Hi, joined the forum a couple of weeks ago, after lurking for a long time. My name is Shelley, i am 44 and have been married to Frank for 15 years, he is a charter fisherman and we have two cats (Joe 12 and Georgie 11). I have only started making cards again this year, i have several of Joanna's CD's including the gorgeous RHS one, along with the stamps. In the past i have done knitting and cross stitch. Until February this year we had a fish restaurant, but i had a tendon repair on my shoulder, as i was the chef we had to close, as we ran it on our own with no staff. We had already decided to sell it and we got a buyer before i was able to work again, so we never re-opened. Before that (and overlapping for 6 months) we had a cafe in the Marina for 8 years).

Having the cafe and then the restaurant, along with hubbies charter business, who's main season is from March to October, we had never had a proper holiday until last new year, when we went to the Florida Keys for two weeks, and we absolutely loved it. So much that we decided we were going to go for two months this year and we are leaving on 1 December.

Shelley xx