from Metastatic Breast Cancer on May 25th.

High point. Watching how my boys have coped with it and they way they have progressed and grown their business to make their mum, and me, proud.

defenetly something to be proud of

hi point passing class 1
low point getting binned off for something a did not do
but screw it as my best hi point is my little sis giving birth to baby boy the day after the 1st aneversery of our grandfathers death welcome little tomas il b uncle knob head :wink:

low-losing my business to a bad debt in jan 2011.

highs. starting a new one which is doing very nicely

seeing my son for the first time in 13 years only to find out the poor bugger is my double in every way :smiley:

Low point - despite getting plenty of work via agency, still only just enough to keep head above water (pales by comparison to some of you)

High point - I have got a proper full time job :slight_smile:, with a good company (well, i think so), good kit, and doing a job i enjoy, found out just before christmas, so been hard pushed to knock the smile of my face.

Roll on 2012

High point getting my own truck.
Low point the fuel bills every week.

Low my dad dying on April 12 my car being hit on dec 31 in a car park

High well where do I start going back to work after 5 years of being on the sick son getting new job new house ( moved due to job ) engaged is really happy & settled daughter getting her own flat me buying car ( that was just may )

Paid debt to all the people I owed it to thanks for being patient the help & support over the years

Roll on 2012 hope it gets better for all

Happy New Year throw out the old bring in the new always look forward as that is the way the eye look :laughing: but dont forget

Low point : Going to see my GP feeling a bit poorly , then him blue lighting me to Hospital.
High point: after 5 days in Hospital being told I don’t have pancreatic cancer just ulcerative colitis… A MASSIVE relief…

Low, too many funerals including my best friend of 40 years.

High, an invitation from the FIM to the World Longtrack final in Morizes

High point - Finally getting the whole family together (after 2yrs of trying) to scatter Me Mam’s ashes in the graveyard where 5x generations of her family are buried.

How is this a high point? Unknown to the rest of 'em, it’s what Me Mam asked me to do when she knew the end was coming.

Low point - Telling a workmate who’s coughing up blood that he really shouldn’t worry & get himself off to the quacks with 'nowt to fear.

high point surviving a heart attack in the truck in july, low point now unemployed at present.

Chuffed to see a ‘feel good’ thread on here for once! :wink:

High point: My gorgeous, adorable, lovely son being born back in February.

Low point: Struggling to find work after moving to Lincs from Surrey.

hotel magnum:
high point surviving a heart attack in the truck in july, low point now unemployed at present.

Sorry not unemployed as you just cant work atm

Hope you get back to full fitness soon ( my dad had more than 1 of these & it does take time last 1 his heart stoped for 8.5 min but he came through that fine )

High: Becomeing a professional driver

Low: It cost me 4k to become a professional driver :open_mouth: