My Downshift

My name is Simon and this is the story of my journey on the downshifting path. According to the Oxford dictionary Downshift is a verb chiefly N. Amer. 1 change to a lower gear. 2 change to a less stressful lifestyle. That's what I am aiming for. After 20 years working in the City I seek a more fulfilled and balanced lifestyle for myself and family. That doesn't mean giving it all up ala Tom and Barbara Good, but I am making some changes, check out my first post, The Story So Far...

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Monday 4th December

Dropped girls off at school. Went to post office to post final ebay items. Took a bus to the school clothes shop as the girls need new cardigans. Tidied the house (still in a mess after the room move around at the weekend). Put up some more Xmas decs including the outside snowdrop lights - this girls will love it when they come home from school

Spent some time on the we, picked up the girls. SJ at yoga (last one before Xmas) so spent some time with the girls, cooked, got them in bed and then played online for a while.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Monday 27th November 2006

Spent all day learning more about frontpage, chatting online to friends and family and playing COD UO.

Must get my list out again!

Friday 24th November 2006


SJ took the girls to school today whilst I went to Asda for the weekly veg. We've decided that the "big shop" can be done online very two weeks but we still need to stock up on staples weekly. SJ had coffee with the school mums so I updated my gaming website. Once SJ returned we went off to Wilkinsons and Matalan for "essentials". Home for lunch. Tidied the house and the dog had a haircut. Wrapped some more ebay items and went to the PO. Prewtty much lounged around the rest of the day.

Monday 20th November 2006

Dropped the girls off at school, returned to walk the dog (nobody has yet asked what dog I might add). Wrapped the items I sold on eBay (well, the ones people had paid for at least)...made over £100 on things we just don't want anymore. There will be more going on, probably after Xmas, but here is the link anyhow in case any of you would like to buy my cast-offs http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=mybootsale.

Spent some time teaching myself frontpage. I've been developing a temporary website for the gaming group I belong to www.renegadesalliance.bravehost.com. Went to the post office to get rid of my stock. Collected the girls (five hours flies!!) . SJ at yoga so I played COD once the girls had gone to bed.

Friday 17th November 2006

Post beaujolais nouveaux day...very messy. Head aching and feeling sick. Sj wants to finish off decorating Bambi's bedroom then go xmas shopping . Thankfully done mostly online. Managed Asda, the bookshop and TKmax before we had lunch at SJ's favourite café (usually reserved for girlie lunches)...double egg and chips should have sorted me out but still not great. Home to rest and take the rest of the day very easy.